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Thinking about making the move into Learning & Development but not quite sure how to turn your existing experience into an actual job?
Join Holly Owens for a practical conversation about making the career switch, whether you're coming from teaching or another field entirely. She’ll share job-search tips, ways to position the skills you already have, and some of the things she wishes more career changers knew before jumping into the hunt.
You’ll also leave with a handy template/checklist to help you put it all into action.
Your Learner Is Not a Brain in a Vat: Nervous System Aware Design in Learning Science
Ever notice how learning science treats learners like a brain floating in a jar? No body, no nervous system, no autonomy?
That's not a fluke of bad practice. It's baked into classical neuroscience, the brain as an isolated processor model that shaped decades of how we think about learning. AI is only deepening our mind-body split.
Join us for this session with Christin Light, founder of Light LXD. Christin has been teaching technology since the ripe old age of 8. Christin now designs learning experiences for AI and technical enablement for Fortune 500 clients, reaching over 1.5M learners in fifteen languages along the way.
Christin's making the case for expanding UDL to design for the whole person, nervous system included, and why that matters more than ever as AI reshapes almost everything.
Expect a hands-on, interactive session (you'll be doing, not just listening).
Professional development can sometimes feel like a whole lot of guessing and testing and spending.
Join Lisa Crockett for a practical look at the SNAK Framework: Skills, Network, Activities, and Knowledge, a simple way to think more intentionally about your own professional growth.
Lisa will walk us through how the framework can help you figure out where to focus your energy, whether you’re building confidence, navigating a change in your career, or just trying to stop operating in a state of permanent professional improvisation.
We all have invisible rules—the expectations we’ve picked up along the way about how we should work, lead, and parent. Some of those rules serve us well. Others create unnecessary pressure and anxiety, or become invisible standards we use to measure our performance, judge our choices, and decide whether we’re doing “enough.”
In this interactive workshop, participants will uncover the invisible rules shaping their decisions, examine which ones are still serving them, and explore what might be possible if they gave themselves permission to rewrite—or break—the ones that aren’t.