The Learning Culture Podcast

Welcome to part two of Elite Human Performance with Brittany Loney. I urge you to go back and watch if you missed part one . In it, I spoke with Brittany, Director of Elite Cognition and Human Optimization for Core One (a company that works with the US Military Special Forces) about her remarkable journey into the world of performance psychology and cognitive neuroscience. We chatted about her ori...

Brittany Loney joins me this week for part one of a special two-part episode! We were on such a roll, we recorded for almost two hours! Brittany is the Director of Elite Cognition and Human Optimization at Core One . She works with the US Military, specifically, soldiers in very high-risk combat situations. She works with them as groups and individuals to develop their: brain capacity, physical ca...

On this episode of The Learning Culture Podcast, Meganne Brezina, Senior Director of Field Enablement at Seismic , shares her insights on change management. Seismic prioritizes one big initiative every year, focusing on cutting through the noise and being proactive in rolling out new initiatives, achieving messaging alignment, cascading information, and all that good stuff. As a former seller and...

On this episode of The Learning Culture Podcast, Meganne Brezina, Senior Director of Field Enablement at Seismic , shares her insights on change management. Seismic prioritizes one big initiative every year, focusing on cutting through the noise and being proactive in rolling out new initiatives, achieving messaging alignment, cascading information, and all that good stuff. As a former seller and...

My guest this week is Allison Sword. Allison is the Senior Manager of Revenue Enablement at Restaurant365 . She has an incredible track record in the industry in sales enablement and has been around since the beginning. She was a sales leader herself before that, bringing tons of experience to her role. She's also very involved in the WiSE community in Chicago and learned a lot from meeting a...

Joining me this week is Allison Sword, the senior manager of revenue enablement at Restaurant365 . She has an incredible track record within sales enablement, and has been been around basically since the beginning.  She was a sales leader herself before that and brings so much unique perspective and experience to the role. She's also very involved with the WiSE community in Chicago and has co...

This week, we have a special episode. Today, I want to share with you an article that I wrote from a review that I did of my first quarter in 2023. I spent the first quarter doing a lot of journaling; it is a new practice that I have taken a lot more seriously this year. And at the end of the quarter, I go away and lock myself up—in this case, in a farm—for 48 hours. And I review all of my notes f...

In this special episode, I've invited one of my team members to join me. You're about to hear from Theshel Govender. Theshel is a Senior Learning Architect on our team at Curious Lion and the recent author of a post on our blog that went viral in our corner of the world. We started a project this year in which everybody on the Learning Architect team started to write articles and publish...

Joining me this week is Stephanie Middaugh, who is the founder of Phoenix GTM Consulting . Stephanie also has an incredible track record and career in enablement. She, as she says in the show, was a victim of the layoffs but had been building Phoenix in the background for a while. So she clearly always had the intention and passion to go out on her own, and that's what she did. We talk a litt...

Joining me this week is Stephanie Middaugh, who is the founder of Phoenix GTM Consulting .  Stephanie has been running sensational Hackathons with the Sales Enablement Squad that she runs with her partner. It's an incredible format for coming together, and it's in person.  Participants fly in and get together for an afternoon of workshopping actual problems that these people want to focu...

Nate Nasralla joins me this week for a deep dive with SME episode. Nate is the founder of Fluint.io . He teaches sellers how to sell with buyers, not to them. His whole thesis is built on the idea that the sale actually happens when you’re not in the room. And he has built a product around facilitating the how-to of his thesis: finding and framing a high-priority problem, creating internal consens...

Joining me this week for part two of our conversation is David Carter. As I mentioned in part one , David became known as one of the world's top CEO mentors. In building and exiting a company, he found that character underpinned every single thing he did . If he could help his CEOs develop character or become certain characteristics, they transformed. They started to grow. There are a lot of...

I have a really fun new episode format to share with you today. We're calling it the Learning Nugget. The idea is to share some quick, super-practical, super-tactical lessons with all of you. After this episode, you'll have something specific that you want to try right away in your current role. My first guest for this is Jonathan Mahan, co-founder of The Practice Lab . He's also a...

