By Rustica Lamb
Learning as we know it is changing. In order to keep up, organisations are rapidly making changes to their learning and development teams.
I'm interviewing the world's top L&D leaders
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The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.
In this podcast episode, Rustica interviews Bodo Hoenen, an entrepreneur and founder of Nolej, and Dev4X a social enterprise that is leveraging technology to improve education and learning opportunities for underprivileged children around the world. Bodo shares his inspiring stories of working in refugee camps and his innovative approach to solving complex social challenges using technology. He is a thought leader in education, technology and social entrepreneurship, and is widely recognised as a prolific writer and speaker. The conversation touches on the limitations of current learning pathways and LMS content delivery and how Bodo is creating a "Google Maps for learning" that enables people to learn for jobs that don't even exist yet.
Best moments:
About the Guest:
Bodo is a renowned entrepreneur, business consultant, and speaker who has dedicated his career to driving positive change in the world. He is the founder of Nolej, and Dev4X a social enterprise that uses technology to improve access to education and learning opportunities for children in underprivileged communities worldwide.
Through his work with Dev4X, Bodo has demonstrated a deep commitment to using technology for good and empowering individuals and communities to achieve their full potential. In addition to his work with Dev4X, Bodo is also a prolific writer and speaker, sharing his insights and perspectives with audiences worldwide.
About the host:
Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator, and CEO and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best-known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor, and a well-respected leader in the industry.
Rustica has 25+ years of experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager, and mentor. Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number and range of organisations and held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015 and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.
In 2021 she was awarded her Masters in Technological Futures at the Tech Futures Lab. She is currently working on several tech projects, including www.findalms.io and an Augmented Reality Game that will eventually teach English to refugee children in camps around the world, bringing joy, happiness, hope, and compelling futures.
Podcast Resources:
Connect with your host, Rustica Lamb on LinkedIn
Connect with Bodo Hoenen on LinkedIn
Learn more about Dev4X and the brain-controlled exoskeleton Bodo built
Learn more about Nolej
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Summary:
Rustica invited the CEO and Founder of HowNow (The Intelligent Learning Platform) Nelson Sivalingam back to the Learning 3.0 podcast to share his new book, Learning at Speed. In his book, he shares the nine fundamentals of creating a learning strategy on just one page, and he breaks down each of those building blocks in this insightful episode!
Tune in to find out why Nelson believes L&D teams should adopt a more entrepreneurial mindset!
Best Moments:
“When you embed learning within existing habits, you reduce the friction for someone to be able to access the learning they need”
“Having an entrepreneurial mindset helps understand business, which helps L&D perform better”
About the guest:
In 2016, Nelson co-founded (and still currently is) the CEO at the educational technology company HowNow, disrupting the way in which digital learning is delivered and knowledge is monetised. He has been recognised by Virgin Media Business as one of the top 30 young innovative founders in the UK as well as one of the top Asian Stars in Tech by KPMG. He is a thought-leader on Startups and Tech contributing to publications such The Guardian, The Telegraph and Startups.co.uk, he was featured in Bloomberg's documentary on Entrepreneurial Mindset and is now the author of his very first book.
About your host Rustica Lamb:
Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator, CEO and Founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best-known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor, and a well-respected leader in the industry. Rustica has 25+ years of experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager, and mentor.
Rustica has worked with a number of organisations, including Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Warehouse Group, Powerco, Tertiary Education Commission, and many more.
In 2021 she was awarded her Masters in Technological Futures at the Tech Futures Lab. She is currently working on several tech projects, including www.findalms.io and an Augmented Reality Game that will eventually teach English to refugee children in camps around the world, bringing joy, hope, and compelling futures.
In this episode we discuss:
Podcast Resources:
Connect with your host, Rustica Lamb, on LinkedIn
Get a copy of Nelson’s book - Learning at Speed - with 20% off (Use code KOGANPAGE20) at checkout.
Connect with Nelson on LinkedIn
Learn more about HowNow
Tune in to hear Nelson's latest Ask Me Anything podcast episode!
