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Friday, February 19
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Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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| P01 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Master Facilitator Certificate Program
3-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Sardék Love, CEO, Sardék Love International
A survey of more than 1,500 training professionals revealed the #1 challenge trainers face is a lack of participant engagement. When learners tune out, retention drops, application stalls, and training loses credibility. This immersive program equips you with a proven system for creating dynamic learning experiences that capture attention, spark participation, and improve performance. You will learn to:
- Apply the Engagement Loop Framework to rapidly design participant-focused courses.
- Apply the 3 Laws of Facilitation to create highly engaging learning experiences for any audience or topic.
- Use the Curious Ask Method and experiential activities to replace passive delivery with participation, reflection, and application.
- Implement 13 attention-grabbing openers that instantly create curiosity, energy, and involvement.
- Use AI to create customized, facilitator-ready activities on demand and in minutes, based on your audience, topic, format, group size, and desired outcome. No advanced AI experience is required.
PROJECT: Apply the methods to your own course, practice your facilitation skills, and test reusable prompts with an AI platform.
BONUS: Receive ongoing access to the Facilitator Engagement Toolkit, including 50+ ready-to-use activities, the AI Activity Builder, the AI Prompt Playbook with 10 reusable prompts, facilitator guides, slides, participant materials, training videos, and the Ask a Master Facilitator video library.
FEE: $1,695 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 16.5 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P02 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Master Instructional Designer Certificate Program
3-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Sean Rea, Director of Performance and Learning Services, Friesen, Kaye and Associates
Discover the keys to creating interactive and engaging training that ensures learner success and true productivity back on the job — whether in the classroom, online, or a combination of both.
You’ll learn to:
- Apply proven techniques to analyze learner and organizational needs, identify performance gaps, and plan training that addresses them.
- Incorporate adult learning principles, brain science, systematic learning processes, and varied processing methods to maximize retention and on-the-job performance.
- Align learning objectives, instructional strategies, and assessments to ensure training achieves desired outcomes.
- Plan effective presentation, application, feedback, and questioning techniques that engage learners, reinforce retention, and test understanding.
- Create a validation plan to ensure the training design meets learner and organizational needs.
BONUS: You will receive 198-page Instructional Design Fundamentals Participant Manual; case studies and job aids; Self-Directed Learning Booklet; and Support Manual with instructional design guidelines, best practices, and templates.
FEE: $1,695 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 16.5 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P03 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Mastering Articulate Storyline 360 Certificate Program
3-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Elizabeth Kuhlmann, Training Team Lead, John Moore, Training Team Lead, and Ron Price, Chief Learning Officer, Yukon Learning
Ready to take your Articulate Storyline skills to the next level? Whether you’re new to Storyline or looking to build more engaging and sophisticated elearning experiences, this hands-on workshop provides the knowledge, techniques, and practical experience you need to create interactive, professional-quality courses with confidence.
- Days 1 & 2 Building a Strong Foundation: In the first two days of this hands-on program, you’ll explore the core features and best practices of Storyline. Working alongside the instructors, you’ll build a complete elearning course while learning how to create engaging content, incorporate media, add animation and audio, develop knowledge checks, and publish courses for a variety of devices and learning management systems. Throughout the program, you’ll also discover how AI-powered features can accelerate course development, with alternative approaches provided for participants who do not use AI tools.
- Day 3 Advanced Interactivity and Course Design: On the final day, you’ll expand your Storyline expertise by exploring advanced features that bring courses to life. Learn how to use variables, conditional triggers, and motion to create dynamic learning experiences, while incorporating gamification techniques and complex interactions that increase learner engagement and improve performance.
BYOD: WiFi-enabled laptop with Articulate 360 (including the Storyline 360 desktop application).
FEE: $1,695 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 16.5 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
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Saturday, February 20
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| Session Code |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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| P01 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Master Facilitator Certificate Program
3-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Sardék Love, CEO, Sardék Love International
A survey of more than 1,500 training professionals revealed the #1 challenge trainers face is a lack of participant engagement. When learners tune out, retention drops, application stalls, and training loses credibility. This immersive program equips you with a proven system for creating dynamic learning experiences that capture attention, spark participation, and improve performance. You will learn to:
- Apply the Engagement Loop Framework to rapidly design participant-focused courses.
