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  • Scrappy Design & Smart Shortcuts

    Budget constraints. Tight deadlines. Limited tools. Time for some Scrappy Design!   Most L&D professionals face resource challenges, especially when you might be new to the field or working in ... Read more

  • What We Wish Stakeholders Knew About Learning

    "Just turn the PowerPoint into an eLearning course."   If only stakeholders knew... If you've heard requests like these, you're not alone. One of the biggest challenges in L&D isn't ... Read more

  • The Skills We Didn’t Know We Needed In L&D

    Remember when being good at developing elearning felt like enough?   The L&D profession has changed significantly, and the skills that make you effective today might look very different from ... Read more

  • Gifts for the Person in My Life and Holiday Party

    It's that time of year again and our annual Coffee Chat holiday party is back! For the fifth year running, we're gathering to celebrate the season, share gift ideas, and just enjoy each other's company. This isn't your typical professional development session. It's a chance to relax, have fun, and connect with other L&D professionals ... Read more

  • The Best Thing I Learned in 2025

    As 2025 comes to a close, it's time to reflect on what we've learned - both professionally and personally.   Our last coffee chat of 2025 is all about sharing the insights, skills, and experiences that made a difference in your year. Maybe you finally cracked the code on stakeholder communication, discovered a tool that ... Read more

  • Show and Tell: Your Best L&D Resources

    Get ready for the L&D Resource Swap 2026!   This Coffee Chat is where your desire to learn something new meets the collective wisdom of the Learning Rebels community. Here, ... Read more

  • Practice What We Preach: Building Your Learning Habit

    Building Your Learning Habit   Let's be honest with each other - we're L&D professionals who spend our days designing learning experiences and advocating for development. But when it comes to our own learning? It somehow always ends up at the bottom of the to-do list. It's not that we don't care. We've got the ... Read more

  • Getting Strategic About Growing Your Knowledge

    Here's the trap we fall into as L&D professionals: we try to learn everything.   New authoring tool? Better learn it. Someone mentions personalized learning? Better research it. AI drops a new feature? Add it to the list. Meanwhile, we're stretched thin across a dozen surface-level skills with no real depth in anything. Are we ... Read more

  • Building Your Personal Brand as an L&D Professional

    We talk a lot about increasing L&D's visibility within the business. But what about your own visibility? Your personal brand?   For many L&D professionals, this feels uncomfortable. Self-promotional. Maybe even gross. We got into this field to help others, not market ourselves. And there's this question: should personal branding even be a priority? The ... Read more

  • Networking Like a Human!

    Building and Nurturing Your Professional Network You've built your personal brand. People know what you stand for. Now comes the part that makes a lot of us cringe: actually connecting with people. Let's be honest—networking often feels transactional. Awkward. Like you're using people to get ahead. You exchange LinkedIn connections and then... nothing. You've got ... Read more

  • See It Differently, Solve It Better: Creative Problem Solving

    See It Differently, Solve It Better: Creative Problem Solving   Same problem. Same team. Same stakeholder who wants "just a quick course." And somehow, you're expected to come up with something different than what you did last time. Sound familiar? Here's the thing. It's not that L&D professionals lack creativity. It's that we get locked ... Read more