Learning Hack launches its new season on 15 January with Josh Bersin setting the agenda for workplace learning in 2026. The top-5% global podcast producer also unveils live events, new series, and an ambitious slate of shows planned across 2026.
Many teams talk confidently about values like collaboration, openness, and trust - but when pressure hits, those intentions often fail to translate into action. This disconnect, known as the Say–Do Gap, quietly undermines performance, culture, and engagement. In this article, Braver Leaders unpack why the gap exists, why it matters more than ever, and the practical steps leaders can take to close it - turning good intentions into consistent behaviours that teams actually live by.
Training Orchestra has secured the Gold award at the 2025 Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards for its outstanding contribution to ILT and vILT management. The solution enables organisations to streamline training operations, delivering measurable efficiency gains and cost savings. This recognition underscores the growing strategic value of operational excellence in learning and development.
5app, the AI-powered learning technology provider, has announced a major update to its product suite to empower businesses to measure and track virtually any soft skill with Helix, its AI skills intelligence platform.
The CLO100 Learning Leaders Forum left a significant and positive mark on the learning and development community. The Forum brought together Chief Learning Officers and L&D Leaders for two days of learning, discussion, strategic collaboration, and forward-thinking exploration into the future of workplace learning.
Coverage from TJ’s 60th anniversary celebrations in London, featuring interviews with TJ editors, speakers and guests.
Learning Pool is redefining corporate L&D by launching the industry's first truly end-to-end learning ecosystem. Following the acquisitions of Elucidat and WorkRamp, Learning Pool enables seamless, intelligent learning where authoring, delivery, enablement, skills, automation, analytics, and AI all work together.
Challenging assumptions and sparking debate, this article explores three major pressure points shaping apprenticeships in 2026 - from untapped Levy potential to tick-box programmes and missing communication. A fascinating insight into a system at a crossroads.
AI in Learning and Development at Connect 2025.
Learning leadership skills at Connect 2025.
Reflections on accessibility, inclusion and culture in learning and development at Connect 2025.
Connect 2025 debate panelists on creativity and community in L&D.
Participants at The Learning Network’s annual conference discuss how L&D can help business to chart its path in the AI era and keep humans at the heart of learning.
Mediazoo has acquired Uncertainty Experts, creating a first-of-its-kind L&D & Comms offering that combines deep behavioural insight with transformational learning strategy. Uncertainty Experts is a behaviour change powerhouse turning uncertainty into a superpower. Fusing science, storytelling, and unexpected lessons, their award-winning programmes help people think sharper, act braver, and lead better. Giles Smith, CEO at Mediazoo, said: “We’re redefining L&D & Comms by transforming uncertainty into psychological bravery, a solution unlike anything else on the market.”
In this month’s edition of Summit Solutions, Bridgeability makes a strong case for the lasting value of face-to-face learning - highlighting how in-person experiences drive motivation, connection, and real skill development in ways virtual formats can’t always replicate.
The 32nd Human Resource Summit brought together senior HR leaders for three days of connection, reflection, and inspiration on Portugal’s stunning west coast. From Raphael Rowe’s thought-provoking keynote to lively strategy sessions and vineyard dinners, the event struck the perfect balance between professional development and genuine community.
With just a month to go until The Learning Network’s flagship event, Connect 2025, this is the final opportunity for learning and development professionals to secure their place at one of the most anticipated gatherings in the L&D calendar.
As the promises and perils of AI reshape classrooms and workplaces alike, OEB Global 2025, the annual Global, Cross-Sector Conference and Exhibition on Digital Learning, will examine whether technology is enhancing or eroding human agency - and what that means for learning, leadership, and society.
To celebrate six decades supporting workplace learning, TJ is hosting a one-day conference in London this November.
At the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum, online this October, Melissa Trimble shares how to pick AI tools that truly add value to e-learning and demonstrate measurable business impact to stakeholders.
At the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum, online this October, Martin Couzins equips L&D leaders with tools to challenge assumptions, cut through AI hype, and make smarter, faster decisions under pressure.
At the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum, online this October, Lori Niles-Hofmann introduces the Learning Experience Architect role, blending AI agents and human creativity to design adaptive, business-driven learning.
