Business Skills
Leadership
Workplace Culture
Business Skills
Leadership
Workplace Culture
8
October
at
8 AM PT | 11 AM ET

From Ideas to Action: Bring TED Learning to Life at Work

Discover how new TED resources included with OpenSesame Plus can help you turn inspiring content into meaningful, ready-to-use learning experiences that move ideas into action.

What if a great TED Talk wasn't the end of a learning experience, but the beginning?  Join OpenSesame and TED for a 30-minute session exploring new TED resources now available through OpenSesame Plus at no additional cost. Discover how TED's Ideas into Action framework and ready-to-use facilitated learning resources can help learners move beyond watching content to reflecting, applying, discussing, and putting great ideas into action.  We'll show you how these resources can bring engaging learning experiences to manager development, team meetings, ERGs, leadership programs, virtual gatherings, and more—without requiring your L&D team to build them from scratch.  You'll leave with:  An understanding of the new TED resources available through OpenSesame Plus Practical examples of how other organizations and teams can put them to use Inspiration for creating meaningful individual and shared learning experiences A quick look at how to find and start using the resources right away  You already have access. Come discover what you can do with it.

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Meet the Speakers

Sam Witts
Sam Witts
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Customer Success Manager & Learning Program Advisor, TED@Work

Sam Witts is a Customer Success Manager & Learning Advisor at TED@Work, where he partners with organizations to design high-touch learning experiences that actually move the needle on leadership development. With his MBA and 7 years of experience in organizational leadership development, Sam has worked closely with talent, learning & development, and HR groups across his career, bringing a rare mix of strategic thinking and genuine care to every client relationship. He helps teams strategize the programming, engagement goals, and culture needed to grow their future leaders, with a particular passion for advancing all voices in the workplace. As a facilitator, presenter, and advocate, Sam champions intentional space for developing the durable human skills that make workforces resilient, adaptable, and human-powered.

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Ashley Brown
Ashley Brown
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Manager of Customer Success, OpenSesame

As part of the OpenSesame Customer Success team, Ashley supports customers with achieving and sustaining success with their L&D initiatives. Ashley has spent the majority of career in education (working with both adults and children) and is passionate about helping people achieve their goals through learning and development.

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