L&D Go Beyond

In this podcast, Amit Garg speaks with Patti Shank, President at Learning Peaks LLC, about Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions to Assess Learning. Patti shares the very interesting background story of her new book. She says that over a period of many years, whoever she’s worked with, anyone who wanted to create a test with multiple-choice questions, has ended up effectively destroying the tes...

In this insightful podcast, Amit Garg speaks with Maria Leggett, Director of Education, Talent Development and Credentialing at MHI on AI and the up-skilling imperative for L&D. She talks about the changes and impact that AI is having on L&D, how it will be completely reinvented, developing skill taxonomy, amongst other things. Here are the key takeaways from this podcast- Shift in organiz...

In this insightful podcast, Amit Garg, CEO of Upside Learning Solutions speaks with Julie Dirksen, a leading expert in learning design and digital learning.  Author of the book ‘Design for How People Learn’, she regularly teaches instructional designing in workshops and college courses, as well as in project management and cognitive psychology.  Her biggest area of interest today is behavioral sci...

In this engaging podcast, Amit Garg speaks with Vince Han, Founder & CEO of Mobile Coach, a B2B SAAS chatbot authoring platform, on Chatbots in Workplace Learning and Performance. Vince, with his background in technology, is passionate about learning and performance along with self-improvement. Founder of several other technology companies as well, Vince is also a leading voice in the learning...

In this curious podcast, Amit Garg speaks with Stefaan Van Hooydonk, Founder of Global Curiosity Institute, on Intersection of curiosity and learning at workplaces. The institute, brainchild of Stefaan aims to help individuals and organizations foster a mindset of curiosity to inspire them to keep discovering and innovative. Stefaan has worked with numerous organizations in learning leadership rol...

In this podcast, Amit Garg speaks with Toby Harris, who is the Director of Product Marketing at Filtered, a learning tech company. Toby has extensive experience in various roles like sales, marketing & project management and has closely observed the industry dynamics. He is excited about working with clients who are willing to break the rules to apply research and to have challenging conversat...

In this podcast, Amit Garg speaks with Jenifer Tsang, Chief of Staff at Cisco, on how to solve the right problems in L&D. Jennifer has been with Cisco for about 19 years. She also runs her own podcast called ‘In the Lead’ and her passion is to empower people to unlock their leadership potential. Interestingly, Jenifer joined Cisco as an intern. She is curious about trainings. Being a certified...

In this episode, Amit Garg speaks with Phil Reddall, Head of Learning & Capability System at Thames Water, about innovation in L&D. Key Takeaways Speed of change is only increasing making innovation all the more important Innovation is very context-specific so everyone will have a different version of what innovation looks like Data & Analytics are a major shift in last 10 years, along...

In this enlightening podcast, Amit Garg speaks with Guy Wallace, Performance Analyst and Instructional Architect for Enterprise Learning, on how to bring performance focus to training. Guy holds about 40 years of enriching experience as an external consultant and has conducted over 250 projects for over 80 clients including fortune 500 companies. He is well known for his consulting work, writings,...

In this engaging discussion, Amit Garg talks to Keith Keating, Global Learning Strategist at GP Strategies about design thinking for learning engagement. With a vast experience of 20 years in L&D, Keith leads clients on the development and execution of their global learning strategies. He harnesses design thinking to help fortune 500 clients tap into understanding and resolving un-met customer...

Amit Garg gets candid with Kirk Donaghey, Standards and Frameworks Manager at Optus about building learning programs that engage. As an accomplished people leader, Kirk’s focus is on coaching and development to achieve sales and performance growth. Being a learning and development professional, he possesses in-depth experience pertaining to coaching, facilitation, and leadership development. In th...

In this insightful podcast, Amit Garg speaks with Dhiren Doshi, Learning Partner - E2E Global Supply Chain at Colgate-Palmolive about learning engagement in supply chain training. Dhiren expresses his staunch belief in leveraging capability in the most effective way, emphasizing on the need for organizations to experiment so as to capitalize on the technologies such as AR & VR that truly drive...