In this week's show we catch up with Paul Callaghan from GEDU.

This week we spend time with Katy Walton, founder of Make Real Progress and the Progress Place, a facebook community for those in L&D and HR.

This week we're joined by Rhys Davies, Resourcing Performance and Development Manager at Tilbury Douglas, formerly Interserve Construction.  Rhys talks us through the change in culture the business is embracing in the way they hire, promote and ultimately retain talent, with the development of managers across all teams and business units at the heart of their plans.

Ian heads up Nottinghamshire's Community Learning and Skills Service for young people and adults.  Hugely passionate, Ian is one of those people in learning that are truly inspiring.  What he does makes a real difference to people's lives and he's a champion of social mobility.  With vast experience in the funding, delivery and marketing of courses, as well as with partnerships with employers, this episode should be of interest to our listeners both from the private and public sector.

On this week's show we are joined by Victor Amoah, Global Senior Learning & Development Consultant at Cushman and Wakefield, one of the largest real estate firms in the world.  Victor has moved into a global role at Cushman having spent a decade at John Lewis, rising from the shop floor to a similar L&D role there and being part of the team that delivered the training to Ambassadors at the London Olympics in 2012.

With experience spanning 22 years as the SVP of Learning & Development at Emirates Airlines, and later a similar role at Qatar Airways, Brendan delivers knowledge bomb after knowledge bomb as he discusses his time in the aviation business and some of the many problems the sector is currently facing.

In this our first show, we meet Mandy Lenhiem, Managing Learning and Change Consultant at CapGemini.  In this candid interview, Mandy doesn't hold back as she talks through her time at BT, taking on a number of roles over a 16 year period, and her subsequent move to CapGemini where's she been since 2000.