Designing Skills That Show Up at Work
Once your skills strategy is set, then comes the hard part: proving business value under real economic pressure and ensuring those skills show up in the moments that matter at work. Artificial intelligence (AI) has made it faster and cheaper to produce more learning content. But more content is not the same as building capability that transfers to real performance. To make a skills strategy pay off, L&D teams need to design practice experiences that mirror real work, provide meaningful feedback and create evidence that skills are being applied.
This interactive panel brings together Dr. Karl Kapp, one of the field’s leading voices on action-first, scenario-based learning; Ben Dyer, an enterprise learning innovation practitioner at Accenture designing immersive experiences at global scale; and Kevin Himmel, COO of The Regis Company, whose SimGate platform helps L&D teams turn simulation and AI into scalable skills practice. Together, they will explore how organizations can move beyond content production and build skills experiences that are practical, measurable and tied to real work.
This interactive panel will explore:
- Practice: How to build skills through application, decision-making and feedback.
- Design: Where L&D teams should focus design effort now that AI has made content easier to produce.
- Scale: How to expand skills readiness while keeping learning tied to the work people actually do.
Speakers
 | Karl Kapp, Professor of Instructional Technology; Founder, L&D Mentor Academy, Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania Karl Kapp is a professor of instructional technology at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as Director of the Institute for Interactive Technologies. He’s the founder of the L&D Mentor Academy and co-founder of Enterprise Game Stack. An award-winning author of multiple books on game-based learning, gamification and microlearning, Karl was named a LinkedIn Top Voice in Education and is a TEDx speaker. He creates courses for LinkedIn Learning and consults globally on the convergence of learning, technology, AI and game thinking. He helps L&D professionals navigate this convergence with rigor, humor and genuine respect for the craft. |
 | Kevin Himmel, Chief Operating Officer, The Regis Company Kevin Himmel is chief operating officer of The Regis Company, where he leads operational and product strategy behind SimGate, a simulation-based skills practice platform built on the principle that completions don’t prove readiness. Kevin partners directly with enterprise L&D leaders at Fortune 100 companies to translate skills strategy into working practice environments that generate behavioral evidence of capability. He’s a frequent collaborator with senior practitioners on the design discipline behind AI-augmented learning, with a particular focus on workflow architecture, feedback loops and what separates real capability building from content production at scale. |
 | Ben Dyer, Learning Innovation and Design, Accenture Ben Dyer leads Learning Innovation and Design at Accenture, where he brings new capabilities and innovation culture to life across the firm’s global learning ecosystem. Over more than a decade as a learning experience designer and instructional design specialist, Ben has worked at the intersection of design discipline, emerging technology, and the realities of building skills inside one of the world’s largest enterprises. He’s a LUMA Institute Certified Practitioner and holds graduate degrees in Applied Philosophy and Philosophy. |