John talks to Lior (Christine) Locher, a learning consultant, coach, author, and a director of the elearning network. Lior's experience spans journalism, practitioner L&D roles for companies such as McKinsey, Deloitte and the Boston Consulting Group as well as creative work and beer blogging. She has lived and worked on 4 continents. She knows 22 languages and speaks seven to intermediate level. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Learning and Performance Institute. They discuss the dangers of binary thinking and techniques Lior has developed to overcome it. Lior identifies as gender non-binary, and the theme has a personal dimension too, touching on her own struggle to define herself appropriately in a world that all too often wants to put people in boxes. 02:56 - Lifecoaching in the pandemic 04:50 - How can we avoid binary thinking? 08:15 - How does binary thinking show up in her coaching/consulting work? 14:34 - Is creative thinking less binary? 18:13 - How did she get into L&D? 24:44 - Binaries and gender 31:53 - How well does business culture cope with change? 35:58 - Bring on the Roaring 20s – or a lasting change? Mentioned in the discussion Tetralemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetralemma Website https://liorlocher.me/ Contact Lior LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christinelocher Twitter: @christineLocher Facebook: facebook.com/ChristineLocherLeadership/ Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/ Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – 'Data & learning: A new common-sense approach' https://learningpool.com/data-learning-a-new-common-sense-approach/