Learning Unlocked

Lou Adler - Founder & CEO, The Adler Group joins the Learning Unlocked podcast to discuss how to make great hires by hiring for the anniversary date, rather than hiring for the start date. Adler also discusses how to craft a job description, how to ensure there will be alignment between manager and the employee you are hiring and how the hybrid/remote world we are now living in has changed hiring strategies for companies.

Learn more about The Adler Group at www.LouAdlerGroup.com.

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Susan Brattberg, Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer of Global eTraining joins the Learning Unlocked podcast. Global eTraining is the most comprehensive online training solution for architecture, engineering, constructing and manufacturing. Brattberg discusses how e-training in these highly technical industries has evolved, how Global eTraining provides training for an international audience of learners and why training is a vital part of retaining employees.

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Mehdi Tounsi, OpenSesame Senior Regional Director, EMEA joins the Learning Unlocked podcast to share insight on how to manage a global team of employees who are working remotely. Tounsi shares tips on the best ways to break through barriers and resonate with employees on a professional and personal level. Tounsi is currently based in London, but has lived all over the world and has a diverse perspective to share.

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Josh Price, Co-CEO of Symmetra Global (www.symmetraglobal.com), joins the Learning Unlocked podcast from Sydney, Australia. Symmetra is an innovative global specialist provider in DE&I training and culture change services. In addition, Symmetra works closely with human capital communities in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the USA and many more regions.

Price discusses the diagnostics involved in evaluating the policies, systems and processes when Symmetra Global works with its clients. He also discusses how Symmetra works with companies to create momentum when it comes to changing cultures and promoting DE&I. Lastly, Price shares with us how DE&I can become authentic and part of a company’s DNA instead of being done to check a box.

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Tara Cooper, DEI Consultant, joins the Learning Unlocked podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about DEI. Tara shares with us how we can make space to hear different perspectives, how she coach leaders and models for them how they can lead and facilitate openness and learning on their own teams and she shares the secret for how your organization can best recruit a diverse pool of candidates.

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OpenSesame Executives Abby Miles (Senior Director of People) and Matt Bradley (Senior Learning and Development Advisor) join the Learning Unlocked podcast to discuss how to Unify a Remote Workforce and create a healthy work environment, how to combat the Great Resignation and create career paths that are essential for employee retention and they give tangible examples of how you can build relationships with your employees and get to know them as people.

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Mark Kaplan, Managing Partner of The Dagoba Group, joins the Learning Unlocked podcast to discuss how unconscious bias with leadership positions impacts the culture of a company, the qualities that make for a good leader and how leaders can be more inclusive and diverse. He also shares with us how The Dagoba Group started and details the work their consulting practice is doing.

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The Learning Unlocked podcast sits down with the Founders of OpenSesame as they celebrate and reflect on 10 years in business. Don Spear (CEO), Josh Blank (President & Chief Product Officer), Aaron Bridges (VP & Chief Technology Officer) and Tom Turnbull (VP, Legal Affairs) sit down with Learning Unlocked Host Brian Berger in Arizona at the company’s 10-year anniversary retreat. The Founders look back at the start to the company, they share some of their favorite stories, they discuss changes to the e-learning landscape over the past decade and they preview what lies ahead.

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Dr. Sian Proctor (@DrSianProctor) - Astronaut, Geoscientist and Space Artist joins the Learning Unlocked podcast for a conversation. Dr. Proctor was a mission pilot for SpaceX's Inspiration4 all-civilian orbital mission to space (Launched 9/15/21). She is the first African American woman to pilot a spacecraft.

Dr. Proctor believes that we need to actively strive for a J.E.D.I. space: a just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive space as we advance human spaceflight.

During this conversation, Dr. Proctor details her lifelong quest to become an astronaut, she vividly describes her experience in space, she discusses the importance of teamwork and learning and she discusses her Space 2 Inspire program.

Only 600 people have ever been to space and Dr. Proctor is now one of them. She also discusses how civilian space travel may become a more common feat during our lifetime.

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Ryan Tillman, Founder of Breaking Barriers United, joins the Learning Unlocked podcast to discuss his mission is to change the perception people have of police officers, while understanding what exactly police officers are doing to form those perceptions. Tillman addresses current issues between law enforcement and the communities they serve. He also discusses tactics for de-escalating conflicts and learning about others so that we may understand them better.

Ryan has partnered with OpenSesame to create elearning courses that specialize in police training topics that go beyond the standardized, mandatory requirements. Ryan believes that by offering these educational opportunities, we can repair the bond between law enforcement and the community.

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