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The Serviceberry

Find Your WHY | Simon Sinek

4 Ways That Women Can Lead Authentically

Developing Women’s Authenticity in Leadership

Getting Real How High-Achieving Women Can Lead Authentically

Why Women Hold The Key To Authentic Leadership

Banned from education: A review of the right to education in Afghanistan | UNESCO

Tracy Roberts

Women and teaching

Timeline of women's education

How Continuing Education Is Opening Doors for Women Everywhere

The Accessibility One

The power of vulnerability in leadership

Harvard Business Publishing Education

The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED

Social eating connects communities

Education Happens Everywhere

The Imposter Syndrome One

6 Ways That Women Can Champion Each Other At Work

What it really means when women celebrate each other

Pedagogy, Andragogy, & Heutagogy

Wildfire status

Female education

Girls' Education

This week’s guests are Dr. Alisha David. Alisha is an educator, researcher, and lifelong lover of a good story. Over the

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Personal Boardroom – Who is in yours?

How to build a personal board for your career

Comparative Analysis of Trust in Online Communities

6 Tips To Build Trust In Your Online Community

Building trust in communities

How To Develop A Community Strategy

Community Strategy Insights

How to Create a Learning Culture: 18 Best Practices

Build a Strong Learning Culture on Your Team

Creating learning cultures: assessing the evidence

: State of the Global Workplace Report

GLDC (Global Learning and Development Community)

Example of Career Change as a Journey with a Clear Destination in Mind

Ep. 23: Efficiency vs. Effectiveness: Learning generosity in the L&D profession

Tayloring learning: generosity of the L&D community

The 10 Golden Rules of Building Communities That Matter

The Institute for Performance and Learning

The evolution of L&D: Strategies for success and impact | People Management

The evolution of learning and development

The evolution of L&D strategies examined

The Learning Network

L&D SHAKERS

This week’s guests are Anita Gouveia. Anita is an organisational development and learning leader who's spent the last 20+ years helping people grow, lead and making work better fo

Our first guest is Kirsty Lewis. She is the founder of the School of Facilitation.

Known for her passion for designing and delivering brilliant workshops that create purpose, ownership, safety and engagement, she is a convener of freelance facilitators and trainers through the SOF collective whilst supporting corporate clients to evolve their learning game. On the side she is dishing up SOFest 2025, a festival for all facilitators and trainers.

www.schooloffacilitation.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirsty-schooloffacilitation

Sarah Wood loves creating learning and development programs that really help people grow and do their best work. With a solid background in L&D, she brings that experience into high-velocity sales enablement teams where things move fast and impact matters. Sarah builds practical, engaging frameworks that support both individual growth and team success. She’s big on collaboration and enjoys working closely with stakeholders to make things happen. From early ideas to full rollout and review, she takes a hands-on, flexible approach—making sure every learning experience feels relevant, useful, and helps people thrive in fast-moving environments.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/woodsarah/

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Building Rapport in a Professional Setting (With Tips) | Indeed.com

How to build rapport: 6 tactics to build strong relationships

The 6 Stages of Sales Process: Sellers vs. Buyers

Do You Know What Your Company Is Actually Selling?

The ‘Reflective Elevator Pitch’ – 100 Ideas for Active Learning

The essential components of a successful L&D strategy

L&D Disruptors Toolkit Part 1: How to sell learning internally

Facing the Challenge: How to Sell eLearning Internally

Daring to Zlatan: How To Sell E-learning Internally

Selling consulting services into large organisations

Women in sales: It’s time to smash clichés (including real tips from female sales leaders)

What is the Difference Between Sales and Marketing?

Women in Sales: How Female Leaders Are Empowering the Sales Industry [2025 Data]

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What Job Seekers Really Want in 2025

Top 20 reasons we go to work

Employees Seek Personal Value and Purpose at Work. Be Prepared to Deliver.

This CEO Just Brilliantly Explained How Remote Work Will Change the World by 2030, and It's Next-Level

Flexible working practices

The Surprising Benefits of Work/Life Support

Stress, overwork and poor work-life balance undermine UK job quality

Nine in 10 women experience mental ill-health from poor work-life balance, study shows

Exploring the Impact of COVID‐19 on Employees’ Boundary Management and Work–Life Balance

Work-Life Balance vs Work-Life Fluidity: What's the Difference?

Women value work-life balance more unless managers

‘Work-life balance is a lie’: women in business urged to stop trying to have it all

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”

Work-life balance

Self-Confidence and Work-Life Balance: Nurturing Personal Well-being.

