You will:
• Discover how successful practitioners have adapted to 21st century changes by adopting LERN strategies for success
• Learn how others have overcome key challenges, problems and internal resistance to build highly successful lifelong learning programs
• Create an action plan for your program based on the successes of other practitioners
• Take home a conference manual that includes all the presentations, templates and panelists’ “White Papers.”

The 21st Century ushered in many changes that are profoundly challenging and dramatically changing lifelong learning programs. LERN predicted most of these changes and laid out a score of strategic and operational shifts that lifelong learning programs could and should make to not only survive but thrive in the new millennium.

Some programs across North America have readily adopted LERN’s strategies and techniques, and have positioned their programs as among the most successful in the industry.

Others have not adapted as well and continue struggling with the challenges and fighting for survival. The Best Practices Conference is an opportunity for you to hear and learn from a group of North America’s leading practitioners and find out first hand how they have adopted LERN strategies and adapted their programs to the challenges of the day. You will learn how the practitioners overcame institutional resistance; how they chose and implemented key LERN strategies for success; how they have implemented chosen approaches; the results they have achieved; and what they see as the road ahead.