Tools to Advance Your Career: Introducing Talent Development Career Pathways

Tools to Advance Your Career: Introducing Talent Development Career Pathways

Description:

Whether you have been in the talent development field for ten months or ten years, planning your next career move can feel daunting. Some people feel stuck, unsure of options. Others have a career goal in mind but are not clear how to achieve it.

Introducing Talent Development Career Pathways, your tool for career inspiration and planning. Developed with L&D career coaches and ATD research, this tool can help you explore the diverse types of work that make up talent development and then take a deeper dive into specific roles. Learn what skills are required and how your current skill profile matches up. 

Join ATD’s Director of Credentialing to explore this new tool. After this session you will be able to:

• Identify the different job families in talent development
• Compare the skill requirements for various roles in talent development
• Use TD Career Pathways to compare how your current skill profile matches that necessary for specific roles
• Discover resources to support your career journey

Speaker Bio:

As director of credentialing for the Association of Talent Development (ATD), Morgean Hirt has more than 30 years of experience in personnel certification and accreditation across a variety of professions. She provides strategic leadership and technical expertise in developing and implementing credentialing programs, focusing on test development, policy and standards development, program audits, strategic planning, and ANSI/ISO 17024 and NCCA accreditation. Believing that standards and certification enhance professionalism and credibility, Hirt has led a number of organizations through establishing industry standards for emerging professions, including clinical research, massage therapy, and mortgage brokering.

Prior to joining ATD, she served as an account executive at MetaCred, a boutique association management firm specializing in managing credentialing programs, and spent 12 years as president and CEO of Certified Fund Raising Executives International Credentialing Board, where she was responsible for establishing international support across six continents for a unified standard of fundraising practice. Hirt is also active with the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE), having served as a member of the research fundraising committee, education committee, and annual conference program committee as well as a presenter at the ICE Exchange.

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The ATD Buffalo Niagara Chapter is pleased to participate in the ATD Mid-Atlantic Regional Webinar Series. This monthly webinar series is offered by the ATD Mid-Atlantic Chapters – Regional Programs Consortium which is comprised of the following ten ATD chapters: 

1. Appalachia
2. Buffalo Niagara
3. Central PA
4. Greater Philadelphia
5. Long Island
6. Maryland
7. Mid NJ
8. New York City
9. Northern NJ
10. Pittsburgh

Cooperatively, these chapters bring together the very best speakers from around all our networks to provide world-class presenters and content!  We look forward to sharing these webinars with you for the rest of 2025!

Online Event Recording Policy:

By activating your webcam while attending this online event, you consent to be recorded. Your entry and webcam activation constitutes your consent to such recording for any purpose in connection with the event. If you do not agree to the foregoing, please do not activate your web camera during the event.

ATD Buffalo Niagara Chapter has been pre-approved by the ATD Certification Institute to offer educational programs that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials. This program qualifies for a maximum of 1 point.