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Storytelling can help learning and development professionals create and deliver more engaging and effective training.  Robyn Shumer, a global lead with Johnson & Johnson’s Mental Health Diplomats Employee Resource Group, shares how telling a personal story can inspire and educate learners.

Training Industry has named d’Vinci Interactive to its 2023 Top Training Companies™ Watch List for Custom Content Development. 

d’Vinci Interactive is an award-winning custom eLearning solutions provider that develops training solutions that empower learning audiences to improve quality and boost performance.

d’Vinci Interactive will be recognized for serving as a Mentor in Residence at the David W. Fletcher Incubator + Labs at Hagerstown Community College during the first Hagerstown Startup Week.

Team members from d’Vinci were chosen to lead educational seminars at the event on federal funding opportunities and best practices to retain and grow clients.

“We are excited about the business environment in the greater Hagerstown region and honored to continue providing mentorship to new technology-focused startups in the David W. Fletcher Incubator.”

Most L&D professionals measure training after it’s over but what if you could predict the success of a learning program in advance? Author Ken Phillips, CEO of The Phillips Group, shares how predictive learning analytics can change the learner’s experience and the outcomes for an organization.

Created in partnership with parent company, JPL, d’Vinci has a new experiential lab to inspire clients and team members to use experiential technologies to create more impactful learning.

Mandated reporters are people required by law to report suspected instances of child abuse. To know how to do this, they need training. 

Creating a successful mandated reporter learning experience is an ever-evolving process when you use research to improve its effectiveness. Our guest, Dr. Benjamin Levi, is the founder of iLookOut for Child Abuse and shares how his passion for continuous learning helps make effective training that keeps kids safe.

To create and disseminate knowledge about best-in-class risk management practices, d’Vinci developed the StoneX eLearning Risk Management Academy as an educational resource for grain origination and merchandising.

The StoneX eLearning Academy gives learners and their organizations certification that helps ensure long-term operational success in the grain industry.

Did you know that there are more than 1,000 LMS vendors from which to choose? With all these options, selecting the right LMS for your organization can feel like an impossible task. But it doesn’t have to be.  

Today’s instructional designers come from a variety of professional backgrounds and those past experiences can be a strength in how they approach L&D. In this episode, Authors Megan Kohler and Chris Gamrat share lessons from stories in their new book, The Multidisciplinary Instructional Designer: Integrating Specialized Skills into Design Toolkits.

Learner engagement is more than a learner’s interactions during the training. It begins before the learning experience and continues after it's over.  Training and Learning Manager Tiffany McLean, from law firm Warner Norcross + Judd LLP, shares some ways to increase learner engagement to improve training results.