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February is the perfect time to show yourself a little love by investing time in learning and development. Whether you’re looking to spark new ideas, refine your skills or recharge mid-winter, free webinars are here to warm your heart. Spread the love — share this list with your team or network. Learning’s always better together!

Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Building an Award-Winning Upskilling Program: A Strategic Blueprint for Success
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, it’s crucial to move beyond traditional training and turn upskilling programs into strategic drivers of business success. Join Rachel Cooke, COO and HCM Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Absorb LMS’s Leslie Kelly, Chief Growth Officer, and Kristi Conlon, Fractional Chief Learning Officer, for a roundtable discussion on the essential steps to design and implement an award-winning upskilling program that delivers measurable results. Whether you’re enhancing your current learning programs or building a new upskilling initiative, this roundtable offers actionable strategies, real-world examples and expert guidance to create a program worthy of industry recognition.

Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Four Strategic Elements for Impactful Learning
A new approach is fundamental to making L&D the business partner it should be. New tech allows us to do more faster and better. Now, we can build the solutions we have talked about for years. Now, we can get leaders on board, build skills, track outcomes and gather data. A new learning strategy is needed to take things to the next level. In this session, with Becky Willis, CLO of Tactus Learning, you’ll learn:

The current perception of L&D and how to address it with a new strategy.
The four elements of an effective learning strategy.
How to create your learning strategy, from a roadmap to implementation.
Best practices for communicating your strategy and bringing value to the organization.

Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Using Leadership Assessments to Spot Hidden Talent, Bridge Succession Gaps and Optimize Performance (Free for ATD members)
As the war for the best talent continues, many organizations face a daunting leadership challenge. The question is: Are you prepared? The leaders who will drive your future growth may not be obvious. Assessments are essential to foster self-awareness and growth in your leaders. This webinar, with Talent Solutions Right Management’s Eleni Speron, Product Portfolio Manager for Leader Assessment, Imani Owens, Senior Talent Management Consultant and Organizational Psychologist, and Nicholas McAuliffe, Senior Talent Management Consultant, will reveal the best practices that today’s most successful organizations use to identify and develop their leaders. Discover how to spot tomorrow’s leaders today, build a sustainable leadership pipeline and close talent gaps threatening your organization’s future.

Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: How to Use AI (Chat GPT and Copilot) to Create a Training Course in PowerPoint
This webinar will be hosted by Ellen Finkelstein, President of Ellen Finkelstein Inc.

Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Staff Matters: The Four Most Overlooked Secrets to Every Leader’s Success
How would you feel about working for you? Join Bonnie Low-Kramen, President of Ultimate Assistant Training and Consulting, for an enlightening webinar to answer that question and many others. Drawing from her acclaimed book, Staff Matters, People-Focused Solutions for the Ultimate New Workplace and her TEDx talk called “The Real Reasons People Quit,” Bonnie will reveal the amazing simple yet hidden gems that can transform leaders into exceptional managers. Discover how these four secrets can enhance staff retention, loyalty, team dynamics, boost productivity and foster an authentically positive workplace culture.

Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Leadership Training Is Broken: Here’s What Needs to Change
Join Lone Rock Leadership cofounder and senior consultant, Russ Hill, for a complimentary thought leadership webinar where you’ll learn about a revolutionary leadership development approach called “LeaderOS,” as well as how to master three critical leadership competencies: Clarity, alignment and movement. During this webinar, you’ll:

Learn how to connect training directly to business results rather than just soft skills.
See real-world case studies from organizations that figured out how to effectively develop leaders.
Walk away with strategies you can apply immediately to transform your leadership development efforts and empower your managers to lead with clarity, alignment and movement.

