ATD Puget Sound Chapter upcoming events

Win Anyway: How High-Performing Teams Maintain Consistency In Times of Uncertainty (December 08, 2026)

Tue, 08 Dec 2026 20:00:00 GMT

ATDps: December 2026 Virtual Member Event

Win Anyway: How High-Performing Teams Maintain Consistency In Times of Uncertainty

With

MJ Pittman

Every team eventually faces a stretch where the future looks uncertain: budget cuts, reorgs, market shifts, or a crisis nobody saw coming. The difference between teams that freeze and teams that move forward comes down to belief.

In this high-energy, research-backed session, MJ Pittman shares the Win Anyway framework: three core beliefs high-performing teams use to stay consistent, take action, and win when conditions turn against them. Drawing from work with over 300 organizations, including JPMorgan Chase, John Maxwell Leadership, and Rutgers University.

The session opens with an interactive exercise on control versus no-control, moves through the three beliefs with real stories and frameworks, and closes with a written one-week action commitment. It is substantive, educational, and promotes no product or service.

What you'll leave with

an ability to identify the three core beliefs high-performing teams use to stay consistent under pressure

apply a repeatable framework for turning setbacks into forward progress, and

commit to one concrete action they can take within a week

Our guest:

MJ Pittman is a leadership speaker, executive coach and author who helps organizations navigate uncertainty together. With a background in engineering, finance and sales, MJ brings the rare combination of analytical rigor and human warmth to every room he enters. MJ's humor, frameworks and practical insights has earned him the trust of hundreds of organizations around the world who desire to grow, adapt, and perform under pressure.

Career & Leadership Development, Change Management, Emotional Intelligence & Decision Making

Registration:

Pre-Registration - Members attend at no charge. There is no walk in availability. Pre-registration is mandatory.

Pre-Registration - Non-Member $20.00. There is no walk in availability. Pre-registration is mandatory.

We are not able to issue refunds after the Friday prior to the meeting. Substitutions are encouraged.

Making Learning a Strategic Driver with Amy Casebolt and Amanda Klein (December 09, 2026)

Wed, 09 Dec 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Employee Learning Week Special Program

Making Learning a Strategic Driver

with Amy Casebolt and Amanda Klein

At Community Health Plan of Washington, Amanda and Amy are a mighty team of two on the Learning Team. They are always looking for ways to make learning the strategic driver to directly impact business outcomes. Amanda attended an ATD National Conference a few years ago and came away with an idea that she made into a tool that helps her and Amy do this with every leader in the organization. This is their story. In this presentation, you'll get a chance to practice using the tool, and we'll send it home with you to use in your organization!

In this workshop, participants will:

Practice using a tool that guides you through the main points in helping leaders identify: their next business outcome, the one KSA that will directly impact achieving that outcome, and then lend your expertise as an L&D practitioner to help them identify how their direct reports can master that KSA.

Our guests:

Amy Casebolt enables employees with the "how" to build and practice new skills! With a belief that learning is power and grounded in the basics of needs analysis, content creation and learning effectiveness measures, she provides a positive and fulfilling employee learning experiences that are simple, useful, and scalable to every employee in the organization. With an MA in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Amy brings her five years of experience to Learning Program Management including Onboarding and Mentoring.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-casebolt/

Amanda Klein translates organizational strategy into learning programs that drive business results. She has special expertise in leadership development and coaching, transformation of learning and organizational culture, conflict resolution, and communication. Amanda has an MBA, a BA in Education, Hudson Institute coaching certification, and over 20 years' experience in workplace learning. She has served on the Board of Directors for the ATD Puget Sound Chapter and as a speaker at the ATD International Conference.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandakleinmba/

Career & Leadership Development, Coaching, Consulting & Business Partnering, Future Readiness,Communication, Collaboration & Leadership

Registration:

Pre-Registration - Members attend at no charge. There is no walk in availability. Pre-registration is mandatory.

Pre-Registration - Non-Member $20.00. There is no walk in availability. Pre-registration is mandatory.

We are not able to issue refunds after the Friday prior to the meeting. Substitutions are encouraged.

Special Instructions:

Instructions to attend the virtual meeting will be included in your confirmation email and on the reminder email the day prior to the program. Please save these instructions. Real time assistance is not usually available.

Hold That Thought (Literally): Using Your Brain and Body to Make Learning Stick (December 11, 2026)

Fri, 11 Dec 2026 20:30:00 GMT

ATDps: December 2026 Virtual Member Event

Hold That Thought (Literally): Using Your Brain and Body to Make Learning Stick

with Baelaya Berendsen

Ever run a great session and realize a week later that most of it didn't stick? Before the year wraps and 2027 planning kicks in, spend an hour on the neuroscience of learning, using your hands as much as your head.

You're probably already using more brain science than you realize. This session names it, then adds the piece most programs leave out: the body.

You'll grab whatever's on your desk, experience what overload actually feels like, and swap ideas with peers in your role (coaching, facilitation, instructional design, or talent development) for making your programs more hands-on. First pilot in the ATDps mentor program.

Takeaways: a clear picture of where learning gets lost between hearing something and remembering it; why giving people too much at once backfires; the research on why involving the body helps memory; fresh ideas from people doing your kind of work; and a role-specific job aid you'll keep using long after the session.

What you'll leave with quick wins you can use tomorrow:

Feel cognitive overload in your own hands, and never build a crowded slide the same way again
An easy swap for your next session: trade a stretch of lecture for something hands-on, like asking learners to gesture or use an object (research links gesture to longer-lasting learning)
A one-page job aid for your role, with a quick check to run before your next session, module, or program
A simple model of how attention, working memory, and long-term memory work, so you can design with them instead of against them
Steal-worthy ideas from peers in your exact role

Our guest:

Baelaya Berendsen is an APTD-certified L&D facilitator who's endlessly curious about how people actually learn, and why so much of it fades by Friday. Her years at LinkedIn, Salesforce, Quantcast, and DocuSign taught her how to make hard-to-measure work matter to leaders, so she designs learning that sticks and measures whether it did. She designs and facilitates hands-on, neuroscience-grounded sessions, from ESL classrooms at King County Library System to a senior business class at Seattle Pacific University, where she was a guest facilitator.

http://linkedin.com/in/baelaya

Learning Sciences, Instructional Design, Training & Delivery.

Registration:

Pre-Registration - Members attend at no charge. There is no walk in availability. Pre-registration is mandatory.

Pre-Registration - Non-Member $20.00. There is no walk in availability. Pre-registration is mandatory.

We are not able to issue refunds after the Friday prior to the meeting. Substitutions are encouraged.