TLDCast Podcast

Join this PeopleFirm Seeds of Insight conversation with VP of Talent Management at Healthpoint, Pamela Sullivan, and her Leadership Journey as a Working Parent. Pamela Sullivan has xpertise with strategic development, implementation and administration of HR practices and programs in the areas of strategic planning, leadership coaching and development, systems and process development and improvemen...

Today we have guest David Snavely on with the Seeds of Insight day at TLDC. With over 20 years of practical learning and experience, David has dedicated his career to helping organizations transform how they operate. He specializes in working with organizations to find clarity of strategic vision and objectives, optimizing organizational structures and processes, and building improved employee col...

Today’s guest was Mike Simmons from CatalystSale.com. He’s been helping people improve their business outcomes for years and shares his tips on the importance of reflection and goal setting. It’s that perfect time of year to have these conversations. Even if you’re a one person training team or a solo-preneur you need to take time to reflect, gather data, and plan for the coming year. You can reac...

For nearly a decade, Andrew Hughes has made it his personal mission to ensure that commonly-used ineffective and lackluster training techniques are a thing of the past. Realizing his passion for changing the way we learn and evolve, in 2006 Andrew founded and became President of Designing Digitally, Inc., an E-Learning and Serious Game Development firm that creates fully customized learner retenti...

Dawn is an experienced strategic executive with a diverse repertoire of career experiences in multiple industries, business sizes, and roles. She draws on her 30-plus years of leadership experience to serve as PeopleFirm’s Seattle market lead and solution lead for leadership development. She has served as an executive leader in strategic planning, strategic business development, Lean consultancy,...

Sonia is the co-owner and Virtual Classroom Services Director at Virtual Learning Collaborative. With over 14 years of fun and excitement in learning and development, she is a relationship builder and techie at heart. Sonia focuses on increasing collaboration and partnership with clients, continuously developing staff skill sets, and building strong relationships with clients and contractors alike...

Jayne has 20 years in L&D as a software trainer, elearning developer, screencaster and is a TechSmith Recommended Training Provider. Jayne enjoys helping others develop new video skills and seeks to learn something new every day. An active member of the TechSmith community, she loves connecting people and building communities.

Harrison Withers is our guest today. He is an L&D consultant with Tier1 Consulting and has a lot of experiences to share with TLDC. He is also the author of Organisation Horsepower: Thinking Like a Motorcycle Racing Team. Harrison’s History Transitioning to eLearning Organization Horsepower – His book based on a blog post The over emphasis on infrastructure The tech doesn’t solve your business...

With a return to Women in L&D (WiLD), we have Cara North and Valerie Sunyak in the inverviewer seat and Taruna Goel in the third window. Taruna is a Learning and Performance Specialist with close to 20 years of experience in the areas of instructional design, adult learning and workplace learning. They take on the issue of mentorship and how the mentee can benefit from the relationship. Andre’...

A new idea starts today! Tuesday will bring more of an HR and leadership direction to the cast and the special guest to kick it off is Andre Nellams of Alaska Airlines is a HR Leader, HR Geek, Strategic Partner, Facilitator, Passion for all things Human Resources. He has 18 years of human resources experience; 13 years of senior level human resources experience introducing, building and implementi...

We have special guest Kati Ryan who has built world class, award-winning training programs for companies like Instacart, Gannett, LivingSocial, and others. She founded A Positive Adventure, an L&D consultancy business and is a leader in the industry encompassing professionalism, experience, and understanding of learning that’s required to be successful. Kati’s History Personal brand Graphic de...

Barbara Ingrassia is a certified copyright manager, speaker, and trainer. She has a passion for raising awareness of the role of copyright in our daily lives. We are all consumers and creators of copyright-protected works, and understanding some copyright basics can help us achieve our goals and avoid unpleasant surprises. As President of Manage Copyright, she helps organizations navigate copyrigh...

Trivantis’ Community Manager, Jennifer Valley, joins us to talk about community building, both from a company/product level and at an instructional designer standpoint. In the session, we discuss taking advantage of networks, groups, supporting fellow users, collecting feedback, training, and conversations. Where to find them? How to use them? Sponsored by: Trivantis®, makers of Lectora®, CenarioV...

