Beautiful Questions with Tuli & Alma

In this episode of Beautiful Questions, Tuli & Alma learn from Bob Tweedie, a Learning & Development Leader and Northwestern University Instructor, for a fascinating discussion on learning, training, and workplace development. Bob presents a clear framework for properly running an L&D initiative at work and has a plethora of experience to back it up. 

Bob Tweedie is VP of Leadership & Learning at Revantage, A Blackstone Portfolio Company. He is an authentic and humble leader with many years of experience analyzing, designing, delivering, and evaluating talent development initiatives. Bob, who arrived in the US by way of Scotland and France, shares lessons about working on multicultural organizations and teams. Bob also shares lessons on great mentors and learning through failure, correction, and trying again. He shares some great stories from his experience, teaches us a lot in this interview, and is very generous with his knowledge. We learned a ton from Bob and hope you will join us!

On this episode of Beautiful Questions, Tuli & Alma host BK Simerson, EdD for a fascinating conversation about why strategy matters and what it means to be a strategic thinker and leader in organizations today.

B. Keith Simerson has provided consultation to professional services firms and to corporate clients spanning 18 industries, branches of the U.S. military and governments across the word. Simerson is the author of 5 books. His most recent, Leading with Strategic Thinking (John Wiley & Sons, 2015) can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Strategic-Thinking-Effective-Leaders/dp/1118968158/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?keywords=bk+simerson&qid=1677041095&sr=8-2-fkmr0

We're so happy to kick off our 2023 season with this conversation with Eric Fridman: a friend, Northwestern instructor, executive coach and all around inspiring human and professional. In our talk with him, we explore the power of beautiful questions, silence as a communication tool, personal branding, and what it means to have work-life alignment. (Spoiler: we're still figuring it out, too)  Get your notebooks ready, Eric shares quite a few gems in this episode!

Is abusive supervision in the workplace more influenced by individual factors or by organizational culture? Join us in this episode as Tuli shares how he chose to explore this question in his recent research, what he learned from it and how these insights can be applied practically. Bonus: we kick off the episode with dramatic readings of short essays we wrote on the topic of learning back in 2020. 

In this episode, Frances Poe shares her research on curiosity at work and some of her most salient lessons about organizational change. We loved hosting Frances and hope you join us by listening! 

Your favorite podcast hosts are back! This time, they have a wide-ranging discussion about the challenges and opportunities of working on teams. Come hang with us as we chat about Learning Teams, Team Reflexivity, Psychological safety, and more, and stay for the excellent banter and corny jokes.... 🤓

In this episode, Alma and Tuli host their first guest, Chels Watkins! Chels is a recent graduate of MSLOC and works as a Management Consultant in Northern California. In this fascinating conversation, we cover topics like continuous discovery, design justice, and outputs vs. outcomes. In addition to their professional competence, Chels has the gift of clearly being able to explain complex subjects. We learned a ton from Chels and are excited to share this episode with you. 

PS: What Tuli is "showing and not telling" at the beginning is his new haircut! He chopped a lot off, check out the Youtube video for the proof. 

In this Pilot Episode, Tuli and Alma share their podcast origin story and then explore different ways of answering the question "WTF is LOC?" with the help of some friends from the MSLOC community.