AI anxiety: The workers who fear losing their jobs to artificial intelligence

Work–life balance

This week’s first guest is Kim Edwards. Kim leads several of Getty Images’ learning and leadership initiatives, designing meaningful and memorable learning moments for 1,800 employees globally. Whether that’s crafting the company’s onboarding e

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What Is Human-Centered Design?

Microlearning

Add a heading in a Word document

Are young people’s attention spans really shrinking? It’s more complex than you might think

Are attention spans really collapsing? Data shows UK public are worried – but also see benefits from technology

User-generated content

You Can’t Fix Every Problem With Training

Why Many training progreammes fall short and how to fix them

Three Data Points You Can Track in Your LMS and What They'll Tell You

How to Track Employee Training: Here Are the 5 Best Ways

Massive Open Online Course Completion Rates Revisited: Assessment, Length and Attrition

21+ Truly Shocking Online Course Completion Rate Statistics

How to Run A Content Audit in 2024

Massive open online course

The Art of Unlearning | Morgan Ogunleye | TEDxElmhurstUniversity

Video reflection and feedback in learning and development

Content IS NOT king in L&D

L&D Must Resolve 'Content Chaos' to Meet Performance Goals - The LPI (Learning and Performance Institute)

Yahoo Finance

RARE John Cleese corporate training video | Bosses From Hell | vintage comedy | Video Arts

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Women Still Handle Main Household Tasks in U.S.

Worries about life in 2025

Taking Out the Trash? That’s Still a Man’s Job, Even for the Liberal Coastal Elite

Women in the Workplace 2019

Ask an Expert: How Do I Relaunch My Career After a Long Break?

Pregnancy, maternity and returning to work: An employer’s guide

Do Longer Maternity Leaves Hurt Women’s Careers?

Welcome to the Risk Zone: The period in which women’s potential for motherhood is negatively impacting their employability

Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Empathy and Forgiveness

All around the world, women are better empathizers than men, study finds

Why I need a women’s leadership development programme

Samantha Harman’s Post

'Progress Over Perfection': A Mantra For HR And Leadership

How Women Can Stop Seeking Validation & Own Their Worth

Overcoming Your Need for Constant Validation at Work

How fearless women lead

How To Level Up As A Woman: 21 Hacks To Get Started

Vanessa Frater Robertson is a multi-award-winning international speaker, author, certified confidence and speaker coach with over two decades of corporate communication expertise. She has empowered hundreds of professional women to speak boldly and lead fearlessly.

As the founder of the Global Confidence Core Movement, predominantly for faith-based women, Vanessa is dedicated to breaking barriers and igniting self-belief.

Connect with Vanessa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessafraterrobertson/

Amy Bond is an Account Executive for an award winning learning technology company. Passionate about empowering innovative Learning and development professionals, to drive engagement in their workforce and encourage a meaningful culture of social learning. I love supporting progressive organisations harnessing the power of impactful tech, to close skills gaps and transform organisational performance.

Susi Miller is an internationally recognised expert in eLearning accessibility, dedicated to helping organisations create inclusive and effective digital learning experiences. With over 30 years’ experience in learning and development, she is passionate about ensuring accessibility is embedded in digital learning, not just as a compliance requirement but as a core principle of effective design. She is the author of Designing Accessible Learning Content, the definitive guide for learning professionals, and was honoured as the Learning Performance Institute’s Learning Professional of the Year Gold Winner 2025 for her contributions to accessibility in digital learning.

A sought-after speaker, consultant, and thought leader, Susi works with global corporations, government bodies, and educational institutions to integrate accessibility into their learning strategies. Her Designing Accessible Learning Content (DALC) Programme is equipping learning professionals worldwide with the skills to design, develop, and test accessible learning content. Described as ‘the godmother of eLearning accessibility’, she continues to drive progress in the field, ensuring that digital learning is truly inclusive for all.

Designing Accessible Learning Content 2nd Edition

 Designing Accessible Learning Content Self-Access Programme information

 Designing Accessible Learning Content Self-Access Programme free showcase module

 eLa1000 eLearning accessibility questionnaire

eLa1000 information video

Gemma Nunn is the Head of Learning Design at Mint Interactive, with over 20 years of experience in Learning and Development. She began her career as a web developer before transitioning to teaching in further and higher education, ultimately specialising in eLearning development. Passionate about accessibility, Gemma has shared her insights through various podcasts and seminars. She aims to create inclusive and engaging learning experiences that ensure education is available to everyone. 

