2024 Conference Breakout Sessions |
Collaboration and Leadership Development |
Kriss Davis
| Developing Rock Star Teams Are you feeling stuck, frustrated, or underwhelmed with your team? Maybe communicating with your team or other teams at the company has been difficult? |
Evaluating Impact and Performance |
Scott Lund
| Lead with Questions: Elevate Team Performance with Effective Coaching Leaders often limit their team’s capability to embrace change and accelerate growth by being overly directive. They “tell” but don’t “ask” when interacting with team members. This approach conveys a lack of respect and trust in team members that reduces creativity, collaboration, and engagement. |
Instructional Design |
Jeff Batt
| Extending Storyline with Simple JavaScript Snippets Storyline has many capabilities and limitations, like basic animations and some advanced logic. With simple JavaScript snippets, you can extend Storyline's functionality, even if you're not a coder. In this session, we'll cover simple JavaScript snippets to enhance Storyline. We'll create an independent timer, detect the current date and learner's device type, and add custom animations like scaling, rotation, and sequencing. These snippets will add a 'wow' effect to your Storyline courses. |
Talent Strategy |
Mariah Bradbury
| AI-Powered Future: Upskilling & Reskilling for Tomorrow’s Workforce As AI dominates headlines, heralding the most significant workplace disruption since the Internet, the L&D community has adopted a narrow focus on using AI in L&D. Our real responsibility is to foresee change and to upskill and reskill our workforce accordingly. In "AI-Powered Future: Upskilling & Reskilling for Tomorrow’s Workforce," we explore how L&D can future-proof companies with AI-driven skills development, addressing talent transformation to solve workforce obsolescence and drive growth. |
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Collaboration and Leadership Development |
Michael Hidalgo
| The Art of Collaboration: Leveraging Unique Strengths of Your Team Everyone has a unique leadership strength, which is their superpower, whether they know it or not. The problem is most people don’t know what it is, or, if they do, how to use it effectively. “The Art of Collaboration” presentation will help every individual discover their unique strengths and be empowered to use it. When this happens, individuals and teams can optimize performance and accelerate growth in their communication, relationships, alignment and execution. Michael Hidalgo is a sought-after speaker, workshop facilitator, retreat leader and author. He has spoken around the world on topics ranging from malaria policy, global poverty, leadership health, organizational change, optimizing team performance, and working across religious and political difference. His goal is always the same: to help everyone and every team become better. Michael is a partner with GiANT London where he works with C-Level executives, corporate leaders and teams to guide them toward optimized performance and greater synergy. He lives with his wife and children in Denver, CO |
Evaluating Impact and Performance |
Scott Robley
| The Six Sources of Influence: How to Create Lasting Behavior Change The ability to influence others is at the core of true leadership–and it's crucial for driving positive change in any organization. Unfortunately, we often turn to an incentive, persuasion tactics, or overhauling procedures to try to drive change. Yet human behavior can't be altered with a singular strategy; instead, it's governed by six sources of influence. In this session, you'll learn how to leverage these proven sources to create real, lasting change and better results. |
Instructional Design |
Megan Gutierrez
| Mastering the Intersection: Leveraging AI and Human Insight to Elevate ID Join us for "Mastering the Intersection: Leveraging AI and Human Insight to Elevate Instructional Design." Discover how to embrace technological change and accelerate growth by integrating AI with human creativity. Learn practical strategies for balancing AI and human-centered design to create engaging and effective learning experiences. This session equips you to navigate technological advances, enhance empathy, and design impactful solutions, solving key challenges in instructional design. |
Talent Strategy |
Travis Dunn
| Leading Change While Strengthening Culture If you want employees to embrace a change culture, they must understand the change vision and direction of the organization. Leaders hold the responsibility of navigating employees through change paralysis and into engagement. This session will provide an opportunity for leaders to understand how employees transition through change and provide steps to lead changes in your organization. Those who successfully implement change will be integral in their organization’s success. Travis leads an award-winning culture for Herriman City as their HR Manager, while also moonlighting in Risk Management for city legal claims. He has a mild addiction to Dr. Pepper and requires a personal fridge full of both diet and regular depending on the HR issues for the day. Currently he is lucky to be functioning as three young kids, including a set of twins, suck his life blood and call him “Big Blue Guy” thanks to Bluey. After over 15 years in the HR field and a Master’s in Human Resources, Travis has not yet turned fully cynical of employees and has found a balance of being a consultant for front line employees up to the highest level of Executives. |
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Evaluating Impact and Performance |
Jon Scoresby
| Extending learning experience beyond the LMS with MS Power Suite We will introduce how learning design and development teams can use Microsoft Power Suite tools to automate instantaneous data collection from Articulate Storyline learning modules. By combining MS Power Suite with data collection, we can now create automatic data collection and experiences that extend learning beyond a single event. This way, we can change the we think about learning from a single event to multiple events over time. |
