Training is not broken.
The way we approach performance is.
HR and L&D leaders are delivering more programs than ever before. Participation is high. Feedback is positive. And yet, when the business asks what changed, the answer is often unclear.
Stop Training. Start Performing. challenges the belief that better solutions are the answer. Instead, it argues that performance improvement begins much earlier, with disciplined thinking before design, clarity before delivery, and alignment before activity.
Drawing on real organizational situations, this book shows why well executed training still fails to move results, how learning teams unintentionally lose influence by responding too quickly, and what it takes to reposition L&D as a true partner in business performance.
This is not a book about more frameworks or faster delivery. It is about changing how HR and L&D leaders show up in conversations that matter, asking better questions, shaping problems upstream, and earning credibility through outcomes rather than activity.
If you are tired of doing good work that feels hard to stand behind, this book offers a different way forward.
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Hormazd Mistry
Hormazd Mistry is a performance consultant, learning strategist, and leadership advisor with over two decades of experience helping organizations translate learning effort into measurable business outcomes.
He works with senior leaders, HR teams, and L&D functions to address performance challenges that sit upstream of training, challenges rooted in misalignment, unclear expectations, and systems that unintentionally block execution. His work focuses on helping organizations move from activity driven learning to disciplined performance improvement.
Hormazd is the Founder of Sarosh Consulting and leads ROI focused capability building initiatives across leadership development, performance consulting, and learning measurement. He is also the India partner for ROI Institute, Inc. and has supported organizations in building credible links between people development and business results using the ROI Methodology®.
Known for his calm, questioning approach, Hormazd challenges leaders to slow down before acting, diagnose before designing, and treat learning as one lever within a broader performance system. His work emphasizes judgment, clarity, and responsibility over speed and volume.
Stop Training. Start Performing. reflects his belief that lasting impact is created not by delivering more solutions, but by thinking more carefully about what must change for performance to improve.