- Apply the 3 Laws of Facilitation to create highly engaging learning experiences for any audience or topic.
- Use the Curious Ask Method and experiential activities to replace passive delivery with participation, reflection, and application.
- Implement 13 attention-grabbing openers that instantly create curiosity, energy, and involvement.
- Use AI to create customized, facilitator-ready activities on demand and in minutes, based on your audience, topic, format, group size, and desired outcome. No advanced AI experience is required.
PROJECT: Apply the methods to your own course, practice your facilitation skills, and test reusable prompts with an AI platform.
BONUS: Receive ongoing access to the Facilitator Engagement Toolkit, including 50+ ready-to-use activities, the AI Activity Builder, the AI Prompt Playbook with 10 reusable prompts, facilitator guides, slides, participant materials, training videos, and the Ask a Master Facilitator video library.
FEE: $1,695 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 16.5 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P02 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Master Instructional Designer Certificate Program
3-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Sean Rea, Director of Performance and Learning Services, Friesen, Kaye and Associates
Discover the keys to creating interactive and engaging training that ensures learner success and true productivity back on the job — whether in the classroom, online, or a combination of both.
You’ll learn to:
- Apply proven techniques to analyze learner and organizational needs, identify performance gaps, and plan training that addresses them.
- Incorporate adult learning principles, brain science, systematic learning processes, and varied processing methods to maximize retention and on-the-job performance.
- Align learning objectives, instructional strategies, and assessments to ensure training achieves desired outcomes.
- Plan effective presentation, application, feedback, and questioning techniques that engage learners, reinforce retention, and test understanding.
- Create a validation plan to ensure the training design meets learner and organizational needs.
BONUS: You will receive 198-page Instructional Design Fundamentals Participant Manual; case studies and job aids; Self-Directed Learning Booklet; and Support Manual with instructional design guidelines, best practices, and templates.
FEE: $1,695 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 16.5 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P03 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Mastering Articulate Storyline 360 Certificate Program
3-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Elizabeth Kuhlmann, Training Team Lead, John Moore, Training Team Lead, and Ron Price, Chief Learning Officer, Yukon Learning
Ready to take your Articulate Storyline skills to the next level? Whether you’re new to Storyline or looking to build more engaging and sophisticated elearning experiences, this hands-on workshop provides the knowledge, techniques, and practical experience you need to create interactive, professional-quality courses with confidence.
- Days 1 & 2 Building a Strong Foundation: In the first two days of this hands-on program, you’ll explore the core features and best practices of Storyline. Working alongside the instructors, you’ll build a complete elearning course while learning how to create engaging content, incorporate media, add animation and audio, develop knowledge checks, and publish courses for a variety of devices and learning management systems. Throughout the program, you’ll also discover how AI-powered features can accelerate course development, with alternative approaches provided for participants who do not use AI tools.
- Day 3 Advanced Interactivity and Course Design: On the final day, you’ll expand your Storyline expertise by exploring advanced features that bring courses to life. Learn how to use variables, conditional triggers, and motion to create dynamic learning experiences, while incorporating gamification techniques and complex interactions that increase learner engagement and improve performance.
BYOD: WiFi-enabled laptop with Articulate 360 (including the Storyline 360 desktop application).
FEE: $1,695 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 16.5 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P04 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Training Manager Certificate Program
2-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Heidi Matthews, Training Manager, Terracon
Stepping into a learning and development management role requires more than expertise in training — it demands the ability to balance strategy, people, projects, and business priorities. In this practical, two-day program led by an experienced L&D peer, you’ll gain the tools, frameworks, and confidence to succeed in one of the profession’s most challenging roles.
Through real-world scenarios, collaborative discussions, and proven management practices, you’ll learn how to lead your team more effectively, strengthen your influence across the organization, and deliver learning that drives business results. Learn how to:
- Manage the Strategy: Business alignment and governance, leveraging company culture, and finding your place in the strategy.
- Manage the Work: Project and pipeline management models and templates, skill alignment, curation, promotion, and results.
