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Talent Development Leader

ATD
Artificial Intelligence
Talent Development
Leadership
Access Economy
Fractional Leadership
Employee Experience
Learning and Development
ATD
CLO Role Future
C-Suite
Human Sustainability
AI In the Workplace
Product Operating Model
Data Analytics
Storytelling
Immersive Learning
Workforce Capability
AI In L&D
Learning Operations
Capability Frameworks

Sponsored by We Are Learning, The Association for Talent Development (ATD)'s Talent Development Leader podcast features monthly conversations with the greatest influencers in the talent development field. Tune in for the latest trends, hot topics, and future-focused ideas that current and aspiring TD leaders need to know. Learn more at www.td.org/talent-development-leader-podcast.

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What separates organizations that treat learning as an expense from those that see talent as a competitive advantage? In this episode of Talent Development Leader podcast, learning strategist, author, and Tractus Learning founder Becky Willis explain... more

What sits between a company's strategy and the skills of its workforce? According to Ben Satchwell, Head of Capabilities at Acorn PLMS, the answer is capability. In this episode of Talent Development Leader podcast, Ben breaks down the layered relati... more

A clear personal vision can be the difference between reacting to life and intentionally leading it. In this episode of ATD's Talent Development Leader podcast, Kimberly Currier, global talent and leadership development executive, explores why person... more

When budgets shrink, talent development leaders must do more than defend their programs—they must demonstrate their value through communication and influence. In this episode of the Talent Development Leader podcast, Amii Barnard-Bahn, former Fortune... more

The role of the Chief Learning Officer is at an inflection point. In this episode of Talent Development Leader podcast, Tracie Cantu, Chief Learning Strategist at Your CLO and author of Running L&D Like a Business, breaks down how and why the CLO rol... more

AI is transforming work—but not in the ways many leaders fear. In this episode of Talent Development Leader podcast, Patrick D. Lynch, 2026 Thinkers50 Radar thought leader, AI Faculty Lead at Hult International Business School, and one of the world's... more

Storytelling isn't a soft skill—it's a serious leadership advantage. In this episode of Talent Development Leader podcast, Julie Lancaster, CEO of Lancaster Leadership and author of Beyond Words: How Our Stories & Strategies Inspire Action, shares wh... more

In this episode of Talent Development Leader podcast, Tina Robinson, executive coach and author of the ATD Press book, Developing Your Business Leaders, explains why many TD leaders get stuck reacting to requests instead of driving the business forwa... more

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Recent Guests

Becky Willis
Modern learning strategist, author, founder and chief learning officer at Tractus Learning
Tractus Learning
Episode: From Learning & Development to Talent Development: The Shift That Changes Everything
Ben Satchwell
Head of Capabilities, Acorn
Acorn
Episode: The Capability Blueprint: Connecting Skills, Performance, and Strategy
Kimberly Currier
vision-centered, global talent and leadership development executive
Episode: Leading from Within: The Power of Personal Vision with Kimberly Currier
Ami Barnard-Bahn
Coach to C-suite executives on leadership challenges; former Fortune 5 executive
Independent/Consulting; advisor to Adobe, World Bank, ABVI
Episode: From Cost Center to Strategic Driver: Reframing Talent Development in Tough Times
Tracie Cantu
Learning operations and technology expert with two decades of enterprise L&D leadership experience at Meta, Atlassian, Whole Foods Market
Your CLO
Episode: The Future CLO: Leading Learning as a Strategic Business Enabler
Patrick Lynch
Thinkers50 Radar 2026 thought leader; AI leadership expert
Hult International Business School; former Accenture Research Fellow; former VP at Wolters Kluwer Health
Episode: Preparing Leaders and Learners for Human‑AI Collaboration with Patrick Lynch
Tina Robinson
Executive coach, leadership strategist, founder of WorkJoy, author of Developing Your Business Leaders
WorkJoy
Episode: The Business-Minded TD Leader With Tina Robinson
Kirsten Moorefield
Co-founder of Cloverleaf, TEDx speaker, author
Cloverleaf
Episode: Development for Everyone: AI Coaching in Action with Kirsten Moorefield
Sam Murray
Founder and CEO of AlignedCX, advisor on intelligent learning systems
AlignedCX
Episode: When Work Becomes Learning: Redesigning the Employee Experience with Samantha Murray

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The Capability Blueprint: Connecting Skills, Performance, and Strategy
Q: What role does AI play today in building these frameworks, and what are the risks?
AI can generate structured frameworks and descriptors quickly, but risks include coherence issues where levels don't differentiate meaningfully or where personality traits sneak in as capabilities. Humans must set strategy and structure first, then use AI to surface evidence from real work, not replace judgment.
The Capability Blueprint: Connecting Skills, Performance, and Strategy
Q: Why is it so dangerous to wire capabilities straight to the strategy without governance?
Because without clear alignment and a defensible internal definition, people will misinterpret the framework, leading to misapplied capabilities, underperforming governance, and a framework that feels authoritative but fails to drive real work or measurable outcomes.
The Capability Blueprint: Connecting Skills, Performance, and Strategy
Q: Can you give a couple of real-world examples to bring this to life for listeners?
Ben describes a 2024 engagement with a 35,000-person financial institution where a capability framework was already mapped to strategy, but the team delivered a skills taxonomy underneath it; they aimed to make it a truly skills-driven organization by linking capabilities to strategic pillars without forcing mismatched, sprawling mappings.
Development for Everyone: AI Coaching in Action with Kirsten Moorefield
Q: How can AI coaching really bring all of this together for people?
By clarifying what AI can do that humans can't—providing rapid, contextual prompts and role-play in the flow of work that complements human coaching and supports personalized learning at scale.
Development for Everyone: AI Coaching in Action with Kirsten Moorefield
Q: So how does AI coaching do this? Tell me.
AI coaching should provide highly applicable, three-sentence insights in the moment, grounded in coaching psychology, and offer next steps if the user wants to go deeper, while preserving the human coach's role in guiding reflection and thought processes.

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What is Talent Development Leader about and what kind of topics does it cover?

The show centers on talent development leadership and its evolving role in business. Across recent episodes, conversations push TD from a traditional training function toward strategic partnership with executives, focusing on personal and organizational vision, workforce capability, and performance enablement. Guests span CLOs, coaches, researchers, and industry thinkers who share practical frameworks for aligning learning with business outcomes, leveraging AI thoughtfully, redesigning the employee experience, and communicating TD value to boards and C-suite peers. A consistent thread is turning learning into an active driver of culture, resilience, and measurable impact, with actionable tactics such as storytelling, product-like thinking f... more

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