Resources
A working library for MENA learning leaders
Tools, briefs, and checklists you can take to a board. Reports and Pulse are editorial — not unpublished survey research.
Confirmed date: nominations open 20 October 2026. Closing date to be announced.
Sections
Eight doors, one job each
Thought leadership
Executive insights
Answer-first briefs for CLOs and CHROs — strategy, measurement, and regional practice, written for a board conversation.
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Briefings
Editorial briefings
Working briefings on investment, transfer, and measurement questions we hear across MENA — labelled clearly as editorial, not as unpublished survey research.
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How-to
Practical articles
Field notes and how-tos for L&D practitioners — capability academies, bilingual design, and stakeholder briefing.
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Updates
News & announcements
Program news, judging updates, and the regional L&D signals worth a CLO’s attention.
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Worksheets
Playbooks & toolkits
Checklists, canvases, and nomination worksheets you can use this week — the CIPD-style tools L&D teams actually keep.
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Calendar
Events & briefings
Planned briefings and conversations for L&D leaders. Dates stay marked TBA until AEA confirms them — the only confirmed programme date today is nominations on 20 October 2026.
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Bilingual
L&D glossary
English–Arabic definitions of the terms judges, boards, and vendors actually use — unique to a bilingual MENA awards program.
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Signals
MENA L&D pulse
Qualitative signals from programme conversations — labelled as observation, not as a census or a published benchmark.
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Featured
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News Nominations open 20 October 2026 — closing date to be announced
Register your interest now. Recommend an organization if you know a programme that deserves a look.
Events Nomination briefing webinar — planned
A planned online briefing on categories, evidence, and the interest form. Date to be announced.
Pulse AI learning pilots — measurement still the weak point
A qualitative signal: AI is on many agendas; published baselines are not. This is not a percentage and not a census.
Playbooks Nomination evidence pack checklist
The artefacts judges actually open: baseline, intervention, evidence, outcome.
Articles How to Brief Your CEO on Learning Impact in Ten Minutes
Four lines: the constraint, the intervention, the dated evidence, and the ask.
Reports What we are watching in MENA L&D investment, 2026
An editorial briefing on the investment questions we hear — not a survey, census, or original dataset.
Register interest and we will email you when the nomination wizard opens on 20 October 2026.
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