Our guests this week are Nandita Kulkarni and Tabitha Dragonbery. Nandita started her career designing learning and facilitating in the academic context. Having moved to the corporate sphere more than 14 years ago, she has worked across different geographies and led teams delivering learning especially in the technology-led space. Currently in Dubai, she brings a strong consultative mindset with a holistic design perspective to every project. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nandita-kulkarni-bhandarkar-94251a43/ Tabatha Dragonberry is a Learning and Development professional with a varied background both in academia and corporate. She is passionate about helping others who are getting into instructional design as a coach and mentor. She is also a Registered Respiratory Therapist and continues to serve the health care community as the host of The Vent Room Podcast. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tabathadragonberry/ https://www.tabathadragonberryid.com/ Episode Links: What is Instructional Design? - https://www.td.org/talent-development-glossary-terms/what-is-instructional-design What is Learning Experience Design? - https://lxd.org/fundamentals-of-learning-experience-design/what-is-learning-experience-design Six Sigma - https://www.isixsigma.com/new-to-six-sigma/getting-started/what-six-sigma/ EduTok - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/tiktok-announces-edutok-programme-to-empower-first-time-internet-users-hone-their-soft-skills/articleshow/71631407.cms 5 Whys - https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_5W.htm Just enough learning - https://lostanddesperate.com/2020/09/24/just-enough/ Pet stars - https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81002465 Aaron’s animals - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNo5PGwGmfnEprEUUb9AGgw Gamification - https://www.gamify.com/what-is-gamification#:~:text=Gamification%20is%20the%20application%20of,the%20characteristics%20of%20game%20elements.&text=Some%20classic%20game%20elements%20are%3B%20Points%2C%20Badges%2C%20and%20Leaderboards. Learning objectives - https://lostanddesperate.com/2019/09/19/learning-objectives/?utm_source=pocket_mylist Keeping Up with the Kardashians - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_Up_with_the_Kardashians A call to men - https://www.ted.com/talks/tony_porter_a_call_to_men Why I’m done trying to be man enough - https://www.ted.com/talks/justin_baldoni_why_i_m_done_trying_to_be_man_enough Esther Perel - https://www.estherperel.com/ ========================================================= 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.
Our guests this week are Serena Gonsalves-Fersch and Dr Alaina Szlachta. Serena is the head of SoftwareONE’s Talent Academy – an initiative focusing on developing and employing the next generation of talent across the world, whilst giving back in education and opportunities to local communities. An accomplished and recognised Learning & Talent Development senior leader, Serena thrives in fast paced and exploratory environments where her creative and intuitive leadership are highly valued. She is a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute, and currently also a doctoral candidate at Middlesex University, researching into the future of Learning and the L&D function in technology accelerating organisations. Serena has operated globally and across cultures as head of internal learning functions, a management consultant for external clients, and as a service line lead with client/ revenue responsibility. Dr. Alaina Szlachta is a learning architect and mission-driven entrepreneur. She founded the company By Design Development Solutions, helping authors and entrepreneurs translate their unique subject matter expertise into consumer learning products that cause positive transformation. With over 12 years of experience in teaching, instructional design, program management, and educational evaluation, Alaina has proudly served industry experts in higher education, diversity and inclusion, finance, victim services, real estate, healthcare, and software development. When Alaina is not building learning products, you can find her renovating houses, taking long walk-and-talks with friends, and working out with her 82-year-old mentor. Connect with Alaina on LinkedIn, Instagram or via her website: www.Bydesigndevelopmentsolutions.com Episode Links: Build vs Buy - https://medium.com/adobetech/when-to-build-vs-buy-enterprise-platform-risks-benefits-and-considerations-fea358449b30 Transfer Success - https://www.td.org/insights/transfer-success-is-manageable-but-how Work Learning Research - https://www.worklearning.com/ 5 moments of need - https://www.5momentsofneed.com/bob-mosher.htm?utm_source=pocket_mylist LnD Playbook for the Digital Age - https://www.td.org/books/l-ds-playbook-for-the-digital-age Consumer behaviour - https://www.omniconvert.com/blog/consumer-behavior-in-marketing-patterns-types-segmentation/ ========================================================= 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.
