This page brings together the findings from a study I ran in 2024, asking training providers and the L&D teams who buy from them the same questions about how they work together. What does partnership look like from each side of the table? Where do the two views meet, and where do they drift apart? Each chart below comes with a couple of questions to take into your own business – not to test yourself against, but to help you think about where you might start.

Partnership is a word the L&D industry loves. Training providers see themselves as partners to their customers, and L&D teams want to be partners to their organisations.

Learn how Laura Overton turned 20 years of L&D research into two simple frameworks anyone can use. In this episode she breaks down TRI — the practice — and B...

AI is changing L&D, but Laura Overton believes the real innovation starts somewhere else: in our minds.In this episode of the Rogue L&D podcast, Tom Bailey i...

I was recently invited by Easygenerator* to put this question to a room of learning and talent professionals from around the globe, and the chat lit up before I had finished asking it!

What if the biggest challenge facing Learning and Development isn't technology, budget, or stakeholder buy-in - but confidence?In this episode of Voices of The Learning Network, host Bill Banham sits down with learning industry researcher, analyst...

Learning and skills: Your voice matters! An invitation to take part in the 2026 CIPD Learning and Skills at Work study...

Learning and skills: Your voice matters! An invitation to take part in the 2026 CIPD Learning and Skills at Work study...

There was a moment, for many of us in 2020, when we stopped building learning and started navigating the messy world of work. The goal was visible to everyone in the room. The work, as a result of the pandemic, was urgent. And for once, L&D was on

Donald Taylor has spent thirteen years taking the pulse of the L&D profession. When asked recently to distill today’s world of digital learning into three words, his answer was plain: new, unknown territory. This year he called his annual report

Two years ago, the book I wanted to write had a different working title. The L&D Navigator. I loved it. Michelle Ockers, my co-author, did too. But our publisher rightly had other ideas. The practical realities of getting a book found by the people

There was a moment, for many of us in 2020, when we stopped building learning and started navigating the messy world of work. The goal was visible to everyone in the room.

Donald Taylor has spent thirteen years taking the pulse of the L&D profession. When asked recently to distill today’s world of digital learning into three words, his answer was plain: new, unknown territory.

I’ve been a podcast guest more times than I can count. I’ve never hosted my own.

A new TJ video brings together expert contributor reflections on adaptability, business alignment and intentional boldness in L&D. Drawing on themes from the TJ Influence Report 2026, the discussion explores […]

The TJ Readiness Index survey is a quick, practical way to see what’s helping, and what’s getting in the way, of evidence-led progress in L&D. If you want the background […]

Two years ago, the book I wanted to write had a different working title. The L&D Navigator.

Does L&D know where it’s going?

Why one of the most viral AI charts of 2026 could be best thing that ever happened to an insightful evidence-informed L&D. I’ve not been writing much here on LinkedIn recently - lots of scrolling, lots of thinking and lots of other life going on.

In this episode of The Learning & Development Podcast, David James is joined by Laura Overton and Michelle Ockers, co-authors of the new book The L&D Leader: Principles and Practice for Delivering Business Value.