LIVE 20-24 April, 2026

Empowering learning professionals to deliver business impact

Join L&D professionals worldwide at a free, global online event exploring how to create real behavior change and measurable business impact, all delivered through bite-sized daily livestreams with experienced practitioners.

It’s free!

Meet the speakers

Monday 4/20

Monday April 20th

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Dr. Keith Keating

Dr. Keith Keating

Company name

Tuesday 20/4

Tuesday April 20th

Lavinia Mehed ințu

Lavinia Mehed ințu

Company name

Wednesday 22/4

Wednesday April 20th

Melanie Martine
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Melanie Martine
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Company name

Thursday 21/4

Thursday April 20th

Vanessa Alzate

Vanessa Alzate

Company name

Friday 4/20

Friday April 20th

Dr. Keith Keating

Dr. Keith Keating

Company name

Monday 20/4

Monday April 20th

Robert Wagner

Robert Wagner

CLO100

Tuesday 21/4

Tuesday April 21st

Lavinia Mehedințu

Lavinia Mehedințu

Offbeat

Wednesday 22/4

Wednesday April 22nd

Melanie Martinelli

Melanie Martinelli

Institute for Transfer Effectiveness

Thursday 23/4

Thursday April 23rd

Vanessa Alzate

Vanessa Alzate

Kirkpatrick Partners

Friday 4/24

Friday April 24th

Rahim Shamji

Rahim Shamji

ADR ODR International

Wednesday 22/4

Wednesday April 22nd

Michel Westher

Michel Westher

Knowly

Wednesday 22/4

Wednesday April 22nd

Sandra Andrén

Sandra Andrén

Grant Thornton

Friday 4/24

Friday April 24th

Josh Cavalier

Josh Cavalier

JoshCavalier.ai

Tuesday 21/4

Tuesday April 21st

Martina Ekbom

Martina Ekbom

Scandic Hotels

Friday 4/24

Friday April 24th

Peter Kurzwelly

Peter Kurzwelly

Eghed & Evolai

Schedule

Monday 20/4

Tuesday 21/4

Wednesday 22/4

Thursday 23/4

Friday 24/4

Theme

Positioning L&D to the Business

Partnering with the Business for Impact

Designing for Performance, Not Just Learning

Measuring What Matters

AI and the future of impact

Session 1

EST

08:00-08:30

CET

14:00-14:30

ICT

20:00-20:30

JST

22:00-22:30

From Learning to the Ledger: How CFOs See Learning’s Impact on the P&L

Robert Wagner

TBA

Robert Wagner

Co-founder

CLO100

How L&D Can Support Strategy Execution

Lavinia Mehedințu

Co-Founder & Learning Architect

Offbeat

TBA

From Research to Results: Design Tactics for Learning Transfer

TBA

Melanie Martinelli

CEO & Owner

Institute for Transfer Effectiveness

From Vanity Metrics to Performance Intelligence: Stop Measuring What Doesn’t Matter

TBA

Vanessa Alzate

CEO & Owner

Kirkpatrick Partners

Note: Different format

Panel

Leveraging AI for Impact — Opportunities Ahead

Josh Cavalier

CEO

JoshCavalier.ai

Session 2

EST

08:30-09:00

CET

14:30-15:00

ICT

20:30-21:00

JST

22:30-23:00

TBA

TBA

Partnering With the Business for Real Impact – Is there any other way?

Martina Ekbom

Head of Learning & Development

Scandic Hotels

TBA

Frida Klingström

Learning Lead

Scandic Hotels

TBA

GeT Leading — Grant Thornton's Year-Long Journey That Turns New Managers Into Real Leaders

TBA

Sandra Andrén

Director Learning & Leadership Development

Grant Thorntion

TBA

Michel Westher

CEO

Knowly

How To Make Learning Impact Visible

Ryan Viehrig

Founder

Trevato

TBA

TBA

Rahim Shamji

Founder & CEO

ADR ODR International

TBA

Peter Kurzwelly

Head of AI & Partner

Eghed & Evolai

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EST

09:00-09:30

CET

15:00-15:30

ICT

21:00-21:30

JST

23:00-23:30

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Listen to continued discussion

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Join breakout rooms

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Call it a day

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Listen to continued discussion

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Join breakout rooms

3

Call it a day

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Listen to continued discussion

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Join breakout rooms

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Call it a day

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Listen to continued discussion

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Join breakout rooms

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Call it a day

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Listen to continued discussion

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Join breakout rooms

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Call it a week

Why this event exists

Learning only matters if it changes how people perform at work.

