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As the year starts to wind down, November is a great time to pause and take stock of what you’ve learned — and what you still want to tackle. This month’s batch of free webinars can help you wrap up the year strong and even get a head start on 2026. Take a moment, pick a topic and finish the year on a high note.

Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Let’s Make an AI Powered Roleplay
Imagine roleplays that adapt to your learners’ choices in real-time — powered by AI. Join Garima Gupta, Founder and CEO of Artha Learning Inc., to quickly build an AI-driven roleplay that you can take back and use. Garima will walk through a simple, guided process to create branching dialogue, responsive character behaviour and realistic learning moments — all without coding. Come ready to experiment and learn in this interactive webinar.

Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Using AI and Add-ins to Transform PowerPoint’s Capabilities
Everyone uses PowerPoint and many find it frustrating, but you can change things by using AI and add-ins for PowerPoint — magical tools that give you superhuman abilities to do things at light speed. Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon, will look at AI tools like Copilot that can transform your content and designs, add-ins to boost your productivity and additional tools you can use to increase the engagement and effectiveness of your presentation. Through live demos, you’ll see the real-time impact of these tools. You’ll have the opportunity to discuss different approaches that can help you achieve your objectives.

Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Your Training Management Roadmap: Get Out of Firefighting Mode
Time is the biggest constraint faced day-to-day in learning organizations in 2025. The reality is that without proper training management infrastructure, adding more staff or working harder won’t solve the underlying chaos. Join John Peebles, CEO of Administrate, with Brandon Hall Group’s Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer and Principal Analyst, and Alan Mellish, Principal Analyst, as they discuss the latest research and how enterprise training teams can break free from reactive crisis mode and reclaim their strategic role through intelligent training management systems.

Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Let’s Gamma-fy That! A Creative Twist to Elearning Workflows
When Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Associate Vice President of Digital Learning at Icertis, first discovered Gamma.app, she was simply searching for a quick way to make conference slides look great, but soon, it became her secret weapon for elearning creation, turning routine tasks into pure delight. In this session, she’ll share her favourite Gamma discoveries, practical workflows and creative best practices, so you can energize your own elearning projects. Get ready to simplify your workflow, spark creativity and add a little Gamma wizardry to your instructional design toolkit!

Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Real-World Impact of a Lifelong Learning Culture
In an evolving business environment, building a culture of lifelong learning is not only a social good, but a strategic imperative. Continuous, self-directed learning, especially in high-impact areas like language acquisition, helps employees adapt, innovate and collaborate across borders. For organizations, that translates into tangible business benefits. Join Marisol Gómez, Customer Success Manager at Babbel for Business, to see how embedding lifelong learning, including language skills, creates a future-ready organization where people and profits grow together.

Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Scalable Strategies to Strengthen Manager Effectiveness
Managers are the linchpin of engagement and performance, yet most organizations still struggle to upskill them quickly and at scale. Companies need manager training that’s practical, evidence-based and built for measurable impact. In this complimentary Training Industry webinar, Brendon Nimphius, facilitation manager at LifeLabs Learning, will share research-driven tools managers can put into practice right away. In this interactive session, you’ll get hands-on practice with high-leverage skills in real-life applications and leave with a clear plan to scale manager effectiveness across your organization.

Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Favourite Things: Training Edition
Move over Oprah, it’s time for Becky Pike Pluth’s, President and CEO of The Bob Pike Group, favourite things: training edition. If you don’t have time to hunt for the best (and often free) resources, this session may be for you. From websites to podcasts to publications to gurus, Becky’s got you covered. This sessions learning objectives include:

Identifying industry thought leaders and free training resources.
Discovering the five items you’ll never want to train without.
Building your own go-to list of favourite training resources.