- Manage the Relationships: Stakeholders, subject matter experts, your supervisor, coworkers, and team.
- Manage the Tools: Working with vendors, choosing the tools that align with your strategy, content management, and security needs.
- Manage the Development: Make developing your team a part of your priorities, plan your own development, and build a network of support.
Collaborating and working with scenarios, you’ll learn how to:
- Connect culture, vision, values, and company goals to your roles and output.
- Build relationships that maximize your team’s abilities and efforts while increasing your influence.
- Prioritize the pipeline of projects and get backing for “no.”
- Hire and develop a team that performs at a high level.
BONUS: You’ll receive templates, resource lists, and key questions to ask yourself and your organization. Additionally, you will crowdsource other resources and receive them via a shared networking document.
FEE: $1,195 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 11 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P05 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: AI for Learning Design Certificate Program
2-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Garima Gupta, CEO, Artha Learning
AI is changing how we design learning. This hands-on program gives you a practical, structured approach to using AI across the learning design lifecycle. You’ll work through real exercises, building confidence and capability with each topic. Using the ADDIE framework, you’ll move step-by-step from understanding what AI can do for L&D … through hands-on prompt engineering … to applying AI directly to the analysis, design, and development work you do every day. Some basic familiarity with AI tools is expected — if you’ve experimented with ChatGPT or a similar tool, you’re ready. Bring your curiosity and a laptop.
You will learn about:
- Making Sense of AI for L&D: Cut through the hype and build a clear mental model for how generative AI tools fit into your learning design practice and workflow.
- Prompt Engineering for Learning Designers: Learn to craft effective prompts that produce usable outputs — from needs analysis questions and learning objectives to content outlines and assessment items. You’ll practice freeform and structured prompting techniques purpose-built for L&D work.
- AI-Assisted Analysis and Design: Apply AI to identify learner needs, define objectives, and draft storyboards with hands-on exercises using your own project content.
- AI-Powered Content Development: Use AI to accelerate the development of learning materials, including scenario-based content, multimedia assets, knowledge checks, and assessment design.
- Knowing What to Delegate: Use the “5-Level Task Delegation Framework” to evaluate which L&D tasks benefit from AI assistance and which should stay human-led — so you can make smart decisions about where AI adds real value in your workflow.
- Ethics, Quality, and Responsible Use: Understand the limitations of AI-generated content, recognize bias, and develop a practical lens for reviewing, editing, and quality-assuring AI outputs before they reach learners.
PROJECT: Throughout both days, you’ll apply what you learn directly to your own projects, leaving with AI-generated drafts, prompt templates, and an AI coach trial you can put to use immediately.
BONUS: You’ll receive a curated prompt library for learning designers and an AI Workflow Blueprint template to guide your practice back on the job.
BYOD: WiFi-enabled laptop that allows access to AI tools. We will use various AI platforms, accommodating those with restricted access to certain tools.
FEE: $1,195 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 11 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P06 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Learning Experience Design Certificate Program
2-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Monica Cornetti, President, and Jonathan Peters, Chief Motivation Officer, Sententia Gamification
Every learning project begins with a blank page. Some designers open PowerPoint. Others launch Storyline, Canva, or ChatGPT. The problem isn’t the tool — it’s that we often begin building before we’ve designed the learning experience.
This program changes that. Across two highly interactive days, you’ll apply a proven design process to a real workplace learning challenge, transforming it into a complete learning experience design — before building a single slide, screen, or AI prompt.
Working on your own project, you’ll define meaningful business outcomes, uncover what motivates learners, and apply gameful design principles to create experiences that inspire action.
You’ll begin to see every learning project through the lens of business outcomes, learner motivation, and intentional experience design, while discovering when and why to use mechanics, AI, storytelling, collaboration, and other gameful design strategies to strengthen learning.
This isn’t a workshop where you collect ideas and hope to use them later. You’ll collaborate with your peers, test ideas, receive coaching, challenge assumptions, and refine your work through guided design sprints using the Make It Real Learning Experience Design Blueprint and Learning Experience Design Card Deck.
