Michelle
Lentz

Upcoming:

• D for Doubt (part 1 of the DUAL series) with Ben Eden, L&D Cares webinar, June 2025

• Critical Thinking & AI: Skills that Make AI Useful, webinar with Clarity Consultants, July 2025

• Inspired Instructional Design: Muppet Magic for Next-Gen Learning, ATD Core4, September 2025

• Moving Right Along: Muppet Wisdom for Tech-Enhanced Learning, Training Magazine’s TechLearn, October 2025

• Humanizing AI Transformation: A Culture-Centered Change Framework for OD Leaders, ATD OrgDev, October 2025

Ongoing:

• Ziplines Executive Education Instructor, AI Prompting, starting in December 2024 with repeating 5-week evening sessions throughout 2025. Courses are for professional development programs at partner universities. 

Previous:

• Partner with AI for Instructional Design, ATD Forum webinar, May 2025

• Bridging AI & Human Potential: Positive Change Management for HR, SHRM Talent 2025, March 2025

• AI & Learning: A 360º View (Panelist, with Elliott Masie, Richard Culotta, and David Farelly), Masie Center Webinar, March 2025
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• TK Solve: AI Beyond the Hype for Real Results (with Josh Cavalier and Joe Leslie), ATD TechKnowledge 2025,
  February 2025

• The Future-Ready Instructional Designer: Thriving in an AI-Powered World, Training Magazine Conference, February 2025

• The Future-Focused ID: Thriving In an AI-Powered World, ATD Core4 Virtual Conference, December 2024

• Kallidus: Will the Results of the US Election Impact Your Next L&D Decision? (Panelist on AI Governance),
  November 13, 2024
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• Learning Guild's Empowering ID with AI Online Conference, October 2024

  1. • • Session: Using AI to Transform Strategic Decision Making

       • Panel: Closing Session: The AI Elephant in the Room

• Design Thinking for AI Prompting, Go1 x Blinkist Webinars, October 2024
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• Gyde.ai Navigate '24: Virtual Summit for L&D Professionals, Panel: Understanding Learner Behavior, September 2024
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• Down the Rabbit Hole: Design Thinking for AI, ATD Houston Empower Talent Conference, September 2024

• Beyond Pixels: Copyright and Ethics in AI and eLearning, Training Magazine's TechLearn 2024, September 2024

• Preparing State and Local Government Workforces for AI Adoption, GovAI SLED Conference, August 2024

• Learning Guild: Bridging AI & Human Potential Through Change Management for L&D, August 2024

• Learning Guild: Down the Rabbit Hole: Design Thinking for AI, July 2024
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• Training Industry: Retention Revolution: Strategies to Make Learning Stick, July 2024
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• Learning Guild: The Future-Focused ID: Your Career In the Age of AI, May 2024 (with Ellen Burns-Johnson)
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• Down the Rabbit Hole: Design Thinking for AI, ATD International Conference & Exposition, May 2024

• Down the Rabbit Hole: Design Thinking for AI, Learning Technologies London, April 2024

• ​elb Learning: Inspired Instructional Design: Lessons from the Muppets, March 2024 (read)
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• Keepin' It Legal: Creative Commons, Copyright, and Free Stuff to Spice Up Your Training, The Learning Guild Learning Solutions, April 2022

• ​Webinar for Minnesota Association of Watershed Districts (MAWD): Lights, Camera, Action: Tips and Tricks for Pre-Recorded Zoom Sessions, October 2020

• ​Fearless Instructional Design: Learning from the Imagination of Jim Henson, ATD TechKnowledge, February 2020

• ​Putting the Human Back in HR, ATD TechKnowledge, February 2018

• ​Keynote: Keepin' It Legal: Creative Commons, Copyright, and Free Stuff to Spice Up Your Training, Atlanta Conference and Exposition (ACE), ATD Atlanta, May 2014

• ​ATD TechKnowledge 2014, Las Vegas, February 2014

  1. Keepin’ It Legal: Creative Commons, Copyright, and Free Stuff to Spice Up Your Training

  2. Pragmatic Principles of Mobile Design

• ​eLearning Guild DevLearn, Las Vegas, NV, Nov 2013:

  1. Fearless Instructional Design: Learning from the Imagination of Jim Henson

  2. Creative Commons and Open Source: Free Stuff for Your Training

• eLearning Guild mLearnCon, San Jose, CA, June 2013:

  1. Keepin’ It Legal: An Introduction to Copyright and Creative Commons for Mobile

  2. Closing Session Panelist

• Training 2013 Conference, Orlando, FL, Feb 2013:

  1. Keepin’ It Legal: An Introduction to Copyright and Creative Commons

  2. Instructional Design for Mobile Devices

• Social Media Policy and Training, eLearning Guild DevLearn, Las Vegas, Nov 2012

• Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth: How to Apply the Cloud for Learning, ATD New York City Metro Chapter, August 2012

• Designing for Multiple Devices, eLearning Guild mLearnCon, June 2012

• Webinar: Copyright and Fair Use: Keepin’ It Legal! ATD Alaska, May 2012

• Webinar: Yours, Mine, & Ours: Copyright & Creative Commons in Training and Education, eLearning Guild Online Forums, April 2012

• Yours, Mine, & Ours: Copyright & Creative Commons in Training and Education, ATD TechKnowledge, Feb 2012

• eLearning Guild DevLearn, Las Vegas, NV, Nov 2011:

• • One-day workshop/certificate program: Engaging with Enterprise Social Media as a Learning Professional

  • Concurrent Sessions:

    1. Letting It All In: Social Media & Policy in Your Workplace

    2. You Say You Want a Revolution: Content Strategy Across Connected Devices

    3. Yours, Mine, & Ours: Copyright & Creative Commons in Training and Education

• One-day workshop: Introduction to Social Media in Learning, Enterprise Learning! Conference and Expo, Anaheim, CA, Sept 2011

• ​eLearning Guild mLearn, San Jose, CA, June 2011:

• 1. Secrets of Code: All About QR and Short Codes

  2. mLearning MOSH Pit speaker

  3. mLearning Future Zone speaker

• ​Creating Your Social Media Policy, Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, April 2011

• ​eLearning Guild Learning Solutions 2011, Orlando, FL, March 2011:

• 1. Advanced Twitter: Twitter for Business

  2. Keepin’ It Legal: An Introduction to Copyright and Creative Commons

• ​Writers UA 2011, Long Beach, CA, March 2011:

• 1. Introduction to Blogging for Business

  2. On the Job Twittering: Making it Work for You

• ​One day workshop: Social Media 101, Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH,  bi-monthly starting March 2011 through 2012

• ATD TechKnowledge 2011, San Jose, CA, Feb 2011:

1. 1. Social Media 101: An Introduction to the Tools You Keep Hearing About (1 Day Workshop)

   2. Beyond Search: Leveraging Google Tools for Learning

   3. TK Talks (with Cammy Bean): talk show platform held for duration of conference

   4. Conference Planning Committee (2nd year)