TGLF Dialogue on Learning, Leadership, and Impact: Recent Episodes
The Geneva Learning Foundation
The Dialogue connects a very diverse group of learning leaders from all over the world who are tackling complex learning, leadership, and impact challenges.
Join us in a roundtable to discuss the latest trends, to share your lessons learned and successes, and to problem-solve real-world challenges and dilemmas.
The Dialogue is also a master class with its conveners. Karen Watkins and Reda Sadki, co-creators of the Foundation, explore and demonstrate how to apply The Foundation’s unique approach to learning, leadership, and impact in the Digital Age to real-world challenges.
We are pleased to announce the Geneva Learning Foundation’s Ninth Dialogue for Learning & leadership .
[Note: due to a technical problem with the livestream first recorded on 28 November 2021, we are restreaming the Dialogue on 5 December 2021.]
The Geneva Learning foundation’s Dialogue connects a diverse group of learning leaders from all over the world who are tackling complex learning, leadership, and impact challenges.
Join Reda Sadki and Karen E. Watkins from The Geneva Learning Foundation in a global roundtable with twenty remarkable Key Contributors.
We reflect on the significance of leadership for current trends, explore lessons learned and successes, and problem-solve real-world challenges and dilemmas submitted by Members of the Dialogue.
Tonight, however, we are going to start with Dr. Mai Abdalla. After studying global health security in at Yosei University South Korea and both public health and pharmaceutical science in her own country, Egypt. By the time she turned 30, Dr Abdalla had already worked with the Ministry of Health, UN agencies, and the African Union Commission. The accomplishments of her professional life are just the starting point, as we want to explore where and how did she learn to do what she does now? What has shaped her practice of leadership?
We are privileged to have Key Contributors Laura Bierema and Bill Gardner, together with Karen Watkins, three Scholars who have dedicated their life's work to the study of leadership and learning. As we learn about Mai Abdalla’s leadership journey, they share their insights and reflections.
Here are a few of the questions we have explored in previous episodes of the Dialogue: • How do you define your leadership in relationship to learning? • Do you see yourself as a leader? Why or why not? If you do, who are your 'followers'? Are you a 'learning leader' and, if so, what does that mean? • How do you define leadership in this Digital Age? How is it different from leadership in the past? • When and how did you realize the significance of the leadership question in your work and life? Who or what helped you come to consciousness? What difference did it make to have this new consciousness about the importance of leadership? • What is your own leadership practice now? Can you tell us about a time when you exercised 'leadership'. What were the lessons learned? What would you do the same or differently if confronted with the same situation in the future?
In the second half of the Dialogue, we explored the leadership challenges of other other invited Contributors, including:
Sanusi Getso on leadership to establish antenatal care services for a neglected community.
Alève Mine shares her quandary about how to understand something for which no scaffold exists in one's current view of the world.
Learn more about the Dialogue https://www.learning.foundation/dialogue
The Geneva Learning foundation’s Dialogue connects a diverse group of learning leaders from all over the world who are tackling complex learning, leadership, and impact challenges.
Join Reda Sadki and Karen E. Watkins from The Geneva Learning Foundation in a global roundtable with twenty remarkable Key Contributors.
We reflect on the significance of leadership for current trends, explore lessons learned and successes, and problem-solve real-world challenges and dilemmas submitted by Members of the Dialogue.
Request your invitation to join the Dialogue https://www.learning.foundation/dialogue
Listen to the Foundation’s podcast https://www.learning.foundation/podcast
The Geneva Learning foundation’s Dialogue connects a diverse group of learning leaders from all over the world who are tackling complex learning, leadership, and impact challenges.
Join Reda Sadki and Karen E. Watkins from The Geneva Learning Foundation in a global roundtable with twenty remarkable Key Contributors.
We reflect on the significance of leadership for current trends, explore lessons learned and successes, and problem-solve real-world challenges and dilemmas submitted by Members of the Dialogue.
Request your invitation to join the Dialogue https://www.learning.foundation/dialogue
Listen to the Foundation’s podcast https://www.learning.foundation/podcast
The Geneva Learning foundation’s Dialogue connects a diverse group of learning leaders from all over the world who are tackling complex learning, leadership, and impact challenges.
