What has changed over 25 years? How effectively does your organization apply proven instructional methods and avoid misconceptions? In this session, Ruth gives us a bird’s eye view of what evidence-based research methods have revealed. 

The growing use and dependence on AI and its companion technologies allow PI professionals to distinguish our systemic and systematic processes. Judy explains how we can use and leverage these new technologies to help our clients make better-informed decisions, see hidden opportunities, and more cost-effectively achieve their goals. Next, we can help clients be wise consumers of technologies.

Aaron and Stella are two of the leading voices in AI for learning performance. In this session, they will blend the best of their worlds to bring you best practices and examples of AI use cases in Education and Instruction. You can contribute to the use case conversation if you are using AI right now. If you haven’t used AI yet, you will walk away with a use case you can confidently test with your clients and students.

How do poorly designed instructional strategies impact your bottom line? Join Alexander Sala as he demonstrates how a Systems Approach to Training model coupled with technology, can supercharge your instructional performance improvement efforts. 

Where did this leadership stuff come from and how did we get here? Why do we feel it has gone so badly wrong?

Listen to Don's recommendations to make sure that your leadership training investment does not go to waste.

Does training truly translate to on-the-job performance? If so, how can we accurately measure this transfer, and what factors can enhance the impact on employees' job behavior? Mike Saunderson explores this topic.

Emotions aren't the problem. It's how we interpret them. Negative emotions are often believed to harm performance. But there's a new theory that challenges this view. Charles M. Jones explains.

With quiet quitting on the rise, how can we reverse it and create a high-performance work team? Linda Hogan shares evidence-based tools to enable employees to find meaning in soul satisfying work and help organizations improve organizational performance.

Learn about Cropper’s Lean Performance Improvement Model and get a simple template for applying the model.

Cropper's unique model adds significant performance factors to existing performance models. It also incorporates Steven R. Covey’s characteristics of individual commitment and character, and important factors of leadership and teamwork.

Are you ready to see the future of performance improvement? This is your opportunity to gain invaluable insights from George Gu, the president of ISPI.
As a management innovator and talent development expert, he's well known for his high sense of responsibility to the management consulting industry and achievements in the field of L&D.

Leaders of large scale organizations and communities want to hit performance targets reliably. But there are 5 barriers in the way. What are they? Robert Feeney, industry keynote speaker of our 2023 Performance Improvement Conference, will share how to distinguish those barriers and deal with them.

Are you passionate about project management and performance improvementIn his presentation, Bill talks about how to evolve understanding of performing management work and resources.

Are you ready to step into the future of Human Resources? This is your opportunity to gain invaluable insights from Dave Ulrich, renowned globally as the Father of Modern HR. Ulrich's address was more than a speech. It's a roadmap to becoming a trailblazer in the HR field.

Performance in any organization is a complex issue requiring ongoing attention. In today's competitive environment, there's a need for a robust approach and framework to meet the performance management expectations of all stakeholders and role players to provide sustainable performance results and service delivery.

Explore how to leverage strategies for measurable results at a world level. Get examples of results and world/societal impact.

Why aren’t Human Performance Improvement (HPI) solutions the focus for improvement and security? A typical “solution” for the Human Side of data compromises is a mandatory elearning that regurgitates standardized boiler-plate text from government regulations. Can HPI guide the cyber-techs to solutions on the Human Side?

Artificial Intelligence (Al) is changing the world of work, impacting every industry, and becoming an irreplaceable part of our lives. This ISPI LIVE session with guest Veronika Shestakova will give you a better understanding of Al and potential sources of bias and discrimination in AI.

In this ISPI LIVE session, guest Dr. Stella Lee joins us to explore the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Learning and Development.

Organizational changes can be messy, confusing, disruptive. Often it begins with a new strategy demanding changes to organizational structure. Learn how partnering with HR can enable successful change.

Are you prepared to tackle the complexities of today's organizational landscape? In these challenging times, we must identify ways to perform in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. We can add turbulence and contradiction to this widely acknowledged VUCA description, yielding VUCA-Plus.

This year's conference is taking place April 23-27, 2023, and it's not one to miss! Join us in person in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia or virtually to explore the latest in the performance improvement field.

During this ISPI LIVE session, you’ll learn about our speaker line up, get conference details, and have the chance to get your questions answered.

Learning (or training) in the workplace has a bad name. It’s time to take learning seriously and put learning science into practice, to deliver on the promise of learning - the impact that our businesses deserve.

