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Regional Webinar Series 2025, S7: Event title: "Elevating Learning & Development: From Order-Taker to Impact Maker: Building a Strategic L&D Function"

  • 30 Jul 2025
  • 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
  • Zoom
  • 1 registrant

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  • Pittsburgh chapter members may register for free and bring one guest for free.
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Host Chapter: ATD Pittsburgh

Elevating Learning & Development: From Order-Taker to Impact Maker: Building a Strategic L&D Function

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 the Speaker

Mary RapaportMary 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.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryrapaport/

www.xceleratebiz.com


ATD Recertification Credits

The Pittsburgh Chapter of ATD is proud to participate in the ATD Regional Webinar Series. This collaboration of nine ATD chapters is bringing together the best of our networks to provide world class presenters and content usually on the last Wednesday of each month. We look forward to sharing these webinars with you throughout 2024.

Talent Development Capability Model Alignment

Developing Professional Capability:

Career and Leadership Development

Developing Organizational Capability:

Business Insight



      

      

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. This program: 1.25 credits.

ATD Regional Webinar Series Information

The ATD Pittsburgh 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 nine ATD chapters:

  • Appalachia 
  • Buffalo Niagra
  • Central PA
  • DC Metro
  • Greater Philadelphia 
  • Long Island NY
  • Maryland 
  • Mid NJ
  • New York City 
  • Northern NJ
  • Pittsburgh

Cooperatively, these chapters bring together the very best speakers from around all our networks to provide world-class presenters and content!

Cancellation/Refund Policy


Greater Than 72 Hours Prior to Event

Participants, please email president@tdpittsburgh.org to request refund.

In email, participant to request refund paid towards future event within the next six months or money refunded.
If money is refunded there may be a small processing fee
Less Than 72 Hours Prior to the Event
No refund will be issued less than 72 hours prior and including not showing for the event (“no show”).

Any special circumstances for refund within 72 hours must be approved by the Chapter President

Online Event Recording Policy

By activating your webcam while attending this online event, you consent to be recorded. Your entry and webcam activation constitutes your consent to such recording for any purpose in connection with the event. If you do not agree to the foregoing, please do not activate your web camera during the event.

Agenda

Event Lobby Opens:        5:45 PM

Speaker Presentation:     6:00 to 7:00 PM

Q&A/Announcements:     7:00 to 7:15 PM

Event Closure:              7:15 PM

Event Running Time:      6:00 to 7:15 PM


Media Policy
By attending events, you consent to be photographed, filmed and/or otherwise recorded. Your entry constitutes your consent to such photography, filming and/or recording and to any use, in any and all media throughout the universe in perpetuity, of your appearance, voice and name for any purpose whatsoever in connection with the event. You understand that all photography, filming and/or recording will be done in reliance on this consent given by you by attending events. If you do not agree to the foregoing, please let the event photographer(s) know that you do not wish to be photographed, filmed and/or recorded.

ATD Pittsburgh

P.O. Box 23117

Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2006



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