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Build a Business-Aligned Learning Strategy

The Training Industry Strategy Summit is a hands-on learning strategy conference for learning and development (L&D) leaders responsible for setting or influencing the direction of learning in their organizations.

Hosted by Training Industry, Inc., the Strategy Summit gives you dedicated time, a structured planning process and access to peers and experts to help you connect business priorities to learning priorities and build a clear roadmap for the year ahead.

Over three days, you’ll work on your own learning strategy — not just hear about what others are doing — and leave with practical next steps you can take back to your organization.

What Is the Training Industry Strategy Summit?

The Training Industry Strategy Summit is an interactive conference designed to help learning leaders build stronger, more business-aligned learning strategies.

The experience combines cohort sessions, workshops, keynotes, one-on-one strategic consultations and peer discussion. Each part of the Summit gives you a different opportunity to examine your priorities, learn from other leaders and make progress on the strategy you’re responsible for leading.

Turn Business Priorities Into a Strategic Roadmap

A strong learning strategy starts with the business: where the organization is going, what needs to change and where learning can create the most value.

At the Strategy Summit, you’ll work through questions such as:

• Which business priorities should L&D be supporting?
• Where can learning make the greatest impact?
• What should you prioritize now, and what belongs in a longer-term plan?
• Which stakeholders need to be involved?
• How will you define and measure success?
• Where can technology help, and where isn’t it the answer?
• How do you turn your priorities into a plan your stakeholders can understand and support?

You’ll tackle these questions alongside learning leaders who are working through many of the same decisions in their own organizations.

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A Hands-On Approach to Learning Strategy

Strategic Roadmap Sessions
Your Strategic Roadmap Sessions are the foundation of the Strategy Summit experience.

You’ll work with the same small cohort and facilitator throughout all three days, using Training Industry’s Strategic Planning Toolkit to move through the planning process step by step.

You’ll start with your organization’s priorities and work toward a roadmap that connects those priorities to the work of L&D, with time to discuss, reflect and get feedback along the way.

Expert-Led Keynotes and Workshops
Explore the challenges shaping learning strategy today through practical workshops and keynote sessions.

Topics span business alignment, long-term planning, innovation, measurement, workforce change, technology and the evolving role of L&D. You’ll have opportunities throughout the Strategy Summit to connect what you’re learning back to your own organization and roadmap.

Strategic Consultations
Meet one-on-one with experienced solutions providers and experts to:

• Validate strategic assumptions
• Discuss organizational challenges
• Pressure-test initiatives
• Explore alternative approaches
• Refine implementation plans

Peer Collaboration
Some of the most useful strategy conversations happen with people who understand the work. Throughout the Strategy Summit, you’ll connect with learning leaders from different organizations and industries to compare approaches, share what’s working and learn how others are addressing similar challenges.

What You’ll Take Back to Your Organization

The goal of the Strategy Summit is to help you return to work with greater clarity about where L&D should focus and what comes next.

You’ll leave better prepared to:

• Connect learning priorities to organizational goals
• Make informed decisions about programs, resources and investments
• Balance immediate needs with longer-term priorities
• Define measures that show progress and impact
• Build support among stakeholders and business leaders
• Make thoughtful decisions about technology and new approaches
• Communicate your strategy and the role L&D plays in moving it forward

Most importantly, you’ll have a strategic roadmap you can continue developing with your team and stakeholders after the event.

Who Should Attend

The Training Industry Strategy Summit is designed for learning leaders who set, shape or influence organizational learning strategy, including CLOs, vice presidents, directors, senior directors and experienced L&D managers.

The Strategy Summit is especially relevant if you’re:

• Building or refreshing your learning strategy
• Preparing for an upcoming planning cycle
• Working to better align L&D with business priorities
• Deciding where to focus limited time and resources
• Building stakeholder support for L&D priorities
• Looking for better ways to demonstrate impact
• Preparing your workforce and learning function for what’s ahead

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a learning strategy conference?
A learning strategy conference brings together L&D leaders to explore how learning can support business priorities and prepare the workforce for changing needs. At the Training Industry Strategy Summit, attendees go a step further by working on their own strategies throughout the event through facilitated planning sessions, workshops, consultations and peer discussion.

How can L&D align learning strategy with business goals?
Start with the organization’s priorities rather than a list of learning programs. Identify the capabilities people need to support those priorities, determine where learning can help and establish clear measures of success. Involving business stakeholders throughout the process also helps ensure the strategy reflects the needs of the organization.

The Training Industry Strategy Summit gives learning leaders a structured process for working through these decisions and translating them into a strategic roadmap.

What makes the Training Industry Strategy Summit different from other L&D conferences?
The Strategy Summit is built around doing the work, not simply attending sessions. Strategic Roadmap Sessions run throughout all three days, giving attendees dedicated time to apply what they’re learning to their own organizations with support from a consistent cohort and facilitator.

Workshops, keynotes, strategic consultations and peer conversations complement that work and provide additional perspectives throughout the event.

What will I leave the Strategy Summit with?
You’ll leave with a clearer view of your organization’s learning priorities, a strategic planning framework you can continue using and a roadmap for moving your learning strategy forward with your team and stakeholders.

Can the Strategy Summit help me build my organization’s learning strategy?
Yes. You’ll work on your own organization’s priorities throughout the Strategy Summit rather than completing a hypothetical exercise. Strategic Roadmap Sessions provide a structured planning process, while workshops, consultations and peer conversations give you additional ideas and perspectives to inform your work.

Build Your Strategy. Leave With a Plan.

Making time for strategic planning can be difficult when you’re also managing the day-to-day work of L&D.

The Training Industry Strategy Summit gives you three days to focus on what’s next: Step away from the daily demands, work through your priorities and build a roadmap you can take back to your organization.

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