Amanda Miller

In the era of AI, the expectations on L&amp;D leaders have never been higher. You’re being asked to modernize learning operations, accelerate content creation, and prepare your workforce to use AI confidently and responsibly—all at once. But meeting the moment requires more than keeping up with organizational mandates. It requires leading them.

Join Amanda Miller, AVP of ATD Enterprise Solutions, and Josh Cavalier, AI expert and lead designer of ATD’s new Applying AI in Learning &amp; Development Certificate, for a practical and candid conversation about what L&amp;D leaders must do now to drive AI readiness across their organizations.

This session will move beyond “how to use AI in learning” and into the strategic role talent development leaders must play in shaping AI strategy, stewarding adoption, and building the capabilities their organizations will depend on. L&amp;D managers, directors, and talent leaders responsible for people, capability, and learning transformation will benefit most from the session.

Key Takeaways


	Actionable insights and data on the business impact of a talent-centered AI strategy with tools to help spark stakeholder conversations and advance your organization’s AI agenda.
	A look at real-world AI adoption and upskilling approaches being implemented across diverse organizations, with lessons you can adapt for your own context.
	Practical, confidence-building steps you can take now—and throughout 2026—to increase your influence and strategic leadership.
	How ATD resources, training programs, and advisory services can augment your current capability and accelerate your transformation efforts.


Accelerating L&D Impact With AI: Prepare Yourself and Your Team

Many of you may have noticed a lot of buzz at our conference last May regarding ASTD’s new Communities of Practice (CoPs). We have been working hard for a couple of years to figure out how we can better organize our content and resources for our members. We determined that creating communities of practice was the best way to accomplish this goal. So in March we officially launched these new communities and since then we have had a great response from our members. Each community focuses on a key area of the learning and development field and is led by a community manager. I am sure that your products and services fall into one or more of these areas:• Learning and Development• Human Capital• Learning Technologies• Career Development• Global HRD• Government• Sales Enablement• Senior Leaders and Executives• Workforce DevelopmentPick the CoP’s that align most with your company and visit those pages to sign up for their e-newsletter. This will help you understand current issues and trends impacting our members so you can better align your products and services.I am happy to see that we created new ways for our advertisers to reach the CoP audiences through vehicles such as e-newsletter advertisements, webcast sponsorships, web banner ads and CoP sponsorships at the ASTD 2013 International Conference and Exposition. Be sure to talk to our partner Network Media Partners to find out more about ways to better target your advertising dollars. Also, the next big sponsorship opportunities for 2013 is our 2013 TechKnowledge Conference happening this month in San Jose, and our 2013 International Conference and Expo happening in Dallas this May.I look forward to hearing your feedback regarding the CoP’s and if there are ideas on new ones we should consider- more will be coming that’s for sure.Amanda Milleramiller@astd.org

ASTD Communities of Practice- Who is your Target Audience?

The Association for Talent Development (ATD) has created a new offering of curated content for enterprise clients that draws on the association’s 70+ year history of supporting professionals in the training and talent development profession. ATD Resource Centers are an exclusive product designed for enterprise customers who seek to differentiate their talent development efforts and optimize the performance of their teams.ATD debuted three resource centers focused on instructional design, management, and training delivery. More resource centers are in development and will be coming online by the end of 2016. Amanda Miller, Director of Enterprise Solutions for ATD, believes these resource centers offer unique, individualized support to companies large and small. “Our goal in creating this premium curated content offering was to provide an easy and accessible way for employers to get valuable information and resources into the hands of their employees, to empower learning anytime, anywhere, and to make sure that practitioners have the benefit of ATD’s depth and breadth of expertise in critically important areas of the talent development field.Each resource center comprises content in varied formats, from how-to videos, conference recordings, webcasts, magazine and book content, to trending topics and discussions that explore different perspectives on important issues.Organizations seeking to learn more about ATD Resource Centers can email enterprise@td.org or call 1.888.816.7813. You can also watch this video to learn more.

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