Discover | Elevate | Transform

BizLibrary's annual virtual client event featuring product updates, customer best practices, industry trends, and practical strategies to help organizations maximize the value of their learning programs.

Thursday, October 8, 2026 Virtual

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ALIGN

Who?

Created with BizLibrary clients in mind — including learning leaders, HR professionals, administrators, program owners and executive sponsors.

What?

BizLibrary's annual virtual conference featuring product updates, customer best practices, industry trends, and practical strategies to help organizations maximize the value of their learning programs.

Why?

ALIGN is designed to help clients get more from BizLibrary by discovering new capabilities, increasing adoption and utilization, and building learning programs that drive measurable business impact.

When? Thursday, October 8, 2026

Where? Virtual Conference

PILLAR 01

Discover

Explore new capabilities, AI innovations, product updates, and emerging trends that will shape the future of learning.

PILLAR 02

Elevate

Learn practical strategies to increase utilization, improve learner engagement, and demonstrate greater business value from your learning program.

PILLAR 03

Transform

Prepare your organization for what's next with customer best practices, future-ready strategies, and ideas that help learning become a strategic driver of business performance.

The Agenda

Choose a path or mix and match

9:00 am CT

Opening Keynote by Erin Shrimpton: Leading with Stability During Constant, Overlapping Change

Opening Keynote by Erin Shrimpton: Leading with Stability During Constant, Overlapping Change In this engaging session, you will learn how to empower people to perform, learn, and evolve through constant, overlapping change. Erin will cover how to weave psychological safety into the fabric of your team and how to co-create a team culture that fosters mutual support and collaboration. Attendees will leave with a toolkit to anchor their people to find stability within themselves and the team, enabling performance amidst a constantly changing backdrop.

DISCOVER

ELEVATE

TRANSFORM

10:15 am CT

Transforming Learning: The Next Generation of Content

Transforming Learning: The Next Generation of Content Learning is evolving beyond traditional content consumption toward more personalized, immersive, and practice-based experiences. This session will showcase how BizLibrary is transforming the learning experience through BizReady, expanded scenario-based content, and greater industry-specific personalization. Attendees will get a look at recently released capabilities, what’s ahead on the content roadmap, and how these innovations are designed to make learning more relevant and applicable to employees. The session will also highlight early client examples demonstrating how organizations are putting these new approaches into practice and the results they are beginning to see.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Explore the Evolution of Learning Content: Understand how scenario-based learning, practice opportunities, and personalization are creating more relevant and engaging development experiences.
Discover What’s New and What’s Next: Learn about BizReady, recent content innovations, expanded industry-specific personalization, and upcoming areas of focus on the BizLibrary roadmap.
See Innovation in Action: Explore early client examples and use cases that demonstrate how organizations are applying BizReady and new learning approaches to address real employee and business needs.

Winning Executive Buy-In

Winning Executive Buy-In Executive support can be one of the strongest drivers of a successful learning culture. This session will explore how learning leaders can build a compelling case for training and development, secure meaningful sponsorship from senior leadership, and turn executive support into visible participation and advocacy. Attendees will learn strategies for connecting learning initiatives to organizational priorities, approaching C-level leaders effectively, and engaging executives as active champions who reinforce the importance of development throughout the organization.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Build the Case for Learning: Position training and development in the context of organizational priorities, business challenges, and outcomes that matter to executive leaders.
Secure Meaningful Executive Sponsorship: Develop strategies for approaching C-level leaders, gaining their support, and establishing clear executive sponsorship for learning initiatives.
Turn Buy-In into Visible Advocacy: Identify ways to engage executives beyond initial approval, leveraging their participation, communication, and influence to strengthen the organization’s culture of learning.

Future-Proofing Your Learning Strategy

Future-Proofing Your Learning Strategy The needs of your workforce and organization are constantly evolving, and your learning strategy must evolve with them. This session will explore how learning leaders can build a more adaptable, forward-thinking approach to training and development by staying connected to emerging industry trends while anticipating what their own organization will need next. Attendees will learn how to look beyond today’s priorities, recognize signals of change, and proactively evolve their learning strategy to prepare employees and the organization for what’s ahead.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Anticipate What’s Next: Identify internal and external trends, changes, and signals that may influence future workforce and learning needs.
Build an Adaptable Learning Strategy: Develop an approach to learning that can evolve as organizational priorities, workforce needs, technology, and the business environment change.
Prepare the Workforce for the Future: Connect future organizational needs to learning priorities that proactively build the skills and capabilities employees will need to help the organization stay ahead.