As L&D practitioners, we care deeply about helping others grow. We pour our hearts into our work every single day.

But too often, we’re asked to deliver outsized results without the time, budget, access, or mandate to truly move the needle.

Still, the ambition hasn’t changed:

L&D that creates real, measurable impact on the performance that matters most to the business.

So how do we get there?

How do we move to being seen as trusted partners — with a real seat at the table?

That’s the question Performance Impact Week exists to explore - through real practitioner examples and honest conversations about what actually works.

How it works

Five days. One focused theme per day. Designed to fit into your workday.

From Monday April 20th to Friday April 24th, 2026, Knowly, Kirkpatrick, the Institute for Transfer Effectiveness, and Trevato will host a daily 90-minute live broadcast - each featuring one carefully selected thought leader and one experienced practitioner.

Each day follows a simple, consistent format:

A short keynote to set the direction for the day’s theme
A real-world practitioner case, walking through a successful example from the field, so you leave with ideas you can apply in your own work
30 minutes of live discussion and Q&A, with the option to join peer breakout rooms

During the final 30 minutes, you can either:

Stay and listen to the live Q&A, or
Join a breakout room to discuss the day’s topic with peers from around the world

If you join a breakout room, you can keep the Q&A running quietly in the background, or turn it off to focus fully on your group.

Only have an hour? That’s completely fine. The core content is delivered in the first 60 minutes, and the Q&A will be available separately on demand.

Four perspectives. One shared mission.

Performance Impact Week brings together four organizations aligned around a single goal: helping learning drive real behavior change and business impact — from strategy and design through to evaluation and scale.

Designing for performance

Measuring what matters

Thought leadership & strategic direction

Institute for Transfer Effectiveness

The Institute for Transfer Effectiveness brings research into practice with the 12 Levers of Transfer Effectiveness. Led by Dr. Ina Weinbauer-Heidel, ITE equips L&D professionals with evidence-based tools to make training stick.

Kirkpatrick Partners

Kirkpatrick Partners is the home of the Kirkpatrick Model—the gold standard for training evaluation. They help L&D professionals demonstrate the true value of learning initiatives.

Scaling impact with software

Knowly

Knowly helps L&D teams drive engagement and behavior change beyond the classroom. Their platform nudges learners in the flow of work and involves managers at the right moments—turning training into lasting business results.

Trevato

Trevato is a training evaluation platform that helps L&D teams move beyond smile sheets. With tools for measuring learning transfer and business impact, Trevato turns data into confident stakeholder conversations.

Designing impactful programs

Software to make the vision a reality and get it to scale

Institute for Transfer Effectiveness

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Software to make the vision a reality and get it to scale

Knowly

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Designing impactful programs

Software to make the vision a reality and get it to scale

Kirkpatrick Partners

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Software to make the vision a reality and get it to scale

Trevato

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Speakers

Monday 20/4

Positioning L&D to the Business

Session 1

EST

08:00-08:30

CET

14:00-14:30

ICT

20:00-20:30

JST

22:00-22:30

Robert Wagner

Co-founder

CLO100

TBA

From Learning to the Ledger: How CFOs See Learning’s Impact on the P&L

What does learning look like through a CFO’s lens? In this candid conversation, a business leader interviews a CFO to unpack how investments in learning and development show up—or fail to show up—in the P&L. Attendees will hear what financial leaders actually care about, how they connect capability-building to productivity and results, and what L&D can do to become a more credible, value-driving partner to the business. This session challenges learning professionals to move beyond activity metrics and speak the language of impact.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Robert Wagner

Robert Wagner is the Co-Founder of CLO100, the Global Community dedicated to supporting Chief Learning Officers to drive measurable impact within their organisations. Robert and the CLO100 team are on a mission to help learning leaders unlock their full potential and create lasting organisational impact.

