Free learning & development webinars for Aug 2026
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August is a good time to catch your breath — or catch up on the learning you meant to do all year. This month’s picks are all about smart use of downtime. One webinar might be all it takes to reframe your next challenge.
Tuesday, August 4, 2026, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Branching Scenarios Made Easy: A Beginner’s Guide to Adaptive Design
Branching scenarios are the gold standard for practicing soft skills, but they are notoriously difficult to build. In this session, Garima Gupta, Founder and CEO of Artha Learning Inc., will prove that you don’t need to be a coding wizard or a creative writer to build immersive, adaptive learning. By leveraging the power of AI (specifically ChatGPT), she’ll show you how to rapidly prototype relevance-rich scenarios where learner choices genuinely shape the path forward. You’ll leave with a clear workflow to take your ideas from a simple concept to a fully realized, adaptive experience.
Thursday, August 6, 2026, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: 12 Speaking Strategies that Drive Team and Learner Engagement Up 75%
In a single conversation, anyone can engage listeners, spark clarity, reduce stress and inspire loyalty — or shut people down entirely! What if a single, easy-to-learn speaking skill won over learners, colleagues and audiences of all kinds? Learn the hidden speaking adjustments that can make you a top-of-the-line speaker when pitching that project to management, face-to-face with new hires, trying to read participants online and across any situation you encounter — taught by David Goldberg, CEO of Prosody.center, an expert coach trusted by over 10,000 leaders, sellers and industry influencers.
Thursday, August 6, 2026, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Step One: Align and Partner with Your Leaders to Create the Right Learning Solutions
Organizations are looking to move up to be more strategic and more valued by leaders, but L&D is still creating courses, rather than partnering with leaders and solving problems. This webinar, led by Becky Willis, CLO of Tractus Learning, reveals why you need to be more strategic — what that means and how to achieve strategic engagement at all levels — move to Talent Development and drive business results.
Tuesday, August 11, 2026, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Turning Relationships Into Revenue: How to Develop Leaders of Customer-Facing Teams (Free for ATD members)
Quotas for revenue and productivity are growing exponentially, with the expectation that AI and tech will help drive them. Yet the very same tools that are driving scale are also creating more skeptical customers, which raises the bar for your team to build trusting relationships and positive customer experiences. In this session, Felix Sablan, Chief Client and Commercial Officer at SIY Global, will explore how you can build programs that develop inner capacity for revenue performance when the pressure is on: perception, self-awareness and emotional awareness.
Tuesday, August 11, 2026, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Make Blended Learning Stickier with Science
L&D teams are being asked to do more with less; faster, shorter, more personalized and more scalable learning experiences that still drive real performance. How do you design blended learning experiences that actually meet these expectations without overwhelming learners or sacrificing retention? In this session, Karen Hyder, Online Event Producer at Kaleidoscope Training and Consulting, and Melissa Chambers, Online Instructional Specialist at MSC Consulting, will build on insights gained from the Training Conference Virtual Engagement Lab, where you’ll explore how to design engagement in live, online learning.
Wednesday, August 12, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: In an AI-Heavy Learning World, Are You Building Connection or Just Creating Activity?
In this session, InSync Training’s Cindy Foster, Implementation Quality Manager, and Karen Vieth, President and CEO, will challenge a common assumption in learning design: that more activity equals better engagement. You’ll explore the difference between visible participation and genuine connection, and why that difference matters for learning that’s attended, remembered and applied. You’ll experience simple design and facilitation shifts that help learners move from passive attendance to personal relevance, shared meaning and ownership of application.
Wednesday, August 12, 2026, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Navigating Uncertainty: Building Trust and Resilience in Government Workplaces (Free for ATD members)
How can government leaders build trust and resilience in an ever-changing environment? Drawing from the latest Best Places to Work data and industry expertise, Parneet Pal, from Systematically Well, will share practical approaches to strengthen team engagement and adaptability. This session will also discuss how a cohort-based learning strategy can serve as an effective way to change leader behaviour and yield results that demonstrate impact and ROI to the organization. This experience-focused program will emphasize collaboration and hands-on learning through practical exercises.
Thursday, August 13, 2026, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Rules of Engagement for Highly Engaging Virtual Learning
It’s so hard to make meaningful connections over Connect, Zoom and Teams. How can you pursue the need for human connection and acknowledge the limitations of the medium? How can you connect and engage with people you can’t see? And as for the technology that often gets in the way, how can you compensate for it and maybe even turn it into an advantage? These are the questions Rick Altman, Director at BetterPresenting.com, will answer, mixing traditional broadcasting techniques with truly innovative strategies and spirited tactics.
Thursday, August 13, 2026, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Steady Under Pressure: Practical Leadership Tools for Sustainable Performance (Free for ATD members)
How leaders show up when pressure is high shapes everything their teams experience — their engagement, their trust and their performance. In this practical, experiential session, Dena Samuels, Ph.D, Leadership Development Consultant and Executive Coach at Dena Samuels Consulting, will explore the internal dimension most leadership programs never address. You’ll leave with tools you can use and bring directly to the leaders you develop.