Our guests this week are Nicky Hoyland and Emma Roberts. Nicky Hoyland is CEO and co-founder of Huler she describes herself as a tech, UX and data nerd. What she does have is an unwavering passion for a people first approach to work tech. If you haven’t caught it, her session at the Learning Technology Digital Exchange is an excellent watch. You can find Nicky on LinkedIn and Twitter: https://twitter.com/thenickyh https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickyhoyland/ Our second guest is Emma Roberts. Emma is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Chester and Director of Learning Teaching and Transition. That’s as well as being the Vice Chair of Tydden Mon (Tythen Mon) a charity which has been supporting adults with learning disabilities. Emma is also on Twitter and LinkedIn https://twitter.com/dremrobs https://www.linkedin.com/in/dremroberts/ Episode Links: Clap for Carers - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-52143223 Onboarding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onboarding Community Development - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_development Engineering Serendipity - https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/20-058_39f454e9-bef0-4bed-bfa8-526e90601ade.pdf Google Offices - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/05/06/google-announces-a-hybrid----return-to-work-plan-including-both-remote-and-in-office-options/?sh=31d4cdca3831&utm_source=pocket_mylist https://blog.google/inside-google/life-at-google/hybrid-approach-work/?utm_source=pocket_myl - ist LTDX - https://app.swapcard.com/event/learningtechnologies/planning/UGxhbm5pbmdfNDk2OTQz ========================================================= 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.
Asli Derya is an experienced L&D lead with an extensive knowledge of learning design and digital learning. Asli has been working in L&D in the past 8 years with in-house L&D teams in a number of industries and roles, before landing on the digital learning space. Asli is currently the Learning Design Director at Imperial College Business School. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asli-derya-assoc-cipd-3b05014a/ Gemma is a learning designer for The Opportunity Group. She has 10 years of experience in L&D and is self taught in the area of Digital learning. Gemma has experience in both facilitating training courses, designing training materials and working with digital learning tools. Gemma has worked mainly in regulated environments dealing with compliance training but has now moved into the world of Apprenticeships and looking at ways we can help people achieve lifelong learning. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gemma-wells21/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/gemw21 Homeworking in the UK - https://wiserd.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Homeworking%20in%20the%20UK_Report_Final_3.pdf Invisible Women - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1113605/invisible-women/9781784706289.html WEP Schools reopening - https://www.womensequality.org.uk/statement_schools_reopening CIPD Planning for hybrid working - https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/fundamentals/relations/flexible-working/planning-hybrid-working Managing in a VUCA world - https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/managing-vuca-world.htm What is SMART working - https://www.actiu.com/en/articles/news/samrtworking-flexibility-in-the-way-of-working/ Job sharing at the executive level - https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/features/job-sharing-at-the-executive-level Top tips on taking on a job share - https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/features/top-tips-for-taking-on-or-managing-a-job-share Take up of shared parental leave - https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/take-up-ofshared-parental-leave-last-year-exceptionally-low/ The elearning network - https://elearningnetwork.org/ ========================================================= 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 Ros Stephens and Jo Royce. Ros is an award-winning lesbian photographer, based in London. She’s been heard on Women's hour, BBC NI, BBC Essex and the East End Women Activists archive at the Bishopsgate Institute. Ros lives with her two kitties, her bass guitar and her bike and loves all aspects of photography. Jo Royce is a people-curious lover of learning, coaching and creativity. Currently Global Director of Marketing Capabilities @ Unilever, Ros is Women in Advertising and Communications, Leadership member; a coach, mentor, and teaches & learns as much as I can, on the side. Links Ros's Photography site https://www.rosalindstephens.com/ The book HELP! https://www.waterstones.com/book/help/oliver-burkeman/9781784709655 Edward Hopper https://www.edwardhopper.net/ Online Calendar tips https://www.calendar.com/blog/advantages-online-calendar/ Kanban https://www.atlassian.com/agile/kanban
For many years, Pilar Orti has run her voiceover career in parallel to all her other ventures. She ran a small theatre company for ten years, and then became a trainer, facilitator and consultant. Her voiceover credits include the Spanish voice of the WiiFit and GoJetters' Xuli. She's now also a podcast host, having been hosting the 21st Century Work Life podcast for Virtual not Distant for five years, and co-hosting My Pocket Psych and Facilitation Stories (IAF England and Wales). Pilar's now looking into how in-house podcasting can help companies create a sense of community amongst their dispersed employees. Find out more: https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/ and http://www.adventuresinpodcasting.com/ Katelyn Dawn, as well as being a singer-songwriter who has been performing and recording her own songs since 2004, also has a background in digital media design including web & graphic design and film and has been a freelance designer for years. Katelyn decided to combine all her interests and dive into a career in voiceover in 2019. She built her recording studio in 2019 and sought out training at Edge Studio who are industry leaders in voiceover training. With over 16 years of experience recording and editing vocals, Katelyn has thousands of hours at the microphone singing and voice acting. Katelyn is interested in narrating eLearning because it is a unique area of voiceover where one can actively help people learn. Website: https://www.katelyndawnvo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katelyn-dawn-%F0%9F%8E%99-voice-over-525b521ab/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katelyndawnvo/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katelyndawnvo Twitter: https://twitter.com/katelyndawnvo Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-INNeAAS5gGnJkAh4JTglw Music: https://www.katelyndawnmusic.com/ Episode Links: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1075547018759345 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5132380/ https://www.world-voices.org/ https://theelearningcoach.com/elearning_design/the-art-of-writing-great-voice-over-scripts/ https://www.voicecrafters.com/blog/how-to-format-a-script-for-a-voice-over/ https://womentalkingaboutlearning.com/2021/02/23/the-passion-one/ ========================================================= 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.