Joining me this week is David CM Carter. David is known as the world's leading CEO mentor. He started to build his reputation by taking a small FTSE (or Fortune 5000 for Americans) company to IPO. But then he expanded, going on to help other CEOs take much larger companies public and beyond. The things David spoke about in this conversation resonated deeply with things that I think about all...

Joining me this week is you. This episode is a special one. I’m going to break down a recent experience I had for your benefit. I’m recording this on March 1st, 2023. We conducted a Creativity and Innovation training workshop for a client in San Francisco last week. It was an incredible experience. We partnered up with Sarah Lagrotteria, who is the wife of a previous guest on the show, and the cre...

Joining me this week is Nick Lawrence. For new listeners, the Learning Culture podcast is a space to explore the art and science of what I call “Total Enablement.” Total Enablement entails creating the conditions for learning to happen - creating an ecosystem where learning is the default state at your company. And joining me this week was a guest who really gets it, who thinks deeply and writes a...

Joining me this week is Nick Lawrence. For new listeners, the Learning Culture podcast is a space to explore the art and science of what I call “Total Enablement.” Total Enablement entails creating the conditions for learning to happen - creating an ecosystem where learning is the default state at your company. And joining me this week was a guest who really gets it, who thinks deeply and writes a...

Joining me this week is Dr. Ken Long. Ken is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army. He spent 25 years on active duty and continues to serve with the Army as a Professor of Change Management at the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas training facility. He works with a staff of over 7,000 faculty and is responsible for teaching over 200,000 students. Boy, oh boy, was this a good conversation. I asked Dr....

Joining me this week is Sarah Filipiak. Sarah is the new Head of Revenue Enablement at Bamboo Rose . Before that, she worked at companies like Wayfair and Coupa. The thing that stands out the most for me is Sarah’s passionate and unique perspective on enablement. I’ve said this a lot on the show: it’s an exciting field and space to be in because it is so new and so open to being molded. And Sarah...

Joining me this week is Sarah Filipiak. Sarah is the new Head of Revenue Enablement at Bamboo Rose . Before that, she worked at companies like Wayfair and Coupa. The thing that stands out the most for me is Sarah’s passionate and unique perspective on enablement. I’ve said this a lot on the show: it’s an exciting field and space to be in because it is so new and so open to being molded. And Sarah...

This is a show about how to create cultures of continuous learning at companies. Joining me this week is Samantha Strom. Sam is an Enablement Consultant, formerly an enablement leader at companies like Salesforce , Unity , Autodesk , and Gem . She's one of the many who have suffered through the layoffs. Her last role at Gem was cut, and she has landed on her feet as an Enablement Consultant w...

This is a show about how to create cultures of continuous learning at companies. Joining me this week is Samantha Strom. Sam is an Enablement Consultant, formerly an enablement leader at companies like Salesforce , Unity , Autodesk , and Gem . She's one of the many who have suffered through the layoffs. Her last role at Gem was cut, and she has landed on her feet as an Enablement Consultant w...

Joining me this week is Shannon Hempel. Shannon is the founder of EnableUp and the co-founder of Women in Sales Enablement , or WiSE . In this conversation, I got a chance to ask Shannon about every last detail of the origin story of WiSE . For me, it was a story rich with lessons that we can apply toward enabling people. I think you'll find double the value in learning what this space for wo...

Joining me this week is Shannon Hempel. Shannon is the founder of EnableUp and the co-founder of Women in Sales Enablement , or WiSE . I think you'll find double the value in learning what this space for women in enablement is, how it started, and what its values are; then also the several lessons and takeaways that you can apply in your professional work ...it'll be a ton of fun! If you...

This is a show about building cultures of continuous learning for companies. In today's episode, we're going to do something a little different, something I haven't done in a while on this podcast. I'm going to tell you a story. I'm going to read from an essay that I wrote, and I'm going to tell you how I came up with the Learning Culture Lotus . On August 12, 2019, I...