With a focus on helping humanity prepare for an increasingly data and tech-driven future, Kate O’Neill, AKA the “tech humanist”, helps guide and inspire businesses to create truly meaningful human experiences. As a leading innovator across technology, marketing, and operations, Kate is a global keynote speaker, strategic advisor, and author of the recent, Tech Humanist: How … [Read more...]
7 Metalearning Moves to Empower Lifelong Learning
As learning businesses, it’s critical that we know how to empower our learners in order to achieve long-term success. That’s because empowerment is at the core of a successful business model for all learning businesses. So how can we best empower learners? It starts by committing to understanding and applying what we know related to how people learn—essentially, … [Read more...]
Showing Your Work with Jane Bozarth
As a well-known writer, speaker, and practitioner in the world of learning and development, Jane Bozarth is passionate about sharing her experiences and helping others grow. She is the Director of Research for the eLearning Guild, and author of Show Your Work: The Payoffs and How-Tos of Working out Loud. Jane also writes the popular monthly “Nuts & Bolts” column in Learning … [Read more...]
Learning Engineering and Data Analytics with Dr. Ellen Wagner
Award-winning learning technologist Dr. Ellen Wagner has extensive leadership experience in the fields learning and learning technology. She’s a self-described learning activist who co-founded the Predictive Analytics Reporting (PAR) Framework, a predictive analytics research effort. And she’s the founder and managing partner of North Coast EduVisory Services, which helps … [Read more...]
The Whys and Wheres of Leading Learning
It’s hard to believe but this officially marks the 200th episode of the Leading Learning podcast! What originally started as the lead-up to one of our Leading Learning events four years ago, the Podcast has continued to grow and evolve while providing us the tremendous opportunity to connect with learning business professionals from all over the world. In this milestone … [Read more...]
The Surprising Truth About Human Behaviors and Learning with Daniel H. Pink
Understanding the science behind topics related to human behavior can be extremely powerful for learning businesses. And Daniel H. Pink is the author of six provocative bestselling books that uncover the truth about these complex behaviors including, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, and most … [Read more...]
Leading Ultralearning with Scott H. Young
Understanding how to learn and master new and difficult skills is essential in today’s rapidly changing world. And Scott H. Young, a committed lifelong learning, blogger, and author of the newly released book, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, has spent the past decade becoming an expert on how to successfully do … [Read more...]
Creating Leverage in the Learning Business
Leverage is essential to the success of a learning business. It's about helping learners get the maximum value out of their learning experiences and it's basically the key to maximizing reach, revenue, and impact. So creating leverage for ourselves – and much more importantly, our learners – is arguably one of the most powerful things a learning business can do now, or in the … [Read more...]
The Limitless Power of Credentials with Adrienne and Keith Segundo of Limitless ASR
With almost four decades of combined experience in the association sector, Adrienne and Keith Segundo are the passionate co-founders of Limitless Association Solution Resource, a strategic association management company that specializes in credentialing. Adrienne focuses on exam development, accreditation, advance credentialing, and the marketing of credentials, while Keith … [Read more...]
Leading a Lifelong Learning Institute with Chris McLeod of OLLI at Duke
With a mission of improving quality of life and engaging minds, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI) provide a distinctive array of lifelong learning opportunities and activities specifically developed for seasoned adults who are interested in learning simply for the joy of learning. And as the director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke University, Chris … [Read more...]
Revisiting Adult Learning Theory
If we had to pick just one thing as the crux of the success of a learning business we’d definitely argue it would have to be the learning experiences—the products and services that are actually offered. That’s because the learning experiences that learning businesses provide are at the essence of what they do. But in order to effectively do this, we need to have a solid … [Read more...]