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AI to LinkedIn: CERIC launches Spring 2026 Learning Season with expert-led webinars
February 11, 2026FREE WEBINAR
LIVE WEBINAR
- Monday, April 20, 2026 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
Overview of the Webinar
Despite growing recognition of career development’s value, many employers’ initiatives remain short-lived. Programs launch with enthusiasm, only to fade when priorities shift, leaders change or funding ends. The issue isn’t a lack of commitment. It’s the absence of infrastructure. Career development professionals often see this first-hand. They are asked to support employers through workshops, tools and frameworks, while the organizational systems required to sustain career development remain unaddressed. As a result, career development remains fragmented, inconsistently applied, or dependent on individual champions rather than embedded into how the organization operates.
Why career professionals should attend
This webinar introduces a systems-level lens for understanding why career development efforts stall and what needs to change. Drawing on a CERIC-funded project delivered in partnership with CACEE, Challenge Factory will share insights from the development of the Internal Career Centre Playbook and Bootcamp, both grounded in their Career Infrastructure Operating System™ (CIOS) and designed to help employers shift from program-based approaches toward building internal career centres that function as part of everyday workforce and business planning.
Using the CIOS as a lens, career development professionals can better identify the structural conditions that shape whether career development can scale and evolve inside organizations.
This free webinar is designed for career development professionals who want to strengthen their advisory role with employers and move from delivering career development activities to influencing the systems that make career development possible.
Webinar Details
Webinar: Why Career Development Fails in Organizations Without Infrastructure
April, 20 2026, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm ET (check your time zone)
Examine why program-based career development efforts consistently fall short for employers
Learn how the CIOS framework helps diagnose structural barriers to sustainability within organizations
Explore how the Internal Career Centre Playbook can be used to support deeper, systems-level change with employers
Identify the role CDPs can play in helping employers foster a culture of internal career development
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Overview of the Playbook
Career Development as Strategy is a CERIC-funded, practical, hands-on playbook designed to help organizations transform fragmented career, learning and talent initiatives into a cohesive internal career centre that drives real results. Rather than treating career development as a perk or isolated program, this guide reframes it as core workforce infrastructure connecting mobility, capability building and long-term business goals. Filled with frameworks, assessment tools and strategic insights, the playbook supports leaders, HR and talent professionals and career practitioners in assessing readiness, building a strong business case and designing effective internal career systems that boost engagement, retention and adaptability across teams and sectors.
Learn more about the playbook
Register for the free Webinar
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Individual rate $159
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Group rate* $127 per person
Meet the presenters
Lisa Taylor helps leaders redesign workforce systems for a world shaped by AI, longer working lives, and accelerating change. As Founder and CEO of Challenge Factory, Lisa works at the intersection of research, policy, and practice to help governments, organizations, and executives confront a hard truth: today’s leadership pipelines and talent systems weren’t built for the conditions they now face.
Her work focuses on fixing Broken Talent Escalators® and rebuilding the structures that connect people, purpose, and productivity at scale. Grounded in the Five Drivers of Workforce Change™, Lisa translates global forces like longevity, technology, and shifting employment relationships into practical strategies leaders can act on immediately.
Lisa has advised national governments, influenced workforce policy, and guided multinational organizations through complex transformation. Her insights have been featured by The Globe and Mail, Forbes, and the OECD’s Future of Work reports, and she is a sought-after keynote speaker for leaders who need clarity, confidence, and direction in uncertain times.
Carli Fink is a Certified Career Development Practitioner (CCDP®) passionate about bringing a contemporary, evidence-based approach to career development. As a Workforce & Learning Consultant with Challenge Factory, she leverages her expertise in career and workforce development, higher education, and curriculum design to help clients create workplaces where people thrive.
With 10 years of experience working at the intersection of education and career development, Carli enables success by catalyzing change at the individual, group, and systems levels. She has advised 1,800+ people on their careers; designed, facilitated, and taught workshops and courses about careers; developed award-winning career tools; scaled programs that engaged hundreds of students; helped academic departments embed career learning into academic programs; and developed the strategy to deliver multi-million dollar workforce development programs for Ontario’s automotive sector. These experiences shape her nuanced understanding of how structures and systems impact people’s learning experiences and career outcomes.
Questions?
Reach out to us at learning@ceric.ca or consult our FAQs page.