Trusted Learning Advisor for Teams -
Harness Thinking
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Absolutely. While the program isn’t about facilitation techniques per se, it’s very relevant for facilitators. The FocusU FACETS framework is a powerful workshop design tool that can help them sharpen how they structure learning experiences. Beyond design, facilitators often need to go deeper than surface-level requests — understanding real business goals and learner challenges so their sessions land with stronger relevance. This program also strengthens their ability to contextualize learning for different audiences, keep delivery engaging, and connect facilitation outcomes to impact measures. In other words, it equips facilitators to not just run workshops, but to make them matter more within the organization.

We aren’t restricting participants by industry. In fact, part of the value comes from cross-industry exposure — seeing how peers in different contexts solve similar challenges. That said, we expect the majority of participants to be L&D professionals from various corporate setups, so the conversations will stay relevant.

While the core content is the same for all participants, we’ve built in plenty of scope for contextualization: pre-program survey (so the facilitator can weave in common challenges), structured Q&A, and peer discussions where people apply concepts to their own contexts. Participants will also work on their own live stakeholder challenges during the sessions, so it won’t be abstract theory.

The FocusU Trusted Learning Advisor Program builds on 15 years of experience designing and delivering customised interventions for over 800 clients across industries and geographies, including several Brandon Hall award-winning interventions. We spend most of our time with L&D teams across organizations and deeply understand their on-ground struggles and realities, some of which may be more pronounced in Indian contexts, which is what has shaped this offering. To enhance the value even further, we will also have a Senior L&D practitioner from industry joining in, so participants get both the benefit of our internal experience and an external L&D veteran perspective. This workshop — thoughtfully designed alongside our expert partner — is our way of giving back to the community by addressing common challenges we repeatedly hear from them. Link to ‘view our work’ on website

The program will be led by Arun Rao, co-founder of FocusU. Arun has 15+ years of experience facilitating senior leadership programs across industries and geographies, and is the creator of the FACETS framework for impactful workshop design. He has worked with organizations like Asian Paints, Pepsico, HP, and the British Council, and is known for blending practical business insight with experiential learning.

The venue details will be shared with you closer to the dates of the session. We’ll ensure you have ample advance notice to plan logistics.

Post attending the workshop, all participants are invited to join the Performance Consulting Circle community. We are a band of believers who are passionate about recasting the role of L&D in organizations.

In short: we’ll move participants from “order takers” to trusted advisors.

• Day 1: Understanding where you stand today as an L&D professional, diagnosing stakeholder needs beyond the surface request, and practicing stakeholder empathy mapping to craft conversations in ways that matter to them.
• Day 2: Structuring conversations to uncover real business goals, linking design decisions to impact, and measuring what matters (without overengineering).

Across both days, you’ll use practical tools (like action mapping, the FACETS design framework, and impact planning with Kirkpatrick levels & the Balanced Scorecard framework), apply them to your real challenges, and get peer and facilitator feedback.

The TLA program goes beyond design frameworks to tackle the biggest challenge that we’ve learned L&D professionals face on ground—earning trust & credibility and influencing decision-making with business stakeholders. Through experiential activities, application-focused role plays and case studies, practical tools, reflective, contextualised discussions, and an exhaustive reference guide to take back to work, it equips participants to understand stakeholders and what they care about, how to reframe discussions to make them see value, dig deeper skillfully to make them feel understood, align learning with business strategy, and demonstrate measurable impact—helping them be seen as true strategic partners.

Because the group size is limited, we offer more in-depth discussions and Q&A opportunities for focused challenges, and our experienced lead facilitator and L&D expert guide learners through specific challenges and provide nuances and valuable insights, offering a degree of flexibility and personalization.

Yes. All participants will receive a digitally sharable certificate of completion via email after the program. This can be showcased on professional platforms like LinkedIn or included in internal talent development records.