Thursday, February 6, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Creating Action-FIrst Learning Through AI-Generated Avatars
Explore how AI-driven avatars can transform traditional training by simulating real-world conversations, decision-making challenges and interactive scenarios. Plus, learn how to create your own AI avatar using several different AI software tools in a matter of mere minutes. If you have ever wanted to create your own digital twin, Karl Kapp, Director of Institute for Interactive Technologies at Bloomsburg University, will teach you how to quickly create a digital copy of yourself for use in training, delivering messages or even just to have a little fun.

Thursday, February 6, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Hidden PowerPoint: The Best Insider Secrets, Tricks and Techniques
Take a breath, settle in and get your notepad ready for a rapid fire session from Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Nolan Haims, Principal at Nolan Haims Creative. He’ll show you 50 tips, tricks and shortcuts to work faster and better in PowerPoint. You might know some of these, but it’s guaranteed that you don’t know them all, and you’ll add dozens of new tools to your PowerPoint toolbox. Here are some of the tricks that Nolan will reveal: stretch and fill a slide with an image without distorting it; automatically hide page numbers in slideshow; take control of bar chart label alignment; overcome Morph transition misbehaviour; rearrange slides with just the keyboard; create rounded corner triangles; and crop images to custom shapes.

Friday, February 7, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Become a Business-Minded Leader with the ATD-Penn GSE Talent Development Executive Certificate (Free for ATD members)
Talent development leaders today must develop others, shape strategy, communicate effectively with stakeholders and drive enterprise-wide initiatives. The Talent Development Executive Certificate (TDEC) is a learning experience like no other. Program faculty will describe the course objectives, learning outcomes, delivery format and session schedule. Speakers include: Alana Elkins, Senior Associate Director and Portfolio Manager at University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Mark Kaestner, Vice President and Global Head of Talent Management and L&D of Ball Corporation, and Ann Parker, Director of Executive Programs and Awards at ATD.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: L&D Trends 2025: Your Guide to Intelligent Learning Strategies for the Year Ahead
The future of work demands that organizations rethink how they build skills, engage learners and align learning with evolving business goals. To stay ahead, L&D leaders must reevaluate their strategies and embrace innovative solutions to meet the needs of an agile, future-ready workforce. Your hosts, EI Powered by MPS’s Soma Bhaduri, Global Head of Instructional Design, and Rohini Gupta, and Jennifer Zaborowski, Director of IT L&D for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, will explore transformative L&D trends, share practical applications and offer actionable strategies to future-proof your learning initiatives.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Upskilling America’s Workforce: AI’s Potential in L&D, AI Made E.A.S.I.E.R.
This course introduces a structured methodology for training GPTs, infusing ISD best practices, data mining for improved outcomes, and a robust framework for developing courses with fully contextualized content aligned with organizational goals. Join Dwayne Ross, CEO of SkillVibes.net, as he explores the AI Made E.A.S.I.E.R. framework — Empowerment, Accessibility, Sustainability, Innovation, Education and Results. Discover how AI tools can revolutionize your L&D initiatives by enabling upskilling, reskilling and talent development that seamlessly integrates into every facet of work and life.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Sway, Clout, Leverage, Power, Mojo — Whatever You Call It, It’s Influence: Why Influence Matters Now
It seems that these days, neither what you know nor who you know, will guarantee your success. Your technical expertise can become obsolete and your network of contacts can vanish overnight with the next re-organization or merger. What will help is something permanent, something inside you; a set of skills you can have and use wherever you find yourself. This is called “Portable Power.” In this webinar, Elaina Zuker, Founder and CEO of Elaina Zuker Associates, and author of the bestselling book, 7 Secrets of Influence, will clarify these issues, in an interview by an Executive of SMM, Ira Ozer.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 8 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Learning Tech Showcase: Online Learning Libraries
Discover how online learning libraries offer a powerful solution for delivering up-to-date content and ensuring accessibility across blended learning environments. During this Learning Tech Showcase, you’ll see dynamic demonstrations of diverse content formats, seamless Learning Management System (LMS) integrations and tools for creating personalized learning paths for employees. Join product experts for interactive Q&A sessions to get answers to your most pressing questions about selecting and implementing an online learning library that fits your organization’s unique needs.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Transformative Leadership: Fostering Inclusivity and Empowerment in Today’s Workplaces
Are you ready to equip your organization’s leaders with the tools they need to navigate their inclusion journey — and reflect on your own? Join Jennifer Brown, a renowned thought leader in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), for a session tailored to learning and development professionals. This engaging session focuses on empowering leaders to create more inclusive workplace cultures where talent can thrive. You’ll gain insight into her Inclusive Leader Continuum, a transformative framework designed to help leaders understand their growth stages, embrace self-awareness and take actionable steps toward inclusion.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Sales Training Research: Success Strategies for 2025 (Free for ATD members)
Top-performing sales teams succeed even in challenging climates. This webinar, based on research from The Brooks Group’s Sales Performance Research Center, reveals what separates successful sales teams from those that don’t meet their revenue goals. Join The Brooks Group’s Spencer Wixom, President and CEO, and Michelle Richardson, VP of Sales Performance Research, to learn what elite sales teams do differently to build long-term customer relationships and drive profitability, including:

