Overseeing upskilling, leadership development, and career growth at a learning organization has eliminated a very specific occupational hazard of mine: involuntary eye-twitching during budget season. It still happens every time I hear or read the phrase “learning is discretionary spending”, usually written apologetically or shrugged matter-o-factly in an industry webinar as my peers share stories of their training budgets being cut by 40 percent to facilitate five-figure savings that fund half a role and/or pay for another productivity tool that nobody will know how to use.