Breakfast

Looking Outside - Building the Ecosystems for Talent Pipelines

As workforce challenges mount — driven by demographic shifts, rapid tech advancement, and policy change — leaders must think beyond their own walls to build talent strategies that can weather change. Policy experts and government leaders from across the spectrum will unpack how shifts in federal priorities may affect your workforce, and how to engage with policymakers, learning providers, and community partners to build skilled, future-ready, and resilient talent pipelines.

Concurrent Breakout Sessions

Breakout: How to Grow a Career of Impact

Join us for a candid conversation with one of HR’s most respected leaders. They’ll share how to elevate your profile inside your company and across the industry to drive the outcomes you believe in. From earning a seat at the table to reshaping how the HR function drives business and serves the people inside it, hear hard-won lessons on growing as a leader in today’s shifting landscape and defining your voice. Whether you're early in your exec journey or shaping your legacy, you’ll come away with advice to build a lasting legacy of impact.

Breakout: Sketch Your Blueprint for Strategic Workforce Planning

The real workforce crisis isn’t talent scarcity - it’s misalignment of supply and demand. Join to hear how one leading organization rewrote its approach to workforce planning. Learn how they tapped into overlooked talent sources, used market data to align that talent to future job demand, and even evolved their Guild policies and programs as a result. You’ll walk away with a new blueprint for using labor insights to prioritize investments, build resilient talent ecosystems, and drive real business outcomes, not just check boxes.

Breakout: Tap Hidden Talent with On-Ramps

Too many in-demand roles are going unfilled. Not because talent isn’t out there, but because that talent isn’t job-ready…yet.

On-ramp programs offer a bold solution. They build readiness by helping hidden talent develop the skills to step into in-demand roles.

You’ll hear real examples, swap ideas, and leave with practical ways to use on-ramp programs to turn untapped potential into job-ready talent.

Looking Within - Unlocking Untapped Potential in Your Workforce

As companies look inward to unlock untapped talent, questions about what truly drives mobility are more urgent than ever. Which skills and roles open the most doors? What barriers still hold workers back? And how does educational attainment shape real-world outcomes? Join Guild and Lightcast for fresh research into the state of mobility in the American workforce — and what it could mean for your organization. 

Concurrent Breakout Sessions

Breakout: Breaking Silos to Fund What Matters

Silos are the enemy of impact. Hear from leaders across Learning, Talent, and Total Rewards on how they aligned strategy — and unlocked funding — to direct benefit dollars toward the business’s most urgent skilling needs. You’ll hear how they built a unified vision for talent development, made the case across functions, and moved from parallel efforts to shared outcomes. Walk away with smart questions to ask, and practical ways to build buy-in where it matters most.

Breakout: Growing Leadership Pipelines from Within

Today’s leadership pipelines are broken—built for a workforce that no longer exists. Join this session to challenge outdated ideas of “high potential,” uncover overlooked talent in your organization, and learn how to fast-track the next generation of leaders before your bench runs dry.

Breakout: Put Guild's Mobility Index to Work for You

Take a deeper dive into the newly released Mobility Index with Guild and Lightcast and hear from companies who are driving results for their employees. We’ll help you workshop the data to identify specific ideas you want to implement when you get back home based on what’s worked and failed for others.

Breakout: Skills Retro: What Have We Learned, What's Next?

After years of investment in skills taxonomies and internal skilling programs, what’s actually working for companies who are making progress — and where do we go from here? Industry leaders in the skilling movement will share their lessons learned and value they’ve gained. Then we’ll get into workshop mode: you’ll take stock of your own organization’s approach and think fresh about how learning can drive business strategy and fill discrete skill needs. 

Lunch

Guild Product Vision and Roadmap

Hear how Guild and our partners are innovating to meet the moment with investments ranging from AI-driven talent insights to ways to make critical roles newly accessible. We’ll give you visibility into the ways we can help you see talent differently — and build it for growth. 

Concurrent Breakout Sessions

Product Breakout: What is New & Next in Future-ready Learning

Discover how Guild is innovating its education benefit and Learning Marketplace so that your company can meet business and employee needs at scale — and without compromise. From targeted skilling to AI investments to smarter career pathways, Guild is matching people to opportunity, and helping organizations move forward with confidence.

Expect a look into the latest developments, what’s coming next, and how to build a future-ready workforce.

Product Breakout: How Guild Academy Fixes What Traditional Training Gets Wrong

Too often, training is generic, outdated, or disconnected from the business problems it’s meant to solve. 

Meet Guild Academy — Guild’s newest offering that builds on our Learning Marketplace by helping companies launch cohorted, company-tailored programs. Your employees learn together through interactive peer discussions and videos of your leaders — driving real behavior change, not just participation. 

You’ll see a live demo, get a look at upcoming innovations like credit-bearing programs and AI-powered simulations, and hear how leading companies are using Academy to build high-performing teams.

Product Breakout: Solving Talent Gaps, Locally

Across industries, employers are facing urgent staffing challenges in roles that keep operations running—challenges that require scalable, yet locally rooted learning solutions.

Learn how Guild’s latest innovation will help you grow pipelines for hard-to-fill licensed roles, reduce manual administrative work, and support employee engagement and career growth. You’ll explore how this can become a new tool for your workforce strategy — one that gives your employees access to a meaningful, guided education experience. 

Evening Offsite Party

Breakfast

How Leading Companies Turn L&D Into a Growth Engine

The companies that are seeing outsized results are the ones where CHROs and L&D leaders are aligning learning initiatives with business strategy. We’ll surface actionable data to guide how to rethink metrics, align with the business, and make learning indispensable to the bottom and top line.

CHROs on Balancing Today's Workforce Demands with Tomorrow's Workforce Strategy

As workforce needs evolve and skilling demands rise, CHROs face mounting pressure to deliver business impact through learning—with limited time and resources. In this panel, senior HR leaders share how they’re navigating competing priorities while keeping workforce development aligned to business goals. You’ll leave with practical strategies for influencing the C-Suite, demonstrating ROI on learning investments, and leading confidently in a rapidly changing environment.

Maximizing Your Guild Partnership as a Strategic Talent Engine

Despite investing millions in education benefits, 67% of companies struggle to align these programs with tangible business outcomes. This session reveals how innovative employers have partnered with Guild to transform their education benefit into a strategic talent engine, powering internal mobility, global expansion, and skills-based workforce planning. Leave with a practical roadmap to extract maximum value from your Guild partnership and measurably accelerate your organization's talent development goals.

Lunch

Learning Partner Forum

As learning institutions innovate to connect learning to meaningful career and business outcomes, they're faced with tough trade offs: How do we shorten time to completion without compromising skill development? How do we evolve offerings in real time while maintaining rigor and relevance? Join fellow learning leaders to unpack these tensions and share strategies for balancing speed, quality, and impact in a rapidly shifting educational landscape.