SureSkills Learn to Grow Podcast
by Simon Behan
The Learn to Grow Podcast is an anecdotal look at the learning landscape aimed at L&D and HR professionals. I interview leaders in learning about their experience first-hand in the world of learning and development helping people and organizations reach their potential. We discuss top trends including learning technology, the role of learning cultures, and the foundations of a successful learning experience. We believe learning and growth are intertwined, both for individuals and organizations. Individuals learn to grow within their roles, careers, and personal lives. Organizations' learning programs are now major contributors to business success, helping them attract and retain top talent, upskill and reskill, and adapt to the inevitable changes the future will bring. In this podcast, we speak to leaders in the learning and development industry about the learning landscape.
Episodes
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Dr. Keith Keating (BDO Canada): How Learning Changes Lives
My guest this week is Dr. Keith Keating, CLO at BDO Canada and an influential author whose latest book, Hidden Value, reveals how learning can drive tangible business outcomes that traditional metrics often miss—turning capability building into a true competitive advantage. (Sidenote: for anyone...
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Brian Murphy (NTT DATA): How to Double Down on Human Capabilities
What does it take to build a learning culture for 180,000 people? My guest today is Brian Murphy, Global Head of Learning & Development at NTT DATA. Before this role, Brian led transformational learning at Citi, AstraZeneca, and Microsoft, and he’s known for turning big ideas into practical...
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Learn to Grow Shorts: Learnership and the Power of Interdisciplinarity
Learn to Grow Shorts – Learnership and the Power of Interdisciplinarity Welcome to another Learn to Grow Shorts, where I reflect on a topic of particular interest from my most recent conversation—and today I’m looking back on my discussion with Ed Monk, CEO of the Learning and Performance...
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Ed Monk (LPI): Embracing 'Learnership' in a 'Learn it all' World
On the latest episode of the Learn to Grow Podcast, I welcome back Ed Monk, one of my favorite past guests on the show. Ed is the CEO of the Learning and Performance Institute—a leader who doesn’t just talk about change, he lives it. Ed is known for pushing the boundaries of how we learn, how we...
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Learn to Grow Shorts: Take Yourself On as a Project
Welcome to another episode of Learn to Grow shorts, where I reflect on a topic of particular interest from our most recent episode. Last time, I chatted with Ruth Gotian, who’s hard at work on her latest book after the wonderful “Success Factor” made such a splash a couple of years back. In our...
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Dr. Ruth Gotian (Weill Cornell Medicine): How to take yourself on as a project
Welcome to the SureSkills Learn to Grow Podcast where we discuss the learning landscape with leaders in learning. My guest today is Dr. Ruth Gotian. Dr. Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer at Weill Cornell Medicine and a highly sought after executive coach and mentor – in fact she’s been named…
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Learn to Grow Shorts: Building a Habit of Deliberate Practice
On the latest episode of the podcast, Microsoft's Karen Kocher implores learners to try something new every day – she cites studies that have shown that even eleven minutes a day over period of eleven weeks was enough to have a significant impact not just on skill development but on learning how…
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Karen Kocher (Microsoft): How to be a ‘learn-it-all’ in a time of constant change
Thrilled to kick off a new wave of episodes of the Learn to Grow Podcast with a very special guest - Karen Kocher, Microsoft’s Global General Manager for the Future of Work, Workforce of the Future, and Employee Experiences. In this episode, we explore a mindset that is becoming increasingly...
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Erika Ullmann (Virgin Media Ireland): The Increasing Need for Intentional Learning
My latest guest on the Learn to Grow Podcast is Erika Ullmann, Learning and Development Director at Virgin Media Ireland. Erika is one of the most conscientious L&D leaders I have met, and she is doing incredible work not just providing learning opportunities, but opening peoples eyes to their...
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Christopher Lind (ChenMed): The Airing of Grievances
Christopher is the dynamic and engaging host of Learning Tech Talks and founder of Learning Sharks, both projects that feature as part of his mission to shape the future of workforce development. He is the Chief Learning Officer at ChenMed and a vastly experienced learning professional with a...
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Todd Moran (NovoEd) - Learning Experience in the Platform Economy
In this episode, I am delighted welcome Todd Moran, Chief Learning Strategist at NovoEd. Todd is one of the industry’s great thinkers, a learning professional deeply attuned to what’s happening right now in the world of workplace learning and development. The conversation is filled with insights...
