

The L&D Mindset Shift That Changes Everything - Benjamin Wirtz
Subtitle: How to drive engagement in a world where everyone’s tired, distracted, and overwhelmed.
Your employees need to grow as fast as your organisation changes — but in the real world, they’re burned out, busy, and often just trying to keep their heads above water.
How do you get them to invest in learning when it feels like one more thing on their plate?
Drawing on insights from helping hundreds of technical leaders thrive under pressure, we’ll explore how to flip the script on L&D engagement.
You’ll walk away with language, models and examples that will help you rekindle intrinsic motivation – at scale – so your people learn faster, show up stronger, and actually enjoy the process.
Bio:
Benjamin Wirtz is the Managing Director of Scalable Leaders — a company that develops leaders at organisations such as Culture Amp, Google and Bunnings. Benjamin and his team run over 150 live, small-group sessions a year for leaders on 4 continents.
Before founding Scalable Leaders, Benjamin led Product, Design and Engineering teams — consistently boosting team performance by over 30% without adding headcount. Today, he partners closely with L&D and People leaders to replace under-used programs with flexible, next-generation learning experiences that truly move the needle.