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Session 2

EST

08:30-09:00

CET

14:30-15:00

ICT

20:30-21:00

JST

22:30-23:00

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TBA

TBA

TBA

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

TBA

Tuesday 21/4

Partnering with the Business for Impact

Session 1

EST

08:00-08:30

CET

14:00-14:30

ICT

20:00-20:30

JST

22:00-22:30

Lavinia Mehedințu

Co-Founder & Learning Architect

Offbeat

TBA

How L&D can support strategy execution

"Do we even have a strategy?" This is a common question within organizations nowadays. After weeks and sometimes months of strategy planning, C-Level Boards share the final result in an email, a leadership call, or, if you're lucky, a company meeting as well. And then, they wonder why nobody knows what the strategy is or why team and individual goals aren't aligned to a larger scope.

As L&Ds, we're well-positioned to support the communication of a company strategy, as well as to help everyone make sense of it and translate it to their own reality. Join me to explore the why and how of this particular way of partnering with the business.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Lavinia Mehedințu

Lavinia is a dreamer, recovered workaholic, learning nerd, and former Learning & Development Manager of a wonderful team. She's taking everything she's learned in the past years about learning, business development, community management, and team management, and building Offbeat as the go-to learning space for any learning professional.

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Session 2

EST

08:30-09:00

CET

14:30-15:00

ICT

20:30-21:00

JST

22:30-23:00

Martina Ekbom

Head of Learning & Development

Scandic Hotels

Frida Klingström

Learning Lead

Scandic Hotels

TBA

Partnering With the Business for Real Impact – Is there any other way?

This session explores how L&D creates real impact by building solutions around genuine capability needs — and why not partnering with the business simply isn’t an option. We know learning; business knows the reality, the context, and the facts. Only together can we design learning that shifts behaviors, supports strategy, and enables innovation through co‑creation and experimentation.

Using examples from post‑pandemic reskilling, future leadership development, and an ongoing initiative with a Sales Academy, the session shows how working closely with the business leads to learning that is relevant, innovative, contextual — and brings direct value to the business.

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About the speakers

Martina Ekbom

With a background in behavioral science, Martina has spent the past 15 years developing organizational learning in large‑scale transformation initiatives. Coming from the tech world and fueled by a strong passion for human development, she focuses on how organizations can be shaped at the intersection of people, learning, and new technology. Martina is dedicated to building true partnerships with the business — translating strategic needs into learning that drives real impact, supports change, and enables innovation.

Frida Klingström

With a background in marketing and production, Frida she brings a unique perspective to learning design — combining creativity, customer‑centric thinking, and operational insight. Her work is driven by a strong focus on innovation and exploring how AI can support the creation of new learning experiences, streamline solutions, and unlock smarter ways of building capability. Frida is passionate about pushing boundaries, she partners closely with the business to test, refine, and scale learning approaches that are both impactful and future‑ready.

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Wednesday 22/4

Designing for Performance, Not Just Learning

Session 1

EST

08:00-08:30

CET

14:00-14:30

ICT

20:00-20:30

JST

22:00-22:30

Melanie Martinelli

CEO & Owner

Institute for Transfer Effectiveness

TBA

From Research to Results: Design Tactics for Learning Transfer

Training is an essential tool for building employee knowledge, skills, and competencies. However, the effectiveness of training can be limited by the transfer of the learning to the job. According to the Institute for Transfer Effectiveness, there are 12 levers of transfer effectiveness that organizations can use to maximize trainees' application of learning post-training, four of which connect to training design: clarity of expectations, content relevance, active practice, and transfer planning.

