Another RedThread Rewind episode: “I think we have to help organizations get out of the way and let people unleash and unlock their ca-pabilities in ways that does not require the organization to be at the center.” Sounds pretty optimistic? No

Integrating Inclusion: It’s light you want, not heat, w/Jesse Jackson, JPMorgan Chase

Oct 19th, 2021 45m 6s

Sometimes you feel you’re in the eye of the hurricane: so much is happening in terms of our wider society in terms of changing expectations, changing ways of working, changing life choices. Add the potentially explosive compound called ‘Diversi

The Skills Obsession: Learning The Many Languages of Skills w/Mars’s Nuno Gonçalves

Oct 19th, 2021 49m 33s

“I think that in the future, what will be really necessary in terms of skills are people that talk different languages of skills… talking different languages of different skill sets will be something really, really im-portant.” Why is it signif

Integrating Inclusion: creating space for courageous conversations, w/Rachel Fichter, S&PGlobal

Oct 13th, 2021 58m 39s

Are there three sets of people in Inclusion: the folks doing the ground-level work on DEIB, maybe the researchers way off in the academic stratosphere, and then the people actually affected by these issues on a day-to-day level in the workplace

The Skills Obsession: Designing the Skills Future w/Lisa Kay Solomon of the Stanford d.school

Oct 13th, 2021 58m 33s

“What I introduce [my students] to are the kinds of skills that allow them to navigate ambiguity.” If that seems like urgently-needed capability you or your team to have you’re in luck, as you’re about to find out a whole lot more about why you

Why Microsoft’s Shelby Grieve thinks managers should be measured by a lot more than how many donuts they bring in for the team

Jun 9th, 2021 31m 49s

In December 2020, I was invited to host three live Learning podcasts at last year’s HR Innovation and Tech Fest (#HRTechFest), a week-long event hosted in Sydney, Australia by Hannover Fairs; I’d previously attended as an in-person delegate, an

A special cross-over episode from RedThread’s new deep dive into all things Skills

May 26th, 2021 52m 37s

In our thematic Season 5—‘The Learning Leaders’—we’ve been meeting both new and seasoned leaders from industry, academia, and technology. The sole criterion for us profiling them is they have made significant contributions to workplace learning

How an open and experimental mindset, passion for the topic and a love of haikus helped Glisi's L&D team deliver extraordinary DEI impact

May 12th, 2021 29m 17s

If you're working for a body whose main mission is to develop a Georgia where schools and communities pursue breakthrough success for all students regardless of race, geography, or family income, you’re right in thinking that support for divers

What we now know about the real meaning of purpose for Learning & Development

Apr 28th, 2021 58m 13s

In 2019, the Business Roundtable surprised many when it declared that companies should have a purpose beyond serving shareholders—that the corporation’s goal should also be to deliver value to customers, employees, suppliers and communities. Cl

'Do we understand the outsized impact we can have on people’s lives?’ Bersin Academy co-founder Bill Pelster on the power of Learning

Apr 14th, 2021 40m 19s

With Season 6, we’ve been looking into the implications of the global pandemic on the future of work and Workplace Learning. This week we get the helpful perspective of what many people in the business say has been a quiet force for innovation

We made the pivot to online, but now let’s make it great: virtual training expert Cindy Huggett

Mar 31st, 2021 54m 42s

Now we’re (still) all meeting virtually, making virtual events work is a priority, but many organisations have struggled to make them work: it’s particularly an issue when we’re all fried from endless Zoom meetings anyway. This week on Learning

‘Survive, Revive, and Thrive:’ Air New Zealand CLO Sydney Savion

Mar 17th, 2021 55m 21s

Why EY thinks ‘purpose + vision + long-term value’ is the real purpose power equation

Mar 3rd, 2021 54m 51s

In 2013, Big Four consulting firm Ernst & Young, a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and consulting services, rebranded as ‘EY.’ What maybe few of us picked up on at the time was that part of that rebrand made an explicit Purpose sta