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Learn to Grow Shorts: Long Life Learning by Michelle Weise
This week’s episode comes in the form of a reading recommendation! In our most recent episode we discussed the fact that learning can’t simply take place at the beginning of our “careers” it has to happen throughout. That is exactly the point Michelle Weise makes in her excellent book “Long Life...
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Kirk Werner (Udacity) - The Future of Learning Content
My guest this week is content guru Kirk Werner who is the VP of content at Udacity. Kirk played a major role as Lynda.com revolutionized online learning and continues to push the envelope at Udacity helping learners build future-focused skills. If you are at all interested in where the future of...
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Learn to Grow Shorts: Practical Applications and the Huberman Lab Podcast
Today I am following up on the conversation with Ruth Gotian, Chief Learning Officer at Weill Cornell Medicine and author of The Success Factor: Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Business Performance – I will add a link to the pre-order Ruth’s book in the show notes. (pre-order here…
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Dr. Ruth Gotian (Weill Cornell Medicine) - What We Can Learn from Nobel Laureates and Elite High Achievers
My latest guest on the Learn to Grow Podcast is Dr. Ruth Gotian who is the Chief Learning Officer at Weill Cornell Medicine and Assistant professor of education anesthesiology, former assistant dean of mentoring and executive director of the mentoring academy at Weill Cornell. Ruth is a frequent...
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Learn to Grow Shorts: The Practical Beauty of Virtual Labs
Reflecting on my conversation with Joe, there are so many things I love about his approach to labs. The first is that his story about how a training session inadvertently turned into a lab demonstrates some really cool aspects of learning – from both the mentor/educator perspective and from the...
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Joe Mansfield (SureSkills) - The Rise of Virtual Labs
My guest this week is our very own Joe Mansfield, who heads up our Virtual Labs team as the lead technical content developer here at SureSkills. Joe and his team are building virtual lab training for some of the world’s leading organizations, and I thought it would be cool to have him on to…
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Learn to Grow Shorts: Read All About It!
I have talked a lot about culture of late, so here are some reading recommendations if you'd like to dive deeper! The Culture Code, by Daniel Coyle Mindset, by Carol Dweck Start with Why, by Simon Sinek
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Michael F D Anaya (Palo Alto Networks) - Building a Learning Culture (Part 1)
My guest this week is Michael Anaya, Head of Attack Surface Analysis at Cortex by Palo Alto Networks. Michael and I connected a while back and I was fascinated by both his background as an FBI special agent and the challenge facing him in his current role as he implements a vision for his team. I...
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Learn to Grow Shorts: Splitting the Atomization
Atomization is the breaking down of jobs into projects and tasks, individual pieces that can be completed and tracked. This means organizations are looking to match talent to task so they can use the highest quality, lowest cost actor to complete the work. Why is atomization happening and why…
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Heather McGowan (Adaptation Advantage) - Learning in the Human Capital Era
I am proud to kick off the second season of the Learn to Grow Podcast with special guest Heather McGowan, co-author (with Chris Shipley) of The Adaptation Advantage. Heather is renowned internationally as a keynote speaker, a regular Forbes contributor, and a futurist outlining how learning and...
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Learn to Grow Shorts: A Mention for Mentors
This week I welcomed Shelley Osborne to the podcast, and we talked through some of the core concepts of her book The Upskilling Imperative. The thing that stood out to me this week was the importance of mentors, and in particular of feedback. Shelley and the crew at Udemy are big on feedback and...
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Shelley Osborne (Udemy) - Why Learning is the Future of Work
My guest this week is Shelley Osborne who is the VP of Learning at Udemy and author of “The Upskilling Imperative”, a wonderfully insightful book centered on how to make learning core to the way we work. I was so happy Shelley agreed to be on the podcast and she certainly didn’t disappoint. I…
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Learn to Grow Shorts: The Long and Short of Learning
I Loved Anna’s question because one of the things we have to do is to reconcile our short and long term goals – in the short term, how do we make sure we get through a really challenging time when so much is unpredictable, when it comes to the demand for our services, the economy, etc. Balancing...
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Joe Moriarty (Raven360) - Pandemic Pivots and Training-led Growth
This week my guest is Joe Moriarty, CEO of Raven360, a corporate Learning Management System for Training-led Growth. They deliver personalized training experiences for customers, partners and employees in a single platform. In our conversation we discuss how pandemic pivots have revealed new...