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Former Evangelist and current Director of Sales at Rustici, Chris Tompkins is my latest guest on the Learning 3.0 podcast. You definitely read that right, Chris’s first role at Rustici was ‘Evangelist’, a role he describes as explaining inherently complex software solutions to normal people. Now as Director of Sales he leads the business team to teach their customers about the latest in eLearning technology and to uphold learning standards.
Rustici helps elearning companies play nicely together. As the world’s leading eLearning standard experts, Rustici provide the tools and knowledge to help companies create, distribute, manage and play eLearning-compliant content.
Tune in to the episode to hear Chris’s captivating explanation as to why SCORM is not dead yet!
About the guest:
Known amongst his team as an innovative ping-pong player, bird expert and snowboarder, Chris has been at Rustici for over ten years. As Director of Sales Chris spends his days chatting with customers from around the globe to help tailor Rustici products to their needs, and he leads the business team, even though their sales process isn’t typical.
About your host Rustica Lamb:
Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator, and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best-known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor, and a well-respected leader in the industry.
Rustica has 25+ years of experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager, and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering, and inspiring.
Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number and range of organisations, including Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Warehouse Group, Powerco, ScreenGuild, Tertiary Education Commision, Health Promotion Agency and many more.. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015 and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.
In 2021 she was awarded her Masters in Technological Futures at the Tech Futures Lab. She is currently working on several tech projects, including www.findalms.io and an Augmented Reality Game that will eventually teach English to refugee children in camps around the world, brining joy, happiness, hope and opportunity.
In this episode we discuss:
Podcast Resources:
Connect with your host, Rustica Lamb, on LinkedIn
Connect with Chris Tompkins on LinkedIn
Learn more about Rustici
Learn more about www.findalms.io
Visit the Scorm.com standards website
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Summary
In this podcast episode I interview Annette Leicht-Will, a Senior HR Professional, Certified Facilitator, Cultural Transformation Tools practitioner, Trainer and Coach. She has lived in Switzerland, Germany, the United States, Spain, France, and China and is currently an Agile Team Facilitator for Xero, one of New Zealand’s top 100 Tech successes.
She is passionate about lifelong learning and continuously strives to acquire new skills. She holds an MBA, with Marketing, Human Resources, and Languages, as well as professional training qualifications. She is also fluent in English, German, French, and Spanish.
Annette brings a wealth of knowledge in this episode, sharing not only her worldwide experience in L&D and HR, but her perspective on what Agile Learning really is.
"For me, agile is more like a capability that doesn't have an end. It's not a process or methodology."
Best Moments:
“Before using Agile methodology, address fostering a curious, lifelong learner mind set, in an environment where learning from experiments is the culture”
"Agile? Where do I start? Start with where you are at”
"Agile is the approach of the mindset that goes with it."
About the guest:
Annette is a Senior HR Professional, Certified Facilitator, Cultural Transformation Tools practitioner, Trainer and Coach. Having lived in Switzerland, Germany, the United States, Spain, France and China, she thrives in multinational environments and brings a unique perspective to business.
Over the last 25 years, she has initiated and led flexible people solutions that encourage agile working and knowledge sharing for growth. She focusses on people as the strategic priority, and collaborates with stakeholders to influence decisions, strengthen engagement, and resolve competing priorities to deliver organisational and behavioural change.
She is passionate about lifelong learning and continuously strive to acquire new skills.
About your host Rustica Lamb:
Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator, and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best-known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor, and a well-respected leader in the industry.
Rustica has 25+ years of experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager, and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering, and inspiring.
Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number of organisations, including Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Mighty River Power, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Orion Health, and Morgan & Banks. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015 and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.
In this episode we discuss:
Podcast Resources:
Connect with Annette on LinkedIn
Get a copy of Agile People: A radical approach for HR & Managers, by Pia-Maria Thoren
Get a copy of Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business by David J. Anderson
Read the article in the Harvard Business Review, The Agile C-Suit
Read the Agiles Lernen whitepaper (please note it is in German)
Connect with your host, Rustica Lamb
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Summary
What I love about hosting the Learning3.0 podcast is the amazing people I get to meet and Neha Bhardwaj is one of those! With a bluechip background working on large transformational projects in New Zealand, she really knows her stuff. She has worked for Air New Zealand, ASB, Vodafone, and she is now the CEO & Co-Founder at Cultivate.