11:15 am CT

Personalizing Learning: Creating Content That Connects

Personalizing Learning: Creating Content That Connects The more relevant learning feels to employees, the more likely they are to engage with it. This session will explore how organizations can create more personalized learning experiences by developing their own content and customizing existing off-the-shelf resources with BizCreate. Attendees will see how customization can bring an organization’s language, examples, processes, and priorities directly into the learning experience, making content more meaningful to employees while helping drive engagement and utilization. The session will highlight practical use cases, product capabilities, and opportunities to incorporate customized content into existing learning programs.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Recognize Opportunities for Personalization: Identify where customized or organization-specific content can make learning more relevant, engaging, and applicable to employees.
Explore Content Creation and Customization: Understand how BizCreate can be used to develop newlearning experiences and customize existing content to meet specific organizational needs.
Use Personalization to Drive Engagement: Apply customization strategies that strengthen the learner experience, encourage participation, and increase utilization of learning programs.

Best Practices for High Utilization

Best Practices for High Utilization High utilization is the foundation for generating meaningful results and demonstrating ROI from your learning program. This session will explore the strategies and practices used by some of BizLibrary’s highest-utilizing clients to build strong learner participation from the start and sustain it over time. Through real-world examples, attendees will learn how successful organizations approach launching, managing, and evolving their learning programs to make learning an ongoing part of the employee experience.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Build a Strong Foundation for Utilization: Identify the strategies and practices that help organizations establish strong learner participation from the beginning.
Sustain Engagement Over Time: Explore how successful organizations maintain high utilization by continually reinforcing, adapting, and evolving their learning programs.
Connect Utilization to Results: Understand why utilization is a critical first step toward achieving measurable learning outcomes, demonstrating program impact, and ultimately generating ROI.

Moving Beyond Compliance Training

Moving Beyond Compliance Training For many organizations, compliance training is the starting point for building a learning program, but it doesn’t have to be the finish line. This session will explore how organizations can build on a strong compliance foundation to introduce skill development, professional growth, and more strategic learning opportunities. Through practical strategies and real-world examples from clients who have successfully expanded their programs over time, attendees will learn how to take manageable steps toward creating a broader and more impactful culture of learning.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Identify the Next Step Beyond Compliance: Recognize opportunities to expand learning based on employee needs, skill gaps, and organizational priorities.
Build a Path for Program Growth: Develop a practical, phased approach for introducing new learning opportunities and gradually increasing the scope and sophistication of the learning program.
Create Momentum for Broader Learning: Learn from organizations that have successfully evolved beyond compliance and identify strategies for generating participation, demonstrating value, and building support for continued expansion.

12:15 pm CT

Simplify Learning: Work Smarter with BizLibrary

Simplify Learning: Work Smarter with BizLibrary Successful learning programs shouldn’t require unnecessary complexity for administrators or learners. This session will showcase how BizLMS make it easier to manage, deliver, and engage employees in learning. From BizConnect and administrative automation to scheduled reporting, customized homepages, and tools that make training easier to find, attendees will explore practical ways to simplify their learning programs, save valuable administrative time, and create a more seamless learner experience. The session will focus on strategies and capabilities that make learning easier to deploy, manage, and scale while helping organizations generate stronger results.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Simplify Learning Administration: Identify BizLibrary capabilities that reduce manual work, automate routine processes, and help administrators manage learning more efficiently.
Create an Easier Learner Experience: Explore ways to simplify how employees discover, access, and engage with relevant training.
Put BizLMS to Work: Identify opportunities to better leverage BizConnect, reporting, customization, automation, and other BizLMS to improve efficiency, utilization, and overall program results.

Creating Successful Elective Learning Programs

Creating Successful Elective Learning Programs When learning isn’t required, employees need a compelling reason to participate. This session will explore how to design elective learning programs that attract interest, generate buy-in, and inspire ongoing participation. Attendees will learn how successful organizations set expectations, select relevant and desirable learning opportunities, communicate effectively, and establish meaningful benchmarks for success. Real-world client examples will highlight approaches that have successfully turned optional learning into an engaging and valuable part of the employee experience.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Design Programs Employees Want to Join: Identify the elements that make elective learning relevant, appealing, and valuable to employees.
Create the Conditions for Participation: Establish clear expectations, communication strategies, and organizational support that encourage employees to engage even when learning is not required.
Define and Measure Success: Set meaningful participation and engagement benchmarks and use real-world client strategies to evaluate and strengthen elective programs over time.

