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Your role comes with unique challenges—and unique opportunities to advance. Whether you want to deepen your expertise or explore an entirely new interest or career path, you’ll find learning that speaks directly to your goals. 

From instructional design to facilitation, HR, coaching, or consulting, there’s a course experience that aligns with where you are—and where you want to grow next.

Nearly six years after its debut, the Talent Development Capability Model™ continues to serve as a foundation for how learning and development professionals assess skills, plan growth, and navigate evolving job expectations. 

As the field shifts with advancements in AI, increasing personalization in learning, and growing emphasis on skills-based strategies, ATD is preparing for our next update to the model. Your input is essential to ensuring that the framework reflects the realities of today’s work.

Share your perspective in our global occupational survey by March 9, 2026 and help shape the next version of the Talent Development Capability Model.*

As a thank you for completing the survey, participants will receive a code for 20% off an ATD course after submission.

Learn in LA: Attend a Preconference Course in May

ATD’s International Conference & EXPO 2026 is coming to Los Angeles from May 17–20. Before settling into the conference, attend a preconference education program. There are 28 courses and workshops to choose from, ranging from topics like instructional design to storytelling. Find the course that fits your professional development goals best and network with like-minded peers along the way.

Find a course in LA

Every year, we publish a catalog to help you find an upcoming course that fits your schedule, learn which courses align with your career path, and identify additional learning opportunities.

Cover of ATD's 2026 Education Course Catalog

Our updated 2026 Education Course Catalog features:

Industry-leading certificate courses and master programs

Professional workshops

APTD® and CPTD® preparation courses

ATD’s online course library

Browse the Catalog

Are you a recent doctoral graduate? Did your dissertation focus on a topic relevant to the practice of developing talent in organizations? If so, apply for the ATD Dissertation Award today! This award is presented to the person who has submitted the best doctoral dissertation for which a degree was granted between August 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025. The deadline to apply is December 1, 2025.

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Leverage Self-Awareness to Reinvent Your Leadership Style

Written by leadership expert and coach Dan Gallagher, The Self-Aware Leader sharpens the self-awareness of middle managers to drive productivity and career growth with a model that emerging leaders, middle managers, and senior executives can use as a catalyst to enhance their leadership value. Based on empirical research and more than two decades of use, the model fully integrates a deep focus on self-awareness and reinvention with the practices of servant leadership and business transformation.

Please use our special code 8020 for the chapter to receive a small rebate on your purchase.

Please use our special code 8020 for the chapter to receive a small rebate on your purchases.

Join us this year to discover strategies and guidelines for organization development programs with award-winning OD insights and practitioners at ATD’s OrgDev conference. Learn from leading experts in culture and belonging, talent strategy and management, leadership and employee development, human resources, and gain insight to bridge organizational gaps and build strategic business partnerships.

Explore all the ways you can make the most of your OrgDev experience:

• Assess your current organizational structures. Sessions in this event are rooted in reflection to help you consider what's working and what's not within your current programs.
• Build programs that are intentional and tied in with your organization's goals and visions. Everything you experience at this event will lead you to practical applications in your work.
• Connect through networking with hundreds of peers. There's no better place to exchange new ideas with the colleagues you meet at OrgDev 2024.

More Details: https://orgdev.td.org/