Dear Learning Enthusiast,
Learning Technologies 2025 sparked some of the sharpest conversations we’ve seen in a long time — from the future of AI in learning to why skills strategies succeed (or don’t) in the real world.
If you couldn’t catch every session, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up the key themes, social reflections, and standout moments that had everyone talking.
📚 Key Themes from Learning Technologies 2025
This year’s Learning Technologies event left no doubt: L&D is entering a defining era — one shaped by AI, skills, business alignment, and a renewed focus on human-centred learning. Here’s what stood out across the two days:
🔹 Skills Without Strategy Fall Flat
Organisations learned the hard way: launching skills initiatives without a common language, data integration, or business buy-in leads to fragmentation. Skills need to be tied to actual work, validated across sources, and treated as an ongoing ecosystem, not a point solution.
🔹 AI Everywhere — But Learning Is Still Human
From adaptive learning journeys to AI-powered measurement tools, AI is now deeply embedded across L&D. But the distinction between knowledge transfer and true learning became a critical conversation. Speed and access matter — but so do reflection, deep skills development, and human connection.
🔹 The Shift from Compliance to Capability
Sessions challenged organisations to stop focusing on mandatory content and start designing for real business impact. Whether it's linking learning to KPIs or embedding behavioural cues into daily work, the focus is shifting from volume to relevance.
🔹 Performance Over Content
Learning leaders reinforced a powerful truth: training isn’t the end goal — performance is. Sessions pushed beyond traditional content delivery, spotlighting real-time support, AI-driven coaching, and enablement strategies that move with the pace of work.
Solutions like Hive Perform were a standout example — helping sales teams move from generic learning to performance-first strategies by delivering deal-specific, in-the-moment coaching that fits the flow of work. When learning becomes part of doing, results follow.
🔹 L&D's Expanding Role: From Supporting to Leading Transformation
AI disruption, evolving job roles, and the complexity of hybrid work are pulling L&D out of the sidelines. The future is about shaping work itself — redesigning processes, augmenting human capability with tech, and being at the core of organisational strategy, not just learning.
🔹 Mindset Matters More Than Tools
Across sessions, a common thread emerged: technology is an enabler, but mindset is the differentiator. The ability to ask better questions, build human-centred cultures, and embrace experimentation will define the future leaders of L&D.
📣 In Their Words: Session Highlights Shared Across Socials
Real insights, raw reactions. We’ve rounded up some of the sharpest reflections from attendees who were in the rooms where it happened — sharing what resonated most from the sessions that sparked conversations at Learning Technologies 2025.
T2S3 – Talent and Skills
Speakers: Sandra Loughlin (Chief Learning Scientist, EPAM Systems) and Anandi Shankar (Global Head of Learning, Unilever)
L2S1 – Four Questions That Heads of Learning Should Ask But Don’t
Speaker: Nigel Paine (Managing Director, NigelPaine.com Ltd)
T3S5 – Learning Strategy
Chairperson: Henriette Kloots (Senior L&D Consultant, Interlocked)
Speaker: Simon Brown (Partner, Talent, EY)
In Luke Merrick’s recap of the session, one theme that resonated strongly with Hive Perform’s vision was the concept of “learning convergence.”
As Luke highlighted, future AI solutions will need to map skills to real work processes, offering in-the-moment coaching and real-time support to help people perform better—not just learn more.
That’s exactly the principle Hive Perform is built on: turning skills into day-to-day performance gains, not stand-alone learning moments.
🚀 How Hive Perform Is Redefining Sales Enablement for 2025
At LT, Hive Perform’s CEO Laura Keith, alongside Tom Sheepshanks (CRO, Fospha), showed how reimagining enablement can drive serious commercial impact.
Laura (Left) & Tom (Right)
Instead of stacking more training into busy schedules, Hive Perform’s model zooms in on real-world performance. Their sessions offered two major shifts:
Sales Enablement Built on Data Not Content
Laura and Tom broke down how sales teams often drown in generic content that doesn’t move the needle. By connecting CRM and call data, they pinpointed the real friction points across the pipeline — and focused enablement efforts where they matter most. It’s about diagnosing gaps and supporting action, not adding more noise.Real-Time Prep for Real Results
In her solo session, Laura shared a critical mindset change: reps don’t want more practice sessions; they want the tools to prep effectively, fast. Hive Perform delivers deal-specific insights (like customer call snippets and competitor intelligence) directly into workflows, helping reps handle objections, close faster, and sell smarter.
And the results? More MQLs, faster pipelines, stronger performance from new hires — all by making enablement part of the day-to-day, not an extra task.
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