Join Reda Sadki and Karen E. Watkins from The Geneva Learning Foundation in a global roundtable with twenty remarkable Key Contributors.
We reflect on the significance of leadership for current trends, explore lessons learned and successes, and problem-solve real-world challenges and dilemmas submitted by Members of the Dialogue.
Request your invitation to join the Dialogue https://www.learning.foundation/dialogue
Listen to the Foundation’s podcast https://www.learning.foundation/podcast
The Geneva Learning foundation’s Dialogue connects a diverse group of learning leaders from all over the world who are tackling complex learning, leadership, and impact challenges.
Join Reda Sadki and Karen E. Watkins from The Geneva Learning Foundation in a global roundtable with twenty remarkable Key Contributors.
We reflect on the significance of leadership for current trends, explore lessons learned and successes, and problem-solve real-world challenges and dilemmas submitted by Members of the Dialogue.
Request your invitation to join the Dialogue https://www.learning.foundation/dialogue
Listen to the Foundation’s podcast https://www.learning.foundation/podcast
The Geneva Learning foundation’s Dialogue connects a diverse group of learning leaders from all over the world who are tackling complex learning, leadership, and impact challenges.
Join Reda Sadki and Karen E. Watkins from The Geneva Learning Foundation in a global roundtable with twenty remarkable Key Contributors.
We reflect on the significance of leadership for current trends, explore lessons learned and successes, and problem-solve real-world challenges and dilemmas submitted by Members of the Dialogue.
Key Contributors for the Dialogue on 27 June 2021 include: Nancy Dixon, Bill Gardner, Renee Rogers, Laura Bierema, Aliki Nicolaides, Bill Wiggenhorn, and Chizoba Wonodi.
Request your invitation to join the Dialogue https://www.learning.foundation/dialogue
TGLF Dialogue for Learning, Leadership, and Impact (Season 1 Episode 3)
The Dialogue connects a very diverse group of learning leaders from all over the world who are tackling complex learning, leadership, and impact challenges.
Join Reda Sadki and Karen E. Watkins from The Geneva Learning Foundation in a global roundtable with twenty remarkable Key Contributors.
We reflect on the significance of leadership for current trends, explore lessons learned and successes, and problem-solve real-world challenges and dilemmas submitted by Members of the Dialogue.
Key Contributors for the Dialogue on 30 May 2021 include: Laura Bierema, Emanuele Copabianco, Nancy Dixon, Katiuscia Fara, Renee Rogers, and Esther Wojcicki.
Request your invitation to join the Dialogue: https://www.learning.foundation/dialogue
The Dialogue connects a very diverse group of learning leaders from all over the world who are tackling complex learning, leadership, and impact challenges.
Join Reda Sadki and Karen E. Watkins from The Geneva Learning Foundation in a global roundtable with twenty remarkable Key Contributors.
We discuss the latest trends, explore lessons learned and successes, and problem-solve real-world challenges and dilemmas submitted by Members of the Dialogue.
Key Contributors for the Dialogue on 25 April 2021 include: Nancy Dixon, Katiuscia Fara, Bill Gardner, Bryan Hopkins, Barbara Moser-Mercer, Renee Rogers, and Esther Wojcicki.
Request your invitation to join the Dialogue: https://www.learning.foundation/dialogue
Are you facing a learning, leadership, or impact challenge? Listen in on the Foundation’s first invitation-only Clubhouse chat.
Karen Watkins and I will be chatting about the Foundation’s unique approach to this tryptic of learning, leadership, and impact in the Digital Age. It will be informal in ways intended to provoke incidental learning. No stilted panel, rigid agenda, or dull slides. That’s a promise.
We will be sharing some of the insights we gained about resilience during the first year of COVID-19, learning from the Foundation’s immunization programme that connected thousands of health professionals during the early days of the pandemic.
And, most important, we are opening it up so that you can share your real-world challenges, successes, and lessons learned.
Learn more: https://www.learning.foundation/dialogue
How can we learn from previous health crises and apply these lessons to what’s happening now?