The Intersection of Humanity and Technology: A look ahead to the Learning Network's annual conference in London, 14 November.
NFP (an Aon company), are a leading international brokerage and consulting firm with solutions spanning commercial insurance, employee benefits, financial planning, health and safety and people and talent. NFP is delighted to announce its new partnership with CLO100, the UK’s only private network dedicated to senior learning and development leaders. As both a sponsor of the annual CLO100 Learning Leaders Forum and a Community Partner, NFP is deepening its commitment to shaping the future of leadership and organisational success.
Global learning and talent development provider Hemsley Fraser has won the Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Gold Award in the Leadership Development Program category for its consultancy and content development in partnership with global self-care company Perrigo. This work, featuring design and delivery services, supported Perrigo's successful development of leadership programmes that help align its emerging leaders on the importance of effective leadership in driving growth and supporting career advancement.
At the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum, online this October, David Kelly helps L&D leaders cut through AI hype with a framework to assess learning tech strategically and lead confidently through disruption.
Is AI really replacing people? Far from it. As machines take on more tasks, the demand for human skills — judgment, creativity, emotional intelligence — is skyrocketing. In this month's Summit Solutions, Thrive reveals why investing in people power is the real competitive edge in an AI-driven world.
CLO100 announced today that NIIT MTS, a global leader in Managed Learning Services, will be sponsoring the CLO100 Learning Leaders Forum under the category of Managed Learning Services. This collaboration highlights NIIT’s longstanding commitment to advancing the Learning and Development profession through innovation, expertise, and thought leadership.
At the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum, online this October, Laura Overton explores how everyday courage and mindset shifts can help L&D professionals turn disruption into resilience and opportunity.
In this roundtable, global L&D leaders share insights and strategies on innovating around the opportunity, scale and impact of classroom training in the age of AI.
Go1, the leading content aggregator for people-first L&D leaders, is the latest sponsor for the CLO100 Learning Leaders Forum on 20th and 21st October. The forum is a key event for professionals in the Learning and Development sector.
Join Ciphr’s expert-led webinar on how to choose eLearning courses that boost your business.
At the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum, online this October, Egle Vinauskaite and Donald H Taylor share global data and case studies on how AI is being used in L&D today and the barriers to adoption.
How do we use emerging technologies for learning effectively? This is the theme for the Learning Technologies 2025 Autumn Forum; Online over four days this October; Registration open; First programme sessions announced.
At Learning Live, KWC Global highlighted three sales capability challenges: embedding a sales culture beyond business development, enabling cross-selling through collaboration, and proving ROI of sales training. Their Rainmaker programme delivers measurable results, boosting engagement, revenue, and confidence, emphasising a human-first approach in an AI-driven world.
CLO100 and Mediazoo have joined forces to create the L&D Career Development Zone. The World of Learning Exhibition will take place on 7th and 8th October 2025 at the NEC Birmingham, offering learning and development professionals essential resources to advance their careers during a period of rapid technological change.
Mediazoo has developed ConvX, an AI-powered role-play platform designed to improve essential workplace communication skills through realistic, voice-to-voice simulations.
With learners' "time poverty" being one of the biggest challenges facing today’s organisations, Hemsley Fraser's collaborative session on Day 1 of Learning Live 2025 in London examines how forward-thinking organisations are creating the space for learning, even when time pressures on workforces are so intense.
Royalties from 26 Steps toolkits fund BYOB, helping homeless young adults gain skills, confidence and qualifications to move into work and independence.
How will AI reshape the role of HR leaders? In this month’s Summit Solutions, we explore where optimism meets caution, and what HR and L&D leaders really need to know as AI accelerates change in the workplace.
A new thought-leadership podcast bringing together leading voices to discuss the real impact of AI on the workplace.
Simulation expert Abilitie announces the launch of 'Director Challenge': a new and immersive simulation-based programme for leaders of leaders.
L&D Free Spirits’ initiative with Venture Marketing Group continues to champion freelancers.
As HR leaders prepare to tackle challenges from AI to wellbeing, the 32nd HR Summit returns to Lisbon this October. This article explores what to expect at the long-running event - from strategic sessions and high-value networking to curated 1-1 meetings with solution providers.
