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Hot days, cool topics. July’s webinars are built for summer brains — light, relevant and refreshing. Grab a session during lunch, between errands or poolside with your favourite drink. Just don’t spill on your laptop.

Wednesday, July 1, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Reimagining Compliance Training
While organizations might meet regulatory compliance goals by mandating the training, they have little to no idea if people are really acting upon their compliance-related skills and knowledge. In this session, David Wentworth, Managing Director of Learning and Talent at Brandon Hall Group, looks at why and how companies can take a more modern view of compliance training by focusing on strategic, business-focused outcomes. It’s possible to meet regulatory requirements, avoid risk and provide a safe work environment, and still provide an engaging and impactful learning experience. The session will highlight Brandon Hall Group research and award-winning case studies.

Monday, July 6, 2026, 11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: Five Cognitive Triggers That Drive Behaviour Change (Free for ATD members)
Every learning experience is meant to change how people work. Whether it does or not comes down to a few cognitive triggers that determine what learners remember and act on. In this 30-minute webinar, Noam Herz, Founder and Creative Director at Knowaa, will walk through five cognitive triggers and show each inside a real project they designed and built. You’ll see the decisions that made the learning land, and leave ready to make your next program more memorable, motivating and easier to apply.

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: How to move from “Not Another Training…” to “I Learned Something Today”
Most organizations don’t struggle with training — they struggle with the conditions around it. A true learning culture isn’t about hosting more workshops; it’s about creating an environment where curiosity is normal, experimentation is safe, and learning is part of everyday work rather than an interruption to it. This session, with Trevor Cox, Ph.D., Director of Learning Innovation at LX Studio, focuses on practical tools leaders and trainers can use immediately that make learning an everyday behaviour rather than an afterthought. You’ll look at how to align learning with strategy, weave it into daily routines and make it a shared responsibility rather than an HR initiative.

Wednesday, July 8, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Five Common Breakdowns in Complex Sales and How to Fix Them
This session explores five common breakdowns that cause complex sales to stall and practical strategies sellers can use to help customers make confident, informed decisions. Join Mike O’Brien, Executive VP of Sales at Integrity Solutions, and Training Industry’s Dr. Tom Whelan as they combine industry research with real-world sales experience to examine what separates stalled opportunities from successful outcomes. You’ll gain actionable sales training frameworks for navigating buying committees, building stakeholder alignment, advancing opportunities with confidence and creating momentum without relying on pressure tactics or discounting.

Wednesday, July 8, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Recognition as a Strategic Business Capability: Advancing from Program to Performance Driver
Join David Balor, Managing Director at Achievers Workforce Institute, and Dr. Marlene C. Duroseau, Managing Director of HR and Leadership Development at Brandon Hall Group, for a forward-looking conversation on how recognition is evolving into a more strategic system for reinforcing performance, improving retention and strengthening workforce alignment. Achievers reports industry-leading adoption and monthly active usage, and facilitates millions of engagement moments annually across its customer base, offering a practical lens into what embedded recognition can make possible at scale.

Wednesday, July 8, 2026, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Yes, People Can Improve EQ — Here’s How (And How to Prove It)
Can emotional intelligence actually be developed — and can you measure it? Many L&D leaders face skepticism from stakeholders who see EQ as a fixed trait or dismiss it as too “soft” to matter. In this session, Joshua Freedman, CEO of Six Seconds, answers the question with three real-world case studies showing how organizations designed EQ development programs that produced measurable, bottom-line results. Whether you’re building the business case for EQ in your organization or designing learning programs that need to show ROI, you’ll leave with a clear framework, concrete evidence and a free EQ assessment you can take yourself.

Thursday, July 9, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Confronting the Engagement Crisis in Corporate Learning
Training managers invest time and resources into programs they expect to resonate, only to find employees disengaged for reasons ranging from mismatched modalities to unclear content relevance and industry-specific expectations. In this Research Spotlight, you’ll learn exclusive Training Industry findings on the state of learner engagement and why employees respond differently across contexts. You’ll explore what motivates learners to opt in, why they check out and how to better align organizational priorities with learner needs. You’ll leave with a clear, evidence-based perspective to help you design more engaging, relevant and effective learning experiences.

Thursday, July 9, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The End of Annual Reviews: Redesigning Performance for a Modern Workforce
Despite continued investment in performance management systems and processes, many organizations are questioning whether their current models are truly driving performance, engagement, and growth. In this session, Heidi Grecsek, Managing Director of Human Capital Management at Brandon Hall Group, examines the ongoing shift in performance management models and what it means for organizations looking to improve workforce effectiveness. Explore why legacy performance frameworks are falling short, how leading organizations are moving toward continuous, feedback-driven approaches, and the growing role of data, skills and real-time insights in shaping performance outcomes.

