6-Week Boardroom Alignment Sprint

Boardroom Alignment Sprint

Commercial confidence and strategic influence for L&D leaders

How well do you understand the business decisions shaping your L&D priorities?

To influence senior conversations, you need more than a strong learning solution. You need to understand how your organisation creates value, where performance is under pressure, and when learning can genuinely help.

The Boardroom Alignment Sprint is a six-week, practical programme for L&D leaders who want to think more commercially, ask better questions and contribute with confidence to conversations about business performance.

You’ll learn through CLO100’s Bamboo Nest business simulation. Faced with falling margins, changing customer behaviour and competing priorities, you’ll explore how to read the business context, look beyond a request for training and make a credible case for L&D’s contribution.

You do not need to bring a live project. You’ll practise with a shared case and leave with tools you can apply in your own organisation.

What you’ll learn:

By the end of the sprint, you’ll be able to:

• Identify the commercial pressures and strategic priorities behind senior decisions.
• Distinguish a training request from the underlying business or performance problem.
• Connect L&D activity to growth, efficiency or risk using the Strategic Alignment Cascade.
• Explain learning’s value in language that resonates with business stakeholders.
• Ask more effective questions before recommending a solution.
• Build an evidence-informed case for action, including the potential Cost of Inaction.
• Respond to common executive challenges with greater clarity and confidence.

How the sprint works:

14 January — Welcome and Context Briefing, 90 minutes live on Zoom
Meet the cohort, explore the 'Bamboo Nest' case and get familiar with the commercial questions you’ll tackle throughout the sprint.

21 January — Commercial Alignment Lab, half-day live on Zoom
Work through the business strategy, commercial pressures and performance challenges in the case. Practise using the Strategic Alignment Cascade to identify where L&D could and could not, make a difference.

Weeks 2–5 — Weekly Boardroom Briefs (in accountability groups)
Complete four short, guided case challenges, each designed to take around 30–45 minutes. You’ll practise interpreting business information, diagnosing a problem, reframing an L&D response and making a case for action. You'll work in accountability groups and use the CLO lounge (an online digital hub) to share your ideas and output. 

25 February — Impact Clinic, 90 minutes on Zoom
Test your thinking, practise responding challenges and explore how to use the tools in your own organisation going forward. 

You’ll also receive a physical workbook, Bamboo Nest case materials, access to the CLO Lounge for three months, and a Take It Back to Work guide. The tools draw on CLO100’s Boardroom Alignment Blueprint, including the Strategic Alignment Cascade, Translation Matrix, Cost of Inaction worksheet and V.A.L.E. framework.

Who it’s for:

Heads of L&D and senior L&D managers who want to understand their business more deeply and have more confident, commercially grounded conversations with senior stakeholders.

Investment:

• CLO100 members: £600 + VAT
• Non-members: £750 + VAT (includes three months of CLO100 membership)

Ready to bring a stronger commercial perspective to your L&D role? Reserve your place on the Boardroom Alignment Sprint.