The Learning Culture Podcast

What does it really take to grow from a good individual contributor to a great one? In this special edition of The Learning Culture Podcast, Andrew Barry sits down with talent leaders for short, sharp conversations about the mindset shifts, hard-won lessons, and small moves that separate ICs who plateau from those who keep climbing. ICs matter more than ever as AI reshapes how work gets done, and...

What does it really take to grow from a good individual contributor to a great one? In this special edition of The Learning Culture Podcast, Andrew Barry sits down with talent leaders for short, sharp conversations about the mindset shifts, hard-won lessons, and small moves that separate ICs who plateau from those who keep climbing. ICs matter more than ever as AI reshapes how work gets done, and...

What does it really take to grow from a good individual contributor to a great one? In this special edition of The Learning Culture Podcast, Andrew Barry sits down with talent leaders for short, sharp conversations about the mindset shifts, hard-won lessons, and small moves that separate ICs who plateau from those who keep climbing. ICs matter more than ever as AI reshapes how work gets done, and...

What does it really take to grow from a good individual contributor to a great one? In this special edition of The Learning Culture Podcast, Andrew Barry sits down with talent leaders for short, sharp conversations about the mindset shifts, hard-won lessons, and small moves that separate ICs who plateau from those who keep climbing. ICs matter more than ever as AI reshapes how work gets done, and...

What does it really take to grow from a good individual contributor to a great one? In this special edition of The Learning Culture Podcast, Andrew Barry sits down with leaders for short, sharp conversations about the mindset shifts, hard-won lessons, and small moves that separate ICs who plateau from those who keep climbing. ICs matter more than ever as AI reshapes how work gets done, and these e...

What does it really take to grow from a good individual contributor to a great one? In this special edition of The Learning Culture Podcast, Andrew Barry sits down with talent leaders for short, sharp conversations about the mindset shifts, hard-won lessons, and small moves that separate ICs who plateau from those who keep climbing. ICs matter more than ever as AI reshapes how work gets done, and...

What does it really take to grow from a good individual contributor to a great one? In this special edition of The Learning Culture Podcast, Andrew Barry sits down with talent leaders for short, sharp conversations about the mindset shifts, hard-won lessons, and small moves that separate ICs who plateau from those who keep climbing. ICs matter more than ever as AI reshapes how work gets done, and...

What does it really take to grow from a good individual contributor to a great one? In this special edition of The Learning Culture Podcast, Andrew Barry sits down with talent leaders for short, sharp conversations about the mindset shifts, hard-won lessons, and small moves that separate ICs who plateau from those who keep climbing. ICs matter more than ever as AI reshapes how work gets done, and...

What does it really take to grow from a good individual contributor to a great one? In this special edition of The Learning Culture Podcast, Andrew Barry sits down with leaders for short, sharp conversations about the mindset shifts, hard-won lessons, and small moves that separate ICs who plateau from those who keep climbing. ICs matter more than ever as AI reshapes how work gets done, and these e...

Most learning programs fail at measurement because they're asking the wrong questions with the wrong tools.  Eric Grant, who leads learning and content at Figma, has cracked the code on learning analytics that actually matter. With an MS in data science and experience at LinkedIn, Coinbase, Uber, and The Trade Desk, Eric brings statistical rigor to a field that typically runs on intuition.  I...

When employees equate growth with promotion, but promotion opportunities are limited, how do you develop your best individual contributors?  In this panel discussion, Katie Hart from Faire, Sarah Jester from Lucid Software, and Krysta Kasinski from LinkedIn share their battle-tested approaches to developing ICs beyond the traditional promotion path. These three L&D leaders reveal why they&apos...

Most companies take their best sellers and promote them into management, expecting them to magically know how to coach a team.  It rarely works that way. Gail Behun, who leads frontline manager enablement at Zoom across 300 managers globally, learned that lesson firsthand when she made the leap from seller to manager and realized she had no template for what good looked like.  In this conversation...

