Marcus Buckingham, New York Times bestselling author, speaker and business consultant, joins us for an extra long, extra fun episode. We covered a lot of ground here about his new book, Love + Work, how talent development pros and managers can help their employees find meaningful work by discovering their red threads, how unique we all really are and how to find those threads we have to really look deep within.

Marcus Buckingham

Love + Work

Marcus Buckingham Company

ADP Research Institute

Director of Learning at Circulo Cara North joins us on the podcast to discuss the need for and how to create customized learning assessments. Cara gives her take on work-based scenario training, personalizing compliance training, long-term learning success and much more.

Cara North

ATD22 in Orlando

In this episode, crowd-favorite speakers Bridgett McGowen and Rick Lozano join us to discuss why the ATD International Conference and Expo is so important to them and their careers; how the unexpected can happen at any point and time during the conference and leave you with a life-long lasting impression! They also discuss why going in-person this year was a must for them and what you can expect to see from these two, separately, in the year to come. Stick around until the end of the episode for a Lozano surprise!

ATD22 in Orlando (Flash sale until April 1!)

Brigett McGowen

Rick Lozano

Sounding Board CEO and Co-founder Christine Tao joins us for an in-depth look at how coaching can transform leaders and employees. We discuss how the market has changed for leadership coaches and the skill of coaching as well as the biggest myths around leadership coaching.

Christine Tao

Sounding Board

Whitney Johnson, CEO of Disruption Advisors and author of Smart Growth, joins the podcast to discuss The Great Aspiration, how to determine your place on the S curve, why it's important to have an action board, and how to jump to the next S curve with confidence. We also chat about how leaders can impact their employee's growth with the assessments and insights presented in her new book.

Smart Growth

Disrupt Yourself podcast

Whitney Johnson

HBR article

Whitney's assessment

*The giveaway is now closed.

Chris Thorne, retired Navy Master Chief Petty Officer and Founder and Owner of Chris Thorne Consulting, joins us to discuss his journey from being in uniform to the field of HR and talent development.

Chris Thorne

Chris Thorne Consulting

Gary Sinise San Diego chapter

San Diego Military Council

Freelance eLearning Designer and Creator of the eLearning Designer's Academy Tim Slade give us his tips on how to develop and showcase an instructional design portfolio.

Tim Slade @sladetim eLearning Designer's Academy

Dorie Clark, Wall Street Journal author and one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World according to Thinkers50, joins us to discuss the importance of networking, how far out to plan your long game and Dorie's secret long game plan.

Dorie Clark

Dorie's Assessment

The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World, by Dorie Clark

Influence, at its core, is all about authenticity and relationship building, says Vivian Blade, president and CEO of Experts in Growth Leadership Consulting. Listen to this episode of the podcast to find out how to develop your power of influence.

Vivian Blade

Influence in Talent Development (book)

Vivian on LinkedIn

Be Less Zombie, by Elvin Turner and Richard Johnston

Never Split the Difference, by Chris Voss (audio version)

Don't Drop the Mic, by T.D. Jakes

Host Lisa Spinelli takes a look back at the most common themes for the year of 2021 on The Accidental Trainer podcast, transformation and customization, and what is coming up for 2022.