Thursday, November 6, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Engagement and Competency Assurance
Join Stephen King, head of talent development for Maximus UK, and Manoj Kulkarni from Realizeit as they reveal the key steps Maximus UK took to transform their approach to employee engagement and competency assurance with adaptive AI, resulting in a 94% drop in attrition and a 96% reduction in training failure rates. You’ll learn how you can replicate the steps Maximus UK took to implement a personalized training model powered by adaptive AI — delivering measurable impact and setting a new standard for competency assurance.

Monday, November 10, 2025, 11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: Choose Your Own Adventure with the Coaching Habit Learning Journeys (Free for ATD members)
Whether you’re looking to build a customized learning experience from start to finish through a full licensing and asset package or you want a learning journey that you can plug and play out of the box, this webinar can help. Box of Crayons’ Margo Gouley, VP of Product, Justyna Poray, Learning Specialist, and Ryan Tremblay, Learning Specialist, will share the thinking and design that came together to shape a new learning format built for real change, inside real work, at real scale. Then they’ll explore how it works in practice by walking you through exactly how a sample learning journey works, what it looks like in action and how it can be implemented in your organization.

Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Seven Proven Ways to Build the Business Case for Mentoring (And Win Executive Support)
Join this session for a practical, insight-rich session designed for L&D, talent and HR leaders who want to elevate mentoring from initiative to imperative. You’ll explore seven direct, evidence-backed ways mentoring programs, when structured strategically and supported by the right technology, deliver measurable value across your organization. Whether you’re launching your first program or scaling an enterprise-wide strategy, this webinar will give you the tools, language and data points you need to persuasively make the case and get buy-in at every level.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Announcing the Latest Version of Adobe Captivate: Redefining Elearning with AI
Join Sharath Ramaswamy, Senior Elearning Evangelist at Adobe, to experience the future of elearning with Adobe Captivate — now turbocharged with AI superpowers. In this exciting launch webinar, you’ll see how the all-new PowerPoint import and powerful Generative AI features — including AI-generated text, images, transcripts and lifelike AI avatars — make creating engaging courses faster, smarter and easier than ever. If you create learning content, this webinar will equip you to go from initial concept to compelling courseware more effortlessly and faster than ever before.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 9:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m. PT: The State of L&D Video and AI
Video has become the lifeblood of corporate learning. In this data-backed session, Laura Burkhauser, CEO of Descript, will share findings from a new survey of L&D professionals. You’ll leave with actionable ways to speed up production, raise quality and bring AI into real training use cases. This session is designed for L&D leaders, instructional designers, enablement and ops managers, and anyone responsible for creating, scaling or approving training video.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: High-Leverage Activities: Leading Teams to Focus on What Really Matters
Too many teams are buried in meetings, emails and low-value work — often leading to wasted time and stalled results. In this webinar, learn how managers can apply the LeaderOS framework to focus teams on activities that drive clarity, alignment and movement toward business goals. These high-leverage activities (HLAs) drive real impact on outcomes like revenue, profit growth and on-time delivery. Russ Hill, Co-founder of Lone Rock Leadership, will show you how mid-level managers can use clarity, alignment and movement to accelerate results.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Leadership AMA You Didn’t Know You Needed
Join Brandon Hall Group for a live Excellence at Work After Hours event with Mike Cook and Rachel Bolton. Forget scripted panels. This is a true Ask Me Anything — where leaders ask bold questions and get bold answers. This session will dive into:

