The Learning Culture Podcast

Joining me this week is Steph White. Steph is the Director of Revenue Enablement at Loopio . She started her career in Account Management and has translated that experience into a role enabling others. She's uniquely equipped to do so because of her focus on people. What I found in this episode, talking to Steph and getting to know her in this conversation, is that we think very similarly abo...

Joining me this week is  Steph White.  Steph is the Director of Revenue Enablement at Loopio . She started her career in Account Management and has translated that experience into a role enabling others and is especially equipped to do that because of her focus on people.  In this "Rapid Fire 5" segment, I gather her first thoughts on five key questions related to learning and enablement...

Joining me this week for today's special learning nuggets episode is super-facilitator Gwyn Wansbrough. Gwyn is an independent Facilitator, Learning Experience Designer, and Course Creator. She focuses on empowering educators and team leaders with the skills to make learning and facilitating meetings more creative. Her focus is on human-centered learning, with an emphasis on group learning. S...

This week, we have a special one-on-one episode with yours truly. I hope you enjoy the sound of my voice because together we'll be exploring some of the lessons that I've learned from a book called The Living Company by Arie de Geus. Arie de Geus was a Dutch business executive who did an incredible amount of research with his team on companies that have been around for longer than his (h...

This week will feature 13 different guests of ours, all speaking and sharing their wisdom on the topic of mentorship . I'm thrilled to present this mashup episode as a way to give thanks to our growing community. My incredible team has pulled together clips and categorized them in a way that allows me to go in and start looking for patterns and commonalities between the different guest conver...

Joining me this week is Sheevaun Thatcher. Sheevaun is somewhat of a legend in the sales enablement space. She created the role before it was actually even a role. About 15 years ago, she started performing the role of “Player Coach," as she mentions in the episode, for a company she worked for. She's been there from the beginning and has seen the sales enablement profession develop into...

Joining me this week is  Sheevaun Thatcher.  Sheevaun is somewhat of a legend in the sales enablement space. She created the role before it was actually even a role. About 15 years ago, she started performing the role of “Player Coach", for a company that she was at. So she's been there from the beginning and has seen the sales enablement profession develop into what it is right now.  In...

Joining me this week is Petek Hawkins. This is a special episode because Petek and I are using it to make a very exciting announcement about Curious Lion . I'll cut this intro very short and let you dive right into the conversation. Our conversation starts by looking at Petek’s journey and the lessons she's learned. And then we get right into our exciting announcement, what it means for...

Joining me this week is Andrew Gibbons. Andrew is a Management Development Consultant from the UK. He has been helping people learn for the last 40 years. That’s right, 40 years of experience, and during that time, he’s been building a “Learning Log”. This "Learning Log" now consists of 1.3 million handwritten words about all things learning, leadership, management, learning culture – al...

Joining me this week is Nikki Schanzer. Nikki has just started a role as Senior Manager of Revenue Enablement at Outreach . Before that, she headed the Go to Market Enablement at Hopin , and before that, the Revenue Enablement Lead for North America at Dropbox . In this "Rapid Fire 5" segment, I gather her first thoughts on five key questions related to learning and enablement. 

Joining me this week is Nikki Schanzer. Nikki has just started a role as Senior Manager of Revenue Enablement at Outreach . Before that, she headed the Go to Market Enablement at Hopin , and before that, the Revenue Enablement Lead for North America at Dropbox . Meeting Nikki for the first time felt like we were long-lost friends. And I think this is true for a lot of people who share a common pas...

Joining me this week is Paul Butterfield. Scott is the Head of Sales Enablement at Clozd . It's a win-loss analysis platform for sales teams. Paul's the VP of Global Revenue Enablement for Instructure . Those of you who are regular listeners of the show, remember when we had Brett Childs from the Revenue Enablement team at Instructure ? Today, we have Brett's boss. In this "Rap...