John Helmer talks to Reda Sadki, President of the Geneva Learning Foundation about how he is using digital learning to help health professionals respond to the crisis on an international scale. What lessons can be learned from previous epidemics and pandemics? How will the developing world be affected when Coronavirus gets going in earnest there – and can his Scholar programme and Teach to Reach initiative, which connect international health professionals to spread good practice, have an effect in mitigating the ravages of Covid-19? 01:38 The Impact Accelerator programme 05:34 Lessons learned that can apply to Covid-19? 08:50 The 2 narratives about Covid in the developing world 13:09 Relevance to corporate learning 22:24 Is international co-operation getting tougher? 33:10 Big ideas or marginal gains? 39:42 Tensions between the centre and the local hubs 44:44 The future for the Geneva Learning Foundation
Wikipedia definition of a Skeuomorph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
Website of the Geneva learning Foundation: https://www.learning.foundation/
Anna Petherick writing in The Lancet on Ebola: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60075-7/fulltext
Reda on Twitter: @redasadki Reda on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/redasadki/
Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
John Helmer talks to Karen E Watkins, Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy (Adult Education, Learning and Organization) at the University of Georgia, and Victoria Marsick, Professor of Education/Co-Director J.M. Huber Institute Program Director of Adult Learning, Teachers College, Columbia University. Karen and Victoria have worked together for more than 30 years, developed and validated the Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire used in over 90 published studies, and have published numerous books. 02:20 Introducing Karen & Victoria 07:14 The 5 Dimensions of a learning organisation 11:44 Who is doing well at being a learning organisation? 13:56 Work-based learning 22:16 Learning in workflow 29:56 Can you generalise about learning? 34:58 Who do they rate as learning gurus? 39:12 What is distinctive and different about Reda Sadki's Impact accelerator work? 41:54 How it is being applied in the corporate world? 42:54 What ideas have they seen that are genuinely new?
Karen on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/karen-watkins-25517a16 Victoria on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/victoria-marsick-46758116
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John Helmer talks to Reda Sadki, CEO of the Geneva Learning Foundation, about the work he has done to innovate in the field of global healthcare, and in particular, with the Impact Accelerator Pilot. The pilot has achieved some spectacular results with practitioners in the field of immunisation, identified as one of the top ten threats to global health in 2019.
06:04 The Impact Accelerator Pilot 09:48 How it worked 18:36 Structure of the programme 22:22 Results of the pilot 24:10 State of the corporate learning market 26:12 The Ebola crisis 27:57 Work-based learning and learning-based work 32:02 What role does tech play in this? 34:56 Learning content 37:08 Applicability to other sectors 39:52 Hopes & fears for global health learning
Reda’s links: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gavialliance/ https://www.amazon.com/Informal-Incidental-Learning-Workplace-Routledge/dp/1138884707 https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/15-07-2019-20-million-children-miss-out-on-lifesaving-measles-diphtheria-and-tetanus-vaccines-in-2018 https://learning.foundation/2019/07/01/over-600-professionals-from-53-countries-connect-to-lead-change-towards-global-immunization-goals/ https://learning.foundation/2019/05/23/leading-change-from-the-ground-up-300-scholars-from-51-countries-take-up-the-challenge-of-reducing-inequities-and-improving-coverage-for-immunization/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM7I3Igr8qw https://redasadki.me/2017/04/17/learning-technologists-are-obsolete/ https://redasadki.me/2018/03/16/hot-fudge-sundae/
Reda on Twitter: @redasadki Reda on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/redasadki/
Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
Author or co-author of 6 books, over 80 articles, and numerous book chapters, Karen Watkins's scholarly interests include incidental learning, action science, and organizational learning assessment. With Victora Marsick, they developed and validated an instrument to measure learning culture and performance.
Karen helped found The Geneva Learning Foundation in 2016, guiding the development of its immunization programme. In 2019, she performed the first evaluation of the programme, providing evidence to support the invention of the Impact Accelerator, a radically-new method to lead and measure change.
In this interview, she will share the key insights about learning that has underpinned the Foundation's execution of the idea that education, at its best, is a powerful philosophy for change in the Digital Age.