Elevating Learning & Development: From Order-Taker to Impact Maker: Building a Strategic L&D Function
REGIONAL WEBINAR EVENT
Hosted by your Pittsburgh Chapter
Wednesday, July 30th | 6:00 - 7:15 p.m. ET | Zoom
About This Event
In today's dynamic business landscape, strategic thinking is a crucial skill for leaders and teams to thrive. Join Mary Rapaport, Chief Xceleration Officer and Strategy Coach at Xcelerate, in this thought-provoking and interactive presentation. Mary will help you rethink how to position your L&D talents and equip you with practical, actionable strategies to rebuild your L&D team’s strategic skills and mindset.
Explore the evolution of corporate L&D and understand how economic, social, and other factors have shaped it into a vital yet often undervalued resource for business success. Mary will guide you through the essence of a strategic mindset, exploring its significance and why it is particularly critical for L&D teams to develop this ability.
Mary will provide the tools and insights to help you create powerful development plans that foster strategic thinking within your L&D team. Gain insights and ideas to help your teams build, think, and operate more strategically, increasing your team's influence and directly impacting your company’s ability to achieve its goals.
About Our Presenter
Mary Rapaport | Chief Xceleration Officer, Xcelerate
Mary Rapaport is on a mission to democratize strategic thinking. She believes it's not just for the elite few, but for everyone in an organization. When everyone channels a strategic mindset, the business culture thrives, teams become more creative, and employees lean in and engage more. Cultivating this mindset helps leaders create a better (and more fun) place to work, fostering a stronger culture of creativity and innovation.
As a strategic thinking architect, Mary empowers leaders and teams across all functions and levels to think, act, and lead more strategically. As the founder of Xcelerate, she builds learning strategy, designing and delivering immersive learning experiences that ignite "aha moments" and drive tangible business results.
Mary's signature program, the Strategic Playground Workshop, is a unique blend of immersion, play, and practical application. Participants engage in reflection, peer learning, and scenario learning to awaken and channel their strategic mindset, helping them solve complex challenges and have a greater impact.
As a trusted strategic thinking coach, Mary partners with individuals and teams at leading brands to develop customized learning and development strategies. She works closely with clients to identify blind spots, refine critical thinking skills, and translate strategic insights into actionable plans for tangible ROI.
Mary's passion extends beyond individual development. She champions inclusive growth through the Minority Business Growth Alliance, a non-profit providing invaluable coaching and support to BIPOC entrepreneurs. She holds an MBA, a BA in International Business and French, and is a certified leadership and sales trainer. Mary has extensive experience in marketing, transformation, and strategic initiatives. She also serves as the current president of the Twin Cities chapter of the Association of Talent Development.
The ATD Maryland Chapter is proud to participate in the ATD Mid-Atlantic Regional Webinar Series. This monthly webinar series is offered by the ATD Mid-Atlantic Chapters – Regional Programs Consortium which is comprised of the following ten ATD chapters:
Cooperatively, these chapters bring together the very best speakers from around all our networks to provide world-class presenters and content! We look forward to sharing these webinars with you for the rest of 2025!
Investment
- Maryland ATD Members – Member Benefit
- Non-Maryland ATD Members – $20.00
ATD Recertification Credits
- ATD Mid-Atlantic Regional Webinar Programs are pre-approved through the ATD Greater Philadelphia Chapter by the ATD Certification Institute for continuing education credits. These credits are based on the ATD Capability Model may be applied towards recertification by Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credential holders.
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This webinar supports 1.25 credits in the Capabilities:
Developing Professional Capability:
- Career and Leadership Development
Impacting Organizational Capability:
- Business Insight
- Consulting and Business Partnering
- Organizational Development and Culture
- Performance Improvement
- Future Readiness
under the domain: Developing Professional Capability, Impacting Organizational Capability
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Materials
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Recording
This webinar will be recorded in this instance.
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