Live Webinar

🗓️  May 26, 2026 | 4PM CET | 60min

Elevating Your Work as a Strategic Business Partner

Join a practical webinar with Jess Almlie to explore the four approaches that set true strategic partners apart. Learn how L&D can move beyond content delivery and better connect learning to execution.

 

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Join us for a webinar with Jess Almlie, Learning & Performance Strategist and author of L&D Order Taker No More!

What to Expect

Becoming a strategic business partner in L&D isn’t about having a seat at the table — it’s about changing how you work so you naturally earn one.

In this webinar, you’ll hear directly from Jess Almlie as she breaks down the four approaches that set strategic L&D leaders apart. Through practical examples and real-world stories, she’ll show how these shifts look in action — and how to apply them in your own context.

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What's inside?

✓ Lead with the business, not learning
Understand how focusing on business outcomes reshapes conversations, priorities, and credibility with stakeholders.

✓ Shift from reactive to proactive
Learn how to anticipate needs and engage earlier, instead of responding to last-minute requests.

✓ Continuously add value
See how L&D can connect learning to execution and stay relevant beyond one-off programs.

✓ Build truly collaborative relationships
Go beyond stakeholder management to become a trusted partner embedded in the business.

Event speakers

Jess Almlie

Jess Almlie

Jess is a learning and performance strategist, consultant, and speaker on a mission to transform L&D from a reactive order-taker into a true strategic business partner.

Through her consulting practice, her podcast L&D Must Change, and her book L&D Order Taker No More! (ATD Press), she has built a body of work that consistently challenges how L&D professionals see their role and their potential.

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Hanna Liimatainen

Hanna, host of the L&D Leaders Podcast, draws on her background in communications, systemic thinking and digital facilitation to help organizations reimagine how people work, lead, and learn.

With her warm yet thought-provoking style, she sparks conversations that reveal not just what works in learning, but why, and how others can put it into practice.

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