Whether your final solution becomes instructor-led training, elearning, onboarding, simulations, game-based learning, or a blended experience, you’ll leave with a repeatable design process you can use on every future project, including:
- A completed Make It Real Learning Experience Design Blueprint for one of your own workplace learning challenges.
- A digital copy of the Learning Experience Design Card Deck, including Quest Cards, design prompts, and facilitation resources.
- A practical, repeatable process for designing meaningful learning experiences across instructor-led, digital, blended, and game-based solutions.
- New strategies for partnering with AI while keeping human-centered design at the center of every project.
- Feedback and coaching from experienced facilitators and peers throughout the two-day workshop.
- Greater confidence designing learning experiences that connect business goals, learner motivation, and measurable performance outcomes.
You’ll not only earn the certificate — more importantly, you’ll change the way you design learning experiences.
FEE: $1,195 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 11 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P07 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Digital Learning Architect Certificate Program
2-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Jason Bickle, Developer, University of North Texas; Nick Floro, Learning Architect, Sealworks Interactive Studios
Prototype first. Build once. Most learning projects go sideways in the same place — too much gets built before anyone agrees on what it should be. This hands-on program is about production — the complete, repeatable workflow that takes a project from concept to launch. You’ll move from fuzzy objectives and a rough sketch, to a working prototype, to a built and measurable course. Bring a real project that you’ll work on for two days and leave with something you can actually use.
You’ll explore:
- Instructional Design and Cognitive Apprenticeship: Learn the ID fundamentals that survive a real deadline, and apply an approach to build real capability instead of completion.
- Architecting Your Project: Set up file structure, naming conventions, reusable components, version control, and review gates to shorten your revision process.
- The DECLARE Framework: Apply a repeatable structure to scope and sequence your project without a 40-page plan.
- Designing for Everyone: Build in accessibility and inclusive design from the sketch instead of bolting it on.
- Learning Modalities — People, Tech, and Output: Build a decision path for choosing among self-paced, live,blended, microlearning, video, and simulation based on your audience, tools, and deliverables — not on what’s trending.
- Prototyping and Design: Create fast, low- to high-fidelity prototypes you can put in front of a stakeholder tomorrow.
- Data Strategies, Structure, and Tracking: Turn a prototype into something that scales and is measurable — including templates, reusable components, SCORM and xAPI basics — and identify metrics that demonstrate impact.
- Content, Media, and Designing Experiences: Work through scripting, video, audio, visuals, and interaction — including where generative AI saves versus costs production time.
- Tools, Tips, and Avoiding the Pitfalls: Navigate the current tool landscape, run stakeholder reviews that don’t spiral, spot scope creep early, and recognize the timeline killers.
- Evaluation and Next Steps: Move beyond smile sheets to measurement you’ll realistically sustain.
BYOD: WiFi-enabled laptop with Articulate 360 (including the Storyline 360 desktop application).
BONUS: You’ll receive a project workflow blueprint, a prototyping starter kit, an accessibility checklist, a reusable naming and file-structure template, a curated 50+ app and tool list, and a resource library.
FEE: $1,195 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 11 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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Sunday, February 21
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| Session Code |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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| P01 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Master Facilitator Certificate Program
3-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Sardék Love, CEO, Sardék Love International
A survey of more than 1,500 training professionals revealed the #1 challenge trainers face is a lack of participant engagement. When learners tune out, retention drops, application stalls, and training loses credibility. This immersive program equips you with a proven system for creating dynamic learning experiences that capture attention, spark participation, and improve performance. You will learn to:
- Apply the Engagement Loop Framework to rapidly design participant-focused courses.
- Apply the 3 Laws of Facilitation to create highly engaging learning experiences for any audience or topic.
- Use the Curious Ask Method and experiential activities to replace passive delivery with participation, reflection, and application.
- Implement 13 attention-grabbing openers that instantly create curiosity, energy, and involvement.
- Use AI to create customized, facilitator-ready activities on demand and in minutes, based on your audience, topic, format, group size, and desired outcome. No advanced AI experience is required.
PROJECT: Apply the methods to your own course, practice your facilitation skills, and test reusable prompts with an AI platform.
