People use podcasts to gain information and knowledge, about a huge variety of things, in their downtime. Organisations and institutions have been slow to leverage this powerful source of potential to date, but things are changing fast. John talks to Adam Lacey, co-founder of Assemble You, an ‘audio-first’ provider of learning content. How…

    At the Learning Technologies France show in Paris this February, John talked to two of the industry’s leading commentators, who both released significant pieces of research at the show. The L&D Global Sentiment Survey, run by Donald H Taylor, takes the pulse of the L&D community world-wide. The one-minute online poll asks L&D…

    A passion for learning brought Dinye Hernada, she says, from a muddy school field in Indonesia to the boardrooms of Germany’s top companies. With a double masters in international management, she began her working life supporting digital transformation. Realizing, however, that investing in people often had a bigger and more sustainable impact, she…

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  Ethical Angel is a company that brings together learners in need of development opportunities with charities and good causes in need of the practical skills they are developing. John talks to the company’s founder and CEO, Alexander Fahie, a young entrepreneur with a background in investment management. Alexander explains how he had the idea…