The L&D Conference is a conference, but we hope for you that it becomes more than a conference. We hope it disrupts the staid and tired rituals that have gone before—in a good way—providing, at least with some small steps, a new beginning for the L&D field, a way to reimagine who we are as learning professionals—a way to help us reinvigorate ourselves, challenge ourselves, enable ourselves to enact our promise as creators and architects of learning-and-performance solutions.

As part of our efforts, the L&D Conference is engaging in a CrowdThinking initiative, gathering insights from L&D professionals world-wide toward a future vision on how to further professionalize our field. We are using a two-pronged approach, crowdsourcing perspectives from a set of precision-guided questions on seven factors impacting our professionalization and effectiveness (open to anyone below), and engaging during the conference (over six weeks from June 22 to July 31) in a modified world-café-style initiative of dialogue and community. By combining these threads—the survey and the intimate dialogue—we hope to create a deeper CrowdThinking experience. The near-term result of this initiative will be a report or reports to support the L&D industry.

We ask you to please contribute, by taking the survey below (and by sharing this webpage with everyone you know in L&D), by joining us at the conference in dialogue, and/or by getting the report (sign up below) and advocating for the recommendations that arise from the gathered wisdom brought forth from your perspectives and those of your fellow learning-and-performance professionals.

First thing: Please complete the survey by clicking on the button below.

Second thing: Please share this page with every L&D professional you know.

Above-and-beyond-thing: Go to LinkedIn, look through your connections, send them a note.