As a talent development leader, you well know how to design engaging learning experiences. But what if the bigger opportunity is not adding more engagement inside the workshop, but designing engagement across the entire talent development value chain?

In this 90-minute PopUpThinkTank, we’ll explore a timely shift: from engagement as an instructional technique to engagement as a strategic value-creation practice.

Together with Talent Development leaders from the Midwest Regional ATD community, we’ll examine how engagement can happen before, during, between, and after formal learning, with business leaders, managers, employees, customers, suppliers, and stakeholders. 

Our shared challenge: How might we move engagement beyond the learning event and use it to create value across the full talent development roadmap? 

This is not a webinar, panel, demo, or pitch. 

It is a facilitated, peer-to-peer working session around one shared question. There is no pressure to speak in front of the full group; the format is designed so people can contribute in ways that feel thoughtful, useful, and human.

Participants will leave with meaningful connections, fresh visibility into how collective insight emerges, and the chance to contribute to something usable, a shared view of how engagement can become a more strategic practice for Talent Development.

The missed opportunity may not be that our workshops need more engagement. The missed opportunity may be that our talent development process does. 

Join us to be seen, heard, and valued as we create something meaningful and practical together!