Free learning & development webinars for November 2026
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As the year starts winding down, your learning doesn’t have to. This month’s curated webinars are the perfect nudge to tackle that “someday” skill — or start thinking ahead to 2027. Wrap up the year with a well-placed aha moment.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Gamification 101: Boost Learner Engagement with Game Elements
Gamification can turn an everyday elearning experience into something learners are more motivated to explore, complete and remember. In this introductory webinar, Sharath Ramaswamy, Principal Elearning Evangelist at Adobe, will explore the fundamentals of gamification and show you how to incorporate challenges, rewards, progress, choices and feedback into your courses. Through practical examples, you’ll discover simple ways to make learning more interactive and motivating — without having to design a full-fledged game.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 1 p.m.–2 p.m. PT: AI Works When People Do
You’ve secured the AI licences, delivered the training and made the announcements. Yet, while a handful of early AI adopters are thriving, widespread adoption remains out of reach. Rolling out a tool alone isn’t enough. To drive organization-wide impact, you have to reshape underlying habits, mindsets and everyday behaviours of your workforce. In this webinar, Kwesi Johnson, Senior Consultant at FranklinCovey, will show you how to move past isolated pockets of adoption to build a strategy that sticks at every level.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 10:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m. PT: You’re Not Starting from Scratch: Modernizing Learning Across a Complex Learning Ecosystem
Most learning teams aren’t building from a blank slate. They’re working inside an ecosystem that already exists: hundreds of courses, multiple business owners and SMEs, compliance requirements, frontline training needs and years of legacy content with unclear ownership or relevance. Gwen O’Neil, Director of U-Haul University, shares how her team is approaching modernization without starting over. Mark Schuster, Head of Product at CYPHER Learning, joins to discuss what a modern learning platform needs to support this kind of work and where AI realistically fits into an established ecosystem today versus where it’s still more promise than practice.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: Learning That Delivers Growth, Not Just Completions
Completion rates don’t prove capability. Cornerstone’s Kelly Carmody, Principal Product Marketing Manager, and Beth Noble, AVP of Content Strategy and Sales, will demonstrate how their AI-powered learning delivers measurable skill development by embedding learning into work, personalizing development and connecting growth directly to business needs. During this session, you’ll learn how to:
Measure readiness and skill development beyond completion rates.
Deploy personalized, role-based learning faster to accelerate employee performance.
Connect learning and workforce readiness to business priorities and outcomes.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 12:55 p.m.–1:25 p.m. PT: We’re Talking Practice: How to Run Practice That Turns Training Into Performance with AI
Most leadership programs end the same way: a one or two-day workshop, a completion record in the HRIS and then back to the day job. Weeks later, a newly promoted manager walks into their first performance feedback conversation without having practiced it once. In this interactive session, Steve Trout of Second Nature covers the four conditions that make practice work: specific goals, intense focus, immediate feedback and repetition. He’ll share findings from a research study on AI role play, then build a role play live with the audience. In minutes, a performance review document becomes a practice conversation that a new manager can rehearse and get feedback on before the real one.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 1 p.m.–2 p.m. PT: Stop Running Borinars: The Leadership Playbook for Webinars That Actually Engage
A borinar is a webinar that’s boring. Your sales team has run one. Your training team has run one. Your prospects have left one. Your learners have multi-tasked through one. In this session, Lux Narayan, Co-founder and CEO of StreamAlive, will show you what that engagement discipline looks like in practice — for sales webinars that convert and training webinars that transfer learning. You’ll walk away with a framework your teams can apply immediately: which question types work at which moments, how to design for an audience that’s been conditioned to multitask and how to tell in real time whether your room is still with you.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. PT: CMR Institute’s Prescription for Scalable Content Delivery and Protecting IP
Distributing specialized training to external client organizations often leaves intellectual property vulnerable and creates complex course versioning headaches. Non-profit, life-sciences training leader, CMR Institute, remedied this by centralizing course licensing and delivery through Rustici Software’s Content Controller and Launcher. Join Sam Harrison, Director of Systems Strategy at CMR Institute, and Tammy Rutherford, CEO of Rustici Software, to discover how CMR Institute transformed external content distribution into a scalable, secure and effortless operation.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. PT: Built to Last, Not Just Fast: The Content Maintenance Problem That Nobody’s Talking About
Your team can create learning content faster than ever with AI, but what happens after a training module is published? Policies update, regulations shift, products get renamed, prices change, and suddenly the accurate course you built a few months ago needs updating. In this session, Laura Bartus, Head of Learning and Development at Humana, and Billy Sheng, VP of Learning and Partnerships at WellSaid, will give you a way to see the risks before it lands on your desk, and a model for updating elearning at scale instead of one file at a time.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 10:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m. PT: L&D as a Conductor: Orchestrating People, AI, and Business Priorities
iSpring’s second annual ROI study of 140+ L&D professionals across five regions reveals a 63%-point gap between awareness and practice: 74% feel pressure to prove ROI, but only 11% can do so, unchanged from last year. This session, with Maria Starling, L&D Community Lead at iSpring, unpacks why the gap persists, focusing on design and orchestration rather than tools alone. Through four “paradoxes” uncovered in the data (Passivity, Honesty, Expertise and Involvement), Maria will show that the teams that succeed aren’t the ones with the best LMS or the biggest AI budget.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: What’s New, What’s Next in Articulate 360
Articulate has modernized the tools you work in every day, amplified with an AI agent that takes the heaviest, most repetitive work off your plate and opened a way to scale the standards you set across the business. It turns what your business already knows into learning that changes what you do. Join Nayera Nagaty, Product Evangelist at Articulate, for an insight into how training performs and where it’s driving real change, not just who marked it complete. Get an early look at where the platform is headed and a say in shaping it.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 12:45 p.m.–1:15 p.m. PT: AI Made Training Faster. Now It Needs to Make Training Real.
