Make Your Mark: Professional Presence for Talent Development Professionals
Virtual Event
As learning and talent development professionals, we spend much of our time helping others grow, build skills, and achieve their career goals. Yet many of us struggle to intentionally manage our own professional presence and visibility.
Whether you're exploring a career transition, pursuing a new opportunity, building your professional network, or seeking greater influence in your current role, your professional presence shapes how others perceive your credibility, expertise, and potential. It is reflected in how you communicate, build relationships, contribute to the profession, and engage both in person and online.
In this interactive session, participants will explore the key elements of professional presence, assess their current professional brand, and identify practical strategies to increase visibility, strengthen credibility, and position themselves for career growth within the learning and talent development profession.
Join us on July 30, 2026, to discover how intentional actions can help you build trust, expand your network, and ensure your expertise is recognized and remembered throughout your career journey.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify the key elements of professional presence and how they influence credibility, visibility, and career opportunities within the learning and talent development profession.
- Assess their current professional brand across communication, relationships, digital presence, and professional contributions.
- Apply practical strategies to strengthen their professional presence, expand their network, and position themselves for career growth and leadership opportunities.
ATD Capability Alignment
- Career and Leadership Development – Strengthening professional presence to support career growth, leadership opportunities, networking, and professional advancement.
- Emotional Intelligence and Decision Making – Increasing self-awareness of how behaviors, communication, and interactions influence professional reputation and credibility.
- Communication – Enhancing verbal, written, virtual, and interpersonal communication to create trust, influence, and impact.
- Lifelong Learning – Identifying opportunities for continuous growth and development to build and sustain a strong professional brand throughout one's career.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Members: FREE
Non-Members: $20
About the Facilitator:
Rebecca Woodard is a leadership coach and talent development professional with deep experience developing people and programs across healthcare, life sciences, and professional services. As a Certified Master Coach and Facilitator of The Leadership Challenge, she supports professionals at all levels through Challenger, Gray & Christmas, guiding career transitions with confidence, clarity, and purpose.
She specializes in leadership development, career growth and transitions, and change enablement, bringing a supportive, strengths-based lens to every engagement. Today, she works in performance and organizational development for Wellpath. Rebecca previously served on the Advisory Board for Mindful Leader and as Treasurer for PeaceWorks, a local domestic violence shelter. She looks forward to partnering with ATD Nashville to advance its mission of developing professionals.
Rebecca is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Prosci Change Management Practitioner, EQ-i 2.0 facilitator, and holds multiple leadership certifications. She is passionate about creating compassionate, human-centered workplaces where people can learn, grow, and thrive. Rebecca is the Director of Career Strategy for ATD Nashville Chapter.
