MASTERCLASS 1 · BRUSSELS · 21/10/26

👤 Conrado Schlochauer is a Brazilian learning strategist, researcher, author, and internationally recognized thought leader in lifelong and lifewide learning. He is the co-founder of nōvi – a lifewide learning company, where he helps organizations build learning cultures that foster continuous development and business impact.

For more than three decades, Conrado has challenged traditional approaches to corporate learning, advocating a shift from formal training to learning embedded in everyday work and life. His work combines research, innovation, and practical experience to help organizations rethink how people learn, adapt, and grow in a rapidly changing world.

He is the bestselling author of Lifelong Learners: The Power of Continuous Learning and Incidental Learning: The Power of Lifewide Learning. Conrado holds a Master's degree in Creativity from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and a Ph.D. in Adult Learning and Psychology from the University of São Paulo.

A sought-after keynote speaker, Conrado has presented at leading international conferences, including ATD, Learning Technologies, and SXSW EDU. His engaging presentations challenge audiences to rethink learning as a lifelong, lifewide, and deeply human experience.

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BUILDING A LEARNING CULTURE

🎤 Description

Every organization already has a learning culture. The question is whether it was built by design or by default.

In most companies, the answer is: by default. Learning culture is shaped by tacit assumptions — how time is used, whether knowledge sharing is rewarded or seen as a waste of time, what leadersactually do (not what they say) about development, and whether people experience learning as something done to them or something they own. The dominant educational paradigm i.e.command and control, other-directed, formal-first, still runs deep in corporate L&D. And the result is a culture that separates learning from work, and relies on a small group to decide what, when, and how everyone else should learn.

Meanwhile, AI is reshaping the landscape fast. It's changing how content is created, how people access knowledge, and what skills matter. But without a mature learning culture, AI becomes just another tool layered on top of broken assumptions, automating the wrong things, reinforcing other-direction, and widening the gap between how organizations talk about learning and how it actually happens.

This masterclass is about making that invisible architecture visible and then doing something about it.

At its core, this session works with nōvi's Learning Culture Mandala, a framework that maps the forces shaping how learning actually happens inside an organization. The mandala distinguishes between external influences — the prevailing educational paradigm, the zeitgeist, business strategy, organizational culture — which set the context but are harder to change directly, and five internal intervention spaces where intentional action can shift the culture:

• Learning Narrative : What does it mean to learn here? Most organizations have never articulated this. The implicit answer is often: learning means attending courses. Building a shared narrative is the first step toward a different culture.
• Corporate Education Practices : Policies, formats, platforms, incentives. These are what employees see as the learning culture. They send powerful messages — and often those messages contradict what the organization says it wants. AI is accelerating this tension: it can personalize learning at scale, but it can also deepen the illusion that delivering content equals producing learning.
• The Role of Leadership : Leaders don't "develop people". They create (or destroy) the conditions for people to develop themselves. This is a fundamental reframe: from developer to enabler.
• Lifewide Learning : The informal, social, incidental learning that happens every day in the flow of work, and goes mostly unrecognized. Mapping it, naming it, and valuing it is one of the highest-leverage moves an organization can make.
• Self-Directed Learning : Trusting adults to navigate their own development. This means moving from guilt-and-obligation systems toward environments that build self-efficacy, metacognition, and intrinsic motivation : with AI as a potential ally for self-directed learners, not a replacement for the culture that supports them.

🎯Takeaways

Upon successful completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

📅 Agenda

We'll spend the masterclass moving between provocations, diagnostic work with the mandala, peer exchange, and intervention design. Participants will map their own organization's learning culture - identifying the positive and negative vectors already at play - and leave with concrete experiments they can run.

The approach follows nōvi's method: diagnosis first (how does the culture manifest today?), intervention design (what vectors can we amplify or neutralize?), and action planning (what are the first moves?). This is not about installing a standard model. Every learning culture is unique to its organization. Conrado provides the lens; your context provides the answers.

• 08h00 - 08h30: Welcome coffee
• 08h30 - 12h00: Masterclass part 1 & 2, including a break
• 12h00 - 13h00: Lunch
• 13h00 - 17h30: Masterclass part 3, 4 & 5, including two breaks

📍 Who is this for

HR and L&D practitioners who sense that the traditional T&D playbook i.e. more programs, more content, more control, isn't producing a learning organization. People ready to make the shift from control to culture.

⏳ Prework

TBA - Before attending this class, participants should think, read, make, ...

