ATDps: July 2025 Virtual Member Event
Practical Strategies for Building Real Partnership
Working with stakeholders can feel like navigating a maze of unclear expectations, urgent requests, and misaligned priorities. It’s easy to get stuck in a reactive, order-taking role—especially when stakeholders just want training fast. It’s time to shift those dynamics and step into a more strategic partnership. This session introduces a practical framework—the Strategic Business Partner Grid—to help you analyze how each stakeholder currently perceives you. With that clarity as a starting point, we’ll explore real-world strategies to shift those perceptions, strengthen alignment, and build trust. You’ll walk away with tools to move stakeholder relationships forward and position yourself as a true business partner. If you're ready to stop spinning your wheels and start building meaningful, strategic partnerships, this session will show you how.
As a result of this session, you will:
1) Analyze how stakeholders currently perceive your role using the Strategic Business Partner Grid
2) Learn practical strategies to shift stakeholder perceptions and position yourself as a true partner
3) Strengthen your ability to align learning efforts with stakeholder priorities and business goals
Our guest:
Jess Almlie is a former Vice President of Learning and a dynamic leader in the learning and development field. She is passionate about empowering L&D professionals to increase our impact by evolving from order takers to strategic business partners. With three decades of experience and a proven track record of driving strategic initiatives, Jess helps organizations solve talent challenges and improve performance. In addition to consulting and speaking, Jess hosts the podcast, L&D Must Change and is author of the book, "L&D Order Taker No More! Become a Strategic Business Partner," to be published by ATD Press in September 2025.
Connect with Jess: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessalmlie/
Training & Delivery, Knowledge Management, Lifelong Learning, Business Insight
Registration:
Pre-Registration - Members attend at no charge. There is no walk in availability. Pre-registration is mandatory.
Pre-Registration - Non-Member $20.00. There is no walk in availability. Pre-registration is mandatory.
We are not able to issue refunds after the Friday prior to the meeting. Substitutions are encouraged.
Special Instructions:
Instructions to attend the virtual meeting will be included in your confirmation email and on the reminder email the day prior to the program. Please save these instructions. Real time assistance is not usually available.