No matter what model you use for training design, you can increase training effectiveness (or increase the impact of your training) by paying attention to these 4 levers for training design.

In this session you will discover:

- Why asking about expectations in a training session is a waste of time

- How to strengthen the perception of content relevance.

- The crucial and so often misunderstood difference between active learning and active practice

- Common mistakes with regards to action planning

- What you can do to set the levers in training design to "transfer effective"

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Melanie Martinelli

Melanie Martinelli combines her entrepreneurial spirit with her 20 years of experience in L&D to help build memorable & results-based learning experiences. In her roles as CEO of the Institute for Transfer Effectiveness and Founder of Going Beyond Training, she applies strong business acumen, rich practical experience across cultures & a deep understanding of what makes transfer happen to support her clients in being more strategic in their L&D initiatives.

Session 2

EST

08:30-09:00

CET

14:30-15:00

ICT

20:30-21:00

JST

22:30-23:00

Sandra Andrén

Director Learning & Leadership Development

Grant Thorntion

Michel Westher

CEO

Knowly

TBA

GeT Leading — A Year-Long Journey That Turns New Managers Into Real Leaders

Most new managers are left to sink or swim. Grant Thornton took a different approach — building a year-long journey that combines quick-start onboarding, hands-on bootcamps, and peer learning triads to develop leaders who are ready from day one.

The program kicks off with onboarding to help new managers get up and running, followed by guidance through annual people processes and practical bootcamps where they can practice, experiment, and deepen their leadership skills.

Alongside these components, each new manager is part of a learning triad — a small group of peers who follow each other throughout their first year, sharing experiences and supporting one another. This way, they gain not only knowledge and tools but also a network that strengthens their leadership from the start.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Sandra Andrén

Sandra Andrén is the Director ofLearning & Leadership Development at Grant Thornton and heads a team focused on strengthening learning and development across the company.

In addition to her role as a manager, Sandra focuses on developing and reinforcing leadership through Grant Thornton's leadership model, ensuring that leaders have the tools and guidance they need to succeed. She further holds responsibility for the company’s leadership training programs, talent initiatives as well as the design of kickoffs with the aim of strengthening our shared culture through networking, strong execution, and a clear direction grounded in our strategy and business plan.

Michel Westher

Michel Westher is the CEO and Co-Founder of Knowly, where he and his team have helped hundreds of organizations worldwide create innovative learning journeys that drive real behavior change.

In addition to his role leading Knowly, Michel runs a certification program in Transfer of Training, with over 200 learning professionals certified to date. He is a sought-after speaker on corporate learning and manager involvement in learning initiatives.

Thursday 23/4

Measuring What Matters

Session 1

EST

08:00-08:30

CET

14:00-14:30

ICT

20:00-20:30

JST

22:00-22:30

Vanessa Alzate

CEO & Owner

Kirkpatrick Partners

TBA

From Vanity Metrics to Performance Intelligence: Stop Measuring What Doesn’t Matter

Dashboards are full, but leaders are still guessing. In this session, Vanessa Alzate challenges the use of vanity metrics—data that looks impressive but fails to inform action. She introduces Enterprise Performance Intelligence as a smarter approach to measurement, using the new Kirkpatrick Model to connect learning, behavior, and results. Attendees will learn how to move from reporting activity to generating insight, and from collecting data to making better decisions.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Vanessa Milara Alzate

Vanessa Milara Alzate is the Owner and CEO of Kirkpatrick Partners and Founder of Anchored Training. With more than fifteen years of experience, she has guided organizations across industries including life sciences, federal government, and the Department of Defense. She is the author of Building a Culture of Evaluation (May 2026) and the steward of the globally recognized Kirkpatrick Model®. Vanessa helps leaders position evaluation as the foundation for organizational performance, innovation, and measurable results.

