When was the last time you talked about how you train, not just what you train?

If you're drawing a blank, you're in good company. When you're the only L&D person in the building, those conversations rarely happen. Your organization becomes the world. You incorporate its priorities, its language, its way of doing things—adopting a formula for creating training until you start filling in templates and stop producing programs that meet your learners' real objectives.

The danger isn't lack of effort. You're working hard. But most breakthroughs don't come from solving harder problems. They come from seeing familiar problems differently. That shift rarely happens inside a single organizational bubble, no matter how thoughtful you are.

Where do your outside ideas come from?

The good stuff won't come from content designed to scale. Not from frameworks built for mass consumption. They come from real conversations with other practitioners—people wrestling with the same challenges, trying things you haven't considered, failing at things you're currently stuck on.

Who do you turn to when you need a fresh perspective? Where's your team?

The Association for Talent Development—Orange County Chapter is right here. Within our community you will find practitioners who understand your constraints because they live with similar ones. Coaches and Change Management practitioners, eLearning IDs and Leadership facilitators who've discovered what works from the perspectives of their fields.

For over 50 years, as a chapter of the international Association for Talent Development (ATD), we've fostered a thriving, collaborative community. We provide practical, hands-on learning experiences aligned with ATD's core competencies. Our programs and events are designed to help you master new skills, apply best practices in real-world settings, and enhance performance across all organizations.

Your team is waiting. Let's grow together.