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Skills Reports Related to Learning Professionals
A reading list of recent industry research (2024 to 2026), ordered from most to least directly about the skills of learning professionals. Our Future Skills survey sits alongside this work; none of it asks practitioners what skills they believe they need next, which is the gap our research addresses.
Directly About Learning Professionals' Skills
Donald H Taylor
3,797 L&D professionals across 105 countries. Established patterns breaking down; AI interest peaking.
Offbeat
How learning professionals are navigating hiring, progression, anxiety, and what sustains the work.
RedThread Research
300+ L&D professionals surveyed; 39 future skills mapped across seven categories.
ATD
The association's framework of capabilities talent development professionals need; basis of its ongoing research.
The Access Group
How AI, adaptation, and the skills revolution are changing what L&D teams must be able to do.
Workplace Learning & Talent Development Trends
LinkedIn Learning
L&D leaders and learners on career development, AI integration, and the skills crisis.
Udemy Business
Enterprise learning data: surging AI fluency demand balanced with human and interpersonal skills.
ATD
Annual talent development spending and activity benchmarks from 539 organizations.
The Josh Bersin Company
Research across 800 organizations on AI reinventing the $400B corporate training market.
Burning Glass Institute
With the Skills-First Workforce Initiative; labor-market analytics on the skills AI fluency actually requires.
Broader Workforce & Durable Skills Context
America Succeeds
Update on the high demand for durable skills, with Lightcast labor-market data.
Pathsmith · America Succeeds
The Durable Skills Advantage framework and skills wheel for developing durable skills.
Lightcast
Demographic Drought series; building a future-ready workforce against the looming labor shortage.
World Economic Forum
Global employer survey projecting 39% of key job skills changing by 2030.
Coursera
Platform data on the fastest-growing skills: GenAI, cybersecurity, and data ethics.