Sarah Ratcliff is passionate about engaging learners to ‘want to learn’. An expert in Virtual Classrooms and awarded Learning Professional of the Year Gold in 2020. Always happy to chatter about learning and helping people maximise their potential. Twitter: Sarah Ratcliff (@splant33) / Twitter LinkedIn: Sarah Ratcliff Assoc. CIPD, FLPI | LinkedIn Website: www.sarahratcliff.com Janet Webb is a freelance Learning and OD consultant. She helps people to understand what’s going on psychologically, that manifests in helpful or unhelpful behaviour, having been exploring this personally and professionally since 1992. Email: janet@janetwebbconsulting.co.uk Website: www.janetwebbconsulting.co.uk LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/janetwebblandod Twitter: https://twitter.com/jwebbconsulting ========================================================= 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.
Hooked on learning and passionate about driving business forward, Aimee-Jayne Young is all about helping people make the most of their careers. With a keen interest in performance consulting, learning technology and employee experience, Aimee brings an enthusiastic yet measured point of view on learning and development and where it needs to go for the future. Aimee has experience working in the field of L&D research, HR strategy, learning technologies, professional services, retail and industry and commerce. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aimeejayneyoung Ellis Taylor is a Consultant Learning Technologist, and co-founder of Pea Consultancy, along with her trusty rescue dog Ernie, and partner Matt. Ellis has been helping businesses in the e-learning sector for the last four years, working with both private enterprises and in education, with particular focus on staff training and upskilling. Her previous clients have included Tier 1 banking institutions and Russell Group universities, as well as much smaller businesses and charity groups. You can contact Ellis on LinkedIn or through peaconsultancy.com Episode Links: https://hbr.org/2020/03/the-contagion-we-can-control https://www.paulekman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Basic-Emotions.pdf https://daretolead.brenebrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Glossary-of-Key-Language-Skills-and-Tools-from-DTL.pdf https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/three-good-things https://womentalkingaboutlearning.com/2021/02/23/the-passion-one/ http://sacraparental.com/2016/05/14/everyday-misogyny-122-subtly-sexist-words-women/ ========================================================= 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 episode contains clips from the previous 17 episodes that have meant the most to our host, Andrew Jacobs. The blog post mentioned about International Women's Day is here: https://wp.me/p1NUDi-2bF ================================================ 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.
Dana James-Edwards is a Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Specialist and has an independent consultancy - https://www.diversitydana.com/ - and has been established for almost 6 years. E-Mail dana@diversitydana.com Twitter @DiversityDana Instagram @DiversityDana Linked In in/diversitydana Rita Sookrit is a learning strategist and has been working in learning for a number of years in a range of roles and organisations, most recently in Canada but also in Saudi and Belgium. Rita consults with global clients in various industries, helping them shape and foster workflow learning. She brings extensive experience in building, inspiring, and developing high performing L&D teams. Rita is currently collaborating with an organisation to digitise their learning strategy, and help drive employee engagement. She builds partnerships to develop cutting edge L&D solutions that address business and human needs. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rita-sookrit/ Kate Graham has worked in L&D and HR for over 15 years. In her role with Fosway Group, she works with organisations using HR, talent and learning technologies to feed into the research agenda and extend Fosway’s Corporate Research Network. In addition, Kate is social chair of the world's leading L&D event, Learning Technologies, co-host of Learning Now TV and a regular contributor to the Training Journal podcast. She is also a seasoned awards judge and long-time contributor and writer for numerous industry publications as well as co-founder of the #womeninlearning movement. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kategraham23/ Twitter https://twitter.com/kategraham23 Episode Links: https://austinkleon.com/show-your-work https://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldhtaylor https://shots.net/news/view/the-imposter-virus-and-why-hurt-people-hurt-people https://www.linkedin.com/posts/learningpro_networking-tool-learningpro-activity-6755079737305042944-izNt https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12210548/ ================================ 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.