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What We Do

ASTD provides resources for learning and performance professionals—research, analysis, benchmarking, online information, books, and other publications. 

These include:

  • State of the Industry Report – analyzing learning investments and practices annually
  • Benchmarking Forum – convening private and public sector organizations from around the world
  • T+D magazine – keeping readers up-to-date on the latest ideas, trends, and best practices
  • Books – publishing and distributing more than 200 of the best titles on training, e-learning, and performance improvement topics
  • Infoline series – giving short, practical “lifelines” on a range of subjects
  • Learning Circuits – offering online news and features about
    e-learning
  • Buyers Guide – providing a searchable database of products and services


We bring people together—in conferences, workshops, and online

  • International Conference & Exposition – serving the needs of the worldwide community of workplace learning and performance professionals
  • ASTD TechKnowledge® Conference and EXPO – focusing on
    e-learning and the use of technology
  • Conferences covering hot topics such as Outsourcing Learning (presented by ASTD and TrainingOutsourcing.com) and “Telling Ain’t Training”
  • Nearly 140 local chapters in the U.S. and 25 Global Networks around the world
  • Online discussion forums – bringing colleagues together virtually


We offer professional development opportunities for learning and performance practitioners:

  • Individual Certification – the Certified Professional in Learning and Performance™ (CPLP) credential. ASTD’s 2004 landmark competency study—“Mapping the Future: Shaping New
    Workplace Learning and Performance Competencies”—laid the groundwork for the ASTD Certification Institute’s pilot certification program for individual professionals in 2005 and full program launch in 2006.
  • HPI Certificate Program – offering a certificate from completing a five-course program in the fundamentals of Human Performance Improvement (HPI)
  • Business Academy Certificate Program (in partnership with the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management) – giving practitioners deeper knowledge of key business core competencies
  • Training Certificate Program – helping practitioners learn what’s needed from trainers today and how to shape their career for the future
  • Designing Learning Certificate Program – complete workshop for designing outcome-based training
  • ROI Skill-Building Certificate Program – two-day program emphasizing the Phillips ROI Methodology and application of the ROI Process Model
  • Measuring and Evaluating Learning Certificate Program – comprehensive three-day program addressing the critical aspects of evaluation
  • E-Learning Instructional Design Certificate Program – providing participants with theory, practice, and application techniques of e-learning instructional design (in conjunction with Michael Allen,
    creator of Authorware and founder of Allen Interactions)
  • ASTD Job Bank and career resources in the online Career Center


We are the voice of the profession:

  • The workplace-based view on public policy inside the U.S.
  • Provide the media with insight into the trends affecting workplace learning and performance
  • Collaboration with associations, organizations, and educational institutions around the world

We recognize excellence and set the standard for best practices:

  • Advancing ASTD Awards – recognizing individuals and teams for their contributions to the goals and vision of ASTD
  • Advancing Workplace Learning and Performance Awards – honoring individuals for their thought leadership in and advocacy for the profession
  • ASTD BEST Awards – honoring organizations that demonstrate enterprise-wide success as a result of employee learning and development
  • Excellence in Practice Awards – recognizing results achieved through practices, interventions, and learning solutions from the entire field of workplace learning and performance
  • ROI Impact Study Award and ROI Measurement and Evaluation Award – recognizing excellence in measurement and evaluation