Learning Is The New Working
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Skills Obsession: A 'third age' of human capital management w/Workday's Greg Pryor
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Another RedThread Rewind episode: “I think we have to help organizations get out of the way and let people unleash and unlock their ca-pabilities in...
Integrating Inclusion: It’s light you want, not heat, w/Jesse Jackson, JPMorgan Chase
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes you feel you’re in the eye of the hurricane: so much is happening in terms of our wider society in terms of changing expectations, changin...
The Skills Obsession: Learning The Many Languages of Skills w/Mars’s Nuno Gonçalves
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I think that in the future, what will be really necessary in terms of skills are people that talk different languages of skills… talking differen...
Integrating Inclusion: creating space for courageous conversations, w/Rachel Fichter, S&PGlobal
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are there three sets of people in Inclusion: the folks doing the ground-level work on DEIB, maybe the researchers way off in the academic stratosphere...
The Skills Obsession: Designing the Skills Future w/Lisa Kay Solomon of the Stanford d.school
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“What I introduce [my students] to are the kinds of skills that allow them to navigate ambiguity.” If that seems like urgently-needed capability y...
Why Microsoft’s Shelby Grieve thinks managers should be measured by a lot more than how many donuts they bring in for the team
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In December 2020, I was invited to host three live Learning podcasts at last year’s HR Innovation and Tech Fest (#HRTechFest), a week-long event hos...
A special cross-over episode from RedThread’s new deep dive into all things Skills
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our thematic Season 5—‘The Learning Leaders’—we’ve been meeting both new and seasoned leaders from industry, academia, and technology. Th...
How an open and experimental mindset, passion for the topic and a love of haikus helped Glisi's L&D team deliver extraordinary DEI impact
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you're working for a body whose main mission is to develop a Georgia where schools and communities pursue breakthrough success for all students reg...
What we now know about the real meaning of purpose for Learning & Development
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, the Business Roundtable surprised many when it declared that companies should have a purpose beyond serving shareholders—that the corporati...
'Do we understand the outsized impact we can have on people’s lives?’ Bersin Academy co-founder Bill Pelster on the power of Learning
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With Season 6, we’ve been looking into the implications of the global pandemic on the future of work and Workplace Learning. This week we get the he...
We made the pivot to online, but now let’s make it great: virtual training expert Cindy Huggett
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Now we’re (still) all meeting virtually, making virtual events work is a priority, but many organisations have struggled to make them work: it’s p...
‘Survive, Revive, and Thrive:’ Air New Zealand CLO Sydney Savion
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In December 2020, I was invited to host three live Learning podcasts at last year’s HR Innovation and Tech Fest (#HRTechFest), a week-long event hos...
Why EY thinks ‘purpose + vision + long-term value’ is the real purpose power equation
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2013, Big Four consulting firm Ernst & Young, a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and consulting services, rebranded as ‘EY.’ What m...
“Purpose always comes out strongest when there's a moment of strife:” IDEO U’s Suzanne Gibbs Howard
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
First there was IDEO, an award-winning global design firm that decided to take a human-centered, design-based approach to help organisations innovate ...
Can even venture capitalists have Purpose? The answer will surprise you
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does Purpose help the bottom line? It’s a fair question, surely—maybe, ultimately, the best question we can really ask ourselves in business as th...
‘I try to help people grow and evolve in a way that’s good for both them and us’—Sanofi, Empowering Life and its employees
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Celia Berenguer. since November 2017 Chief Learning Officer at European-headquarterted Life Sciences giant Sanofi, couldn’t have been more excited g...
‘A big organisation, but one with heart.’ Johnson & Johnson—the original Purpose-based company?
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Near the end of today’s episode our guest tells us that, “My Purpose is to bring hope to every employee of Johnson & Johnson.” We have no doubt ...
Leadership strategist and Purpose thinker Dan Pontefract, and a mid-season review
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ask today’s guest, Dan Pontefract, about his current mission and he’ll tell you, “If we want Purpose to happen, maybe we need to take a look at ...
Rachel Fichter, S&P Global, and Purpose: ’You can’t just come up with a Purpose that doesn’t match who you are’
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wall St might not be the most obvious place to find a company with Purpose. But when we meet someone like today’s Season 7 ‘Is Purpose Working?’...
