NYC Meet Up #16 - L&D's AI Moment: Solving the IC Development Crisis with Better Questions

​About the Event

​AI is reshaping the role of individual contributors. ICs can now do more on their own than ever before. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity for L&D: to shift your focus from only developing managers to equipping ICs with the influence skills that drive retention, accelerate OKRs, and position L&D as a true strategic partner to the business.

​In this session, we'll explore how to develop influence, starting with the all-important ability to ask better questions. 

​What you’ll get:

​✨ A masterclass in the art of asking better questions
🤝 Practical tools to help you influence across functions
🛠️ Examples from companies already embedding these skills into OKRs

​Why join?

​Because influence isn’t a title—it’s a skill. When you know how to ask better questions of the business, you can deliver more impact. And when your ICs know how to win support across teams, projects accelerate, innovation spreads, and you can claim impact on the business with your programs. 

​About the Host

​Andrew Barry is the founder and CEO of Curious Lion, where he partners with high-growth companies to create learning programs that deliver transformation, not information.

​With 20+ years of experience in learning and development, Andrew has worked with companies like Workday, PagerDuty, Brex, Pinterest, and TED to solve the challenge every L&D leader faces: creating learning that actually sticks and drives measurable behavior change.