Joining me this week is Paul Butterfield. Paul's the VP of Global Revenue Enablement for Instructure . Those of you who are regular listeners of the show, remember when we had Brett Childs from the Revenue Enablement team at Instructure ? Today, we have Brett's boss. This was a really interesting episode for me because Paul is one of the OGs of the space and is one of the original gangst...

Joining me this week is Scott Knudson. Scott is the Head of Sales Enablement at Clozd . It's a win-loss analysis platform for sales teams. In this "Rapid Fire 5" segment, I gather his first thoughts on five key questions related to learning and enablement. 

Joining me this week is Scott Knudson. Scott is the Head of Sales Enablement at Clozd . It's a win-loss analysis platform for sales teams. As you will find out later in the episode a product that their team uses religiously. But this episode isn't about the product Clozd - this is about the lessons that Scott has learned in sales and later in his current role in sales enablement, which h...

Joining me this week is Anthony Altieri. Anthony is a self-professed IDIoT. He is the Instructional Developer of Internet of Things for his own business, Omnes Solutions . And he's a bit of an expert on LMS Operations and all the technology that underpins how we learn in organizations. I wanted to get Anthony on the show to talk about the potential for the Internet of Things . I think you&apo...

My guest today is Steffaney Zohrabyan. Steffaney is the Sales Enablement, Innovation, and Insights Leader for Cisco . She specializes in microlearning in the flow of work. This was an education for me around the role technology can play to nudge, prompt and enable people to make the right decisions in specific moments. In this "Rapid Fire 5" segment, I gather her first thoughts on five k...

My guest today is Steffaney Zohrabyan. Steffaney is the Sales Enablement, Innovation, and Insights Leader for Cisco where she specializes in microlearning in the flow of work. This was an education for me around the role technology can play to nudge, prompt and enable people to make the right decisions in specific moments. I think the impact of this work when combined with the power of cohort-base...

 Brett is the Director of Revenue Enablement at Instructure . He got into enablement on the back of a successful career in sales. Before that, he spent time as a missionary in Japan - so he is really able to blend that passion for teaching and coaching in this role, making an impact with the people on his team.   In this "Rapid Fire 5" segment, I gather his first thoughts on five key que...

Brett is the Director of Revenue Enablement at Instructure . He got into enablement on the back of a successful career in sales. Before that, he spent time as a missionary in Japan - gifting him a unique ability to blend that passion for teaching and coaching to make an impact with the people on his team. Brett is the first guest I've had on the show where it felt like at times that I was tal...

Joining me this week is Will Mannon. Will is the Chief Product Officer for Write of Passage, an online cohort-based course to teach people how to become digital writers. They've taught over 1,000 people how to do this through eight cohorts, and I took this course in cohort two. I've been following their journey ever since, and I even became involved as a mentor in cohort five. It's...

Joining me this week is Al Dea. Al is the founder of Betterwork Labs, a research, advisory, and training organization that helps other companies create better workplace cultures. I met Al after finding his research on LinkedIn , which really caught my eye. He identified six trends in how people develop themselves and their careers at work. He made an incredible graphic to go along and wrote up a p...

Joining me this week is Kristen Hartley. Kristen is the Head of Learning and Development for Pinterest . She's a former Deloitte Consultant with a background in Change Management, who has been doing Learning and Development as a function for only two and a half years - but she's been able to bring all that prior experience today in moving into this Head of L&D role at Pinterest . She...

Joining me this week is Jo Wright. Jo is the firecracker CEO of Coaching Culture . It's a UK-based firm that specializes in the content and platforms to enable cultures of coaching, or as Jo puts it - to scale up coaching conversations. I initially approached Jo on LinkedIn because I saw something on her website that I thought I disagreed with. And I thought it'd be fun to get into a con...

Joining me this week is Paul Millerd. Paul is the author of a new book called the Pathless Path, as well as a freelance consultant and a Content Advisor to Curious Lion . He has been an indispensable help on a few client projects, assisting in assessing client’s existing Learning Cultures. This is the topic of today’s episode. Paul spent more than a decade at companies like GE, McKinsey , and BCG...