‘Written on very, very important paper:’ Medtronic--and what having a Purpose for 60 years gives you
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we dig deeper into answering our question ‘Is Purpose Working?’ we find that while Purpose is a very new concept for many, having a conscious o...
‘We really need to invest right now in human skills:’ our Purpose exploration continues, with Aaron Hurst
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Purpose has become more and more a key concept for modern organizations: type ‘Purpose in American business’ into Google, and you’ll get 1,740,0...
Is Purpose Working? A special Learning Futures Group-RedThread Research exploration
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Back in August 2019, the Business Roundtable—an association of chief executive officers of America’s leading companies—said that the Purpose of ...
‘Culture is a verb, not a noun:’ a sit down with L&D influencer Melissa Daimler
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Founder & Principal of boutique HR consulting firm Daimler Partners, Melissa Daimler has always said that if you do it right, work is the best learnin...
Is coding the new typing?
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Time was, the biggest L&D brand was a long-vanished enterprise called the Katherine Gibbs school. What it taught: the hugely in-demand skill of workin...
Why you need to start loving problems—not your (ha ha) ‘solutions' for them
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a question that’s fascinated me my entire professional life: How might technology change the future of Learning and Work? But actually, as ...
A Commitment To True Cultural and Cognitive Diversity: Fernando Sanchez-Arias, CLICK Institute
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Way back in 2019, we started this fifth season of the podcast, ‘Learning Leaders,’ with a commitment to let you hear from Learning Leaders from in...
A SORTA FIRST BIRTHDAY SPECIAL! 'Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste'
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our first birthday as a podcast! Though actually just over a full circle round the Sun, we’re still celebrating… yup, an amazing 16 months ...
If No Two People Listen The Same, Why Do We Think They THINK The Same? Dana Dupuis, Listening Thinker, Mandel Communications
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, in our on-going COVID-19 related mini-Season here at ‘Learning Is The New Working,’ ‘From What-If To What Now?’ we kicked off a spe...
‘My name is Oscar Trimboli, and I am on a quest to create 100 million Deep Listeners in the world’
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our on-going COVID-19 mini-Season at ‘Learning Is The New Working,’ ‘From What-If To What Now?’ we’re exploring what the massive change r...
'So Many Possibilities:' Gina Jeneroux, Chief Learning Officer, BMO Financial Group
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What’s it like trying to lead change at a two century old beloved brand? Precisely the question we asked this week’s guest, Gina Jeneroux, who’s...
From Adaptive Learning To Learning Engineering: Nick Howe, Area9 Lyceum
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With a 25-year plus pedigree in applying advanced algorithms to Learning, Danish company Area9 Lyceum believes that we should encourage Learners to ma...
Making L&D Contribute To A Sense Of Organisational Purpose: Julie Dervin, Global Head of L&D at Cargill
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our ongoing ‘Learning Leaders’ thematic season here at Learning Is The New Working, we’re super-keen on getting real insights into how the Ch...
'Better Than Yesterday, But Not As Good As Tomorrow:' A Second Chance To Listen To Our Chat With RedThread's Dani Johnson
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hi y'all, hope you are all staying healthy and safe. We're taking a vacation this week, and so we're re-publishing one of our most listened to episode...
Novartis's Simon Brown Is Fighting COVID19 While Building a Curiosity Culture
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How will COVID impact Workplace Learning? One person I thought could definitely answer that in our ongoing ‘Learning Leaders’ thematic season here...
PwC's Sarah McEneaney: How to Future Proof 50,000 People Using 'Citizen-Led' Innovation
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Human capital strategist Sarah McEneaney, Digital Talent Leader at consulting giant PwC US, and who works alongside L&D professionals on a daily basis...
The Day Russell Butler's Highly Successful L&D Business Broke, What He Did Next, And What We Must All Learn From It
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The 2020 Covid19 Pandemic might just be the most disruptive event in the last 60 years. It has, amongst many devastating social and personal effects, ...
E&Y’s Mary Slaughter On Why The Fact Your Brain Comes With 150 Different Biases Built-In Is Not A Problem
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we dialog with a very well-known figure in L&D - and one who’s definitely been applying Science to Learning, so much so that you’ll need...
