Learning 3.0 with Rustica Lamb

In this week's episode, Rustica interviews Nelson Sivalingam, the co-founder and CEO of HowNow, an Intelligent Learning Platform (as opposed to an LMS) which is disrupting the way in which digital learning is delivered and knowledge is monetised.

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. The innovative platform raised a seven-figure investment from Fuel Ventures which includes Mark Pearson (MyVoucherCodes) and tennis superstar Andy Murray. 

He has been a speaker at Google Campus, an Ambassador for Startup Britain and a Guest Lecturer on Entrepreneurship. 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, and recently he was featured in Bloomberg's documentary on Entrepreneurial Mindset. 

He is a performance and development specialist first, and you can see those great learning principles play out in his next gen, learning 3.0 platform.

"Relevant knowledge at the time of need, is a super power" - Nelson Sivalingam

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:

• What Nelson has seen in the evolution of the ‘LMS’ historically
• Is the LMS really dead?
• What is the difference between LMS, LXP?
• Why it's important to create a problem list, rather than a list of features when developing an RFP.

Podcast resources:

Learn more about HowNow

Connect with Nelson on LinkedIn

Learn more about your host, Rustica

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In this podcast episode, I interview Josh Squires, Senior Vice President of Growth at Looop.co, and also a veteran of learning technology, and learning in the flow of work.

Josh has spent much of his professional time working with large learning and organisational systems, working to help them understand their infrastructure and learning requirements from both a technical perspective as well as a pedagogical perspective. Having worked with both small and massive systems Josh brings lots of experience in business processes, technology, and organizational structure. With about 20 years of experience positioned at the nexus of learning and technology, he is constantly looking at ways of accelerating business efficacy and advancement in the Learning field.

Tune in to this episode to find out why Josh believes L&D needs to be less bureaucratic, with less clutter, and to be about embedding yourself into the business, as part of it, not seperate to it.

In this episode we discuss:

• How the internet age and development shaped learning tech
• What do learning tech tools look like next?
• The relevance of SCORM and the benefits of xAPI
• What L&D teams will look like in the future

Podcast resources:

Learn more about 'The 5 Moments of Need'

Learn more about 'The Learning Moment' with Garry Ridge

Connect with Josh on LinkedIn

Learn more about your host, Rustica

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In this podcast episode, I interview Bob Mosher, who has been an active thought leader in the L&D industry, and is renowned worldwide for his pioneering approach to learning.

Bob is the CEO and Chief Learning Evangelist of Apply Synergies, a strategic consulting firm in North Carolina that specialises in helping learning organisations design, develop and measure effective learning and performance support strategies to meet the 5 Moments of Learning Need. Bob is also the co-host of the Performance Matters Podcast alongside Dr. Conrad Gottfredson, a podcast series designed to help L&D to better understand the theory and best practices behind this powerful methodology.

This episode is packed with over 30 years of valuable knowledge from an influential industry leader who has been through both the 2002 and 2008 recessions, where he shares how he believes performance support became the discipline to surviving that as an organisation.

Tune in to hear the full episode!

In this episode we discuss:

• How Covid has shown us a world of not only acceleration but of opportunity.
• What will learning teams look like in a post-covid world?
• How future classroom technology allows for all good learning techniques; reducing cognitive overload, spaced learning, reflection, but do we actually build these into virtual or face to face learning?

Podcast resources:

Listen in to Bob Mosher's Podcast, Performance Matters

Learn more about The Five Moments of Need

Connect with Bob on LinkedIn

Learn more about your host, Rustica

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In this episode I interview the cracker-jack Lori Niles-Hofmann, Senior Learning Edtech Specialist.

You know you are talking to a thought leader, when they tell you about the colourful emails they receive from who she labels as the ‘haters’. Lori specialises in large-scale digital learning transformations and is leading the way in innovative digital learning through a multi disciplinary lens. She shares great stories from the field, and her life, including how a text about ordering loo paper on the way to the Saturday market, gave her ideas for innovative learning.

Lori is a senior learning strategist with over 20 years of L&D experience across many industries, including international banking, management consulting, and marketing. She is passionate about helping companies navigate through the ambiguity of change and act as a trusted adviser to CLOs around the world.

After leading and completing numerous EdTech implementations, Lori has developed the data-based methodologies and frameworks that will empower your L&D teams to move from business support function to strategic business driver.

In this episode we discuss:

• How a loo paper ‘push notification’ caused reflection on workplace learning
• How 1/3rd of L&D are read for the future of learning, but where does that leave the rest?

Podcast Resources:

To Learn more about Lori, you can visit her website or connect with her on LinkedIn.

Click here to watch Lori's 'How to Pivot - Career Advice for L&D Professionals Facing Uncertainty' webinar

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In this podcast episode I interview Donald H Taylor, Chairman of the Learning and Performance Institute, a leading international institute for the learning profession.

