From Learning to Performance: Essendi's Journey to a Learning Culture that Drives Business Impact.
Wednesday 29 April 2026
LT Seminar Theatre 11
LT Exhibition
The real challenge for L&D today is not delivering learning, it is turning learning into measurable business performance.
Essendi, featuring brands such as Novotel, ibis, Mercure, and Pullman, operates across 22 countries as an owner, investor, and operator managing a portfolio of hotels across Europe. Known for its expertise in asset management and operational excellence, the organisation recognised that sustaining performance in a dynamic hospitality landscape required more than training programmes. It required embedding learning into leadership, curiosity, and the real challenges people face in their work.
In this session, discover how Essendi placed learning at the heart of its transformation. By empowering leaders and connecting capability building directly to operational priorities, learning became a driver of performance and impact across the organisation. Learn how Essendi moved beyond learning activity to create a culture where capability development supports real business outcomes, and what other organisations can take from this journey.
- Participants will learn how to:
- Connect learning initiatives directly to operational performance, ensuring capability development supports real business priorities.
- Engage leaders as active drivers of learning culture, embedding capability development into everyday work rather than separate training activity.
- Move beyond traditional training programmes to create a learning culture that encourages curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Position learning as a strategic lever for transformation, enabling organisations to translate capability building into measurable business impact
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