The Learning Culture Podcast

Joining me this week is Ajay Pangarkar. Ajay is an award-winning Performance and Cost Strategist. He's an expert on training in the workplace, as well as on finance and accounting. He's also an author, and his books bring together his wealth of experience and insight across these various fields. His most recent book, The Trainer's Balanced Scorecard , which he wrote with his co-auth...

Joining me this week is Steve Bousquet. Steve is the President of American Landscape and Lawn Science , a lawn care and landscape business based in Connecticut. Reading that, many of you are probably thinking, " That's an interesting guest for a podcast about Learning Culture ". I had the same thought when I first met Steve, a self professed learning nerd who never hesitates to hire...

Joining me this week is Daniel Quick. Daniel is the SVP for Learning Strategies at Thought Industries, a platform for customer education. He is also the author of a new book called The Customer Education Playbook, and most of our conversation revolves around the ideas that Daniel and his co-author share in the book. I went into this conversation prepared, but still with massive blind spots on what...

Mark is the founder of Tech Learning Network , one of the leading video-based educational platforms around web development, mobile applications, programming, digital design, and a lot of skills that companies are going through digital transformations need more and more of. Mark's background in the space goes back to the OG level era.  This was a fun, interesting, engaging conversation where w...

Joining me this week is Angus Fletcher. Angus is a Professor of Story Science at Ohio State's Project Narrative . Project Narrative is the world's leading think tank for studying the nature of stories and how they work. He's also the author of Wonderworks , a book that explores the rich generational history of authors who laid out narrative and plot techniques that can help us under...

Joining me this week is Anna Petosa. Anna is the VP of People Operations at Pelmorex , a Canadian media company. She is responsible for the entire people function at a company of around 500 people. I met Anna through the work that we’re doing around Learning Culture. Anna thinks holistically about people within organizations, from the Operations, to the People Development, to Performance Managemen...

Joining me this week is Andy Storch. Andy is an author, consultant, coach, speaker, and facilitator - best known for helping clients turn strategy into action and getting people to do the best work of their lives.  Andy and I explore careers. Our conversation focusses on what you can do to get the most fulfillment and enjoyment out of your career. Andy shared some incredibly valuable tips to build...

Joining me this week is the Senior Director of People Development at PagerDuty , Phylicia Jones. What PJ brings to the table as a learning professional is a deep understanding of the potential of others, and an incredible passion for the development of that potential. She has incredibly insightful and interesting ideas around releasing that potential. The way she's applied her unique skills a...

Joining me this week is Maya Huber, the CEO of Skillset . Skillset is a job simulation and AI analysis platform that is seeking to solve the problem of skills-based hiring. In this episode, we unpack the problem of applicant tracking systems that have degree-based filters that have the unintended consequence of rolling out potentially strong candidates from the recruiting pool. No matter what part...

Welcome back to another special bonus episode - It's part two of the Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge summary which we started last week! In the previous episode, we looked at what is crumbling and decaying in our education and management systems. We explored what the future might look like in the form of five learning disciplines, and we ended off part one by discussing the first - Personal M...

Today's episode is a special one - I'm going to share with you a review of a book that I've spent the better part of the last two years with, The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge.  This process, of applying The Fifth Discipline , rocked my world and turned my whole perspective on learning and work upside down. It reveals the path for us to navigate from a mindset of “ crumbling and d...

In this episode, Robbie Crabtree will teach us how to be a fantastic facilitator and deliver memorable live sessions.  The success of rolling out a Transformational Learning Experience greatly relies on you being a confident and inspiring facilitator for the people that come through the program. Main topics covered:  Starting strong.  Do I need to memorize lines? Simplifying and making things memo...

Kason is the Head of Learning Experience Design at Salesforce. It's a fairly new role that has seen him work at a number of blue-chip companies throughout the career path that he intentionally designed.  He brings a deep understanding of design thinking to the work that he does in designing a learning experience.  We start off our conversation talking about the role that agency plays and how...

Shaunak is the Founder and CEO of a learning platform called Yellowdig which engages hundreds and thousands of students around the world using an approach that they call Gameful Learning . It's kind of like a cross between social learning or collaborative learning and gamified learning. It's nothing like the sort of icky associations that come with the word gamified , there's actual...

My guest for this episode is Christopher Lind. Christopher is the Chief Learning Officer for ChenMed , a primary care provider that serves moderate-to-low-income seniors with complex chronic diseases. He's also known for being the LinkedIn Learning Tech Guy under the brand Learning Sharks .  We go into his current role as a Learning Professional, something that Christopher doesn't talk a...

Joining me today is Tameka Harris, a Senior Instructional Systems Designer at Blue Cross Blue Shield. She is also a part-time lecturer at the University of San Diego and an all-around passionate expert in the field of Instructional Design. We uncover and explore things I believe are the essence of what makes us unique as learning professionals. And you absolutely have to hear Tameka's answer...

In this episode, I talk about a vision I had that we are starting to manifest at Curious Lion. This is the vision for a brand new role in learning, a vision to build a new team for the future. Join me to unravel what learning should and could look like if we embrace a Learning Culture and the ability to create a learning organization as a central function of a company. This is a learning organizat...

This podcast explores and pushes the boundaries of what it means to cultivate a Learning Culture.  By following along, you’ll learn: How a shared vision sets the tone for a Learning Culture.  How shared assumptions determine our current reality.  How shared stories foster commitment to a Learning Culture.  How shared experiences, or Cohort Learning Experiences to be specific, instill the practice...