The Women Talking About Learning Podcast is, well, women talking about learning and development. Underrepresented in senior roles in the learning function, this podcast amplifies women’s voices talking about all things learning and development related. You can find more on our website www.womentalkingaboutlearning.com.
Episodes
Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
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Tuesday May 16, 2023
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com
We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast
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Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com
This week’s guests are: Donna Ward-Higgs is a high energy, enthusiastic and established Coach, Mentor, Facilitator and passionate Learning Specialist. She is the Director of Learning Partner Solutions Ltd. Donna brings a wealth of experience in designing and delivering impactful learning experiences, alongside a background of successfully developing leaders and managers across a range of sectors.
Sue Murkin has worked in coaching and learning for almost 20 years, Sue is CIPD’s Learning Delivery & Associate Manager, managing over 100 global Associates that deliver CIPD courses and the teams that operationalise learning into CIPD’s B2B & B2C markets.
Episode Links:
9 coaching skills every leader needs
Introduction to the Coaching Profession
AC GLOBAL CODE OF ETHICS For Coaches, Mentors and Supervisors
No One Cares What Your Job Title Is!
Using Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Coaching – A new study
Gender issues in business coaching
KPMG study finds 75% of executive women experience imposter syndrome
It turns out men, not women, suffer more from imposter syndrome
Tuesday May 02, 2023
Tuesday May 02, 2023
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com
We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast
You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi.
Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com
This week’s guests are
Jane Bozarth has worked in the L&D industry for more than 25 years, most of it in USA state government. In that arena she worked as classroom trainer, eLearning designer, and training program manager, and developed interest and expertise in inexpensive solutions to workplace performance solutions, particularly those with social and self-directed components. She is the author of several books, most recently "Show Your Work: The Payoffs and How-Tos of Working Out Loud" . Dr. Bozarth currently serves as Director of Research for the Learning Guild and can often be found at international speaking events and online in assorted media productions.
Jane Hart is the Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT). Jane has been advising businesses for over 25 years and currently focuses on helping organisations and learning professionals modernise their approach to workplace learning - not just by updating their training practices but by enabling and supporting continuous learning. Jane is the author of a number of online resources including Modern Workplace Learning 2022. She is an international speaker on modern approaches to workplace learning. In February 2013, the UK-based Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) presented Jane with the Colin Corder Award for Outstanding Contribution to Learning. In May 2018, the US-based ATD (Association for Talent Development) presented Jane with the Distinguished Contribution to Talent Development award. In October 2019 Jane featured in the UK-based Training Journal.Join the MWL Daily Telegram channel @MWLDaily.Email Jane at jane.a.hart@gmail.com and follow Jane on Twitter @C4LPT
Episode Links:
Articulate Elearning Heroes Community
Augmented Reality (AR) vs. Virtual Reality (VR): What's the Difference?
Quick Fixes In Business Always End In Disaster
Getting meta about the metaverse
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Summary:
This episode features guests Gwen and Sarah who discuss their passion for equality. They discuss the topic of digital and technological barriers that prevent access to the internet for everyone, and the importance of taking creative and community-focused actions to address inequality. They also emphasise the importance of managers in creating a positive work environment and taking care of their staff. The benefits of having a diverse team are discussed, along with how it can be achieved with remote work.
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com
We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast
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Guests:
This week’s guests are Gwen Calmels and Sarah Smyth
Gwen is a French Learning Professional living in Dublin, Ireland. She has 6 years of experience in Learning and Development. She’s passionate about Learning, Equality and the Future of Work. She is currently a Learning Experience Designer at Salesforce.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwendolinecalmels
Sarah is a woman in tech, striving to make a positive impact. As a Client Success and Marketing Executive at First Media, she has worked with major companies to produce diversity, equality, and inclusion modules. With a warm and empathetic personality, Sarah’s passionate about bridging the digital divide and ensuring equal opportunities for all.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-smyth-462578219/
Episode Links:
What is behind the big tech companies' job cuts?
The women of Iran are not backing down
Many Americans still don’t have internet access — Congress should help
What Is Psychological Safety at Work? How Leaders Can Build Psychologically Safe Workplaces
What is Digital Divide, consequences and how to reduce it
10,000 Women on Coursera - An Innovative Platform for Women Entrepreneurs
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com
We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast
You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi.
Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com
In this conversation, Holly, Bianca, and Jo discuss their business origin stories and the challenges faced by women in running their own business. Holly started her business to control her future as a digital nomad, Bianca wanted complete location independence after 15 years as an employee, and Jo aimed to make things better than her experiences working for others. The speakers discuss the emotional connection that women may feel to their businesses and the importance of financial independence. They also discuss a book about systematising a business and separating oneself from it to think about the structure and efficiency of operations. The conversation then moves on to legal and financial aspects of setting up a business, emphasising the importance of getting the right advice upfront. They conclude by discussing investment and ideas for those thinking about starting a business.
Holly MacDonald is the owner and “Chief Spark” of Spark + Co a custom elearning firm, based in Canada who specialize in designing and developing instructional products for external audiences. She’s been in the instructional design and elearning field since the late 1990’s (really). She’s been running Spark + Co for the past 16 ½ years and in that time has worked with over 75 clients on hundreds of projects. She’s a whale nerd and a kayaker who loves spending time in the great outdoors. Also a sucker for a good dog video.
She can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollymacdonald/ and Twitter https://twitter.com/sparkandco
The website is www.sparkandco.ca
Bianca Raby is a passionate Learning Designer, serial entrepreneur, and digital education strategist. With 20 years of experience designing, developing, and delivering learning experiences face-to-face and online, Bianca debuted as a writer in 2021 to inspire educators to become expert Learning Designers. As the CEO of Oppida—a global digital education agency—she works to raise the bar of online learning daily and believes this in-demand, emerging profession will help solve the educational challenges of today and the future.
