The Alignment Blueprint - Allen Larsen

Most organizations don’t have a training problem - they have an alignment problem. In The Alignment Blueprint: A Practitioner’s Guide to Connecting Workforce Strategy to Business Results, Allen Larsen delivers a field manual for L&D professionals, OD partners, coaches, and workforce leaders who are ready to move beyond theory and models into measurable, business-driving execution. Drawing on three decades of experience across military, healthcare, defense, and high-tech environments, Larsen shows practitioners how to diagnose performance gaps, apply proven frameworks like ADDIE, Kirkpatrick, and Gagné’s Nine Events, build ROI-backed business cases, and align every stage of the employee lifecycle - from hire to retire - to real organizational outcomes. Packed with practitioner tools, scenario exercises, diagnostic worksheets, and a structured 30/60/90-day action plan, this is not a textbook to read passively but a strategic and tactical playbook for turning workforce development into a true driver of business performance.