Global learning and talent development provider Hemsley Fraser has been named in the Training Industry Top 20 for Online Learning Library, for the ninth consecutive year. This achievement underlines the company's continuing ability to deliver ground-breaking digital and online learning & development solutions for the corporate learning and development (L&D) market.
A new one-day virtual conference is putting self-employed learning professionals front and centre
Corporate learning is often criticised for being slow, outdated, or uninspiring - especially when it comes to compliance. But what if the problem isn’t the content, but the experience? In this month’s Summit Solutions, All Purpose argues that L&D must borrow from UX design: starting with empathy, centring the learner, and co-creating experiences that reduce friction, spark curiosity, and truly engage.
The CLO100 Learning Leaders Forum, the flagship event for senior learning professionals, with the theme "From Learning Leader to Business Leader" it is set to be the standout event of the year for L&D Leaders.
Judges share tips on writing a standout entry as the deadline nears on Friday 25 July.
L&D Free Spirits invites freelancers to apply for exhibition space at October’s World of Learning event in Birmingham, to showcase their brand.
Webinar offers practical guidance ahead of awards submission deadline.
The Learning & Development sector is rapidly evolving, with new opportunities and challenges shaping the futures of professionals in the field. Join CLO100 for an interactive panel discussion on Thursday, 10 July.
This month, we’ve partnered with Turning Point to explore the upcoming EU Pay Transparency Directive and what it means for your reward strategy. It’s a timely read for any HR leader looking to go beyond compliance and build a more equitable, transparent workplace.
Matt Conway and Michael Ouzzan of Second Nature will showcase the ways that AI-powered role play learning can improve employee confidence and prepare teams to master every situation, no matter how complex or challenging; Learning Live AI Edition, 26 June, London.
Joggle Learning announces the launch of its groundbreaking AI-powered knowledge platform that revolutionises how enterprises deliver learning content to employees. Launching at ‘LEARNING LIVE AI Edition’ by industry veteran Mike Alcock (formally MD of Gomo Learning and Atlantic Link), the platform addresses the critical challenge of knowledge accessibility in the workplace.
The latest release of Abilitie’s AI Cases introduces a suite of powerful new features to help leaders navigate their most common challenges by engaging with AI-enabled characters.
Role-play platform and immersive video provider, Virti, is exhibing at the upcoming Learning Live AI Edition event, next week in London.
Make Real’s self-reflective learning model combined with diagnostic and generative AI, which has recently won two awards, will be available to demo.
The 10th Rewards, Benefits & Wellbeing Summit brought HR leaders and solution providers together for an inspiring, insight-packed experience in Sitges. With curated 1-1 meetings, strategy-led discussions, and no hard sells, it was more than just a conference — it was a space for real connection, practical solutions, and measurable business value.
Expert panel to discuss upcoming changes to the European Accessibility Act and its implications in the education industry.
Kogan Page has announced its sponsorship of the CLO100 Learning Leaders Forum as the event’s Official Book Provider. The forum will bring together senior Learning and Development leaders to exchange ideas, explore trends, and shape the future of the industry.
Most UK managers lack formal training, yet strong manager-employee relationships are vital for wellbeing and performance. This article offers six practical tips—from building trust to aligning with company culture—that help managers support mental health, boost retention, and create a healthier, more connected workplace.
Quantic has been named as a delivery partner for the CLO100 Learning Leaders Forum, an event that brings together key figures in the Learning and Development industry. This partnership represents a step forward in promoting innovation and commercial focus within the L&D landscape.
Nicholson McBride Fisher has been announced as a delivery partner for the CLO100 Learning Leaders Forum. This collaboration underlines the shared purpose of equipping Learning Leaders with the tools and insights needed to drive meaningful progress within their organisations.
Practive has been confirmed as a delivery partner for the CLO100 Learning Leaders Forum, a key event for leaders in the Learning and Development community. This partnership supports the ongoing effort to empower L&D professionals with the skills needed to lead effectively in a changing landscape.
Conference Chair, Donald H Taylor, joins Rob Clarke with his reflections on Learning Technologies 2025.