Donald H Taylor is a recognised commentator and organiser in the fields of workplace learning and learning technologies, and is passionately committed to helping develop the learning and development profession. He has been collecting data on the future of workplace learning since 2014 through his annual Global L&D Survey, sharing the results with L&D Professionals all over the world.

He is an influential writer and speaker in the fields of the professional development of L&D and of technology-supported learning. He was the 2007 recipient of the Colin Corder award for services to training and has chaired the Learning Technologies Conference since 2000. He also chairs the Learning and Skills Group, hosting its bi-weekly webinar programme, and edits Inside Learning Technologies Magazine. He is a graduate of Oxford University and in 2016 was awarded an honorary doctorate by Middlesex University in recognition of his work developing the L&D profession.

In this episode we discuss:

• Donald's observations about what happened in learning and performance organisations during the 2002 and 2008 recessions, and what this might mean for our current economy.
• Is the global Coronavirus pandemic going to be the death of SCORM?
• What learning technology will enable our new ways of working, in a post COVID world.

Podcast resources:

Learn more about The Learning Performance Institute

Connect with Donald H Taylor on LinkedIn

Learn more about your host, Rustica

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In this episode I interview Dr Sydney Savion, CLO and GM of Learning at the iconic Air New Zealand and Architect for Learning Revolution. I always enjoy our conversations because she is always about business impact and data first and how training, learning and technology enable personal and business performance. Listen out for the chasm between how we live our digital personal lives and learning at work.

As a thought leader, award-winning author, and top learning officer Sydney has won 15 awards in 3 years, garnered 100+ articles/features in national publications and authored a critically acclaimed book.

With an entrepreneurial spirit Sydney has spearheaded global learning strategies while strengthening talent, information, and knowledge management across the enterprise. She has designed measurable employee-centered learning interventions, crafted nimble global business processes, optimized organizational scalability, and harmonized business acquisitions.

Throughout her career, She has redefined organizational cultures to spark innovation and drive productivity. Dedicated to developing human capabilities and integrating learning in the flow of work 24/7, she provides collaborative, experiential, and reflective learning ecosystems. She is known for encouraging continuous learning, promoting systems of influence, maximizing business impacts, and delivering unprecedented results. 

Sydney serves on the editorial board of Training Industry Magazine and served on a wide range of for- and not-for profit boards. As a respected thought leader, She have been an author and speaker at Columbia University and Harvard Faculty Club. She has earned a research-based Doctorate of Education with a concentration in Human and Organizational Learning from George Washington University and a Master of Public Administration.

In this episode we discuss:

• How learning leaders and practitioners should become business continuity problem solvers
• Data, Data, Data, Performance, Performance, Performance 
• The chasm between how we live our digital lives and learning outside and inside of work

Podcast Resources:

To learn more about Dr Sydney Savion you can connect with her on Linkedin

To learn more about your host Rustica Lamb you can visit her website, or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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This is a ‘bonkers’ episode with another Cracker Jack L&D personality, David James. David is the host of the Learning and Development Podcast, where he has been hosting other L&D thought leaders since 2019.

If you are an HR and Capability Leader who wants to understand the wider economic environment and what that means for business, learning teams and technology in these times, then this is the episode for you! An absolute treat of what Learning 3.0 is all about.

David has worked in People Development for more than 20 years, most notably as Director of Talent, Learning & OD for The Walt Disney Company across Europe, the Middle East & Africa.

He now specialises in contemporary L&D practices and work with clients to develop and implement their digital learning strategies – which encompass face-to-face as well as online – whilst equipping L&D teams with trusted methodologies and practical digital skills.

As well as being the Chief Learning Strategist at Looop, David writes articles and speak about L&D at conferences and events; He is a member of the CIPD L&D Advisory Board; and teach on the CIPD Level 5 Digital & Blended Learning programme. 

You may need to listen to this episode more than once to absorb all of the value David offers!

In this episode we discuss:

• Letting data drive your decision and focussing on problems not solutions
• Being a leader and saying ‘yes’ to training (already presold) training orders and then leading your team down the path of performance solutions in the flow of work.

Podcast Resources:

To learn more about David you can connect with him on LinkedIn or visit his website

Tune into David's Podcast The Learning and Development Podcast

To learn more about Rustica Lamb, you can visit her website or connect with her on LinkedIn

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Learning as we know it changing. In order to keep up and survive the Covid-19 global pandemic, organisations are rapidly making changes to their learning and development teams.

I'm interviewing the world's top leaders to bring you their insight into how this will look, and addressing some of the tough questions L&D are facing at this time.

• We have seen two other recessions in our time, 2002 and 2008, what were your observations about what happened in learning and performance in organizations?
• What are you seeing this time?
• What do you think will emerge next?
• How do you think learning teams will be structured going forward?

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.

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