A Week's Pause To Listen To Other Voices
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are taking a pause this week. A pause for reflection and learning, a pause in recognition of the systemic racial injustice in our societies, our wo...
"In Africa, We Know Grants Can Not Take Us To The Next Level;" Ugandan Social Investor Joyce Tamale
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you help get a new podcast off the ground? In this new episode of our on-going Learning 4 Good season, we’re working to find out. That’s be...
Why Microsoft’s Krishna Madhavan Knows Learning Is "The New Productivity”
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With over 20 years of experience working in math, applied linguistics and engineering in both Higher Education and industry, applying his skills to ev...
Robert Poynton On How To Create, And Hold, A "Space To Learn"
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With a third of humanity still in various forms of Lockdown, the worlds of Work and Learning hare changing radically, indeed will arguably never be th...
Turning Disaster Into Purpose: Cornerstone's Tina Bolding
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our on-going Learning 4 Good season, we’re working to find out what corporate L&D can learn from the innovative Non-Governmental Organizations, P...
In The Age Of Google And Netflix... Why Is It Still So Difficult To Learn? Enter the Knowledge Cloud
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest episode of our ‘Learning Leaders’/Season 5 stream of the podcast, I have the privilege of sharing one of the most stimulating conve...
Digital Humanitarianism Is Our Best Hope For The Future Now
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On last week’s ‘Learning 4 Good' episode, we broadcast a late 2019 interview we’d conducted with one of the Directors of the Humanitarian Leader...
We’re All Human. But Are We All Actually Humanitarians? HLA Director Nicolas Kroeger
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our on-going Learning 4 Good stream on the podcast we are trying to find out what corporate L&D can learn from the way NGOs, private social enterpr...
"Your Brand's Going To Be Defined For A Long Time By What You Do Now:" Kevin Oakes, i4cp
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode since COVID-19’s grim debut and the lockdown of three billion of us worldwide, we offer some thoughts on ‘What-If’ to ‘Wh...
How CAEL’s Working To Develop A Sustainable Talent Pipeline
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we go back to that mysterious, pre-Pandemic world where we all went outside and met other humans! Remember them days? Sigh. In this case, it...
“Fresh Insights Into Development Effectiveness:” The World Bank's Sheila Jagannathan
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode in our on-going 'Learning 4 Good' season, where we are finding our what corporate L&D can learn from how Non-Governmental Organi...
Be Safe, Everybody: A Special Message To Our Listeners
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the light of our current extraordinary circumstances, our host Chris Pirie takes stock of where we are, what we need to focus on, and what we need ...
Dealing With A Time Of Declining Skill 'Half-Lives': Change In The Higher Education Sector, With Northeastern’s Dr Sean Gallagher
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What has the impact of digital been on the Higher Education sector? Is it almost kind of easier to get ‘into’ Harvard or MIT at postgraduate level...
De-constructing Training For Work: Maryana Iskander, Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If the age of permanent work is over, should we start talking about 'trampoline careers' instead? This week, we talk to a Learning Influencer at the ...
Reimagining Education - At Scale: edX's Anant Agarwal
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
MOOCs are getting bad press - that student engagement and completion rates are very low. But at edX.or, 60% of all and paid-for work gets completed, i...
"Social Media? Don’t Mention It - It’ll Never Happen At This Company:" ‘The 2020 Workplace,’ Ten Years On
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we mark the tenth anniversary of landmark L&D manifesto 'The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow's ...
The Beauty That Comes From Constraint, With Chris Proulx From Humentum
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wherein we sit down with Chris Proulx at Humentum, the global membership association providing training, convening, and support. Working towards so...
Arist: The Mies van der Rohe School Of Microlearning?
01 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We take a deep dive into a new take on Learning: doing it 1,200 characters at a time. That’s via an app called Arist, a text message-based Learning ...
‘There’s Just Not Good Training For The Global South:’ Nick Martin, President and CEO, TechChange
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
TechChange.org is a social enterprise all about providing online professional development in technology and social change. In this episode of the ‘L...
Babbel’s Geoff Stead Talks To Us About What Hipster Tech Language Enthusiasm Can Give You
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Helping us all learn a new language since its 2007 foundation, subscription-based language learning app and e-learning platform Babbel offers more tha...
