Training 2026 is packed with content to help you become exceptional at what you do! Choose eight different breakout sessions and one Hands-on Clinic. And check out the Featured Breakout Series on gamification of learning, training for sustainability, and cross-industry case studies.
GAMIFICATION OF LEARNING
Need to turbocharge your course design? Time to apply the principles of gamification and game-based learning? If so, join our partners from
Sententia Gamification as they host this series that will help you level up your learning design skills, strategies, and tools for increasing learner engagement and motivation. See real-world examples using low-tech to high-tech solutions from trainers just like you!
Sessions: 101, 201, 301, 401, 501, 601, 701, C01
TRAINING FOR SUSTAINABILITY — EXECUTING STRATEGY THROUGH WORKFORCE CAPABILITY
Sustainability is now a core business issue impacting costs, risks, resilience, innovation, and value. While public commitments exist, the challenge is execution. Achieving sustainability outcomes depends on embedding it into everyday decisions, processes, and accountability across the organization, making training and capability building central to performance. Impact relies on every employee understanding how sustainability affects their roles and having the skills to act, integrating it into core operations, not treating it as a separate initiative. Join series hosts
Eileen Fisher Foundation VP Antoinette Klatzky and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Professor of Corporate Sustainability Antonio Vizcaya Abdo to discover how organizations are demonstrating measurable progress.
Sessions: 102, 202, 302, 402, 502 (
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CASE STUDIES CLOSE UP
Hear candid real-world scenarios — what worked and what didn’t — and gain practical solutions and recommendations for L&D challenges just like yours. Even if you operate in a resource-constrained organization with limited budgets and staffing, you’ll get inspiration from case studies for how to achieve impact by adopting innovative strategies from small and large entities across industries. Check out these "not-your-grandfather’s" case study sessions moderated by
Brian Walter, president of Sticky Training and past president of the National Speakers Association.
Sessions: 103, 203, 403, 503