MASTERCLASS 2 · BRUSSELS · 21/10/26

👤 Antonina Panchenko is a Ukrainian L&D expert, learning designer, and international consultant, currently based in Germany. She helps organizations create meaningful learning experiences that connect people, cultures, and business goals in an increasingly global and digital world.

With extensive international experience, Antonina specializes in learning experience design, capability development, and cross-cultural collaboration. She is passionate about designing learning that is learner-centred, practical, and engaging, enabling people to develop the skills they need in rapidly changing environments.

Beyond her consulting work, Antonina is widely recognized for her accessible and highly visual LinkedIn content, where she shares practical insights on learning design, facilitation, and workplace learning with a global community of Learning & Development professionals.

A regular speaker at international conferences and learning events, Antonina is known for combining evidence-informed practice with creative learning design. We are delighted to welcome her to Belgium for the 2026 L&D Talks.

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LEARNING DESIGN LAB: FROM CONTENT TO LEARNING JOURNEYS

🎤 Description

TBA

🎯 Takeaways

Upon successful completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

📅 Agenda

TBA

• 08h00 - 08h30 : Welcome coffee
• 08h30 - 12h00 : Lab part 1 & 2, including a break
• 12h00 - 13h00 : Lunch
• 13h00 - 17h30 : Lab part 3 & 4, including a break

📍Target Audience

Newcomers to L&D, people returning to the field after a break, and L&D professionals who want to learn how to design more engaging learning journeys. Participation is limited to 20 participants.

⏳ Prework

To make this masterclass more relevant, pre-work is added. This is a short asynchronous online course with several lessons, which participants would complete around two weeks before the masterclass. We will also send a short needs assessment survey to better understand participants’ expectations and adapt the session accordingly.

MASTERCLASS 3 · BRUSSELS · 21/10/26

👤 JD Dillon (US) is an internationally recognized expert in workplace learning, performance enablement, and frontline employee support. He began his career on the frontline and has since gained more than 25 years of experience in operational and Learning & Development roles at organizations including Disney, AMC, Kaplan, and Axonify.

As an author, advisor, and sought-after speaker, JD helps organizations connect learning more closely with everyday work. His approach goes beyond training, focusing on the culture, technology, and support systems employees need to perform at their best every day.

JD is the author of The Modern Learning Ecosystem and The Frontline Enablement Playbook. In his latest book, he brings together practical strategies for onboarding, communication, manager support, career development, and AI-driven performance support for frontline and deskless employees. He has developed a brand-new masterclass based on this book, which he is bringing to Belgium exclusively at the invitation of Stimulearning.

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🎤 EQUIP YOUR FRONTLINE EMPLOYEES TO POWER ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE

Corporate tactics fall flat on the frontline. Deskless workers have limited time, limited access, and little tolerance for disruption. They’re focused on keeping the operation moving, hitting hourly metrics, and delivering for your customers. Driving business results on the frontline requires enablement built for how the job really gets done.

We’ll apply a frontline-first approach to enablement. We’ll start by examining the realities of deskless work and the everyday barriers that limit performance. From there, we’ll define the core elements of a modern enablement ecosystem, including performance support, coaching, reinforcement, and hands-on training. We’ll explore how AI-powered technology can adapt enablement in real time to meet the demands of frontline roles. Finally, we’ll outline how to secure operational buy-in and turn these ideas into practical action, every shift.

Key Concepts are:

• Identify gaps and friction in current enablement approaches
• Define the essential elements of a frontline enablement ecosystem
• Understand the role of managers within the enablement ecosystem
• Apply AI-powered technology to fit support within the flow of work
• Influence stakeholders to adopt an always-on enablement approach

🎯 Outcomes

• More consistent performance across teams and locations
• Improved readiness and confidence on the job
• Less disruption to frontline operations
• Reduced need for retraining
• Reduced reliance on managers for support

📅 Agenda

• 08h00 - 08h30 : Welcome coffee
• 08h30 - 12h00 : Class part 1 & 2, including a break
• 12h00 - 13h00 : Lunch
• 13h00 - 17h30 : Class part 3 & 4, including a break

📍Target Audience

This session is designed for practitioners in learning and development, frontline operations, workforce technology, digital transformation, and human resources who support large frontline or deskless teams and struggle fragmented tools, training, and communication.

⏳ Prework

TBA - Before attending this class, participants should think, read, make, ...