The traits that define great leaders now.
How to navigate disruption and whiplash.
What AI really means for leadership and culture.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 12:00 p.m.–12:30 p.m. PT: Meet Your New L&D Teammates: AI Agents That Scale You
L&D teams are being asked to do more with less, resulting in burnout teams, production bottlenecks and outdated training before it ever hits the LMS. But there’s a better way. In this session, Nicole DiNicola, Global Vice President of Marketing at Smartcat, will introduce you to Smartcat’s AI Agents: your new digital teammates that help you create, localize and deliver training at scale. You’ll meet the agents, walk through a “day in the life” of modern L&D workflows and see what it looks like when your org chart gets a powerful AI upgrade. This is your new way to work: faster, smarter and built for global scale.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 12:45 p.m.–13:15 p.m. PT: Finally Solving the 2-Sigma Problem? AI’s Answer to Personalized Learning
In 1984, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom introduced the “2 sigma problem,” showing that one-on-one tutoring consistently outperformed the vast majority of students in traditional classrooms. For decades, L&D leaders have chased that gold standard, but the high cost and complexity made it impossible. Now, AI and automation are finally making it a reality. Jon Brydges, Director of Product Management at Learning Pool, will show you how AI-powered tools provide personalized, human-like feedback, safe skills practice and adaptive learning paths without overloading your team or budget.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. PT: Make Your Learning Content Interactive in Minutes
You don’t need to reinvent your learning content to make it engaging. Learn how to make all of your existing materials or new learning content interactive in minutes with Kahoot! 360, the ultimate workforce engagement platform. Kahoot!’s Zainab Iqtidar, Senior Manager of Customer Success, and Galilea Morales, Manager of Enterprise Sales, to get a firsthand look at how you can connect your existing slide software, creator tools and LMS platforms with Kahoot! to transform learning into impactful experiences that boost knowledge retention and drive performance.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 3:30 p.m.–4 p.m. PT: The Rise of LearnOps: Data-Driven Strategies for L&D Operational Excellence
In this webinar, Cognota’s Debbie Richards, Chief Learning Advisor, and Ryan Austin, Founder and CEO, will explore the LearnOps (Learning Operations) Maturity Model and how top-performing teams are streamlining workflows and driving strategic alignment. See how standardized intake, capacity forecasting and data-driven ROI measurement are helping leading organizations eliminate backlogs and boost business impact. You’ll walk away with actionable frameworks to assess your team’s maturity and improve your operations today.

Thursday, November 13, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: How the Right HCM Strategy Transforms Your Bottom Line
In this session, you’ll learn how companies are using HCM solutions to hire smarter, boost productivity and reduce complexity. Through real-world examples, you’ll see how aligning people strategy with business goals leads to measurable outcomes like faster time-to-productivity, lower turnover costs and improved margins. Join Chris Kiklas, VP of Product Management at UKG Ready, with Brandon Hall Group’s Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer and Principal Analyst, and Claude Werder, Senior VP and Principal, as they reveal how leading companies are transforming people strategy into measurable business outcomes.

Thursday, November 13, 2025, 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. PT: Navigate the Future of Learning: The Power of a Unified, Integrated Platform
TraineryHCM’s Matt Cross, Product Manager, and Mahesh Kumar, Managing Director, will explain how the TraineryLEARN platform has eliminated the need for multiple disconnected systems, scales with growth and protects your investment. Learn how Administrators, L&D Managers, Trainers, Coaches and Learners can manage online, offline and hybrid programs through a role-based platform that enables organizations to see their entire learning landscape in one unified view. The modular suite of solutions streamlines learning management in one seamless platform and connects learning to performance management.

Thursday, November 13, 2025, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m. PT: SPEAK+ – Communicate with Clarity, Charisma and Confidence (Free for I4PL members)
In this dynamic workshop, L&D professionals will gain practical tools to communicate with impact, whether leading a meeting, engaging on Zoom or presenting on stage. SPEAK+ equips you to share your voice and leadership with more strategy and less stress. Drawing from Trisha Miltimore’s, International Speaker and Certified Management Consultant, 21+ years in broadcasting, public speaking and leadership training, you’ll learn how to develop your personal speaking style, hone your message and promote your thought leadership. Walk away with actionable tips to engage any audience and boost your professional influence with clarity and confidence.

Thursday, November 13, 2025, 11:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. PT: L&D in the Age of AI Agents: Your Strategic Evolution
As AI agents automate routine tasks, from content creation to basic reporting, your work is being reshaped. The real question isn’t whether AI will change L&D, but how you’ll harness it to boost your function’s maturity. This session, presented by David James, Chief Learning Officer at 360Learning, is about moving beyond the reactive “order-taker” mindset and stepping confidently into a more strategic, performance-driven role. By mastering the core skills of strategic thinking, impact measurement and stakeholder influence, you won’t just get your seat at the table, you’ll set the agenda, proving your unique value in the business.

