Learning and Development Forum 2026

I'm a strategic and impact-driven Learning & Development leader with over 20 years’ experience designing, delivering, and evaluating leadership and learning programmes that make a real difference to people and performance. My journey has taken me through the aviation, luxury travel, hospitality, and education sectors, working with iconic brands like British Airways, Cunard, and Maybourne Group hotels, where I've seen first-hand how learning can be a powerful driver of organisational growth and transformation.

As Chief Learning Officer at the LPI, Learning & Performance Institute, I partner with organisations globally to shape future-ready leadership, build critical skills at scale, and create learning strategies that truly align with business goals. My methodology draws on performance consultancy, getting under the surface to understand what’s really going on, and using insight and data to drive meaningful change.

My personal approach is all about helping people grow. I’m passionate about unlocking the potential in leaders and learning teams, creating cultures of curiosity, collaboration, and excellence. Whether working with senior leaders or frontline teams, I believe in building a culture where people feel inspired, supported, in making learning work.

Stuart Brooks is a seasoned executive with over three decades of leadership experience across retail, commercial, transformation, and people functions within financial services. For the last 10 years, he headed up Lloyds Banking Group’s Retail Learning function before heading up the Group’s Learning team. In these latter roles, he delivered multi-million-pound strategies that re-imagined onboarding, virtual training, leadership development and significant transformation programmes. More recently, he has set up his on business focused on helping learning teams thrive.