Introducing L&D Launchers 🚀 ~ ATD St. Louis’ New SIG for Instructional Designers Starting April 1st, 2026, (NO JOKE!) 😎
Ready to Think Bigger, Build Smarter, Grow Faster, and Execute Bravely?
If you’re an Instructional Designer who’s ready to level up your craft and your career, ATD St. Louis just launched something built exactly for you.
Meet L&D Launchers — a brand‑new Special Interest Group blending entrepreneurial mindset with instructional design mastery.
And the best part? ATD St. Louis members attend for FREE.
If you’re not a member yet… this is the moment to join. https://lnkd.in/gmaWzjyK
🌟 What Makes L&D Launchers Different?
This isn’t another “tips and tricks” group.
It’s a year‑long professional development arc designed to help new and developing IDs build clarity, capability, and confidence — using a quarterly framework inspired by entrepreneurial classics and aligned to the ATD Talent Development Capability Model.
The program moves through four powerful phases:
🔹 Q1 — THINK: Vision, Role Clarity & ID Identity
You’ll define the Instructional Designer you’re becoming and craft a Professional Development Aim that guides your decisions all year long.
As the document puts it: “Define a clear professional vision as an Instructional Designer… Establish the identity of the ID you are becoming.”
🔹 Q2 — BUILD: Needs Analysis, Assets & ID Leverage
Shift from order‑taker to strategist by mapping your workflow, identifying reusable assets, and choosing your next “leverage experiment.”
The program reframes ID work through an entrepreneurial lens: “Understand ‘assets vs liabilities’ as reusable ID assets (templates, frameworks, systems).”
🔹 Q3 — GROW: Learner Behavior, Engagement & Experience Design
Audit your design habits, reduce cognitive load, and focus on the high‑impact decisions that actually move learners forward.
One of the core prompts: “Which design choices help or hinder learner success?”
🔹 Q4 — EXECUTE: Systems, Habits & Your ID Operating System
You’ll close the year by building your own Instructional Design Operating System (IDOS) — a personal blueprint for how you design, learn, and lead.
The program emphasizes identity‑based habits: “Build identity-based habits that support your Professional Aim.”
🎯 Who Is This For?
New and emerging Instructional Designers
IDs seeking clarity, confidence, and community
L&D pros ready to think like strategists, not order‑takers
Anyone who wants to blend an entrepreneurial mindset with instructional design excellence.
🎁 Why Join ATD St. Louis Now?
Because L&D Launchers is free for members — and it’s one of the most thoughtfully designed, capability‑building programs we’ve ever offered.
If you’re ready to launch your next chapter as an Instructional Designer, this is your runway. https://lnkd.in/gmaWzjyK
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