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We believe collaborating with peers inspires true innovation, making you a better leader. iVentiv has a strict limit of 40 executives per event.

At iVentiv, we believe that connecting and collaborating with peers inspires true innovation that will make you a better leader and ultimately transform your organisation. Russell Butler, founder and CEO of iVentiv, established the company in 2008 in response to what he saw as an extremely poor event space where participants couldn’t exchange ideas and learning was a secondary consideration. After 13 years and almost 200 events, the iVentiv community now includes c-suite business leaders from around the world, committed to networking with their peers and getting new ideas. iVentiv events are participant-led, focused on building an interactive environment for you to learn, connect and develop from each other. Unlike traditional ‘sit and listen’ conferences and webinars, at an iVentiv event you’ll take an active part in every session. When you attend, you’ll join senior leaders from the biggest companies across different sectors for meaningful conversations about industry trends and business challenges. The average participant is in a corporate global leadership role from a company with an average of 100,000 employees. Two-thirds of the Forbes Global 2000 regularly join our events. We host events in locations around the world and online, meaning you can get involved no matter where you are. To join the conversation, register today at https://www.iventiv.com. Every iVentiv event is free to attend.

‘The iVentiv model works so well. An innovative way of learning while networking with colleagues from other businesses and building meaningful relationships. The sponsor partner meetings are well set up and added considerable value as a delegate. Thank you.’
Executive Leadership, General Electric

16/09/2026

‘Organisations don’t execute strategy, people do.’🎯

In an interview with iVentiv, Satoshi Probala (Global Learning & Development Director, Barry Callebaut) shared why he believes L&D's role is changing. capability development, as he sees it, is a critical driver of business success.

For Satoshi, this means moving beyond a focus on delivering learning programmes and towards "enabling organisational capability". In this sense, learning alone isn't the end goal; it's the development of capabilities that allows people to apply knowledge, navigate change and deliver results.

His perspective highlights a shift many L&D leaders are grappling with:
🎯 Focusing on capability, not just learning activity
🧩 Aligning development efforts with strategic priorities
📈 Measuring success through performance and impact
🚀 Equipping people to turn strategy into action

As Satoshi explains, "capability is what ultimately drives performance". In a fast-changing world, that makes building capability one of the most important responsibilities for learning leaders today.

Hear more on this from Satoshi at Learning Futures Basel on 13-14 October, and watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atnkN6SKz8U&t=5s&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=IVPCI_160926_

15/09/2026

Senior L&D leaders, AI adoption, leadership transformation, and real-world problem solving? Yes please 😍

This November, iVentiv’s Learning Futures London (17-18 November) will bring together an exclusive group of senior Learning leaders at Lloyds Banking Group’s London offices for two days of conversation, collaboration, and connection.

Here's why you should register:
👉 Chaired by Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, CEO, Author and Academic at Delta Futures, HEC Paris, Hult Ashridge, London Business School and AKUSONAM
👉 Hear exclusive insights from Duncan Reynell, Group Talent & Development Director at Lloyds Banking Group, on how a skills-based approach, AI, and workforce transformation are reshaping one of the UK's largest organisations
👉 Join discussions and breakout conversations led by senior learning leaders from organisations including EY, A.P. Moller - Maersk, Morrisons, London Stock Exchange Group, Expedia Group, NatWest Group, WPP Media and Shell.
👉 Discover how organisations are tackling leadership capability, learning culture, AI literacy, workforce transformation, skills development and organisational change through real-world case studies and peer discussion
👉Take part in iVentiv exclusive sessions including Peer Coaching, Collaborative Café, and Fishbowl to crowdsource solutions to your most pressing L&D challenges

AI adoption, leadership development, learning culture, workforce transformation, skills-based organisations, and the future of leadership are just some of the conversations on the agenda, and that doesn't include the challenges you'll bring for discussion too.

Thanks to our partners from Workera, Valence, BTS, Hemsley Fraser, OpenSesame, xUnlocked, Degreed and Coursera, this event is free to attend for Group Heads and VPs.

Get your place secured now:
https://www.iventiv.com/events/learning-futures/learning-futures-london-executive-knowledge-exchange-2026?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=LCD_280726_LFLondon_171126

14/09/2026

⏰ Just one day to go until iVentiv Talent & Leadership London!

Tomorrow, you will come together with senior Talent, Leadership and Learning leaders /at the offices of KPMG UK in Canary Wharf for two days of honest conversation, collaborative problem-solving and meaningful connections.

From exploring why transformation efforts fail, to building AI capability, leadership in the age of AI, talent mobility, succession planning and coaching at scale, the agenda is packed with the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of talent and leadership.

You'll engage in conversations on the issues that matter most to your organisation, connecting with peers who share similar priorities and experiences.

