L&D Leaders APAC 2024

• Effective collaboration with leadership to support their understanding of the role of L&D in the organisation.
• How can organisations unlock success through learning and development?
• Aligning learning initiatives with strategic goals.
• How can organisations work cross-functionally and not in silos?
• How can L&D impact business growth?

• What critical challenges do leaders of today and tomorrow face and how can they be equipped to deal with them?
• Changing paradigms to a more human leadership style, what capabilities do future leaders need?
• Overcoming executive leadership resistance to change and how can you and engage them in learning programmes?
• How do you enable good leadership with a constantly changing and dispersed workforce?
  Developing strategic capabilities, behaviours, and frameworks.

Explore how senior leaders can overcome inaction, lead change and reclaim growth. Business as usual is no more, and in today’s fast-moving world, organisations are facing uncertainty from all directions, be it geo-political changes, restructuring, technology advancements and more. 

Join Andrew Calvert (Solutions Lead APAC) to explore how leaders in APAC can navigate today's disruptive and volatile business landscape - particularly on the areas of decision paralysis and retention.

• How is AI transforming the L&D landscape?
• Understanding AI-powered learning platforms, what benefits can they bring and what do you need to watch out for?
• Effectively integrating AI into your existing L&D processes.
• Real-life examples of successful AI adoption in L&D.

Wardah Harharah is a Singapore national with over 20 years of global experience in driving business success through organizational design, culture transformation, performance transformation and change management. Join her as she discusses the power that learning can have in building belonging through human connections whilst navigating the ever-changing digital era. 

A quick networking session where attendees have 2 minutes to network with somebody, and then change. This process is repeated 8 times.

Anish will be discussing:

• Future trends in AI, jobs and skills.
• Human-centered, sustainable and scalable approach to reskilling.
• Role of HR and leaders in AI First World. 

• The role of talent leaders in adopting and leveraging AI for talent development and to stay competitive in a changing world of work.
• Insights into the impact of AI on the workforce and the importance of human-centric skills to complement GAI literacy.
• Showcase LinkedIn’s AI-driven solutions for talent acquisition and personalised learning to drive efficiency and productivity.

• Assessing skills shortages in your organisation and predicting future skill requirements.
• Fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
• Leveraging technology for scalable learning solutions.

• How to take your global company learning initiative scale it down and personalize it for your teams across the world, whilst ensuring quality and consistency are kept across diverse departments.
• Why a ‘one size fits all’ approach will never work. How to regulate budgets and resources fairly, dependent on locations, team sizes, and roles.
• Carrying out needs assessments and identifying key differences by working with your top teams in each location.
• How to ensure communication is consistent with your different offices and teams to show the company’s support and enthusiasm for learning and development of the employees.

Attendees will have a focus area or business problem to discuss in their groups. This is an opportunity to collaborate and share ideas with your fellow attendees.

• What is GenAI, and how can we utilise it as L&D Professionals?
• Integrating GenAI and Content Structures: A Winning Combination.
• Tools and resources you can use right away for L&D.

• Why Purpose matters and how it unleashes energy.
• How Individual Purpose can drive Business Performance?
• Unlocking performance, productivity and meaning via Purpose.
• Case Study: Hard data on the difference employees with Purpose can make.

• What technology is disrupting the L&D space? Keeping up with emerging technology and how this can be integrated into your learning initiatives.
• How can technology change non-training methods of development like coaching?
• Using tech to increase human interaction between instructors, learners, and coaches.
• What is hype and what is here to stay? How to know what tech to invest in.

• What practical steps can L&D leaders take to encourage learner engagement?
• Can Microlearning provide a quick win for engagement?
• Encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing through social learning activities.
• Ensuring employees are receiving personalised learning programs.
• The role of technology in enhancing learning engagement.
• The importance of feedback and assessment in learner engagement.

Companies work hard to keep employees, partners, and customers informed, but traditional L&D approaches - such as content creation, training, and assessments / often fall short. Several challenges contribute to gaps in training and knowledge retention:

- Content quickly becomes outdated

- Knowledge gets siloed

- Employee turnover leads to a loss of expertise

- Individuals are often unmotivated to engage in training sessions.

Could knowledge models be the solution to keeping critical information up-to-date and consistent across departments? Knowledge models address these issues by centralizing key information and ensuring it remains current with the help of subject matter experts (SMEs). KM can be applied to various learning activities, including real-time support through chat.

• Identifying barriers to learning within your organisation.
• The importance of leadership buy-in to support learning initiatives.
• Providing accessible and inclusive learning opportunities.
• Managing information overload. How can L&D guide employees to effectively navigate and filter vast amounts of information that is available to them.
• Empowering employees to take ownership of their own learning journeys.