BONUS: Receive ongoing access to the Facilitator Engagement Toolkit, including 50+ ready-to-use activities, the AI Activity Builder, the AI Prompt Playbook with 10 reusable prompts, facilitator guides, slides, participant materials, training videos, and the Ask a Master Facilitator video library.
FEE: $1,695 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 16.5 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P02 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Master Instructional Designer Certificate Program
3-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Sean Rea, Director of Performance and Learning Services, Friesen, Kaye and Associates
Discover the keys to creating interactive and engaging training that ensures learner success and true productivity back on the job — whether in the classroom, online, or a combination of both.
You’ll learn to:
- Apply proven techniques to analyze learner and organizational needs, identify performance gaps, and plan training that addresses them.
- Incorporate adult learning principles, brain science, systematic learning processes, and varied processing methods to maximize retention and on-the-job performance.
- Align learning objectives, instructional strategies, and assessments to ensure training achieves desired outcomes.
- Plan effective presentation, application, feedback, and questioning techniques that engage learners, reinforce retention, and test understanding.
- Create a validation plan to ensure the training design meets learner and organizational needs.
BONUS: You will receive 198-page Instructional Design Fundamentals Participant Manual; case studies and job aids; Self-Directed Learning Booklet; and Support Manual with instructional design guidelines, best practices, and templates.
FEE: $1,695 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 16.5 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P03 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Mastering Articulate Storyline 360 Certificate Program
3-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Elizabeth Kuhlmann, Training Team Lead, John Moore, Training Team Lead, and Ron Price, Chief Learning Officer, Yukon Learning
Ready to take your Articulate Storyline skills to the next level? Whether you’re new to Storyline or looking to build more engaging and sophisticated elearning experiences, this hands-on workshop provides the knowledge, techniques, and practical experience you need to create interactive, professional-quality courses with confidence.
- Days 1 & 2 Building a Strong Foundation: In the first two days of this hands-on program, you’ll explore the core features and best practices of Storyline. Working alongside the instructors, you’ll build a complete elearning course while learning how to create engaging content, incorporate media, add animation and audio, develop knowledge checks, and publish courses for a variety of devices and learning management systems. Throughout the program, you’ll also discover how AI-powered features can accelerate course development, with alternative approaches provided for participants who do not use AI tools.
- Day 3 Advanced Interactivity and Course Design: On the final day, you’ll expand your Storyline expertise by exploring advanced features that bring courses to life. Learn how to use variables, conditional triggers, and motion to create dynamic learning experiences, while incorporating gamification techniques and complex interactions that increase learner engagement and improve performance.
BYOD: WiFi-enabled laptop with Articulate 360 (including the Storyline 360 desktop application).
FEE: $1,695 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 16.5 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P04 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Training Manager Certificate Program
2-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Heidi Matthews, Training Manager, Terracon
Stepping into a learning and development management role requires more than expertise in training — it demands the ability to balance strategy, people, projects, and business priorities. In this practical, two-day program led by an experienced L&D peer, you’ll gain the tools, frameworks, and confidence to succeed in one of the profession’s most challenging roles.
Through real-world scenarios, collaborative discussions, and proven management practices, you’ll learn how to lead your team more effectively, strengthen your influence across the organization, and deliver learning that drives business results. Learn how to:
- Manage the Strategy: Business alignment and governance, leveraging company culture, and finding your place in the strategy.
- Manage the Work: Project and pipeline management models and templates, skill alignment, curation, promotion, and results.
- Manage the Relationships: Stakeholders, subject matter experts, your supervisor, coworkers, and team.
- Manage the Tools: Working with vendors, choosing the tools that align with your strategy, content management, and security needs.
- Manage the Development: Make developing your team a part of your priorities, plan your own development, and build a network of support.
Collaborating and working with scenarios, you’ll learn how to:
- Connect culture, vision, values, and company goals to your roles and output.
- Build relationships that maximize your team’s abilities and efforts while increasing your influence.
- Prioritize the pipeline of projects and get backing for “no.”
- Hire and develop a team that performs at a high level.
BONUS: You’ll receive templates, resource lists, and key questions to ask yourself and your organization. Additionally, you will crowdsource other resources and receive them via a shared networking document.