Thursday, July 9, 2026, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: The Textrovert Effect: Turning Your Zoom and Teams Chat into the Most Powerful Tool in Your Virtual Training Room
Most virtual training sessions treat the chat window as a sidebar — a place for “got it” and the occasional link. The Textrovert Effect is the discovery that it can be something else entirely: the most powerful participation channel in the room. When the chat opens with intention, introverts and extroverts alike become more active, more honest contributors than open discussion ever produces. Add AI to the equation and facilitators can listen to an entire room at once — surfacing patterns, capturing sentiment and visualizing participant input in real time, directly on their slides. In this webinar, with Lux Narayan, CEO of StreamAlive, you’ll discover how to:

Understand the Textrovert Effect and design sessions where everyone contributes.
Build a framework for when, how and what to ask in the chat.
Use AI to surface and respond to participant insight in real time.
Transform your Zoom or Teams chat from a logistics channel into the heart of your session.

Thursday, July 9, 2026, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Stop Leaving Frontline Job Training to Chance (Free for ATD members)
95% of organizations rely on on-the-job training to build frontline skills. Yet while L&D chases the next big technology, on-the-job-training remains overlooked, leaving frontline employees’ success dependent on which trainer they happen to get. Join JD Dillon from Every Shift Counts; Madison Pickett, Training Content Manager at Salata; Paul Smith, Head of Co-worker Development at Baker Construction; and Stephanie Ketron, VP of L&D at Westgate Resorts, for a practical conversation about improving hands-on job training in fast-moving frontline environments. Your business relies on your frontline. Don’t leave their training to chance.

Wednesday, July 15, 2026, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Your Voice Called. Speak with Clarity, Lead with Impact. (Free for I4PL members)
Your Voice Called helps leaders strengthen their presence, communicate with clarity and lead conversations that build trust and momentum. Through engaging stories, practical frameworks and real-world examples, Trisha Miltimore, keynote speaker, leadership facilitator and Certified Management Consultant (CMC), will explore how voice, confidence and intention directly influence culture, learning and results. This session goes beyond presentation skills, focusing on everyday leadership moments — meetings, facilitation, feedback and decision-making — where impact is made. You’ll leave with actionable tools to speak up, lead effectively and communicate with confidence.

Wednesday, July 15, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Manager Effectiveness Gap: Why Engagement Efforts Fall Short
In this session, Dr. Marlene C. Duroseau, Managing Director of HR and Leadership Development at Brandon Hall Group, explores the growing gap between leadership expectations and manager capability, and why traditional engagement strategies often fail to deliver sustainable results. Drawing on Brandon Hall Group research and client insights, she examines what organizations frequently underestimate about the manager role, how ineffective management drives hidden business costs and why improving manager effectiveness is critical to organizational performance.

Wednesday, July 15, 2026, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Crafting Choices That Challenge: Designing Scenarios for Authentic Practice
Creating plausible choices and distractors is one of the most challenging aspects of writing scenarios. In this session, you’ll learn techniques for crafting scenario choices that give learners authentic practice with the decisions that drive performance. Christy Tucker, Learning Experience Design Consultant, will cover how to identify the decision points where better judgment leads to better outcomes, how to mine real-world mistakes for compelling distractors and how to write consequences that reinforce learning without feeling contrived. You’ll get tips to strengthen weak answer options and learn how to transform straightforward questions into genuine decision-making challenges.

Thursday, July 16, 2026, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Reveal, Explore, Learn: Designing Content That Unfolds with the Learner
Great learning experiences don’t overwhelm learners with information; they guide them to discover it. In this webinar, presented by Sharath Ramaswamy, Senior Elearning Evangelist at Adobe, explore how progressive disclosure can transform content-heavy courses into engaging, learner-driven experiences. Learn how to structure content in layers, allowing learners to reveal information at their own pace, stay focused on what matters most and actively engage with the learning process. Through practical examples and demonstrations in Adobe Captivate, you’ll discover how to create intuitive interactions that encourage exploration, improve comprehension and support better knowledge retention.