The conversation doesn't end when the sessions do. Over drinks and fine dining at KPMG's in-house restaurant, The Fourteen, you'll have the opportunity to strengthen relationships, exchange ideas with peers, and build momentum for further discussions on Day 2.

Here's what to look forward to:
🔸 Chaired by Karen Kocher, Former General Manager, Global Learning & Skilling, Microsoft
🔸Insights from facilitators including Alok Singh, Trevor Evans, James Prior, Rehanna Saeed, Marina Jankovic, Sarah Henson, John English, Marc Burrows, Kevin Oakes, Roger Minton, Claire Screeton, Contanze Wiedemann, Caroline Chipperfield, Anand Chopra- McGowan, Larisa Wiberg and Sally Atkinson
🔸 Opportunities to co-create solutions to business challenges with leaders from organisations including Lego, Amazon, Citi, NHS, Costa Coffee, Lidl, Jaguar Landrover and many more.

Thanks to our partners from The Oxford Group, KPMG, Center for Creative Leadership, The Leadership Trust, Valence, NovoEd, CoachHub,and TechWolf this event is free to attend for VPs and Global Heads.

See you there!

11/09/2026

Bay in, bikes out 🌉🚴

‘Golden Gate Bridge’ and ‘bike ride’ are two phrases that have become synonymous with one another for the iVentiv team.

We’ve been bringing you, Global Heads of Learning, together in and around San Francisco for more than 15 years.

Not once have we passed up riding bikes (sometimes in tandem) across the Bay, and it’s no wonder why. The views are spectacular 😎

This picture was taken ahead of last month’s event at Visa’s Mission Rock HQ and was the perfect set-up for what was an incredible two days.

Looking forward to the next time! 😍

10/09/2026

Chief Learning Officers are not wrestling with AI.

They’re wrestling with what AI is doing to the operating model of Learning itself.

That was one of the clearest signals from our recent online conversations with senior Learning, Talent and Leadership executives in San Francisco and London.

Yes, AI dominated the conversation.

But the questions being asked were far more consequential than “Which tools should we use?” Heads of Learning are instead asking:

🔸Do we build or buy?
🔸What does AI enablement actually look like at an organisational level?
🔸Which capabilities will matter next and how do we measure them?
🔸How do we build future talent pipelines while budgets tighten and workforce models shift?

And perhaps most importantly:

💡How do Learning leaders keep pace with the ambition for transformation when the organisation itself may not yet be ready?

That tension came through repeatedly. Learning leaders and organisations need resilience to influence stakeholders and invest time and resources in workforce transformation. They have to sort signal from noise and navigate the accelerating volume of new ideas, technologies, and expectations.

As one participant aptly put it:

“There is a level of resilience needed to operate in the grey.”

This is exactly why the pre-event alignment calls that iVentiv runs ahead of each event matter so much. These conversations give you a real-time view of the pressures, priorities and unanswered questions occupying the minds of Global Heads of Learning before you come together in person.

That alignment means the discussions stay focused on the issues that genuinely warrant collective intelligence. It means you get the most of your time together in the room.

Leave a comment and let us know how your experiences and organisational challenges compare 👇

09/09/2026

Some of the best proof that iVentiv is a real community is the people who keep showing up 🌍🧡

Jo O'Driscoll-Kearney is one of those people.

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been celebrating some of the key contributors in the iVentiv community. During her time leading Learning and Leadership Development at Majid Al Futtaim, Jo and the MAF team opened their doors to the iVentiv community in Dubai, bringing together senior Learning leaders for two days of candid conversation, shared challenges, and new connections.

But what made Jo such a wonderful addition to the iVentiv community went far beyond being a brilliant host.

Jo brought openness, curiosity, generosity, and energy to the conversation; all those things that make a global network genuinely valuable. She understood that ‘the best learning rarely happens in isolation’. It happens when great people come together, share what they know, challenge one another, and build relationships that last beyond the room.

And those relationships do last.

From hosting the community in Dubai to sharing her perspective with peers in New York and appearing on our interview series alongside Jay Moore, Jo has been an exemplar of the best of iVentiv, taking every opportunity to support her fellow Learning and Talent leaders across organisations, roles, cities, and continents.

We feel incredibly fortunate to have Jo as part of that community and grateful for everything she has brought to it, from her extensive experience in L&D and people development and her warmth, to her belief in the power of people learning from people.

Thank you, Jo 🧡

08/09/2026

Learning Futures Dubai is going global 🌍

On the 27 October come together with your peers in Learning, Talent, and Leadership for:

🔸Half a day of immersive learning
🔸Conversations that will have a worldwide impact
🔸Problem-solving opportunities with your peers in the UAE and beyond🚀

To allow participants and partners travelling internationally to attend, we have taken the decision to postpone this year’s in-person Exchange in Dubai until March 2027 and to run the event this October as a Virtual Exchange.