In this session, Ben Mills, Area VP of Enterprise Accounts at CloudShare, will make the case that the next frontier for L&D isn’t making training faster; it’s making it real: live systems, live environments, live consequences, live troubleshooting. You’ll explore what “real” training requires, where AI genuinely strengthens it (and where it doesn’t) and how AI-powered platforms can be built around hands-on practice rather than around content alone. You’ll leave with a practical framework for evaluating whether their own training stack builds real capability, not just more content.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 1 p.m.–2 p.m. PT: Creating Learning Challenges to Drive New Workplace Habits
Training is an event. Learning is a process. Most L&D professionals know that, yet creators still design most learning to end when the session does. People leave motivated and full of ideas, and six weeks later, how much has changed on the job? Kevin Eikenberry, Chief Potential Officer at The Kevin Eikenberry Group, calls this the habitset: whether people try a new skill, keep practicing it and make it the way they work. A learning challenge builds it. Participants take one small, practical action each day over several weeks, with enough structure and accountability to turn what they learned into what they do.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 1:25 p.m.–1:55 p.m. PT: This Is Not Another Authoring Tool: A Complete Course, Built Live
Mobile-first changed how software gets built. Design-first will change how courses do. Compozer is the Australian platform that flips the old order: design leads, everything else follows. In this session, Okan Demir, Co-Founder of Compozer, will make the case the only way that counts, by showing, not telling: a complete, polished course built from blank page to published, live during the session. No slides. No mockups. Come see what design-first authoring looks like. Bring your skepticism.
Friday, November 6, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Community Advantage: Why Connections Matter More Than Ever (Free for ATD members)
Talent development has always been a people-centred profession, but building meaningful professional relationships can feel more challenging than ever in a digital-first world. Join Katrina Kennedy, Trainer, Speaker, Author, at Katrina Kennedy Training, in an interactive discussion about the role of connection, community and professional relationships in your work. Together, you’ll explore how to build authentic connections, learn from peers, find support during challenges and create communities that helps people thrive.
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Developing Your L&D Team: How to Build Capability, Engagement and Performance
Building a high-performing training function requires a deliberate approach to identifying the skills your team needs, understanding where strengths and gaps exist, creating meaningful development opportunities and fostering an environment where people can thrive. In this webinar, Amy DuVernet, Ph.D., will share practical guidelines for developing L&D talent, strengthening team capability and creating the conditions for high performance. You’ll leave with actionable strategies for building a team equipped with the right skills, experiences and support to deliver measurable results.
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Transforming What Your SMEs Know to What Your Learners Need
In this session, Artisan Learning’s Amy Morrisey, President, and Annie Schmitt, Lead Instructional Designer, will show you five key strategies for working more effectively with subject-matter experts to create content that sticks. You’ll gain practical insights, tips and resources for making the most of your SME’s expertise and for harnessing that power in a productive and helpful way. You’ll walk away better able to move your online content from simply conveying information to helping your learners solve the real problems they face every day.
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Upskilling and Reskilling in an AI World
AI is reshaping jobs, skills and business priorities at unprecedented speed. Join David Wentworth, Managing Director of Learning and Talent at Brandon Hall Group, for an engaging webinar exploring how leading companies are upskilling and reskilling their workforces to meet today’s AI demands. Drawing on proven success stories, David will reveal practical approaches organizations are using to identify emerging skill gaps, redesign learning strategies, mobilize talent and build AI fluency across roles and functions.
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 1 p.m.–2 p.m. PT: From Ordinary to Outstanding: Build Better Presentations Faster
Most presentations fail because they’re built for the presenter instead of the audience. Mike Parkinson, Owner of Billion Dollar Graphics, will show you a proven, repeatable approach to creating clear, compelling presentations in less time and with less stress. You’ll discover how to streamline your development process, design clean, professional slides and turn complex content into simple visual stories that improve understanding, engagement and retention whether you’re building training, executive briefings, pitch decks or stakeholder presentations.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Perfect Mix: Recipes for High-Impact Blended Learning Campaigns
Creating an effective learning program is a lot like cooking a gourmet meal; you can have the best ingredients in the world, but if you throw them all in the pot at once, you just end up with a mess. Garima Gupta, Founder and CEO of Artha Learning, will show you how to curate the perfect mix. Drawing from a variety of successful client projects, Garima will share specific “recipes” for combining elearning, ILT, webinars and microlearning into cohesive learning campaigns. You’ll learn how to move beyond the “one-and-done” course mindset and design longitudinal experiences that actually stick.