FEE: $1,195 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 11 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P05 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: AI for Learning Design Certificate Program
2-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Garima Gupta, CEO, Artha Learning
AI is changing how we design learning. This hands-on program gives you a practical, structured approach to using AI across the learning design lifecycle. You’ll work through real exercises, building confidence and capability with each topic. Using the ADDIE framework, you’ll move step-by-step from understanding what AI can do for L&D … through hands-on prompt engineering … to applying AI directly to the analysis, design, and development work you do every day. Some basic familiarity with AI tools is expected — if you’ve experimented with ChatGPT or a similar tool, you’re ready. Bring your curiosity and a laptop.
You will learn about:
- Making Sense of AI for L&D: Cut through the hype and build a clear mental model for how generative AI tools fit into your learning design practice and workflow.
- Prompt Engineering for Learning Designers: Learn to craft effective prompts that produce usable outputs — from needs analysis questions and learning objectives to content outlines and assessment items. You’ll practice freeform and structured prompting techniques purpose-built for L&D work.
- AI-Assisted Analysis and Design: Apply AI to identify learner needs, define objectives, and draft storyboards with hands-on exercises using your own project content.
- AI-Powered Content Development: Use AI to accelerate the development of learning materials, including scenario-based content, multimedia assets, knowledge checks, and assessment design.
- Knowing What to Delegate: Use the “5-Level Task Delegation Framework” to evaluate which L&D tasks benefit from AI assistance and which should stay human-led — so you can make smart decisions about where AI adds real value in your workflow.
- Ethics, Quality, and Responsible Use: Understand the limitations of AI-generated content, recognize bias, and develop a practical lens for reviewing, editing, and quality-assuring AI outputs before they reach learners.
PROJECT: Throughout both days, you’ll apply what you learn directly to your own projects, leaving with AI-generated drafts, prompt templates, and an AI coach trial you can put to use immediately.
BONUS: You’ll receive a curated prompt library for learning designers and an AI Workflow Blueprint template to guide your practice back on the job.
BYOD: WiFi-enabled laptop that allows access to AI tools. We will use various AI platforms, accommodating those with restricted access to certain tools.
FEE: $1,195 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 11 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P06 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Learning Experience Design Certificate Program
2-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Monica Cornetti, President, and Jonathan Peters, Chief Motivation Officer, Sententia Gamification
Every learning project begins with a blank page. Some designers open PowerPoint. Others launch Storyline, Canva, or ChatGPT. The problem isn’t the tool — it’s that we often begin building before we’ve designed the learning experience.
This program changes that. Across two highly interactive days, you’ll apply a proven design process to a real workplace learning challenge, transforming it into a complete learning experience design — before building a single slide, screen, or AI prompt.
Working on your own project, you’ll define meaningful business outcomes, uncover what motivates learners, and apply gameful design principles to create experiences that inspire action.
You’ll begin to see every learning project through the lens of business outcomes, learner motivation, and intentional experience design, while discovering when and why to use mechanics, AI, storytelling, collaboration, and other gameful design strategies to strengthen learning.
This isn’t a workshop where you collect ideas and hope to use them later. You’ll collaborate with your peers, test ideas, receive coaching, challenge assumptions, and refine your work through guided design sprints using the Make It Real Learning Experience Design Blueprint and Learning Experience Design Card Deck.
Whether your final solution becomes instructor-led training, elearning, onboarding, simulations, game-based learning, or a blended experience, you’ll leave with a repeatable design process you can use on every future project, including:
- A completed Make It Real Learning Experience Design Blueprint for one of your own workplace learning challenges.
- A digital copy of the Learning Experience Design Card Deck, including Quest Cards, design prompts, and facilitation resources.
- A practical, repeatable process for designing meaningful learning experiences across instructor-led, digital, blended, and game-based solutions.
- New strategies for partnering with AI while keeping human-centered design at the center of every project.
- Feedback and coaching from experienced facilitators and peers throughout the two-day workshop.
- Greater confidence designing learning experiences that connect business goals, learner motivation, and measurable performance outcomes.
