Learning & Development Is a Defined Discipline. Renaming It Won’t Replace Understanding How People Learn.

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Learning and Development (L&D) is the organizational function and strategic discipline responsible for designing, enabling, and governing systems that build workforce capability, accelerate readiness for role performance, and sustain organizational effectiveness over time. It integrates learning experiences, performance support, career pathways, technology platforms, and measurement to ensure that individuals and teams can reliably perform in …