Her LinkedIn profile is https://www.linkedin.com/in/gemmanunn/

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Many CEOs May Not Realize They’re Underdelivering on Disability Inclusion

Menopause and brain fog: What's the link?

Clearing the fog

Women’s Mental Health: Cognitive Overload or Brain Fog?

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Daily insights for people development professionals to transform workplace learning and performance together

Women Know Exactly What They’re Doing When They Use ‘Weak Language’

Free writing

Reflective Writing Skills

The Transformative Power of Reflective Writing in Personal Development

Hello Sunshine

Women Know Exactly What They’re Doing When They Use ‘Weak Language’

Skills Hub menu

Reflective writing

How to Write With AI: Essential Guide, Tools, & Tips (2024)

An introduction to the use of generative AI tools in teaching

Generative AI and Creative Learning: Concerns, Opportunities, and Choices

Brandeis And The History Of Transparency

Confidence trick

AI - Why it matters to women

Women are less confident as writers. Here’s why and how to change this — Clementine App

The key to change: Women’s voice and influence

The power of literacy to give women a voice

Generative AI Tools Are Perpetuating Harmful Gender Stereotypes

Techno-Patriarchy: How AI is Misogyny’s New Clothes

AI's Missing Link: The Gender Gap in the Talent Pool

Women in Data Science and AI

8 of the Best AI Writing Tools to Help You Work Smarter, Not Harder

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Why Mentally Strong Women Aren't Afraid to Break the Rules

Women Are Better Rule Followers Than Men — But What Does It Get Them?

Play and Flow: Harnessing Flow Through the Power of Play in Adult Learning

International Day of Play

Finite game

The Infinite Game

Understanding your Play Style – An Illustrated Guide to Play Types

Stuart Brown: Play is more than fun

Play. Stuart Brown

How To Fail So You Can Succeed Later

Designing Playful Cities

Is It Time to Leave Your Comfort Zone? How Leaving Can Spark Positive Change

Why Play and Exploration is Key to Learning New Tools

Play To Win: Unleashing Innovation And Growth Through Playful Work Cultures

How to Build an Award-Winning Company Culture (of Play)

The Overlooked Power of Playfulness in Corporate Culture

“Almost all creativity involves purposeful play” -Abraham Maslo

Why do we stop playing?

The Importance of Play at Work

Is play the new work?

This week’s guests are Sarah Filman. Sarah playfully unlocks personal and professional growth as a leadership coach, facilitator, and improviser who brings heart and humour to every interaction. Drawing on her experience as a people leader and product manager in tech and education non-profits, she founded Playful Perspectives with a mission to help leaders and teams connect, create, and thrive by dissolving the work/play divide. Through play and performance, her coaching helps leaders expand their range and strengthen relationships. Sarah also volunteers with the Global Play Brigade, connecting with people worldwide to play with the spectrum of human emotions and experiences.

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Write down your thoughts and shred them to relieve anger, researchers say

How to Deal with Guilt: 14 Tips for Coping

YOUR FEAR IS BORING. I can say this with all honesty and authority, because I k…

Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you

How to Help Others Through a Difficult Transition

Kaleidoscope Health and Care

9 Things to Do When Change Is Forced on You

The Imposter Syndrome One

The “in-between” times of transition are amazing opportunities for growth and reflection.

Transition is an Opportunity for Growth

The power of a slow transition

Transition

The Power Of Curiosity In The Workplace

Our first guests is Chrysa Vazitari. Chrysa is a silver award winner as the best EMEA coach. She is focusing on career advancement, career pivots and burnout prevention. She is a PCC-certified coach by ICF and she is using different methodologies in her coaching like LEGO Serious Play, phototherapy, embodiment to support the self-discovery and to keep her sessions and workshops fun and engaging. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrysanthi-vazitari/

website link:  https://www.chrysalogy.com/

Krystyna Mailer is an instructional and graphic design specialist with expertise in visual communication, e-learning course development, video creation and job aid design. Known for her ability to transform complex information into clear and engaging learning materials, her mission is to create solutions that are both impactful and practical.

She has an instagram and a TikTok page sharing tools, tips and practices on instructional design @learningdesigntime and a portfolio website www.krystynamailer.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/krystyna-mailer/

Juliet Morris is a multi-award-winning leader and coach dedicated to helping people create purpose-driven, sustainable futures. With expertise in leadership, sensemaking, and coaching (Clean Language, executive coaching, and mental fitness), she partners with those seeking meaningful progress. Currently, Juliet is Chief People & Culture Officer at the UK