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Learn to Grow Shorts: Always Learning, Never "Educated"
This week I was talking to Kingsley Aikins about the importance of interpersonal skills in the workplace and to your value as an employee. One of the things he mentioned was that Teams often talk electronically but don’t speak to each other interpersonally, and that connection is something that…
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Kingsley Aikins (The Networking Institute) - Networking Today: Connected Clusters of Creative People
My guest this week is Kingsley Aikins, CEO of the Networking Institute – where he shares his unique approach to networking through a proven methodology with a global audience. Kingsley is an incredible speaker with so much experience that wisdom simply teems out of him uncontrollably. He has so...
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Learn to Grow Shorts: Mehta Data
Each week we follow up conversations with a reflection on a particular topic of interest and I call it Learn to Grow Shorts. Today, I’m looking back on my conversation with Karl Mehta, one of the most interesting points Karl brought up was that organizations are using the immense amount of data...
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Karl Mehta (Edcast) - Knowledge Clouds and the Future of Learning
This week’s guest is Karl Mehta, CEO of Edcast, one of the hottest companies in learning technology. Karl is an innovative thinker who left his role as a venture capitalist to build Edcast, which has been widely hailed as the top learning platform on the market (as you will hear, Karl and the…
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Learn to Grow Shorts: Hiring Culture
In my conversation with Kris, she mentioned hiring for values fit, not necessarily culture fit. I think that makes sense, because hiring for culture fit certainly has its downsides – there was a ludicrous example of the investment banking firm that only hired former male Lacrosse players, because...
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Kris Reynolds (Gitlab) - Beyond Enablement: Operationalized Learning in a Rapidly Changing Environment
My guest this week is enablement guru Kris Reynolds who has vast experience and is currently the Field Enablement Manager at GitLab. In this conversation, we talk about: A definition for “enablement”, which often means different things to different people, and why it matters so much The…
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Learn to Grow Shorts: From Viewing to Doing
On Learn to Grow Shorts, we follow up on the most recent podcast conversation to highlight one topic of particular interest. I had a great time talking to Ed, and looking back on our conversation, the thing I want to highlight this week is the importance of practically applying what you learn....
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Ed Monk (LPI) - Why Learning is an Economic Imperative
My guest this week is the super talented and engaging Ed Monk, CEO of the Learning and Performance Institute. In this conversation, we discuss: The difference between a training landscape and a learning landscape The need for agile, democratized learning The accelerated nature of digital...
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Learn to Grow Shorts: What We Can Learn from Hermit Crabs
On Learn to Grow Shorts, we follow up on the most recent podcast conversation to highlight one topic of particular interest. This week I was talking to Christopher Lind, and we talked about the extent to which L&D roles are evolving because of the increasing emphasis on learning experience design...
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Christopher Lind (GE) - The Role of Technology in the Learning Experience
My guest this week is Christopher Lind, Head of Global Digital Learning for GE Healthcare and host of the hugely popular Learning Tech Talks. We covered a lot of ground in this one, but the common thread was how technology is reshaping the learning landscape, and we preview Christopher’s big push...
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Learn to Grow Shorts – The Domino Effect of Mindful Leadership
After each podcast we like to do a short, follow-up musing prompted by the conversation. When I talked with Rashim Mogha, I asked her about mindful leadership and she was adamant that a productive culture begins with mindful leadership. It reminded me of the 2020 Workplace Learning Report that...
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Rashim Mogha (Automation Anywhere) - Learning, Leadership, and Culture in Changing Times
Rashim Mogha is an innovative leader, mentor to many, and prominent women-in-tech evangelist. She is the best-selling author of “Fast Track your Leadership Career” and has been recognized as one of top 100 keynote speakers. She advises startups, mentors emerging leaders, and runs a successful...
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Welcome to the SureSkills Learn to Grow Podcast
The Learn to Grow Podcast is an anecdotal look at the learning landscape aimed at L&D and HR professionals. I interview leaders in learning about their experience first-hand in the world of learning and development helping people and organizations reach their potential. We discuss top trends...
About this show
The Learn to Grow Podcast is an anecdotal look at the learning landscape aimed at L&D and HR professionals. I interview leaders in learning about their experience first-hand in the world of learning and development helping people and organizations reach their potential. We discuss top trends including learning technology, the role of learning cultures, and the foundations of a successful learning experience. We believe learning and growth are intertwined, both for individuals and organizations. Individuals learn to grow within their roles, careers, and personal lives. Organizations' learning programs are now major contributors to business success, helping them attract and retain top talent, upskill and reskill, and adapt to the inevitable changes the future will bring. In this podcast, we speak to leaders in the learning and development industry about the learning landscape.
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