Wendy Kirkpatrick
Founder and Senior Consultant at Kirkpatrick Partners, global steward of the Kirkpatrick Model for training evaluation, and co-author of Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation.
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Jul 27, 2026
VanessaHOST
Why do you think organizations gravitated towards using the model in more of a checklist or just as a survey framework?
Wendy KirkpatrickGUEST
Going back to the very beginning when Don first really was asked to share the four levels as the four levels, because he never called them that.
Wendy KirkpatrickGUEST
He just had these four different dimensions that he used to evaluate the effectiveness of his training.
Wendy KirkpatrickGUEST
With the organization that is now ATD, Association for Talent Development, he wrote four articles.
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VanessaHOST
So I've got my idea, but I'd like to hear from you, seeing so many more organizations than I have, when you've seen it done right, what is it that they have that other organizations maybe don't?