‘Platforms Are Neither Good Nor Bad - They Simply Are:’ Matt Donovan, Instructional Design Leader
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Matt Donovan, 19-year eLearning veteran who’s now Vice President at GP Strategies Corporation and who’s an all-round expert in everything fro...
‘Connecting Young People In East Africa To Big Ideas:’ Informal Education Media Youth Brand 'Well Told Story'’s CEO, Rob Burnet
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a really stimulating conversation, my colleague Lutz Ziob talks about all kinds of futures with the CEO of Kenyan-based training, media and communi...
Getting Away From Charity And Achieving Impact At Last; Devex's Raj Kumar's On Global Aid Trendlines
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in on over an hour of discussion on the huge changes the $200bn global aid sector is undergoing with someone at the center of the debate - Wash...
Working Out Loud: Sea Salt Learning’s Julian Stodd
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Stodd is Captain and Founder of innovative independent Workplace Learning company Sea Salt Learning. Physically located on the South Coast of t...
Learning 4 Good - Or, ‘How Learning Helps Those Who Do Good, Do It Better’
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this special Season overview episode, I shoot the Learning 4 Good breeze - on his birthday! -with my fellow Season collaborator Lutz Ziob. Microsof...
The Algorithms That Can Help us Conquer Our Fears
11 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We dialog with young edtech entrepreneur Danish Dhamani, whose Philly-based start-up, Orai (‘Oral’ + ‘AI’), offers a speech coach on your cell...
How Visa’s Turning Learning Into A Strategic Lever
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we sat down to talk with Gordon Trujilo, Head of Learning Enablement at global financial payment platform Visa, where he is also a VP of the Vi...
Training Also Has To Be For The 3-Shift Grocery Store Clerk
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A big welcome for this episode to influencer JD Dillon, Chief Learning Architect at microlearning leader Axonify and, of course, a well-known L&D comm...
'At LinkedIn, We Believe In Drinking Our Own Champagne'
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week ‘Learning Is The New Working’ meets former Oracle and Tesla Sales Enablement ninja Ben Putterman, who is now tasked with helping colleag...
Yeah, All This 'AI' In Your Edtech Product, Bub... What's It REALLY Do?
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a wide-ranging conversation, ‘Learning Is The New Working’ sits down with Dr Stella Lee, a Vancouver-based Digital Learning Strategist, Educato...
Degreed: 'Your Marathon Time 10 Years Back Is Not A Fitness Metric For Today'
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today, please give a warm welcome to Kelly Palmer, edtech leader Degreed’s official Workplace Futurist, L&D trend thought leader. Kelly, the former ...
'The Accountability Is The Learning' - Airbnb's Kate Shaw (Part 2 of 2)
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We continue to work through the problem of Change in both society and Workplace Learning with the second part of our special Season 2 opener, our two-...
To Airbnb Via The Soviet Union & Star Wars: Airbnb's Kate Shaw (Part 1 of 2)
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s work through the problem of Change in both society and Workplace Learning with the first part of a two-part debate with Kate Shaw, Director of...
How Come We Think It's OK For Sales People To Miss 70% Of Quota?
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listen, to learn from, Sanchita Sur, Founder and CEO of Emplay, the company behind Sales GPS, the only AI-based turn-by-turn Sales Enablement coaching...
Why I Love The People Who Don't Finish Our Program
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listen, to learn together, to ex-Microsoft bootcamp business model disruptor Ludo Fourrage, Founder and Chief Product & Learning Officer of Nucamp, on...
From Wild West Scholar To North West Ed Tech Entrepreneur
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listen, to learn from Sam Herring, CEO & Co-Founder of Seattle-based ed tech leader Intrepid by VitalSource on how researching the individual stories ...
The Human Superpower The Robots Will Never Have
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listen, to learn, from Dani Johnson, Co-Founder and Principal Analyst of RedThread Research on why living on a mountain in Utah is kinda great for get...
You Now Live On Planet VUCA. Deal With It
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listen, to learn, from well-known author and commentator on Workplace Learning issues Lisa Kay Solomon on: How a part of The Philly Diaspora ended up ...
Why Workplace Learning Is In Crisis - And What We Can Do About It
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our launch season trailer, hear from former Microsoft CLO and now independent Workplace Learning consultant Chris Pirie, CEO & Founder of The Learn...