Thursday, November 13, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Bias, Bots and Bad Data: Navigating Ethical Minefields in AI-powered Learning
This webinar dives into the messy, often opaque world of AI decision-making in learning tools — from biased content recommendations to algorithmic nudging and inaccurate, and even harmful, predictive analytics. Stella Lee, Ph.D., AI Literacy Architect, will explore real-world examples, dissect common sources of bias and provide a practical framework for evaluating the ethical risks of AI-powered solutions in your learning ecosystem. Whether you’re just beginning to implement AI or already working with vendors, this session will help you ask better questions, spot red flags and act as a steward of ethical learning design.

Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: From Bronze to Gold: The Anatomy of Award-Winning Brandon Hall Group HCM Applications
Wondering what separates a Gold winner from a Bronze — or from not winning at all? In this exclusive webinar, you’ll decode the Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards by dissecting real award-winning entries side-by-side. Whether you’re planning your first submission or aiming to elevate a past entry, this session will give you the insider perspective you need to craft an award-winning application. Walk away with actionable strategies to showcase your HCM initiatives at their best.

Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Design Thinking for Learning That Actually Works
Today’s learners expect meaningful, relevant experiences that help them grow and adapt. Yet too often, training programs are designed from the organization’s perspective rather than the learner’s, leading to disengagement and wasted potential. Design thinking offers a powerful, learner-centred framework for building training that connects, motivates and delivers real results. Join Trevor Cox, Ph.D., Director of Learning Innovation, for a conversation on how to reframe your learning experiences to drive engagement, performance and innovation.

Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Design for Humans: Storytelling and Scenarios
In a world full of distractions, how do you make training stick? The answer lies in connecting with people on a human level. Join Garima Gupta, Founder and CEO of Artha Learning Inc., Christy Tucker, Learning Experience Design Consultant, and Rance Greene, Story Designer, as they explore how to leverage the power of storytelling and scenarios to create memorable and impactful learning experiences. This dynamic panel will share insights on crafting effective narratives, avoiding common pitfalls and revealing how they’ve used these powerful techniques to solve real-world training challenges.

Thursday, November 20, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: PowerPoint Frankendecks: Keeping Control of Masters, Formatting and Consistency
We’ve all tried to copy a slide from one deck to another, only to have formatting, colours, fonts and layout blow up in our face. If you’ve ever thrown your hands up in frustration at trying to understand masters and how to maintain brand consistency when copying and pasting slides from here to there, then this session is for you. Nolan Haims, Principal of Nolan Haims Creative, will explain exactly how masters and layouts control your slides, and how best to move slides around effortlessly without affecting the integrity of your presentations.

Thursday, November 20, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: ATD Research: Change Management (Free for ATD members)
In this session, ATD’s Rocki Basel, Director of Research, and Caroline Cope, Senior Researcher, will be discussing the data and key findings of the latest research study on change management. Rocki will focus on the basics of change management, the tools organizations use and how change impacts employees and organizations. Participation in this event, either live or recorded, can be reported for one (1) professional development point toward initial certification or recertification requirements for the APTD or CPTD credential.

Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Data Enabled Instructional Design: Showing Real-Time Outcomes of Learning
Are you struggling to prove learning outcomes or collect useful data to evaluate program outcomes in real-time? Instead of waiting until a program ends to evaluate its effectiveness, consider data-enabled instructional design. Learn how to integrate measurement and evaluation directly with instructional design. Join Dr. Alaina Szlachta, Measurement Architect at By Design Development Solutions, to discover how to leverage existing tools to gather meaningful insights, make on-the-fly adjustments to training programs and effectively demonstrate success to stakeholders.

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