You’ll not only earn the certificate — more importantly, you’ll change the way you design learning experiences.
FEE: $1,195 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 11 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P07 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Digital Learning Architect Certificate Program
2-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Jason Bickle, Developer, University of North Texas; Nick Floro, Learning Architect, Sealworks Interactive Studios
Prototype first. Build once. Most learning projects go sideways in the same place — too much gets built before anyone agrees on what it should be. This hands-on program is about production — the complete, repeatable workflow that takes a project from concept to launch. You’ll move from fuzzy objectives and a rough sketch, to a working prototype, to a built and measurable course. Bring a real project that you’ll work on for two days and leave with something you can actually use.
You’ll explore:
- Instructional Design and Cognitive Apprenticeship: Learn the ID fundamentals that survive a real deadline, and apply an approach to build real capability instead of completion.
- Architecting Your Project: Set up file structure, naming conventions, reusable components, version control, and review gates to shorten your revision process.
- The DECLARE Framework: Apply a repeatable structure to scope and sequence your project without a 40-page plan.
- Designing for Everyone: Build in accessibility and inclusive design from the sketch instead of bolting it on.
- Learning Modalities — People, Tech, and Output: Build a decision path for choosing among self-paced, live,blended, microlearning, video, and simulation based on your audience, tools, and deliverables — not on what’s trending.
- Prototyping and Design: Create fast, low- to high-fidelity prototypes you can put in front of a stakeholder tomorrow.
- Data Strategies, Structure, and Tracking: Turn a prototype into something that scales and is measurable — including templates, reusable components, SCORM and xAPI basics — and identify metrics that demonstrate impact.
- Content, Media, and Designing Experiences: Work through scripting, video, audio, visuals, and interaction — including where generative AI saves versus costs production time.
- Tools, Tips, and Avoiding the Pitfalls: Navigate the current tool landscape, run stakeholder reviews that don’t spiral, spot scope creep early, and recognize the timeline killers.
- Evaluation and Next Steps: Move beyond smile sheets to measurement you’ll realistically sustain.
BYOD: WiFi-enabled laptop with Articulate 360 (including the Storyline 360 desktop application).
BONUS: You’ll receive a project workflow blueprint, a prototyping starter kit, an accessibility checklist, a reusable naming and file-structure template, a curated 50+ app and tool list, and a resource library.
FEE: $1,195 (includes lunch each day).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 11 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
Register at Training 2027 Conference
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| P08 |
PRE-CONFERENCE: Sticky Learning Certificate Program
1-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Brian Walter, President, Sticky Training
Your training is only as powerful as what participants remember after they leave. In this fast-paced, high-energy, and hugely interactive program, learn how to make your training massively sticky by crafting and delivering learning content that your participants remember, repeat, and actually apply back on the job.
You won’t just learn these techniques — you’ll experience them. Each one will be demonstrated exactly as your own learners would experience it, and then debriefed. This will allow you to discover not only how each technique works, but why. You’ll discover the proven Sticky Framework, signature Memory Hacks, and unique engagement techniques that dramatically increase attention, retention, and participation.
HEADS-UP: This isn’t your typical certificate program. You’ll laugh (a lot), participate, and steal tons of practical, ready-to-use ideas — and leave with proven techniques that make your training massively memorable in your very next class.
When training is sticky, everybody wins. Participants retain and apply more. Trainers become more engaging and confident. Training departments demonstrate greater ROI. And organizational stakeholders see stronger business results from their investment in learning. Discover how to:
- Apply the Sticky Framework to intentionally design massively memorable learning experiences.
- Use Memory Hacks that help participants easily remember concepts, information sets, sequences, and action steps.
- Create Mini Brands that make your most important ideas memorable, repeatable, and easy to recall and share.
- Incorporate Emotional Shift Stories and Emotional Shift Experiences that increase engagement, retention, and behavior change.
- Facilitate highly engaging interactive techniques that transform learners from content recipients to participants to contributors.
- Provide training experiences that increase learner engagement, improve knowledge retention, strengthen your training brand, and demonstrate greater ROI.