In this episode she clearly defines what Agile is, and how it applies to HR and L&D teams.
I have no doubt that if your business or organisation is looking to implement wide-scale agile transformation, her and the people she can recommend are who you need to talk to.
About the guest:
Neha is the CEO & Co-founder at Cultivate, a CX & EX Transformation Consultant and Activator at SheEO. She is a results driven and commercially focused People Practitioner with over 15 years’ experience in specialist and generalist People & Culture roles. Neha is hugely passionate about the future of HR and how this profession is evolving, she believes that the best People strategies are human first, data driven and splashed with design thinking.
About your host Rustica Lamb:
Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor and a well respected leader in the industry.
Rustica has 25+ years experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering and inspiring.
Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number of organisations, including: Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Mighty River Power, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Orion Health and Morgan & Banks. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015, and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.
In this episode we discuss:
Best moments
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Summary
This podcast episode has been inspired by the David James podcast interview with Tracey Waters on Agile L&D. Tracey taught 30,000 people from a very traditional learning and development process to an agile one, and it sparked my interest to find out who's doing this in New Zealand. My good friend Emma put me in touch with Nick Mackeson-Smith, Founder and CEO of FIVE NZ who develop world-class leaders, learning strategies, and capability programmes to give people an edge in business.
In this episode, I ask Nick key questions on what it takes to adopt the Agile way of learning in a traditional learning team, and he does not disappoint!
About the guest:
Nick Mackeson-Smith is the Director at Five NZ and an expert in leadership development, executive coaching, learning strategy design and implementation, culture change and engagement. He’s worked in capability and leadership in blue chip companies such as Mckinsey, Deloitte and Goldman Sachs. He’s passionate about people over process.
About your host Rustica Lamb:
Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor and a well respected leader in the industry.
Rustica has 25+ years experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering and inspiring.
Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number of organisations, including: Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Mighty River Power, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Orion Health and Morgan & Banks. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015, and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.
In this episode we discuss:
Podcast resources:
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For the past year I have been working towards my Masters in Future Technologies and as part of that, I found myself being drawn to Blockchain Technology and how it could transform learning technology. During this time, I came across the Velocity Network Foundation who have a vision to create a simple solution for individuals to own, manage and share their credentials anywhere in the world.
In this Bonus #Learning3.0 podcast episode, I interview Debasis Dutta, Vice President and General Manager of products at SumTotal Systems in Florida.
He's a hands on leader with a proven track record of over 22 years in managing and delivering innovative enterprise business application products that can be deployed in the cloud or on premise.
He has been inspired by market shifts and technology disruption. So it's no surprise that SumTotal and Debasis continue leading the field of Edtech by being one of the first 14 companies to join the Velocity Network Foundation, which is a simple way for individuals to own manage and share their career credentials. Members of this network are reinventing how career records are shared across the global market.
The Velocity Network Foundation are empowering individuals, businesses and educational institutions through transformational blockchain technology, that turning career achievements into digital credentials verifiable, secured and truly global.
It was an inspiring conversation where transformational blockchain technology has democratized and career records and transcripts.
About the guest:
Debasis is an accomplished technology executive with extensive experience in the Human Capital Management space. He is a ‘hands-on’ leader with a proven track record of over 22 years in managing and delivering innovative enterprise business application products that can be deployed in the cloud and/or on-premise.
He is experienced in all aspects of the software development lifecycle – the agile way, with a unique ability to convert vision into action; to build the systems, teams and plans required to get quick and sustainable results.
He is highly focused on customers’ success and works tirelessly with strategic customers and partners worldwide. He ensures that quality; usability, performance and scalability are always designed and built into the products.
He is passionate about utilizing technology to simplify, analyze, optimize and gain prescriptive insight to complex business problems.
About your host Rustica Lamb:
Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor and a well respected leader in the industry.
Rustica has 25+ years experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering and inspiring.
Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number of organisations, including: Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Mighty River Power, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Orion Health and Morgan & Banks. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015, and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.