Session 2

EST

08:30-09:00

CET

14:30-15:00

ICT

20:30-21:00

JST

22:30-23:00

Ryan Viehrig

Founder

Trevato

TBA

How To Make Learning Impact Visible

Many learning teams can report what was delivered, but struggle to show what actually changed. In this session, we’ll walk through a training program and explore how its impact is evaluated beyond completion rates and happy sheets.

We’ll reflect on what is worth measuring, what is often less useful to focus on, and how early signals of behavior change can help guide decisions shortly after a program launches.

Along the way, we’ll discuss how to tell a convincing impact story and how automation and AI can support, not replace, good evaluation thinking.

This session is designed for learning professionals and training providers who want practical inspiration, clearer evidence of impact, and more meaningful conversations about the value of learning.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Ryan Viehrig

Ryan is the founder of trevato, a SaaS platform designed to measure training effectiveness and bridge the gap between learning and business impact. With a strong background in L&D, Ryan has worked with leading organizations like adidas, Rimowa, and Leica to optimize their evaluation strategies. Passionate about making training impact measurable, Ryan combines research-based insights with practical tools to help L&D professionals drive meaningful results.

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Friday 24/4

AI and the future of impact

Panel Discussion

EST

08:00-08:30

CET

14:00-14:30

ICT

20:00-20:30

JST

22:00-22:30

Josh Cavalier

CEO

JoshCavalier.ai

Rahim Shamji

Founder & CEO

ADR ODR International

Peter Kurzwelly

Head of AI & Partner

Eghed & Evolai

Josh Cavalier

CEO

JoshCavalier.ai

TBA

Leveraging AI for Impact — Opportunities Ahead

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how learning professionals design, deliver, and measure training. From personalized learning paths to real-time performance analytics, AI offers unprecedented opportunities to create meaningful business outcomes.

In this session, we'll explore practical applications of AI in corporate learning—what's working today, what's overhyped, and where the real opportunities lie. We'll also tie back to key themes and insights from earlier sessions throughout the week, connecting the dots between what you've learned and how AI can amplify those strategies. You'll walk away with actionable frameworks to integrate AI into your L&D initiatives without losing the human touch that makes learning stick.

About the speakers

Josh Cavalier

Josh Cavalier is the founder and CEO of JoshCavalier.ai, helping L&D professionals harness AI to transform human-machine performance. With 30+ years in education technology, he makes AI practical through training, speaking, and his live show, Brainpower. His book, Applying AI in Learning and Development: From Platforms to Performance, provides a roadmap for integrating AI into L&D using real-world platforms, tools, workflows, and ethical considerations.

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Rahim Shamji

Rahim Shamji is the Founder and CEO of ADR ODR International, the first company to bridge traditional face-to-face dispute resolution with the digital world of Online Dispute Resolution.

A practicing Barrister and Fellow of the Civil Mediation Council UK, he brings over two decades of experience in international law, training, and public speaking. He's a graduate of Harvard Law School's PON Masterclass on Negotiation and has served as Academic Director at the Thailand Arbitration Center and Course Convenor at Queen Mary University of London.

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Peter Kurzwelly

Peter Kurzwelly is an AI strategist and advisor working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, leadership, and organizational transformation. He supports executive teams, boards, and organizations in moving AI from experimentation to real impact. His work centers on helping organizations rethink how learning, leadership, and responsibility must evolve in an AI-enabled world.

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FAQ

Does it cost anything to participate?

No. Performance Impact Week is completely free to attend. The event is open to anyone interested in learning and development, with no registration or participation fees.

Who’s organizing the event?

Performance Impact Week is organized by four organizations working together: Knowly, Kirkpatrick Partners, the Institute for Transfer Effectiveness, and Trevato. Each brings a different perspective on how learning can drive real performance and business impact.

Do I have to attend all five sessions?

No. You’re free to join the sessions that are most relevant to you and fit your schedule. That said, the week is designed as a coherent journey, and we're hoping you'll choose to follow the full series.

Will the broadcasts be recorded?

Yes. All registered participants will receive access to the recordings. The recordings will not be shared publicly, so registration is required to access them.