Today TLDC we welcome Kevin Yates who is a learning and development detective looking for facts, evidence and data for learning’s impact on behavior, performance and business results and he is a sought-after subject matter expert and international speaker. Brent and Kevin talk about how data fits into the L&D world. Kevin’s history Learning development through measurement Facts in data Busines...

Today we are joined by Alex Godinez, the Senior Member Relationship Trainer at Travis Credit Union. He has dipped his toes in various fields throughout his life including screenwriting, acting, call center, video, public speaking, management, marketing, and voice-over work. Now fully recovered, he is the Senior Member Relationship Trainer at Travis Credit Union. Brent and Alex talk about going bac...

Darryn has been disrupting the current education landscapes for the past 17 years, re-igniting curiosity to learn within the workplace. Regarded as a thought leader in Learning Assessments and applied Gamification he specializes in building and applying frameworks that demystify the ‘grey’ in complex systems maximizing sustained User Engagement and FUN engagement experiences. Darryn continues to p...

Video Friday is back with Brent and Sam hosting. Special guest Colin Steed joins the two today. He is the founder and executive producer of Learning Now tv. Colin has some 40 years’ experience in the learning and performance and publishing fields. Colin is co-founder and Chief Executive of the Learning & Performance Institute and founder of The Learning Awards, LearningLive, and the Learning D...

Today we have Karen Hebert-Maccaro in the window. She is presently Chief Learning Experience Officer of O’Reilly Media, Inc. Prior to O’Reilly, Karen was Chief Learning Officer and VP of People Development at healthcare technology and biotechnology companies. Luis dropped in to cover for Brent and he and Karen discuss the ins and outs of learning on-demand. Karen’s history Learn in the moment Perf...

For nearly a decade, Andrew Hughes has made it his personal mission to ensure that commonly-used ineffective and lackluster training techniques are a thing of the past. Realizing his passion for changing the way we learn and evolve, in 2006 Andrew founded and became President of Designing Digitally, Inc., an E-Learning and Serious Game Development firm that creates fully customized learner retenti...

Monday starts the week with a special guest, Taylor Tomanio. She is an Instructional Designer at Shoptech Software where she acts as a designer, video editor, and e-learning developer. Taylor completed the Articulate Expert Training in Boson in 2018 and focuses on e-learning development and interactive training courses. Taylor has given webinars for Quinnipiac University’s Instructional Design Gra...

Topher Olsen is our guest today. What a wonderful conversation. Topher is an L&D leader for Alliance Residencial Company and he is the recent winner of the Video Awards given by Training Magazine. His amazingly creative videos are all done internally with the help of a talented videography within the company. Topher’s History His Winning Video is a Parody Video for Onboarding New Employees How...

Myra Roldan was our guest today. She brought some friends with her from EEVO Virtual Reality. They market themselves as a virtual reality product, but in Brent Schlenker's world, it’s actually interactive 360 video. It’s a fantastic solution and they are doing some great work to improve the engagement levels of training solutions. Myra Introduces Alejandro Dinsmore from EEVO We talked about VR vs...

Tameka Harris is our guest today. What a wonderful conversation. We talked a lot about what it’s like to be a newbie in the L&D industry. Tameka’s History She shared experiences of her past media production career How she transitioned to instructional design Discovering the dark gap of newbies transitioning from EDU to Corporate The tear down after your first real ID project

Today is VideoFriday! Sam Rogers and Brent Schlenker host special guest Mary Tolena. She’s a drum circle facilitator who comes from the corporate world of Organizational Development. Mary also talked with us about creating her online course on drum circle facilitation using Teachable. Mary’s history Defining Drum Circle Facilitation What was it like getting started creating a course? Her learning...

Today’s guest is Jakub Zurawinski. He talked with us about Learning Battle Cards and how they can be used to help training organizations better discover and communicate learning design solutions in a card game format. it’s a tried and tested framework and tools that introduce design thinking into the instructional design space. Jakum’s history Introduction to Learning Battle Cards How LBC is being...