Instructional Design |
Craig Johnson
| Lean Learning In Lean Manufacturing there is a concept that workers should have what they need when they need it; no more, no less; not early, not late. Learning should be the same. In this presentation, attendees will learn how to align their training program with this just in time concept. Craig Johnson has 25+ years of experience in continuous improvement and manufacturing engineering in addition to professional learning and development. He is a graduate of Weber State University, with a BS degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology. He has had a passion for teaching for almost his entire life and loves to “teach people to fish”. His professional experience has included industrial, aerospace, and defense manufacturing as well as folding carton manufacturing. He currently serves as the Learning and Development Manager at RYAM, Chief Educator at Utah Lean Six Sigma Training Center, the Director of Certification at the American Association for Lean Six Sigma Certification and serves on Board of Governors for the Davis Chamber of Commerce and the board of directors for the Utah Chapter of the Association for Talent Development. |
Talent Strategy |
Heather MacDonald
| Talent Mobility: Building a foundation for lasting change We will discuss what talent mobility is and what’s often missing to create a systemic approach to solving our organization's most pressing talent challenges. Building a foundation for talent mobility will enable L&D professionals to manage the pace of change by implementing strategies that support holistic leadership development, foster a culture of continuous learning, and enable knowledge sharing. This foundation creates a thriving culture that is critical to accelerating growth. |
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Collaboration and Leadership Development |
Paul Yoachum
| Stop Forcing Employee Motivation. Find it! Amidst declining employee motivation and job satisfaction, leaders struggle to maintain a motivated workforce. This session unveils an innovative scientific approach to revitalizing motivation, revealing the 23 core intrinsic drivers fueling your and your team's passion. Gain a comprehensive understanding of these core motivators and learn to harness these insights to supercharge your work and foster a thriving, diverse team that excels. |
Evaluating Impact and Performance |
Jack Zenger
| Convincing Executives: How Leadership Development Drives Business Success In this session, you’ll learn how to effectively demonstrate the tangible benefits of leadership development to senior executives. We'll offer proof that better leaders directly create better business outcomes, supported by compelling 360-degree assessment data. Armed with these results, you’ll be equipped to secure greater investment in leadership programs, encouraging early and widespread participation across your organization. Join us to gain the insights and tools needed to make a persuasive case for leadership development that resonates with decision-makers. John H. "Jack" Zenger, D.B.A., is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Zenger Folkman. Jack’s vast experience ranges from serving on the faculty of Stanford to serving as CEO of three highly successful training firms. He is a world expert in the field of leadership development, a best-selling author, and a highly respected and sought-after speaker, consultant, and executive coach. |
Greg Waddoups PhD
Jon Mott PhD
| Competency-Based Learning: Building a Skilled and Adaptable Workforce This presentation explores competency-based learning (CBL), a results-oriented approach to training that prioritizes mastery of demonstrable skills required for workplace success. We explore the design and implementation of a corporate CBL program, including needs assessments to identify critical competencies, targeted learning activities that support competency development, and robust assessments that ensure true mastery. |
Talent Strategy
Barbara Schifano
| A Fresh Approach to Talent Planning Annual talent planning provides a unique change opportunity for leaders to recommit to investing time in building employee skills now and for future workforce needs. Traditional approaches result in ineffective leadership practices: labeling employees, debate about box placement, and substantial time justifying potential. During this session we challenge leaders to think differently about their approach and share a new methodology that places employee development at the center of the process. Barbara Schifano is a dreamer, achiever, and a maximizer of talent. A learning and development professional with more than 20 years of experience building award-winning development programs, Barbara is the Senior Director of Talent and Learning at University of Phoenix. She leads a talent organization focused on transforming learning opportunities into magical experiences, and creating engaging programs (onboarding, performance management and employee engagement) that connect and inspire employees so they can be at their best. Barbara’s passion is volunteering her time to create learning opportunities and resources that enable the growth and development of others. She has served on several non-profit boards and currently serves as the Past President of the Utah Chapter for the Association for Talent Development (ATD). She holds a master’s in strategic communications and leadership from Seton Hall University and earned the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD). She resides in her version of Switzerland – the base of Mount Timpanogos in Utah, with her husband, Marc, and their two fur babies. |
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