Thursday, July 16, 2026, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: The Skills and Behaviours Behind High-performing Learning and Development Leaders
In this webinar, you’ll explore Training Industry’s research-based competency models, the Training Manager Competency Model™ and the Senior L&D Leader Competency Model™, highlighting the capabilities that drive success at every stage of an L&D career. Join Amy DuVernet, Ph.D., VP of Learning Products at Training Industry, as she shares insights into the research, skills, knowledge and behaviours associated with both training management and executive-level learning leadership. You’ll gain guidance on how to assess their current capabilities and identify opportunities for professional growth.

Thursday, July 16, 2026, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: State of the Industry Report Findings (Free for ATD members)
ATD Research will be discussing the data and findings of their latest research study, the 2026 State of the Industry report. ATD’s Rocki Basel, Director of Research, and Tessa Guiv, Researcher, will go over trends, spending and activity benchmarks. With an emphasis on industry and company size differences, this robust, data-driven webinar will give talent development professionals a better understanding of where the field is currently and forecast future TD priorities.

Thursday, July 16, 2026, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Defensible, Credible and Sustainable, The New Scorecard for Training, Tests and Assessments
Valid and reliable are just the beginning. Clients expect training solutions, tests and credentials to be defensible, credible in the eyes of their stakeholders and economically and operationally feasible. Join Judith Hale, Ph.D., CEO of Center for International Credentials, in this webinar to learn more.

Thursday, July 30, 2026, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Scaling Rapid Elearning with Generative AI: A Practical Framework for L&D Teams
With generative AI, L&D teams can create courses faster than ever to meet growing demand across onboarding, compliance, product training and change initiatives. This webinar introduces a practical generative AI framework for rapid elearning design, built to help organizations use AI for improved development speed, consistency and scalability while keeping instructional quality, business alignment, learner outcomes and governance firmly human-led. Hosted by Training Industry and CommLab India, this session explores how enterprise learning teams can move beyond AI experimentation and build repeatable, scalable workflows for rapid elearning development.

Tuesday, July 21, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How to Use a Coaching Framework to Build Training Materials That Create Longer-Lasting Learner Benefits
What if your training content was built to be coached from day one? Tim Hagen, President and Chief Coaching Officer at Progress Coaching, will introduce how to design training programs using a coaching framework such as QALMS to ensure lessons are not only learned — but lived. You’ll learn how to embed reflection questions, learning projects and coaching prompts directly into instructional design to create a culture of application and growth. When coaching principles shape the design, learners don’t just attend training — they experience reinforcement every step of the way.

Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Avatars, Agents and AI, Oh My!
AI isn’t replacing creativity — it’s expanding it. With the right toolset, you can do things you never thought possible, create content you never thought you could afford and bring ideas to life that used to live only in your head. Join HeyGen Ambassador and Adobe Certified Instructor, Mark Itskowitch, and get inspired, get excited and learn how to use HeyGen’s AI tools to open up a whole new creative world. Learn how to build your own digital twin or choose from HeyGen’s library of ready-made avatars to expand your creativity and bring your boldest ideas to life.

Tuesday, July 28, 2026, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Three Crucial Components to Create Training for Real World Impact
Training remains, in all its forms, is an important component for development and growth, yet too often falls short in achieving what everyone (the organization the trainer and the learner) needs from the experience. The problem isn’t exactly the training itself. The problem is that trainers aren’t thinking about and designing training to move beyond knowledge to application. Kevin Eikenberry, Chief Potential Officer at The Kevin Eikenberry Group, will share ways to rethink and transform your training using three critical components and help you see training as a powerful part (but only a part) of performance improvement.

Thursday, July 30, 2026, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: It’s a Keeper! Handouts That Don’t Go in the Circular File.
Tired of watching participants toss your handouts aside? In this session, Becky Pike Pluth, President and CEO of The Bob Pike Group, will show you how to transform your materials into engaging learning tools participants use. Discover seven participant-centred design principles, explore six interactive handout page types (like completion pages, windowpanes, and action planning) and learn the Need to Know, Nice to Know, Where to Go framework for organizing content. You’ll leave with practical strategies to reduce “death by bullet point” and create handouts that promote retention and application.

Thursday, July 30, 2026, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: You Haven’t Lost Your Skills. You Just Haven’t Found Them Virtually Yet.
You have stood in front of a room, read the energy and owned it. You know what it feels like when a session clicks. But then when you got on Zoom, something felt off — not because you lost your skills, but because nobody showed you how to bring them through a webcam. In this session, Pete Colantes, Founder of VIP-Vitually in Person, will introduce the REAL Framework, a practical four-pillar system built on one simple standard: although it’s virtual, let’s treat it as if it were in-person. You’ll leave with at least one technique you can use in your very next virtual session. Not eventually. Tomorrow.

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