In today’s rapidly changing work environment, L&D practitioners are tasked with inspiring growth while navigating new technologies, shifting contexts, and human complexity. Amidst the changes, our core human needs —safety, belonging, autonomy, and meaning—remain constant.
In this 90-minute experiential session, Colleen Bertrand brings her expertise as a yoga teacher, burnout recovery coach, facilitator, and OD practitioner to guide you through a practical and embodied approach to designing learning spaces that are both tech-savvy and deeply human.
Who is this session for? L&D delivery, designers, and leaders who seek to balance the human side of our ever-expanding technology-driven world.
In this session you will:
- Cultivate self-leadership by practicing body-based tools to regulate your nervous system, build resiliency, and show up with authentic presence.
- Learn a human-centered design process that balances the gifts of high-tech learning technology (including flexibility, accessibility, personalization, metrics & analytics) with the challenges it presents to human physiology and psychology.
- Apply what you learn by workshopping real-world design challenges with peers.
To provide a felt sense of these tools, she will weave in live feedback, accessible somatic practices, breakout groups, and others into this in-person session. She’ll also explore ways to foster human connection and attention across settings, including hybrid, virtual, and asynchronous ones. Attendees will leave with direct experience of the tools, plus a resource guide and design flow chart to continue their learning.
Meet the Presenter:
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Colleen Bertrand
Colleen supports individuals, teams, and organizations in achieving their goals while honoring the realities of human physiology and psychology. Her work integrates performance with well-being—ensuring that progress doesn’t come at the expense of people. Her unique approach to designing learning experiences foster connection, attention, and motivation.
- MBA from Case Western Reserve University
- Executive Certificate in OD Consulting and Change Leadership from Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership
- Certifications with Yoga Alliance and the Tiny Habits® Academy
Thank you to our Sponsor
Agenda
(Live poll open until 5:30)
5:30 - 6:30 Light Dinner
6:30 - 7:50 Program
7:50 - 8:00 Close
Directions
Southco Corporate and Americas Manufacturing Headquarters:
210 N. Brinton Lake Rd. Glen Mills, PA 19331
(If you have trouble locating it with a GPS, try switching the city to Glen Mills and the zip code to 19342)
Notes for pulling in:
Do not enter at the shipping entrance, please be sure to use the main entrance, which is marked with a stone sign that says "Southco, Inc. Global Headquarters".
When you pull up to the gate it will be closed. Please press the red button on the panel and tell the receptionist your reason for entering.
When you pull into the driveway, on your immediate right is the visitors parking lot. After parking, simply cross the crosswalk and enter the building at the Visitors entrance.