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Event | Career and Leadership Development
Lead the Future: Innovating Talent Development
Thursday, September 10, 2026
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST
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What is ATD’s Lead the Future?
ATD’s Lead the Future is a free virtual event that offers you the opportunity to learn from top minds transforming the future of talent development. You’ll hear leading organizations and solution providers share real-world case studies and actionable insights. Topics will include thriving through change, creating a high-performance learning ecosystem, and cultivating skills needed for success in talent development. During our day of engaging sessions, you’ll learn practical strategies and connect with industry experts. Don’t miss this opportunity to future-ready your workforce.
Who is it for?
This day-long event has been designed specifically for TD leaders and their teams. Participate in this virtual learning experience to gain valuable insights about leading edge ideas and solutions through a series of content presentations, discussions, and demos.
Agenda
Sustaining Growth in the Season of Change
When everything keeps changing, how do you keep growing? The pressure to perform doesn't let up—the industry keeps shifting under you, expectations keep climbing, and life outside of work is changing, too. This session provides inspirational insights from high-performance coach and former NFL linebacker Edgar Jones, about how you can keep growing when everything around you keeps moving.
In this session, you’ll experience:
Speaker: Edgar Jones, High-Performance Coach and Founder, Luminated in Thought
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Redefining Talent Development: Insights on the Skills That Matter Most
As talent development becomes a critical lever for organizational growth and resilience, professionals are being called upon to serve as strategic partners to business leaders. This session presents new research conducted to update ATD’s Talent Development Capability Model with the competencies most essential for success in the field today. Learn about the trends that emerged from the study, new capabilities and skills outlined in the revised Model, and how the Model can help you shape talent development strategies, career pathways, and future-focused competency models for your team.
In this session, you’ll learn:
Speaker: Morgean Hirt, Director of Credentialing, ATD