Top three strategic priorities for 2025.
Mission-critical sales skill gaps your training program must address in 2025.
Specific strengths and best practices of elite sales teams.
Training, coaching and onboarding strategies of winning sales teams.

Thursday, February 13, 2025, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Advanced Instructional Design Strategies in the Age of AI
Today’s learners are bombarded with information across multiple channels. Keeping them engaged during training sessions can be an uphill battle. With more than two decades of cumulative instructional design experience, your hosts, CommLab India’s Ishwarya Pothula, Senior Instructional Designer and Lead, and Ankit Petkar, Senior Instructional Designer, will share exclusive insights and practical workarounds on cutting-edge, creative instructional design, powered by AI. Get ready to elevate your instructional design — with scale and speed.

Thursday, February 13, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Leading Change: How Leaders Can Be Agents of Change
In today’s workplace, many leaders are in the business of change. Whether it’s implementing a new process, launching a new way of working, or reimagining a customer or employee experience, many leaders, must not only design for change, but motivate and align their employees to work toward that future state. Al Dea, Founder of The Edge of Work, will cover principles and practices that leaders can implement to inspire teams around a vision for change and achieve it. He’ll cover common traps for leading change, strategies for gaining buy-in and support, and tactics for motivating and inspiring others to work on your vision and goals.

Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Artisan’s Approach to Modern Learning: How to Scale without Sacrificing Quality
Join Sean Stowers, CEO of WeLearn Learning Services, and Brandon Hall Group’s Roberta Gogos, VP and Principal Analyst, and Alan Mellish, Principal Analyst, for an illuminating session that challenges the mass-production, automate it all mindset in L&D. Drawing from extensive research and real-world experience, they’ll explore how organizations can embrace an artisanal approach to learning design — one that prioritizes craftsmanship, strategic alignment and learner engagement while still benefiting from the speed and efficiency of new technology. Learn how to balance modern tools with timeless design principles to create learning experiences that truly transform performance.

Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Masterclass: Building and Sustaining a Strong Company Culture
In this masterclass, you’ll learn how a positive culture supports business goals, how to use data to drive progress and what great company culture looks and feels like. In this webinar, Genevieve Caplette, Director of Transformation at Michelin, will discuss who’s responsible for fostering this culture, what employees value most and the top characteristics of a strong culture. Finally, you’ll cover practical steps to identify and fix cultural issues, ensuring continuous improvement.

Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Branching 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Elearning Customization
Dive into the basics of branching in elearning with this introductory session designed for beginners. You’ll learn how to create simple yet effective branching scenarios that enhance learner engagement and personalization. In this session, Garima Gupta, Founder and CEO of Artha Learning Inc., will cover the fundamental concepts and techniques needed to get started with branching, providing practical examples and hands-on activities to help you apply what you’ve learned.

Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Build Essential Human Skills for Today’s Evolving Workforce (Free for ATD members)
For decades, the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has been one of the most trusted sources to develop essential human skills. Now, reimagined for today’s world, this course is more relevant and meaningful than ever. Join Victoria Roos-Olsson, Senior Leadership Consultant at FranklinCovey,, to learn how you can:

Help individuals develop skills like problem-solving, emotional intelligence, time management, communication and collaboration through The 7 Habits.
Utilize a shared language and framework to foster a winning culture, built from effective teams and individuals that achieve breakthrough results.
Generate executive and employee buy-in to generate lasting mindset and behaviour change at scale.

Thursday, February 20, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Spice Up Your Elearning with the Power of Gen AI and Adobe Creative Cloud
Join Mark Itskowitch, Creative Director of headTrix Inc., to unlock the full potential of Adobe’s creative tools and the power of Gen AI to transform and spice up your elearning content with a little pow. Discover innovative tips, tricks and hacks to boost productivity, expand creativity and enhance your projects as Mark showcases the powerful features of Adobe’s creative applications. In this session, you’ll learn how to:

Create slides and presentations with Adobe Express.
Find free assets with Adobe Stock.
Seamlessly save, share and organize assets with Adobe CC Libraries.
Optimize, edit, export, generate and expand images in Adobe Photoshop.
Create and colour vector art, icons and graphics with Adobe Illustrator.
Generate unique images and text effects with Adobe Firefly.
Enhance your audio, video and create animated captions in Adobe Premiere.
Bring characters to life with Adobe Character Animator and Adobe Express.

Thursday, February 20, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Conversation Series: Keeping Training Relevant
In this webinar, panelists Anita Mihelic, Director of Learning and Development at ConstructConnect, Deavalion Combs, Learning Content and Quality Manager at Truist, and Lauren Olson, Corporate Training and Curriculum Manager at Ulta Beauty, will address how to keep training current amid technological changes, ensuring that employees are learning the most relevant skills despite fast-paced advancements. They’ll discuss resourceful ways to refresh content within limited budgets and tight timelines, as well as strategies for balancing competing priorities by building flexible, on-demand learning that integrates seamlessly into employees’ busy schedules.

Thursday, February 20, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Research: Frontline Workers (Free for ATD members)
In this webinar, you’ll learn how organizations are training deskless employees. These frontline workers are on the move during their workday, so how are organizations providing them with training? ATD’s Tessa Guiv, Researcher, Rocki Basel, Director of Research, and Axonify’s JD Dillon, Chief Learning Architect, will also focus on training topics, the modality of training and the challenges of training deskless workers.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Let’s Play Cards and Make Learning Transfer a Hot Topic
Melanie Martinelli, CEO of Institute for Transfer Effectiveness, will provide an overview of the 12 levers of transfer effectiveness, the essence of 110 years of scientific research reviewed by Dr. Ina Weinbauer-Heidel from the Institute for Transfer Effectiveness. These 12 levers focus on ensuring that the insights gained from a learning event are sustainably transferred into real life. You’ll receive an overview of these 12 levers and then experience a powerful transfer card game to identify possible transfer barriers in your programs. Based on the identified barriers, you’ll then have an opportunity to explore tools to strengthen the transfer robustness of your programs.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: The Problem-Statement Workshop: Three Steps to Kickstart Any L&D Project
Problem Statements are more than just words on paper — they’re the foundation for driving clarity, focus, agreement and ROI in your initiatives. In this hands-on workshop, presented by Scott Provence, VP of Integrated Learning Services at ELB Learning, you’ll:

