Regional Webinar Event | Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 | 6:00 - 7:15 PM | Online
REGIONAL WEBINAR EVENT
Hosted by the Metro DC Chapter Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
6:00 – 7:15 PM
“Liberating Structures: Unlocking Participation and Learning”
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 Our Presenter
Lee Gimpel | President, Better Meetings
Lee Gimpel helps organizations design and deliver more engaging, connected, and effective trainings, conferences, and retreats. He is the founder of Better Meetings, a Washington, DC-based firm that provides professional facilitation, meeting skills training, and conference design. His work blends adult learning, group facilitation, and human-centered design to strengthen collaboration, capability, and culture.
Lee previously worked at a national training firm and in knowledge management at Capital One. Clients have included the World Bank, U.S. Treasury, Sodexo, and National Association of Realtors. He created the Conference Improvement Kit and produced the Conference Organizers Summit. He leads the DC community of practice for Liberating Structures and serves on the board of the Association of Meeting Professionals. A contributing expert for Forbes, Lee is also widely quoted in other media including USA Today, Convene, MeetingsNet, and The Guardian.
The ATD Mid-NJ Chapter is proud to participate inthe 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:
Cooperatively, these chapters bring together the very best speakers from around all our networks to provide world-class presenters and content! We look forward to sharing these webinars with you for the rest of 2024!
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