BONUS: You’ll receive a permanent organizational license to 10 professionally produced, fully customizable Sticky Training techniques. Each includes editable PowerPoint slides, demonstration videos, facilitator guides, and implementation resources — a complete toolkit you can use immediately.
FEE: $595 (includes lunch).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 5.5 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
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PRE-CONFERENCE: Learning Measurement and Reporting Strategy Certificate Program
1-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: David Vance, President, Manage Learning
In this program — led by the former CLO for Caterpillar, author of Measurement Demystified, and group leader for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard — learn how to create your own measurement and reporting strategy, including the selection and use of the most appropriate measures and reports based on the newly revised ISO standard for L&D metrics.
You should attend if you are an L&D professional charged with measurement selection and report generation; or if you simply want a better understanding of measurement and reporting to be a more-informed user of the data; or if you want to learn about the first comprehensive standard for L&D metrics.
You will:
- Explore the Talent Development Reporting principles (TDRp) and ISO frameworks for measurement and reporting, including the four basic reasons to measure, the five types of users, the three types of measures, and the five types of reports.
- Identify the 11 most important measures for your programs and the 12 key measures for your department as a whole, including how each is defined, calculated, used, and reported.
- Identify which types of reports are right for your programs and initiatives.
- Select the right measures and reports for your organization.
- Understand what it means to run learning like a business and the implications for measuring and reporting.
- Create a starting list of measures and reports for several programs and the department as a whole, which will be the core of your measurement and reporting strategy.
- Explore other key elements of a measurement and reporting strategy.
- Make a compelling case for a measurement and reporting strategy.
BONUS: You will receive a selection sheet for program measures, department measures, and reports to record selected measures and reports throughout the workshop; and also an Excel inventory sheet containing the 54 recommended metrics in the revised 2027 ISO standard.
FEE: $595 (includes lunch).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 5.5 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
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PRE-CONFERENCE: Creative Leadership Development Certificate Program
1-Day Certificate Program
Presenter: Chuck Sigmund, President, ProMobile AI; Josh Penzell, CEO, Imagination Applied
Your team is already performing. The question is: Who’s directing? Leadership is not a title. It is a live performance — filled with competing objectives, missed cues, unclear roles, shifting scripts, unexpected obstacles, and an audience watching every move.
This Creative Leadership Certificate Program introduces TheaterThinking for Leadership — an immersive experience that takes leadership off the page and puts it on its feet. No passive spectators. No hiding in the back row. You are entering the rehearsal room.
Throughout this high-energy, hands-on day, you will learn the TheaterThink model and be challenged to lead the way a great director leads: clarifying the vision, shaping the environment, rehearsing critical moments, redirecting the action, and helping people deliver a performance worth following.
You will learn to:
- Confront the leadership moments others avoid — the hard conversation, the stalled team, the collapsing meeting, and the change effort racing toward disaster.
- Decode the hidden forces controlling the scene, exposing competing objectives, missed cues, confused roles, and the behaviors quietly sabotaging performance.
- Transform vague leadership language into visible action, replacing “build trust” and “increase accountability” with behaviors people can see, practice, and execute.
- Take command of high-stakes scenarios, making bold choices, redirecting the action, and discovering what happens when the pressure hits.
- Rehearse failure before failure becomes real, testing conversations, decisions, meetings, and change initiatives while there is still time to rewrite the ending.
- Run the scene again — stronger, sharper, and with higher stakes — until intention becomes action and action produces results.
In addition, you will learn to apply four powerful TheaterThink elements:
- Metaphor: Reframe the challenge.
- Mechanism: Expose what drives the action.
- Modality: Bring the idea to life.
- Muse: Discover what becomes possible.
You will leave with practical tools you can use immediately, and a bold new way to lead through uncertainty, tension, and change.
The curtain is rising. Take the director’s chair!
FEE: $595 (includes lunch).
ATD Certification Institute has approved this program for 5.5 points toward CPTD and APTD credentials.
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Training Magazine Certificates are approved by the ATD Certification Institute for eligibility and recertification points for Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials.Training 2027 Certificates are approved as follows: 3-Day (16.5 points), 2-Day (11 points), and 1-Day (5.5 points). Learn more at: ATD Initial Eligibility & Recertification
