Beyond Training: Rebuilding the Strategic Value of L&D
When organizations are looking closely at the numbers, it is worth looking just as closely at the value that people development brings. If people are the ones who carry change forward, how do we make their development a strategic priority, rather than an activity that keeps being postponed?
Key Takeaways
- How can organizations build sustainable learning ecosystems beyond training catalogues and digital platforms?
- How can organizations develop internal capability and use learning to address real business challenges?
- How is the L&D professional’s role evolving from a pragmatic provider to a challenger and partner in organizational development?
- How can L&D create more value for organizations?
Agenda
In The Fifth Discipline, Senge wrote about an organization that is able to learn continuously, examine its own mental models, and turn learning into a shared responsibility across the entire system. For this to happen, every person in the organization needs to value learning, reflection, and adaptation.
Beautiful in theory. But where are we, really, when it comes to a true continuous learning mindset?
More than three decades later, few organizations invest in truly strategic L&D functions. Few still run serious skills gap analyses or build learning strategies for the next two to three years.
Many have chosen training catalogues and digital platforms to democratize access to learning. And yet, the results are becoming harder and harder to see.
In 2026, at a time when the need for upskilling and reskilling is greater than ever, development budgets remain limited, and the pressure to reduce them continues.
In this context, it is worth asking a few uncomfortable questions:
- What value do we really create through adult development?
- Is this value being replaced by platforms, automated content, noise, and AI?
- What is our role now, as L&D professionals?
- And, perhaps most importantly, what can we do to become truly strategic?
We invite you to a webinar built around organizations that have refused to treat L&D as a simple administrator of learning: creating groups, finding providers, sending invitations, and leaving the important decisions to everyone else.
In this webinar, we will look at what actually works in organizations that have managed to build sustainable learning ecosystems: how they develop internal capability, how they connect learning to real business challenges, and how they make sure training does not remain just a well-intended activity, but becomes relevant, useful, and impactful.
Because under the daily pressure of numbers, results, and profitability, learning can easily move to second place. But perhaps this is exactly when we need to ask ourselves: what value does people development really bring to the organization? And, even more importantly: do we still see it?
Event Team
Speakers and Hosts
Speaker
Roxana Mîțu
HR Manager at Trend Consult and consultant in projects focused on manager development and healthy organizational cultures. She believes performance emerges when people work with safety, clarity, meaning, and their strengths, while groups become more aware, courageous, and effective together.
Speaker
Eugenia Dabu
Global talent management strategist and senior HR leader with experience in international banking. She specializes in leadership development, employer positioning, strategic talent attraction, and organizational transformation aligned with the future needs of the business.
Speaker
Alexia Gușa
Senior Learning & Development Manager EMEA at Stefanini Group, coordinating initiatives for over 3,000 employees across 17 countries. With almost 10 years of experience, she designs leadership, organizational development, and learning transformation programs with real impact on people and the organization.
Speaker
Lavinia Mehedințu
Co-founder of Offbeat and Learning Architect, contributing to a global development platform for L&D professionals. With experience in retail and a strong focus on continuous learning, she coordinates European L&D communities and brings current perspectives on global learning trends, resources, and tools.
Speaker
Iulia Buciuman
Director of Noosfera and Founder of Valere, where she designs learning, leadership, and transformation initiatives for adults and organizations. With over 20 years in people development, she combines psychology, neuroscience, coaching, and modern learning methods to create practical experiences with lasting, meaningful organizational impact at scale.
Organizer
Mădălina Popescu
Madalina is Strategic Development Manager at Noosfera. She works at the intersection of people, learning, and business goals, building partnerships that support organisational growth and transformation. With experience in HR and client development, she brings a practical perspective on how people development can drive real change and long-term impact.