An inspiring interview with James Murphy CEO of TechVets, a UK not-for-profit that is helping veterans pick up digital skills to help them find careers in the new economy. Tune in to hear how TechVets is working with partners and trainers to give essential digital educations for free.

This week's guest on Humanizing Learning is Dr Esther Joosa. Esther is the founder of Arts of the Earth, an international arts education consultancy, and is also the consultant Director of Pedagogy with Playeum. Her work as an arts practitioner, researcher and curator has touched and connected many different communities and across borders.

 

In this episode, Esther talks about what it means to have a safe space regardless of how old you are, why it is important, and how to implement it.

Every few episodes, we interview a member of the SmartUp team so you can get a better idea of the people powering the platform. This week, we put CEO Deborah Tan-Pink in the hot-seat where she talks about her views on Ageism and the importance of leaders changing their views on ageing employees.

Helen Clare Rozario is the Founder of Nirvana Mind and also the Chief Maverick and Director of The Soulscape Experience. In this episode, she talks about the many benefits of Mindfulness, which range from cognitive improvement to alleviation of chronic pain. Additionally, Helen shares some basic tips on how to get started on Mindfulness.

This week, we sit down with Sumitra Pasupathy, co-founder of Playeum, an award-winning social impact organization centered on using Play to improve agency in children. She also has a leadership role in Ashoka, an international organization focused on driving social change.

In this episode, Sumitra talks about how play is not just for children, and can even help adults solve problems in an increasingly tech-focused world.

Carolyn Chin-Parry is PwC's Digital Accelerator Leader and the winner of Women In Tech Asia's "Woman of the Year" 2019. In this episode, she talks to us about her passion in humanising technology and digital upskilling to create a more inclusive workforce, how leaders can make learning more about the employees and less about the company, and her one simple tip to becoming more committed towards learning.

Every few episodes, we interview a member of the SmartUp team so you can get a better idea of the people powering the platform. This week, we put content producer Mark Lim in the hot-seat and learn more about how his degree in Psychology has come in useful for his work at SmartUp.

Karina Cuello, a professional and personal coach, explains in this episode what coaches do, what coaching is all about, and why you might want to enlist the help of a coach to help you achieve some breakthroughs at work and in life.

We all know that continually learning is important, but how do we improve our ability to learn?In this week's Humanizing Learning, we are joined by Vanda North, who is the CEO of The Change Maker Group. In this episode, Vanda shares her thoughts on the importance of lifelong learning, and also shares some useful tips on How to learn.

Starting this month, "Humanizing Learning" will be accepting requests from our listeners who want to learn something, ANYTHING, from an expert in their field. To get things going, we will start with Dr. Paul Condylis, CTO of Jewel PaymentTech, explaining what FinTech is all about and why the fuss about it in recent years. Got a topic you want a speedy intro to? Drop us a note at [email protected] today.