Participants at Learning Technologies offer their thoughts on how L&D can show its value in the AI age.
Participants at Learning Technologies offer their thoughts on how L&D can show its value in the AI age.
With challenge and change on all sides what are the priorities for Learning and Development?
With challenge and change on all sides what are the priorities for Learning and Development?
Learning Technologies 2025 took place on 23-24 April with 11,000 visitors at Excel London exploring the innovations shaping the future of workplace learning.
Where do vendors fit in the market?
Where do vendors fit in the market?
Hemsley Fraser has announced its sponsorship of this year’s CLO100 Learning Leaders Forum under the "Leadership and Human Skills" category. This partnership reinforces Hemsley Fraser’s dedication to equipping leaders and teams with the skills they need to thrive in an evolving business environment, while supporting innovation within the Learning and Development industry.
Now celebrating a decade of championing better workplaces, the Rewards, Benefits & Wellbeing (RBW) Summit is back for its landmark 10th year. Taking place from 4–6 June 2025 at the Eurostars Hotel in Sitges, this exclusive, invite-only summit brings together senior HR, Reward, and Benefits professionals from top UK and Irish companies for three days of insight, innovation, and connection.
Exhibitors at Learning Technologies 2025 present new product announcements.
Exhibitors at Learning Technologies 2025 present new product announcements.
Myles Runham from the HR and learning market analyst, Fosway, provides an assessment of the learning tech market and how the vendors' solutions are evolving.
Dani Johnson and Dave Kelly discuss emerging technologies with Learning News at Learning Technologies 2025.
Phil King from HR, learning and recruitment solutions provider, Ciphr, in discussion with Learning News at HR Technologies 2025.
Marlon Fuentes Sanchez from avatar-based AI video creator, Colossyan, in discussion with Learning News at Learning Technologies 2025.
Steve Dineen discusses the advances in Fuse 4, the latest version of the Fuse LXP/LMS platform.
Ryan Austin, founder of the LearnOps L&D systems provider, Cognota, discusses a new Strategic Alignment feature.
David Brannon, from learning technology and solutions integrator, GuyKat, with Learning News at Learning Technologies 2025.
Hannah Frame discusses the Learning Technologies Thirty under 30 programme with Learning News.
Roxy Miller, iSpring, talks about iSpring's products in discussion with Learning News at Learning Technologies 2025.
Cammy Bean from learning design and solutions provider, Kineo, highlights Kineo's focus on retaining the human voice in learning solutions as the AI revolution gathers pace.
Matt Mella from learning design and solutions provider, Kineo, highlights Kineo's analytics, which is embedded across Kineo's design services and platform.
Paul Welch from learning design and solutions provider, Kineo, discusses a compliance learning project at Rolls Royce, which is delivering valuable results.
Edtech innovator, advisor and strategist, Lars Hyland, in discussion with Learning News at Learning Technologies 2025.
Lindsey Coode and Stuart Kruse from learning systems and content provider, Learning Pool, explain how the market is changing in response to AI and introduce Learning Pool's latest product, AI Assess, which uses Gen AI to improve knowledge and skills testing.
Tammy Rutherford from Rustici talks about the companies latest products and how learning tech sector is evolving to better meet learner needs.
Learning marketing expert, Hannah Clark, MAAS Marketing, explains the importance of marketing skills in L&D.
Simon Riddlesden from learning applications ecosystem and content provider, Netex, in discussion with Learning News at Learning Technologies 2025.
Nuz Saeed from learning technology and solutions provider, Omniplex Learning, in discussion with Learning News at Learning Technologies 2025.
Andrew Howie from AI-powered LMS provider, Open eLMS, in discussion with Learning News at Learning Technologies 2025.
Sarah Clayton-Jones, from bitesized, action-based, leadership learning provider, Read to Lead, in discussion with Learning News at Learning Technologies 2025.
Camilia Miccolis, from LMS, LXP, authoring and adaptive learning provider, Rise Up, in discussion with Learning News at Learning Technologies 2025.
Rob Hubbard on the critical skills and leadership competencies needed in business to lead sustainability.
Armin Hopp, founder of the language training and coaching platform, Speexx, in discussion with Learning News at Learning Technologies 2025.
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