Joel Nale

AVP, Global Talent Management & Learning ETS

Monday, December 7

8:40 AM Keynote Panel: Rebuilding Leadership Development Around What Actually Works

The leadership development programs producing real behavioral change share one discipline that the industry has historically underinvested in: deliberate practice. Organizations build cohort programs, send leaders through curriculum, and measure satisfaction — while skipping the repetitions that are the actual mechanism of growth. The shift toward AI-powered role-play simulations, loose cohort structures where leaders apply skills inside their actual work and return to debrief, and deeply personalized learning experiences is not a trend — it is what the evidence has always pointed toward. A fireside conversation with a practitioner who rebuilt from the ground up.

- Design AI-powered conversational simulations that give leaders the practice reps they need before high-stakes feedback conversations, difficult performance discussions, and executive presentations — not after they have already gone badly

- Evolve from fixed cohort delivery toward a living structure where leaders learn the skill, apply it with their actual team, and return to the cohort to debrief what happened, because the real learning is in the debrief, not the curriculum

- Make leadership development genuinely personal by matching small cohorts based on role context, organizational challenge, and developmental stage rather than running large heterogeneous groups through the same virtual experience and hoping the content lands

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Joel.

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Joel Nale

Monday, December 7

8:40 AM Keynote Panel: Rebuilding Leadership Development Around What Actually Works

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