Learning Priority One: The Capability Engine

By Francisco Jáuregui

The L&D Leader's Field Guide to Strategic Impact.

For too long, Learning and Development has been treated as a cost center-
a service function that delivers training events and reports completion rates.
This book argues that L&D is something else entirely: the engine that converts
workforce capability into business performance.

Drawing on twenty years of building learning systems inside heavy industrial
operations, Francisco Jauregui presents The Capability Engine, a five-stage
framework (Diagnose, Structure, Activate, Measure, Evolve) for L&D leaders
who want to earn a seat at the strategy table, not just a line in the budget.

This is not a theory book. Every chapter ends with a Practice Lab and
operational templates designed to be used Monday morning, not filed away.
You will learn to: Diagnose capability risk before it shows up in operational KPIsBuild training programs that survive contact with the floorClose the Knowledge Activation Gap, the chasm where most training diesMeasure capability in the language operations leadership actually usesDefend your budget with the S.T.A.G.E. framework when the business asks what the money is buyingIf you are an L&D professional tired of being misunderstood, this book is
the conversation you have been waiting for.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H1NT2DD7
• ISBN13: 9798234083951
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Learning Priority One LLC
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 7.0"