Tuesday, August 18, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: From Volume to Velocity: Solving the Hiring Match Problem with AI
Many organizations face high applicant volume but still struggle to identify, engage and hire the right talent quickly, fairly and effectively. In this roundtable, Isolved’s Isella Conley, VP of Talent and HR Operations, Heidi Barnett, President of Talent Acquisition Solutions, and Amy Miller, Product Evangelist, with David Forry, SVP and Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, will explore how employers can improve hiring velocity without sacrificing fairness, compliance, candidate trust or quality of hire. The discussion will examine where AI can improve sourcing, screening and candidate matching, and where it may add noise or risk without human judgment, governance and workflow redesign.
Wednesday, August 19, 2026, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Story-based Technical Training: A How-To Session
It’s easy to see how Instructional Story Design works for interpersonal skills and even required training, but aren’t technical skills different? Software, machine operations, safety and other types of technical training seem straightforward. Do they really lend themselves to storytelling? You bet. In this webinar, with Rance Greene, Story Designer, you’ll encounter winning strategies for using Story Design in technical training with practical steps to make what might seem like a boring process into a humanized and performance-driven learning experience.
Wednesday, August 19, 2026, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Beyond the Hype: How to Actually Use AI in Virtual Training
In this interactive webinar, Cindy Huggett, Principal of Cindy Huggett Consulting, will cut through the noise and share three specific ways you can incorporate AI into your virtual classes. You’ll explore how to use AI to create an engaging learning experience, as a facilitation support tool to stay present with learners during delivery and as a tech backup to handle platform issues without derailing your session. Whether you’re just getting started with AI or looking for smarter ways to integrate it, you’ll leave with clear strategies you can use in your next virtual class.
Thursday, August 20, 2026, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Assessment Strategies That Improve Learning Outcomes
Traditional assessments often measure knowledge retention, but the most effective assessments drive learning, reinforce skills and provide actionable insights. In this webinar, Sharath Ramaswamy, Senior Elearning Evangelist at Adobe, will explore how to design elearning assessments that go beyond scoring to create meaningful learning experiences and measurable business impact. You’ll discover practical strategies for aligning assessments with learning objectives, creating engaging question types, delivering constructive feedback and using assessment data to continuously improve your training programs.
Thursday, August 20, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Future of Moral Leadership in a High-AI World
In this session, Brandon Hall Group’s Managing Director for Learning and Talent, David Wentworth, will be joined by Rosie Forrest and Max Cohen of The HOW Institute for Society, as well as Conrado De La Rosa, CSM at NovoEd, to explore what moral leadership looks like in an environment defined by rapid change, ambiguity and increasing reliance on AI. Rather than prescribing answers, they’ll focus on how leaders can improve the way they see, assess and act — building the clarity required to navigate decisions where there are no playbooks. In addition, they’ll examine how organizations can move beyond awareness to actually developing principled leadership capability at scale.
Tuesday, August 25, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Building the Recognition Flywheel: Turning Recognition into Measurable Business Performance
Most employee recognition programs are well-intentioned, but don’t quite deliver the goods when it comes to impact. To help companies break this cycle, John Land, Chief Client Officer at Vantage Circle, and David Wentworth, Managing Director of Learning and Talent at Brandon Hall Group, will introduce the Recognition Flywheel: a strategic framework for designing recognition programs that reinforce the right behaviours, sustain employee motivation, strengthen retention and ultimately drive measurable business outcomes.
Wednesday, August 26, 2026, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Prompt, Build, Play: Vibe Coding for Learning Designers
Learning designers are under pressure to create more engaging learning experiences faster. Destery Hildenbrand, Learning Technology Consultant, will show you how vibe coding can help you move from idea to interactive prototype using AI as a practical build partner. Through three scenario and game driven examples, you’ll see how prompting, testing and iteration can support faster ideation, interaction design, feedback writing, branching logic and simple game mechanics. The focus isn’t on becoming a developer — it’s on learning how to describe what you want, shape the learner experience, test what gets built and refine it into something useful.
Wednesday, August 26, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Reimagining the Learner Experience
The learner experience is a direct reflection of how well strategy, content and delivery work together. When those elements are disconnected, learning feels fragmented and struggles to deliver impact. In this discussion, a panel of learning leaders will explore how to better align these pieces to create experiences that are more relevant, cohesive and tied to real business priorities. As organizations move away from static programs, L&D teams are shifting towards more flexible approaches that support continuous learning and adapt as needs change. This session will focus on what it takes to build a more intentional, connected approach to the learner experience.
Thursday, August 27, 2026, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: From Understanding to Action: How Resilient L&D Leaders Navigate What Comes Next
Today’s learning leaders face a paradox: they can clearly describe the forces reshaping their organizations, whether it’s AI adoption, skills-based hiring or shifting workforce expectations; yet knowing what’s changing isn’t the same as knowing what to do about it. The real challenge lies in making high-stakes decisions without a clear picture of what comes next and then proving it worked. In this webinar, Melissa Lobie, Chief Learning Officer at Instructure, and David Wentworth, Managing Director of Learning and Talent at Brandon Hall Group, will cut through the awareness gap to focus on what resilient learning functions actually do differently.
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