We are presented an evidence-based performance improvement research & documented experience to effect sustainable, measurable results and add value .

What is near transfer? What is far transfer? Are there multiple ways to conceptualize near and far transfer? Why are near and far transfer important? What are ways to improve near transfer? Improve far transfer? We explore the evolving role of transfer in Talent Development.

During the pandemic, all roles and responsibilities were re-adapted and restructured. Now we're all trying to go back. However, the question still remains: people are very important, how do we build stronger teams in the post-pandemic era?

The world is shifting, entire systems are upended in the blink of an eye, and we cannot continue business as usual inside of a bubble. It is incumbent upon us to find out what matters most for our customers and what is aligned with our mission, lest we be left behind.

2022 marked the 60th anniversary of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI). At the beginning of the 2023, let’s sit down with Dr. Nancy Burns, President of ISPI, to review some of the accomplishments that ISPI and its members/partners have achieved together, and what will be ahead in the new year and beyond.

What are the milestones of the field of Performance Improvement and ISPI? Will technology have a huge impact on PI? During the past 60 years, what do you see were the biggest challenges of PI? And did we successfully cope with it? In this ISPI LIVE session we ask Dr. Roger Addison these key question.

Guy Wallace shares a combination of models and methods from the worlds of Human Performance Technology and Total Quality Management for Performance Analysts and Project Planners in the Learning & Development function. These were first shared in The Quality Roadmap, a book he co-authored in 1994.

How can we ensure our virtual learning programs deliver impact and return on investment? Discover how to design virtual learning that delivers application, impact, and ROI using design-thinking principles in this ISPI LIVE session with Dr. Patti Phillips.

The word “architecture” often conveys a sense of structure, strength, experience--even beauty--but most of all a sense of creativity. When paired with “performance” the connotation is also one of a creative and comprehensive approach to building sustainable performance systems. We explore building performance systems and investigate the Performance Architect’s tips, tools, and techniques.

With so many competing demands right now, it's no surprise that learners don't have the time to learn at work.  So why do we expect people to spend hours browsing learning platforms like they would Netflix? David James presents data-driven insights on what learners really need to be effective, where L&D leaders are getting things right, and where there's room to lift our game.   

Have you ever wondered what data to collect, how it should be organized and reported, and how it should be used? In this ISPI Live session, Dave Vance will answer these questions.

How can we build successful partnerships with clients and businesses? Gary DePaul shares his research on how HR Business Partners (HRBPs) have developed successful relationships in which clients consider their HRBPs a serious strategic advantage. 

How do we make the invisible aspects of performance visible, accessible, and usable? Explore the science and practice of unlocking the set of invisible human performance technologies that are culturally and situationally universal to all people.

How do we prioritize talent in a sustainable manner? How can we continuously attract, develop, and retain people with the right skills? Learn how to build a talent ecosystem designed to ensure personalized career growth and opportunity.

This session explains the latest research about the field including best practices and client expectations. It raises the questions: What do we as a profession have to offer the rising demand for global sustainability? Are we willing to stay relevant in today’s world? Will we evolve or will we just fade away?

What are the origins and elements of Performance Thinking?

Have you heard of the accomplishment-based approach, its applications and advantages?

Jane Bozarth, Director of Research for The Learning Guild reviews some recent Guild research topics like learner engagement, use of AR & VR for learning, evidence-based perspectives on current hot topics -- and a surprising outcome of the pandemic on L&D practice.

We’ve all heard the derogatory terms: “smiley sheets”, “sheets of shame and sophistry”, and the like. But still, surveys are the most common way we measure the outcomes of training. How can we make them better?

As we develop innovative learning solutions, our decisions on which one to use get harder, not easier. Before building training, we should take a step back to determine the best blended solution to improve employee performance. How do we do that?

The approach of much of L&D still seems mired in the industrial era. We continue to see order-taking for courses, information dump, and evaluation by smile sheets. We’re also seeing phenomenal changes in technology. What is the role for L&D in this new world?

L&D programmes are too often based on fads, the latest trends or personal preferences without critical evaluation. How can we apply evidence-informed Learning Design to design training that will make a measurable difference?

Where did this leadership stuff come from and how did we get here? Why do we feel it has gone so badly wrong?

Listen to Don's recommendations to make sure that your leadership training investment does not go to waste.