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Yes. No credit card required, no trial period, no catch. Join as an Explorer and stay for as long as you like. You get a tool or template every month, access to L&D Pulse recordings after they air, and view access to the member directory. Upgrade whenever you are ready — or never. There is no pressure either way.
Yes. Monthly memberships can be cancelled at any time with no questions asked. Annual memberships run for the full year but are not auto-renewed without your confirmation. If you cancel a monthly plan, you retain access until the end of your current billing period.
Practitioner gives you full community access, live L&D Pulse sessions, the complete resource and course library, peer discussions, and the AI in My Practice thread. Leader adds everything in Practitioner plus 90-day sprint cohorts (×2/year including the AI strategy sprint), a quarterly leadership translation workshop, a private Leader cohort of 20 professionals, direct messaging with Zubin, and an annual 1:1 strategy deep dive (30 minutes). Leader is for practitioners who want to go deeper and faster.
As much or as little as you choose. The community is always there — you can dip in for 20 minutes or engage deeply every day. The monthly L&D Pulse session is typically 60–90 minutes. Recordings are always available. The 90-day sprint cohorts (Leader tier) are more intensive and time-boxed, but structured so the commitment is clear upfront.
Absolutely. The Learning Leader is a global community with members from 155 countries. Paid memberships are priced in USD and accessible from anywhere in the world via Gumroad. Live sessions are recorded so time zone differences are never a barrier to getting value.
You will receive an email with a personalised invite link to join the community at circle.lndacademy.com. Set up your profile, introduce yourself in the Welcome space, and you are in. Your tier access is activated immediately on joining.
I have spent years at the intersection of management development and learning design — helping organisations build better leaders and helping L&D teams become more strategic.
I built The Learning Leader because I saw a gap. L&D professionals needed more than content. They needed peers, coaching, and a guide who understood both the craft of learning design and the realities of organisational life.
When AI began reshaping the profession, I did not see it as a threat. I saw it as the moment L&D had been waiting for — a chance to move from the back office to the boardroom. From order-takers to architects.
Inside the community, I show up every week — in discussions, in live sessions, in coaching calls. This is not a community that runs itself. It is led.Connect on LinkedIn
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If any of these resonate, you are exactly who this community was built for.
Join Free as ExplorerYou are an L&D professional who wants to think and operate more strategically — not just deliver programmes.
You are navigating the impact of AI on your role, your team, or your organisation — and you want clarity, not anxiety.
You want access to a serious peer network — not a generic LinkedIn group where nothing goes deeper than a poll.
You want practical tools and frameworks you can apply immediately — not theory for the sake of it.
You are ready to invest in your own development as a learning leader — because you know that no one else will do it for you.
You want direct access to someone who has done the work — not just written about it, not just consulted on it, but built it inside real organisations.
Start free and upgrade when you're ready. No pressure, no lock-in.
Explorer
$0
Always free — no credit card required
Practitioner
$19 /mo
or $190/year — 2 months free
Leader
$99 /mo
or $990/year — 2 months free
Organised across three dimensions — Resources, Experiences, and Connection.
Practical assets built for L&D professionals — open, apply, and adapt immediately in your work.
A dedicated track for navigating AI as an L&D practitioner — frameworks, guides, and real-world applications.
Live session with Zubin every month. Practitioners join live with Q&A. Explorers receive the recording after it airs.
A focused quarterly session on navigating AI in your role, your team, and your organisation.
Every 6 months, a structured check-in to reflect on your growth and recalibrate your direction as an L&D leader.
Intensive cohort-based sprints — including the AI strategy sprint. Time-boxed, focused, and built for real progress.
Post, ask, share, and collaborate with L&D professionals worldwide. A real peer network — not a broadcast channel.
Browse and connect with fellow members by role, region, and interest. Explorers can view — Practitioners and Leaders connect fully.
A dedicated space to share how you are using — and navigating — AI in your day-to-day L&D work.
Direct access to Zubin. Bring your real challenges, get direct input. This is the most personal touchpoint in the community.
The Learning Leader is a professional community for L&D practitioners who are serious about their craft and their careers. It is not a content dump, a passive newsletter, or a generic LinkedIn group.
It is a working community — where you think out loud, pressure-test ideas, learn from peers navigating the same challenges, and get direct access to Zubin Rashid, an L&D strategist and management trainer with years of experience building learning capability inside organisations.
Every month there are live L&D Pulse sessions, AI-focused sessions, sprint cohorts, and structured resources — all designed around one question: what does it take to lead L&D in an AI-powered world?
Zubin shows up every week — in discussions, live sessions, and coaching. This community is led.
AI is doing in minutes what used to take days — content creation, needs analysis, programme design. The execution layer of L&D is being automated.
L&D teams are shrinking. The order-taker role is disappearing. The practitioners who survive — and thrive — will be the ones who move to strategy.
Most L&D professionals feel isolated — no peer network, no sounding board, no one who truly gets the complexity of the role. LinkedIn is not enough.
Generic content is everywhere. Practical, strategic guidance — built specifically for L&D professionals navigating an AI-first world — is not.
The Learning Leader was built for this moment. A community where L&D professionals get the strategy, skills, and peer support to not just survive the AI era — but to lead through it.
Where L&D professionals learn to lead in an AI-powered world.
Strategy, skills, and community for the next generation of learning leaders.
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