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Beyond the ATS: What Belongs in the Next Talent Acquisition Technology Ecosystem?
Heidi Grecsek, Managing Director of Human Capital Management at Brandon Hall Group, explores how organizations can determine what belongs in the next generation Talent Acquisition ecosystem, including what to consolidate, integrate, replace or add. You’ll examine the changing role of the ATS, where specialized solutions can provide greater value, and how AI is reshaping recruiting technology architecture and decision making. Discover how leading organizations are moving beyond just adding technology, but building TA ecosystems designed to improve recruiter productivity, candidate experience, hiring quality and business outcomes.
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: How Lean Teams Keep Global, Multilingual Learning Current Amidst Constant Change
In this session, Brittany Clark, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Smartcat, and Andrew James Viglione, Senior Director of Global Commercial L&D at Gilead Sciences, will look at how high-performing teams are treating global learning as one end-to-end operation: intake, change detection, review and distribution running as a single connected process instead of separate stages. They’ll cover how these teams catch change early, split the work deliberately between humans and AI, and keep a human governance layer in control of what actually ships.
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Treat Every Day Like Day One: Rethinking the Scope of Onboarding
In this Research Spotlight, Tom Whelan, Ph.D., Director of Research at Training Industry, will examine how leading organizations are transforming onboarding into a driver of learning, engagement and career growth. Drawing on exclusive Training Industry research, he’ll explore the state of onboarding today, the barriers limiting its impact and the practices that produce stronger outcomes. You’ll leave with actionable insights to help you build an onboarding experience that starts employees on the right path and supports learning well beyond their first day.
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 1 p.m.–2 p.m. PT: Don’t Ditch Your Courses — Transform Them: Seven Principles for Workflow Learning
In this practical webinar, Bob Mosher, Founding Partner and Chief Learning Evangelist at APPLY Synergies, will introduce seven key ADAPT principles that can help you transform traditional courses into more effective workflow learning experiences. You’ll see how these principles can be applied to existing learning without starting from scratch, helping your organization move from a training-first mindset to a performance-first approach. You’ll explore how workflow learning can help employees apply what they’ve learned, build skills over time, adapt to change and improve performance at the moment of need.
Friday, November 13, 2026, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Diagnose Your Culture’s Belonging Gaps (Free for ATD members)
Often, organizations base their decisions on how to approach belonging based on gut instinct or “easy” fixes, rather than data. Based on Maria Morukian’s, President of MSM Global Consulting, forthcoming book, The Belonging Blueprint: How to Design a Workplace Culture that Fuels Performance, this session introduces a deeply researched diagnostic framework and cultural Maturity Model to help leaders assess where their organization is on its journey to supporting a culture of belonging, with concrete strategies to design a concrete action plan to design their organization’s Belonging Blueprint.
Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Measuring Manager Effectiveness: The Business Case for Leadership Development
Organizations invest heavily in leadership development, yet many still struggle to prove whether manager capability is improving business outcomes. In this session, Dr. Marline C. Duroseau, Managing Director of HR and Leadership at Brandon Hall Group, reframes manager effectiveness as a measurable business issue, not simply a leadership development activity. You’ll examine what executives need to see, how to connect manager behaviours to measurable outcomes and how HR can use data, dashboards and ROI thinking to position leadership development as a strategic investment that moves the business.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Manage, Update and Deliver Training Across Multiple LMSes
L&D teams managing global programs or extended enterprises often face version control nightmares when distributing courses to disparate internal platforms and third-party LMSes. Join Training Industry’s Andy Whitaker to see how Content Controller solves these exact challenges. With deep expertise in helping organizations untangle complex learning ecosystems, Andy will demonstrate how to deploy updates instantly, manage licences to protect intellectual property and track centralized analytics across every platform your learners utilize. You’ll experience a direct look at scaling multi-LMS training effortlessly.
Thursday, November 19, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Looking Forward to Compliance: How Stories Transform Required Training
Rance Greene, Story Designer, recently reported that though millions are spent each year on compliance training, 70% of compliance officers believe that their compliance training isn’t effective. That required training is perceived as a necessary evil by both designers and learners is no secret. Often called “dry,” “boring,” “click-through” training, there is room for improvement. This webinar will show you how Instructional Story Design gives your learning audience something to look forward to when they receive the email from you LMS that it’s time to take their required training.
Thursday, November 19, 2026, 1 p.m.–2 p.m. PT: Create Accessible Training Videos Faster: AI-Powered Workflows for L&D
Creating training videos doesn’t have to require expensive software, professional editing skills or hours of post-production. Danielle Watkins, Founder and Chief Learning Experience Officer at Zenith Performance Solutions, joins Sarah Eiler, Community Engagement Manager at ScreenPal, to demonstrate a complete workflow for creating accessible training videos, from recording to delivery. You’ll learn how to record polished training videos, make quick edits that improve the learner experience and use AI-powered tools to generate captions and audio descriptions that support WCAG 2.2 accessibility goals.
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