Articulate challenges in a way that inspires actionable solutions and aligns all of your SMEs and stakeholders.
Use proven frameworks to uncover the root cause of issues and break down complex issues into simple, actionable steps.
Leave with an easy-to-use template that will let you apply what you’ve learned to both new and existing projects.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: XR Learning Unpacked: Real-World Lessons from Enterprise and Defence
Join Anders Gronstedt, Ph.D., President of The Gronstedt Group, for a demo-packed session to learn how enterprise and military leaders onboard, upskill and reskill their workforce with virtual practice spaces that mirror their real-life workplaces. In this session, you’ll watch hyper-realistic 3D rehearsal studios that provide intense, deliberate practice at the edge of users’ comfort zones and feedback loops to hone skills. Students and instructors can collaborate on tasks, working shoulder-to-shoulder, just like in real life, learning with and from each other in the performance environment.

Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. PT: Skills for Success Workshop: Collaboration (Free for I4PL members)
Join this I4PL webinar for an interactive virtual workshop designed to equip you to implement the Skills for Success your organization needs. This half-day (4 hours, including breaks) workshop is dedicated to the skill of collaboration and how you can implement this in your workplace. Upon completion of this workshop, you’ll be able to:

Describe how this Skill for Success can benefit your teams, managers, leaders and organization.
Identify organizational barriers to developing this skill.
Discuss organizational structures required to support this skill.
Identify approaches for development at various levels, including Leaders and Managers, Teams and Individual.
Identify key resources to support the implementation of this skill.

Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Unlock Your Organization’s Potential: How Mentoring Solves the Top 5 Workforce Challenges
Brandon Hall Group research shows that improving the employee experience and addressing skill gaps are the top two talent management priorities for 2025. Join Lisa Z. Fain, CEO of the Center for Mentoring Excellence, Todd Moran, Chief Learning Strategist at NovoEd, and Alan Mellish, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, for this highly interactive webinar on how mentoring can drive long-term success. Get the latest research and actionable strategies to enhance leadership development, strengthen strong organizational culture, and plan for future talent needs through mentoring.

Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Ethical AI In Design: Craft Inclusive Learning Beyond Biases
This session, presented by Tristin Sylvester, Founder and Chief Learning Architect of Inventio Learning Designs, offers essential strategies for creating bias-aware content across all learning experiences. As generative AI becomes integral in designing diverse instructional materials, its inherent biases pose significant challenges. By attending this session, you’ll gain practical insights into identifying and mitigating these biases to ensure content is inclusive and represents a spectrum of perspectives.

Thursday, February 27, 2025, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Leader Talk: Emerging Trends in Learning Tech
Emerging technologies like AI in learning have changed the way we create, administer and deliver training. With it comes the opportunity for personalization, efficiency and engagement. Learning leaders face the challenge of navigating a growing marketplace of tools to find the right solutions for their business. Join this Training Industry Leader Talk to stay ahead of the curve and keep your tech stack streamlined and effective. During these sessions, expert speakers will highlight some of the most pressing trends in learning tech, while providing best practices to take back to your organizations.

Thursday, February 27, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Align Your Learning Strategy with Business Goals
It’s been recently reported that employees’ major complaint with organizational learning is that it’s no longer relevant. All learning has a business impact. The job is to create a clear hypothesis for how each learning initiative supports a business’s needs and goals and test that hypothesis regularly with good data. In this webinar, Dr. Alaina Szlachta, Measurement Architect at By Design Development Solutions, will give you the essential critical thinking skills and tools to help you create a learning strategy and track its effectiveness on a regular basis.

Thursday, February 27, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: A Systematic Review of the Literature: How Employers Teach the Skills for Success (Free for I4PL members)
Adaptability, Collaboration, and Creativity and Innovation are among the Skills for Success in employment identified by Employment and Social Development Canada. Although identified as essential skills, how do employers train and develop these skills in the workplace? Join speaker, Saul Carliner, Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at Concordia University in Montreal, as he presents a preliminary report of what his team learned through the literature review, as well as the challenges the results suggest for Learning and Development Professionals.

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