Strategic Advisory Services

Elevate Your Talent Development Capability

AI and other emerging technologies are transforming the world faster than ever before—redefining how we work, learn, and lead. In this rapidly evolving landscape, talent development leaders play a critical role in ensuring their talent development function is operating at the highest level. You don’t have to navigate this alone—as your professional association, ATD is your trusted partner, ready to help improve your talent development program with confidence and impact.

Is Your Talent Development Function Where You Want it to Be?

Talent development leaders recognize the need to improve their approaches, but few have the time or expertise to ensure their path forward is the right one.

Organizations must stay ahead of the curve—empowering their people with the knowledge and skills to turn change into opportunity. Are you:

Ready to grow your talent development function – and need to build a plan for roles, skills, and goals?
Looking to inventory your current portfolio of TD programs and identify improvements?
Seeking to build an internal training program and need strategy and development support?

Whether your goal is strategic and you need help getting started or you’ve already identified an initiative and want to use ATD’s know how and content to get there faster, our Strategic Advisory Services can help you expand the capability and capacity of your TD function to do more for your organization.

Strategic Advisory Service Areas

Identify the Right Advisory Area for Your Goals

Grow the capability of your talent development function—assess your team’s current and desired future state ability to align with organizational priorities, build capacity to deliver impactful solutions, and position L&D as a critical driver of business success. We support talent development leaders to build a comprehensive TD strategy that strengthens their impact, addresses skills gaps, and drives toward a future-focused vision. Projects can focus broadly on the strategy for the entire talent development function, or one capability area such as artificial intelligence.
Through in-depth needs assessment we help talent development teams uncover where learning can have the highest impact. From there, we co-create skills frameworks and development plans that are strategic, personalized, and aligned with business outcomes—ensuring your team is not just trained but truly prepared for what's next.
We’ll collaborate with your team to inventory and assess your existing offerings—identifying what’s working, where gaps exist, and how to strengthen impact by aligning to TD industry best practices. Through a strategic review process, we provide actionable recommendations to enhance your learning portfolio’s strategic alignment, improve program effectiveness and engagement, and ensure programs deliver measurable results that support both individual growth and organizational performance.
As a leader in the learning and development field, we’ll leverage our instructional design expertise to elevate your internal training programs. Whether building from the ground up leveraging ATD’s intellectual capital or enhancing existing initiatives, we help ensure programs are engaging, scalable, and outcomes-driven—empowering employees with the skills they need to perform, grow, and lead.

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How We Deliver Results

We start by leveraging ATD’s Talent Development Capability Model—our industry-standard framework—coupled with the latest research and insights from industry thought leaders to identify skill gaps within your organization.

Next, we apply our proven tools such as the Enterprise Skills Gap Assessment, Human Performance Improvement (HPI) model, Performance Consulting Framework, or our various Skills Rubrics to develop a targeted strategy.

Finally, we partner with you to build or enhance your existing programs and support you through execution to drive lasting impact.

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Outcomes You’ll Achieve

Efficiency Through ATD's Expertise

Leverage ATD's industry expertise to streamline your talent development efforts while ensuring alignment with the industry standards.

Strengthen the L&D Function's Influence and Credibility

Build a more strategic, agile, and forward-thinking talent development function that is recognized as essential to long-term organizational success.

Align Talent Development with Business Strategy

Ensure learning initiatives directly support organizational goals, enabling L&D to function as a strategic partner rather than a support function.

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