IMPACT! CHOLearning 2026 | The Community's 32nd Annual Conference

Reaching the Summit Together in Learning, Culture, and Community

Human and organizational learning has taken root across industries and around the world. Now it’s time to rise together. IMPACT! CHOLearning 2026 celebrates our Community’s evolution: stronger collaboration, deeper learning, and organizational impact. By listening to our members, we’ve reimagined our conference to create more space for connection, application, and growth throughout a 4-day learning experience. Together, we will examine the critical intersections of learning from events and normal work, sparking growth across all dimensions of enterprise.

Keytopics Include:

Leadership Buy-in & Personal Influence: How do you gain traction with executives while empowering emerging leaders and middle managers? Explore ways to drive influence.

Compliance to Everyday Behavior: Building a culture of learning from everyday work is not checking another box. Participation is not enforcement; it is an invitation to contribute.

Theory Into Practice: Complex frameworks, leading-edge research, and decades-old ideas are distilled into tools and frameworks easy to implement into practice.

Digital Frontiers: Corporate culture, driven by human engagement, drives the development and use of technology to augment and advance the activities of everyday work.

ROI & The Business Case: The practices associated with organizational learning are investments and serve as a strategic advantage in today's market and economic landscape.

The greatest conference for humans by humans will reach new heights in 2026! Join us in shaping the future of learning organizations where every challenge is an opportunity to grow, and every insight fuels lasting success.

This 4-day learning experience includes:

Monday: 2 4-hour workshop blocks

Tuesday: Morning General Sessions & afternoon Breakouts followed by our welcome reception and awards show

Wednesday: Morning General Sessions & afternoon Breakouts followed by various social activities to choose from

Thursday: General Sessions

Groups of 3 or more qualify for a discount. Contact Mary Webb at [email protected] for the discount code.

Location and Lodging Information

Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel,

1550 Court Place, Denver, CO,

80202, (303) 893-3333

Book early to assure you get a room at the conference hotel with the discounted rate:

Attendee block: https://book.passkey.com/go/CHOLAttendee

Government block: https://book.passkey.com/go/CHOLGovernment

To book by phone call (303) 893-3333, and reserve your room under the CHOLearning 32 Annual Conference block.

Will you be a 2026 Community Sponsor?

The direct financial support of these sponsors helps not only in the annual IMPACT! Conference, but in the year round initiatives of The Community.

If you're interested in learning more check out our 2026 Sponsorship Prospectus.

Info: Registration will open at 3pm Sunday 6/21/26

Info: Registration will be on the 2nd floor in the South Convention Lobby

Info: Breakfast will be available to all Conference Workshop registrants from 7:00am - 8am. You must register in SCHED to attend a conference workshop.

Info: We’re excited to welcome you to Denver with some hors d’oeuvres and a no-host bar.

This is your first opportunity to mingle if you’re a newcomer. Or, to take a newcomer under your wing if you’re a return attendee. Community starts on day 1!

Don't forget to wear your badge.

Info: The Community is excited to welcome you to Denver with the Evening Reception and Awards Ceremony on Tuesday evening at 6pm. Guests will experience awards, dinner, drinks, entertainment, and the excitement of meeting new “old friends.”

Thank you to our Community Partner, One Gas, for your support of this event.

During our Welcome Reception...
The Board of Directors is excited to announce the winners of our two competitive award categories, the Vanguard Visionary and the Applied Excellence in Learning Awards. We will also be announcing the secondHall of Fame Class.

Info: Join our Director of Engagement on Thursday morning for the meeting of the Community Running Club. Start your last conference day off right with a casual group run/walk. We’ll start at the hotel and work our way through a fun, all-fitness-level, 1-mile route.

Info: Join us for a real conversation around the "fire pit"; you know, the conversations that inspired our monthly conversations. . Head to dinner first, then come back. Or join us early for a libation and then head to dinner. Either way, embrace the last evening together as a Community!

Info: Don’t miss this unique co-learning opportunity. Currently there are 3 opportunities:
1. Whole Brain Thinking hosted by Mike Blevins
HBDI assessment, personalized profile insights, and Whole Brain Thinking training that helps individuals and teams understand how they think and perform at their best.
2. Resilience Engineering Association Roundtable:
When Systems Set People Up to Fail RaDonda Vaught and Asher Balkin
3. Significant Injury and Fatality reduction working group (Open session)
SIF prevention advances fastest when practitioners come together to challenge assumptions and share what really works. This session invites you to help refine the Six Principles of SIF Prevention and co-create a growing, practitioner-led community within CHOL. Be part of the group moving SIF prevention from discussion to impact.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, 1550 Court Place, Denver, United States

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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