Navigating the Changing HR World

Navigating the Changing HR World The role of HR continues to evolve as professionals are asked to do more with fewer resources, navigate rapidly changing technology, respond to shifting workforce expectations, and become increasingly strategic partners to the business. This session will explore what today’s changing HR landscape means for HR and learning professionals and how they can successfully adapt. Attendees will consider how technology, evolving responsibilities, and organizational demands are reshaping their roles, while exploring how learning and development can support both their own effectiveness and the needs of the workforce they serve.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Navigate the Evolving HR Landscape: Understand the trends, technologies, workforce expectations, and organizational demands that are changing the role of HR.
Increase Strategic Impact: Identify ways to balance growing responsibilities and limited resources while becoming a stronger, more effective partner to the business.
Leverage Learning as an HR Strategy: Recognize how learning and development can help HR address organizational priorities, support employees, and strengthen HR’s overall impact within the organization.

1:15 pm CT

Building Skills for What's Next

Building Skills for What's Next Developing the right skills for today while preparing employees for what’s next requires a more intentional and individualized approach to development. This session will showcase how BizSkills helps organizations identify skill strengths and gaps, create personalized development opportunities, and build clearer pathways for employee growth. Attendees will explore how individualized skills assessments, development plans, and succession planning can help organizations take a more strategic approach to upskilling and reskilling while preparing their workforce for evolving business needs.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Identify and Address Skill Gaps: Understand how BizSkills assessments provide greater visibility into individual strengths, development opportunities, and workforce skill needs.
Personalize Employee Development: Explore how skills data can be translated into individualized development plans and targeted learning experiences that support employee growth.
Prepare for Future Talent Needs: Learn how BizSkills can support upskilling, reskilling, career development, and succession planning to build the capabilities the organization needs for the future.

Marketing Your Learning Program

Marketing Your Learning Program A great learning program only creates impact when employees know about it, understand its value, and are motivated to participate. This session will explore how organizations can apply marketing principles to drive awareness, excitement, and utilization of their learning programs. Attendees will learn practical strategies and creative ideas for promoting learning, supported by real-world examples from BizLibrary clients. The session will also feature a client perspective on how they successfully market learning internally to build employee buy-in and engagement.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Apply Marketing Best Practices to Learning: Identify practical strategies for promoting learning opportunities and increasing employee awareness and participation.
Build Excitement and Buy-In: Explore creative approaches, messaging, and internal marketing tactics that help employees see the value of learning and encourage engagement.
Turn Marketing into Utilization: Learn from real-world client examples and identify marketing ideas that can be applied to drive greater participation and utilization within their own learning programs.

Making Learning a Business Priority

Making Learning a Business Priority Learning becomes a true business priority when it is directly connected to the challenges and goals that matter most to the organization. This session will explore how learning leaders can move beyond delivering training to understanding the business, identifying the challenges learning can help solve, and building programs that contribute to meaningful organizational outcomes. Attendees will learn how to create stronger alignment between learning initiatives and business strategy, communicate that connection transparently to employees and stakeholders, and demonstrate how learning contributes to the organization’s success.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Connect Learning to Business Priorities: Understand organizational goals, strategies, and challenges and translate them into meaningful learning priorities.
Build Purposeful Learning Initiatives: Design and position training around the business challenges it is intended to address, creating a clear connection between learning and desired outcomes.
Communicate the “Why” Behind Learning: Clearly articulate to employees and stakeholders how learning initiatives support individual success, organizational priorities, and broader business results.

2:15 pm CT

From Insight to Impact: What We're Learning and Where We're Going

From Insight to Impact: What We're Learning and Where We're Going What are today’s organizations asking of their learning programs, and how is BizLibrary evolving to meet those needs? Join BizLibrary’s Chief Client Officer and Chief Product Officer for an executive-level look at the trends, challenges, and opportunities emerging across our client community. Drawing from what we’re seeing across the BizLibrary customer base, we’ll explore what’s working, where organizations are facing new challenges, and how expectations for learning and development are changing. We’ll also share how these insights are influencing BizLibrary’s product strategy and priorities for the future. Attendees will leave with a broader perspective on the trends shaping learning and development, ideas they can apply within their own organizations, and a better understanding of how BizLibrary is evolving alongside our customers.

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