Led by L&D disrupters including Marina Magdy (Director, Global Talent Development, Teleperformance Group), Anjan Kumar Dasgupta (Head of Learning & Development Organisational Counselling, MSN Laboratories), and Rishibha Sharma (Head of Learning, Organisational Development and Diversity, HMEL), and guided by Event Chair Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj (CEO, Author, and Academic, Delta Futures, HEC Paris, Hult Ashridge, London Business School, AKUSONAM), this is an opportunity for collaboration that you cannot miss.

Change makers from organisations including Aramex, Citi, Al-Futtaim, Amazon.com, Majid Al Futtaim, JPMorganChase are already signed up. Don’t get left behind.

Global Heads and VPs join this event for free. Register now: https://iventiv.com/events/learning-futures/learning-futures-dubai-executive-knowledge-exchange-3?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=NJAE_080926_LFDubai_261027

07/09/2026

Learning Culture has become one of L&D’s biggest ambitions and one of its hardest challenges to pin down.

We know what it can look like: people actively seeking out new skills, sharing knowledge, learning in the flow of work and continually improving performance. But measuring whether that culture truly exists? Global Heads tell us that’s much harder.

And there’s an even bigger question: who is responsible for creating it?

Is it down to employees to take ownership of their development? Is it the organisation’s job to create the right environment? Or does responsibility ultimately sit with L&D?

To explore those questions, we asked 500+ Global Heads of Learning and Talent from some of the world’s largest and most recognisable organisations about their priorities, challenges and investment plans.

One thing came through clearly: Learning Culture is firmly on the agenda.

Our latest State of Learning Culture 2026 Report explores what’s driving that focus, how leaders are defining Learning Culture in practice, the role technology is playing, and the challenges organisations continue to face as they try to turn learning from something people are subjected to into part of how they work.

So, how does your organisation measure up, and who really owns your Learning Culture?

Download the report now and find out: https://iventiv.com/insights/learning-culture-report/download?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=IVPCI_070926

04/09/2026

“Nothing’s too big or too small, they can pick up the phone to me.” ☎️

When we put Learning leaders and expert partners in the room together, we are deliberate about the way we align the conversation. It’s not a hard sell, it’s a conversation between passionate, senior Learning professionals.

And we make that happen by providing genuine, one-to-one guidance for the partners we work with. Every organisation you meet at an iVentiv event, every representative they send, and every topic they lead a conversation on, comes with as much collaboration and guidance as we can provide.

In this video, iVentiv’s Jasmine Mutter shares a little more about the work she does to help iVentiv partners prepare for each Executive Knowledge Exchange.

03/09/2026

When L&D leaders say they’re managing change, what do they mean?

As it turns out, not always the same thing. Change Management is the fifth most cited priority among Chief Learning and Talent Officers, but there’s a lot of variance within that number. Here are five ways that Learning and Talent leaders, quoted from iVentiv interviews and reports, say they’re managing change in their organisations right now 👇👇

1. AI is more than technical skill, it’s disruption management 🫨

Sara Dionne at Comcast argues that “AI literacy has to start coming with change agility.”. As leaders, it’s not just about learning “AI or whatever the technology is, it’s about realising that “now I have to navigate the disruption that’s about to bring.”

2. Unlearning old ways of working 🤷

For Nikhil Shahane, dealing with change as a Learning function is as much about facilitating unlearning as it is learning, because it recognises that “letting go of how you did things in the past is challenging for people.”

3. Changing the Learning function 🛣️

Others like David Goddard (Levy Restaurants) expect change to make L&D’s work with other functions more important, and behaviour change more important than box ticking. With things moving so quickly, he says, “communication and learning can be blended together” while in areas like compliance training Learning needs to move away from approaches “designed to tick a box, not to change behaviour.”

4. Choosing the right changes, not every new trend 💍

Jo O’Driscoll Kearney warns that change can often make leaders reach for every available solution, but she says “in this era of the ‘Great Acceleration,’ bold leadership isn’t about chasing every new trend. It’s about holding steady to what truly matters: a clear purpose, strong values, and a people-first approach.”

5. All of the above? 🌍

For Nigel Paine, teams are going to have to deal with all of these challenges: “It is rare,” he says, “for so many stars to align: the inevitability of AI playing a major role at work, geopolitical instability, changing demographics and changing expectations about work.”

Learning and Talent leaders are all dealing with change. For some, it’s within their organisations, for others it’s in the Learning function, or in the context of their sector and geography. For many, perhaps most, it’s all three.

What unites them though is a willingness to take it on. These leaders aren’t hiding. They’re experimenting, iterating, failing, succeeding, and collaborating.

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