Through her company Lightbulb Moment, Jo Cook has specialised in training learning professionals about virtual classroom and webinar design and delivery since 2013. Jo is a speaker, instructional designer and classroom facilitator. Jo’s passion is in helping and supporting teams, professionals and organisations embrace the benefits of the live online learning technology and her background includes: further and higher education; the charity sector; small and large organisations, including CNN News and Bupa International.
Find out more about Jo and her work on her website: www.lightbulbmoment.online and follow @LightbulbJo on Twitter
Episode Links:
Feel like your life is a hamster wheel? Here’s how to get off it
Autonomy at work is important (now more than ever)
A Mother’s Role in Raising a Confident Daughter
23 Pro Tips for Running a Successful Business
What’s the Best Business Structure for a Contractor?
The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship
The Surprising Psychology of Successful Entrepreneurs and Why They Take the Risk
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com
We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast
You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi.
Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com
This week’s guests are
Kristen Hayden Safdie has done a little bit of a lot in learning, from managing 10-week online courses for members of an association to developing a tabletop card game to teach kids emergency skills. She currently works in finance, as she explains to her 6-year-old daughter, "helping people do their jobs the best they can".
Lorna Leeson created Little Tent, a Leadership Development and Executive Coaching consultancy, because she felt that that was a better way for work to work for humans. She partners CEOs and their teams to shift cultures, drive performance and create workplaces where people thrive. Empathy is a cornerstone value of her work –believing that when leaders lead with greater compassion for themselves and the people around them truly transformational things can happen.
Helen Hill is owner of UnlikelyGenius™️ Ltd and co-founder of environmental initiative Be The Future. She specialises in producing creative educational resources alongside delivering small business and sustainability coaching. Working predominantly in the wellbeing, mindset and environmental spaces, she has a strong focus on helping you, your business and the planet to thrive.
Episode Links:
The Psychology of Emotional and Cognitive Empathy
The Importance of Empathy in the Workplace
Human brains are hardwired for empathy, friendship
Nursing for nurses and by nurses for the care of all.
How empathy can help teams thrive, post-Covid
Nancy Klein’s Thinking Environment
Females on average perform better than males on a ‘theory of mind’ test across 57 countries
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com
We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast
You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi.
Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com
This week’s guests are Iffat Iqbal, Dr Sara Thompson, and Rachael Smith.
Iffat Iqbal has worked as a Learning & Development Professional for over 14 years, in the energy, financial services & social housing sectors. Iffat works with Platform Housing Group as Learning & Organisational Development Business Partner. Iffat likes to make a difference, especially in the areas of Learning & Development as well Equity, Diversity & Inclusion. She is also an advocate and active supporter of local domestic abuse charities, and passionately believes in empowering others.
You can contact Iffat on LinkedIn
Dr. Sara Thompson is an adjunct professor and faculty associate in the M. S. Military and Emergency Responder Psychology program at Colorado State University – Global campus, and a learning experience designer for Ellucian. In addition to possessing a doctorate degree in psychology, Sara possess an M. Ed. in Learning Design and Technology and a M. S. In Human Services. Sara has over 20 years’ experience in higher education, online learning, instructional design, clinical mental health counselling and human services, and non-profit advocacy work. Sara is an advocate for women who have experienced domestic/intimate partner violence and presents on domestic violence when asked. In her free time Sara can be found on the beach or relaxing at home with both her cat fur babies (Miss Carolina and Good Kitty).
You can contact Sara on LinkedIn
Racheal Smith is Head of Learning and Insights with Entelechy. She has been in a learning-focused career, starting in teaching, leadership in education, and as a chief examiner. In her role, she champions the power that character-based learning can offer.
You can contact Racheal on LinkedIn
Episode Links:
Brene Brown Power of Vulnerability
The Formula to Finding Purpose: How to Find Your Ikigai
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Perspectives on the study of work life balance
High-Functioning Anxiety: Symptoms, Causes And Treatment
Women talking about learning the imposter syndrome one
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com or on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast.
You can donate to support the podcast via Ko-Fi.
You can e-mail us at hello@llarn.com
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Additional notes:
Accion Opportunity Fund - resources for small businesses
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
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This week's guests are:
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com or on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast.
You can donate to support the podcast via Ko-Fi.
You can e-mail us at hello@llarn.com
Helen Bailey is an award winning Interim L&D specialist and has worked in L&D for over 20 years across a variety of sectors including education, healthcare, retail and transport. She is passionate about Mental Health, Leadership Development and Evidence Based L&D and has delivered talks on the latter for CIPD local branches.
Rachel Burnham is Director and Consultant for Burnham L&D. She has worked in L&D and OD for about 30 years and is still learning about learning and people. She specialises using visuals to help people work, think and learn more effectively and is an avid Sketchnoter. She has worked across the private, public and voluntary sectors and currently is the Chair of CIPD Manchester.
She can be found on Twitter @BurnhamLandD and you can read her blogs at L&D Matters.
Show Links
The Influences of Emotion on Learning and Memory
Dual Coding Theory (Allan Paivio)
Mehrabian's Communication Theory: Verbal, Non-Verbal, Body Language
The Learning and Development Handbook` | Learning Practitioner's Toolkit
Radical Candor In 6 Minutes With Kim Scott
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking
The Evidence Base One - The Women Talking About Learning Podcast
Are learning theories even relevant any more?
Principles of Accelerated Learning
Evidence-based L&D: business-not-as-usual