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January 2026
Context Matters
Context engineering—which shapes the world the AI understands before being asked anything—is quietly becoming the backbone of effective AI adoption. And L&D has the opportunity to lead it.
Transformational Leadership Is Inclusive Leadership
Transformational leadership is about unlocking organizational potential while fostering trust, innovation, and resilience in today’s diverse workplaces.
Unlearning Corporate Learning: What Elite Athletics Can Teach Us
Following the sports world’s lead, L&D can leverage embodied learning, which treats learning as a whole body process in which cognition, perception, movement, emotion, and environment operate together.
Leaders Need Courage Now More than Ever
Behind brave leaders are employees working behind the scenes. Their support, feedback, and affirmation helps leaders build confidence, stay calm, and develop courage.
Productivity Coach’s Corner: Ask Early. Ask Often.
What caregiving teaches about leadership and time.
AI as Muse, Sparring Partner, or Ghostwriter in L&D and HR
L&D and HR teams must weigh AI’s speed and convenience against instructional soundness and professional accountability.
Capability vs. Skills Training
Most organizations don’t teach the capabilities that determine whether a worker can adapt when their tools, workflows, or responsibilities fundamentally change.
Talk Less, Do More
How role-play and AI transformed a struggling trainer.
Micro-Consortia: How Niche Providers Plus AI Beat One-Vendor Training
Niche providers bring the craft to move real metrics. AI brings the choreography that makes multiple specialists feel like one coherent system.
Sticky Notes: Teaching Proactive Learning
The first step to proactive learning is to keep an open mind so you have space to store new information, techniques, and perspectives.