“Purpose always comes out strongest when there's a moment of strife:” IDEO U’s Suzanne Gibbs Howard

Feb 17th, 2021 50m 47s

First there was IDEO, an award-winning global design firm that decided to take a human-centered, design-based approach to help organisations innovate and grow; you may or may not have encountered its unique approach if you’ve ever interacted wi

Can even venture capitalists have Purpose? The answer will surprise you

Feb 3rd, 2021 49m 34s

Does Purpose help the bottom line? It’s a fair question, surely—maybe, ultimately, the best question we can really ask ourselves in business as the idea of a move away from purely shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism takes off. And

‘I try to help people grow and evolve in a way that’s good for both them and us’—Sanofi, Empowering Life and its employees

Jan 20th, 2021 48m 47s

Celia Berenguer. since November 2017 Chief Learning Officer at European-headquarterted Life Sciences giant Sanofi, couldn’t have been more excited getting ready to press the ‘Go’ button a new Sanofi University. Then, as we hear on this latest e

‘A big organisation, but one with heart.’ Johnson & Johnson—the original Purpose-based company?

Jan 6th, 2021 51m 36s

Near the end of today’s episode our guest tells us that, “My Purpose is to bring hope to every employee of Johnson & Johnson.” We have no doubt at all he means it—and what makes this even more interesting is that he’s working in an $85 billion

Leadership strategist and Purpose thinker Dan Pontefract, and a mid-season review

Dec 23rd, 2020 52m 15s

Ask today’s guest, Dan Pontefract, about his current mission and he’ll tell you, “If we want Purpose to happen, maybe we need to take a look at our thinking”—and that, “We’re not here to see through each other, we’re here to see each other thro

Rachel Fichter, S&P Global, and Purpose: ’You can’t just come up with a Purpose that doesn’t match who you are’

Dec 9th, 2020 51m 16s

Wall St might not be the most obvious place to find a company with Purpose. But when we meet someone like today’s Season 7 ‘Is Purpose Working?’ podcast guest, and they say things like, “If purpose is an articulation of the reason for existence

‘Written on very, very important paper:’ Medtronic--and what having a Purpose for 60 years gives you

Dec 2nd, 2020 49m 39s

As we dig deeper into answering our question ‘Is Purpose Working?’ we find that while Purpose is a very new concept for many, having a conscious organizational Purpose has been BAU for some corporations for decades. This week we meet one, which

‘We really need to invest right now in human skills:’ our Purpose exploration continues, with Aaron Hurst

Nov 11th, 2020 1h 7m

Purpose has become more and more a key concept for modern organizations: type ‘Purpose in American business’ into Google, and you’ll get 1,740,000,000 responses, for example. But how real is it? Is it the same as CSR, or giving corporate money

Is Purpose Working? A special Learning Futures Group-RedThread Research exploration

Oct 28th, 2020 49m 2s

Back in August 2019, the Business Roundtable—an association of chief executive officers of America’s leading companies—said that the Purpose of American business was no longer to maximise shareholder value but to instead promote an economy that

‘Culture is a verb, not a noun:’ a sit down with L&D influencer Melissa Daimler

Oct 14th, 2020 57m 29s

Founder & Principal of boutique HR consulting firm Daimler Partners, Melissa Daimler has always said that if you do it right, work is the best learning lab you could possibly want. She’s certainly done her best to make that maxim work for her:

Is coding the new typing?

Sep 30th, 2020 18m 45s

Time was, the biggest L&D brand was a long-vanished enterprise called the Katherine Gibbs school. What it taught: the hugely in-demand skill of working the world’s most valuable piece of information technology, the manual typewriter—a technolog

Why you need to start loving problems—not your (ha ha) ‘solutions' for them

Sep 16th, 2020 27m 14s

Here’s a question that’s fascinated me my entire professional life: How might technology change the future of Learning and Work? But actually, as I finally figured out only a couple of years back, the more important is WHY technology change the