Measuring Learning Impact When You Don't Have a Data Team with Traci Cantu, MHRM, CPTD

ATDps: November 2026 Member Event

You're being asked to "prove impact" with no analyst, no dashboard, and no time. Welcome to modern L&D.

In this session, you'll learn a practical, step-by-step way to measure learning impact using what you already have: existing business data, targeted manager input, and a few simple metrics that actually travel well in leadership conversations.

You'll leave with an understanding of frameworks to help you define the right questions, pick defensible measures, and build evaluation into your design from day one. If you're tired of reporting completions and praying people assume it worked, let's start building a measurement approach you can use Monday morning.

Learning Objectives

• Translate a training request into measurable performance questions tied to business outcomes.
• Identify 3-5 "good enough" metrics using existing operational data, even when systems are messy.
• Use lightweight manager feedback methods to validate behavior change without "survey theater," and build evaluation into the design upfront so measurement isn't a frantic afterthought.

Our guest:  Tracie Cantu, MHRM, CPTD

Tracie Cantu, MHRM, CPTD is Chief Learning Strategist at Your CLO and an enterprise learning and workforce capability executive with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations rethink how people build skills, perform, and grow as work changes.

Her career includes senior leadership roles at Meta, Atlassian, Whole Foods Market/Amazon, and The Aspen Group, where she has led enterprise learning operations, technology, workforce capability, and organizational transformation. Her work focuses on the intersection of business strategy, workforce development, operating models, and emerging technology.

Tracie is the author of “Running L&D Like a Business: Drive Value with Learning Operations.” She speaks internationally and appears regularly at learning, HR, and EdTech conferences across North America and Europe. Her writing has appeared in publications including TD Magazine, Learning Solutions, Federal News Network, and other industry publications.\

Impacting Organizational Capability, Future Readiness, Change Management, Developing Professional Capability, 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.