In this episode we discuss:
Podcast resources:
Click here to connect with Debasis Dutta on LinkedIn
Learn more about the Velocity Network Foundation
Find out more about SumTotals Systems
Want to know more about the Fosway 9-grid Debasis mentioned?
Learn more about your host, Rustica
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It’s not often you find learning tech built on the blockchain and Bitdegree is one of those. It was a wide and ranging conversation talking with Dan, BitDegree's co-founder and CEO from Lithuania. Bit Degree is built on the emerging technology, Blockchain, the same technology that cryptocurrency is built on. It’s the best example of baked in gamification I have ever seen. With a focus on upskilling masses of people in technology and other skills, they have come a long way in their short 3 years.
Be prepared to see the future of the learning technology that transforms lives.
About the guest:
Previously, Danielius has spent 10 years in management consulting at Civitta, Europe's emerging leading consultancy covering 15 countries with 350+ consultants, where he served as a Partner and a Board member developing the Startups and Innovation stream.
He has won many entrepreneurial awards since completing his BSc in Economics and Business from the Stockholm School of Economics.
About your host Rustica Lamb:
Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor and a well respected leader in the industry.
Rustica has 25+ years experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering and inspiring.
Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number of organisations, including: Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Mighty River Power, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Orion Health and Morgan & Banks. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015, and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.
In this episode we discuss:
Podcast resources:
Connect with Danielius Stasiulis on LinkedIn
Read Rustica's LinkedIn article "Why the term LMS is losing it's primacy"
Learn more about Bitdegree
Learn more about your host, Rustica
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In this week's episode, I interview internationally recognised L&D thought leader, Nigel Paine. Nigel is a Co-Presenter on 'Learning Now' TV and the 'From Scratch' Podcast, as well as an Advisory Board member for Penn University’s CLO doctoral programme.
He is also the author of the "The Learning Challenge", "Building Leadership Development Programmes that Work" and "Workplace Learning: How to Build a Culture of Continuous Employee Development".
Nigel has been a long-time supporter of Bloom Learning Technologies, as a return presenter for our annual eLearnz events, so it was a real privilege to have him on the podcast and to pick his brain and get his thoughts on the evolution of the LMS historically.
About the guest:
Nigel Paine has been involved in corporate learning for over 20 years. He has produced learning software, award-winning multi-media materials, and has offered development and support to public and private sector companies, both large and small. As head of the BBC's learning and development operation he led the creation of a brand new on-boarding programme, a comprehensive leadership scheme for over 6,000 staff, and a state-of-the-art informal learning and knowledge sharing network. He left the BBC to start his own company that is focused on building more effective workplaces by promoting learning, creativity, innovation, and value-based leadership and the link between them; speaking at conferences, leading workshop and working with companies in Europe, Brazil, Australia and the United States.
About your host Rustica Lamb:
Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor and a well respected leader in the industry.
Rustica has 25+ years experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering and inspiring.
Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number of organisations, including: Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Mighty River Power, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Orion Health and Morgan & Banks. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015, and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.
In this episode we discuss:
Podcast resources:
Watch Nigel Paine and his co-presenter Kate Graham, on Learning Now TV
Connect with Nigel on LinkedIn
Get a copy of the book 'Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance' by Jay Cross
Learn more about your host, Rustica
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This week, I welcome Chris Buttenham to the Learning 3.0 Podcast. Chris is the Founder of Obie.ai, EdTech which helps companies find a faster way to capture and find knowledge at work, by securely connecting knowledge and documents that you already have into one searchable, intelligent, single source of truth.
Chris has some very interesting insights into how to deliver the right knowledge, to the right people, at the right time in this new world.
About the guest:
Chris is a young entrepreneur living in Silicon Valley. He is also the co-host and producer of the Accelerating Support podcast, where he interviews thought leaders in ITSM, HR and Customer Support and their stories on accelerating support teams.
About your host Rustica Lamb:
Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor and a well respected leader in the industry.
Rustica has 25+ years experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering and inspiring.
Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number of organisations, including: Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Mighty River Power, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Orion Health and Morgan & Banks. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015, and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.
In this episode we discuss:
Podcast resources:
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The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.