When your people complete the mandated AI training but nothing changes, you don't have a tool problem; you have a culture problem.  As Director of L&D at Publicis Sapient, Ian Stevens watched mandates and endless emails fail to drive the engagement, adoption, or completions they needed.  The breakthrough came when they stopped teaching tools and started building mindsets. Ian reveals thei...

What happens when the context you're preparing leaders for no longer exists by the time they get there? After seven years as Chief Learning Officer at Citibank building talent systems, Cameron Hedrick sees the cracks in how we predict potential. In this conversation, Cameron reveals why mastery beats potential when everything is constantly emerging, why humans excel at inference with small da...

What happens when AI agents become your direct reports?  Becky Karsh, VP of Talent and Growth at F5, believes we're approaching a fundamental shift: individual contributors won't just complete tasks, they'll manage multiple AI agents to achieve outcomes.  In this episode, Becky reveals why delegation, work design, and crystal-clear communication are becoming essential IC skills, not...

Is your team resisting AI adoption? Are they struggling to see how AI could actually help their work?  Rebecca Scales discovered the real barrier isn't reluctance to learn - it's self-efficacy, people's belief that they can actually use these tools effectively.  As Director of Capability Development at Procore Technologies, she watched initial AI training fail because pressing &quot...

Have you ever sat at your desk, physically present but mentally checked out, your stomach in knots, calling in "sick" when you're really just depleted, feeling like you're giving 110% while running on empty? Ryan Giordano knows that feeling intimately, and his journey from the breaking point of burnout to teaching emotional intelligence at Fleetio reveals a radical truth: we ma...

What happens when your company faces multiple massive changes all at once?  Allyson Carr knows exactly what that feels like. As Global HR Chief at Cyber Reason, navigating six months of hyper-change, she reveals why people understand change but struggle with the transition, and why there's a physical toll to transformation that most leaders completely miss.  Allyson shares her battle-tested a...

What if your next dream job came from a LinkedIn DM instead of a job application?  Rachel Bolton landed her role as Director of Global Enterprise Leadership Development at Stanley Black & Decker when a leader reached out after discovering her through her consistent LinkedIn presence.  In this episode, Rachel explores the intersection of authentic personal branding and professional growth, reve...

What if the best career move you ever make is the one you didn’t plan for? In this episode, we follow the unexpected journey of Bozena Pajak, who found her way to Duolingo , not through a clear-cut plan, but by following her curiosity.  You’ll hear how an interdisciplinary background became her superpower, shaping how millions of people learn languages today. But this story goes beyond career twis...

What does a Hollywood screenwriter know about learning design? Turns out, quite a lot.  In this episode, Andrew Barry sits down with Lindsey Caplan, founder of The Gathering Effect , whose background in organizational psychology and TV writing gives her a unique lens on how to craft transformative learning experiences.  Lindsey unpacks her go-to framework centered on motivation, structure, and sto...

What if the rise of AI isn’t making us less human - but demanding that we become more human? As AI accelerates productivity and automates expertise, a surprising truth is emerging: the most irreplaceable professionals aren't competing with machines; they're doubling down on what makes them human. Recorded live at the ATD International Conference & Expo in Washington, D.C., and playfu...

What if your company’s biggest performance problem isn’t skill but disconnection? In this episode, we follow Elena Agaragimova’s journey from global leadership coach to founder of ShiftWell.ai , a tool born out of deep frustration with the corporate training status quo. After years of running workshops across continents, Elena began asking a simple but radical question: What if the reason people a...

In this special episode, Andrew Barry takes us to Workhuman Live in Denver, where he engaged with six forward-thinking leaders across HR, consulting, and academia. Together, they explore how AI is transforming not just the way we create, but also how we influence action. From first-draft generation and rapid prototyping to stress-testing ideas and influencing without authority, these leaders revea...

Leah Caseley and Mark Turner never set out to rewrite the rules of leadership development - but that’s exactly what happened when they noticed a dangerous pattern.    At LinkedIn, they saw top performers getting promoted into management only to regret it, brilliant individual contributors struggling to lead, and organizations losing talent to poor fits.    So they flipped the script. Now, their em...