Learning to Fly: Recent Episodes
Inspire Group
Inspire Group Australia's podcast series abut everyday humans who make themselves better by making stuff and breaking stuff, while also discussing the music, movies and art that shaped them.
In this episode we talk with renowned leadership expert, public speaker, and author, Bob Bradley.
We delve into the nuances of leadership and the power of diversity, not only in terms of background and experience but also traditional diversity factors like race and gender.
Bob talks to us about everything from 'loneliness at the top' to the need for a safe space for leaders to discuss vulnerabilities and uncertainties.
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This week we're joined by Common Wealth Games gold medalist, Sarina Sundara Rajah. Sarina shares her journey from competitive gymnastics to running a rhythmic gymnastics club since 2004. She emphasizes the challenges young athletes, especially in gymnastics, face regarding body image and societal pressures. Sarina discusses her compassionate leadership style and advocates for safe sports, sharing her experience in spearheading the Safe Sport movement in Malaysia.
She highlights the importance of a proactive approach in preventing abuse, recommending policies that limit one-on-one interactions and ensure observable and interruptible situations. Sarina also talks about evidence-based strategies for abuse prevention in sports, emphasizing the need for timely intervention.
Towards the end, Serena reflects on her coaching experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the importance of adaptability, resilience, and a growth mindset. She advises aspiring leaders to challenge the status quo, be rebels with a cause, and use their voices constructively for positive change. Serena envisions a safer sports culture and continues her advocacy work for comprehensive protection of children in sports.
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In this episode of our host Ulrika Brunnerdials in for a conversation with Christine Amour-Levar.
The discussion revolves around the theme of embracing discomfort for personal and professional growth. Christine emphasizes the importance of curiosity, rating it beyond the scale, and narrates her experiences in venturing into unfamiliar territories, such as launching an NFT-based community in Singapore.
Get an inside look at the courage required to step out of your comfort zone. Hear about the significance of continuous learning, and the impact of leaving a legacy. Christine's commitment to inspiring other women, shines through as she encourages diverse career paths and alternative approaches to success.
Tune in to explore how embracing change, staying curious, and taking risks can lead to transformative leadership journeys.
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Join us for an insightful episode as CEO of SweetRush, Andrei Hedstrom, discusses the intricate connections between learning and development in the corporate landscape. Explore the future of leadership, the influence of neuroscience on employee performance, and the thrilling possibilities that emerging technologies bring to crafting effective marketing strategies for corporations. Get ready for a deep dive into the realms of servant leadership, consciousness studies, and the transformative power of learning and development tailored for corporate success.
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In the latest 'Learning to Fly' episode, Danny, an expert in leadership development, delves into the intricate fabric of workplace culture. Part 1 sets the stage by emphasizing the impact of organizational history and effective leadership. Tune in as Danny shares personal experiences and explores the delicate balance between shaping culture and nurturing learning environments.
In this two-part episode of 'Learning to Fly,' join Danny, a seasoned leadership development manager, as he shares insights on shaping workplace culture. Part 1 explores the pivotal role of history and leadership in defining an organization's culture. Stay tuned for Part 2 in a few weeks to delve deeper into actionable strategies.
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In this episode, Mark Lewis, Head of People and Culture at Connectics, delves into the core of organizational growth. He discusses the vital link between people, capability, and the success of businesses. From navigating leadership challenges to fostering a culture of continuous learning, Mark shares invaluable insights. Join us for a thought-provoking kōrero which offers a holistic perspective on building thriving and resilient teams.
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In this episode, Damien Woods, the Chapter Lead of Learning and Growing at 7-Eleven, discusses the development of a learning culture in an Agile business environment.
Damien emphasizes the importance of building habits and rituals, such as regular retrospectives and reflective practices, to foster a culture of continuous learning.
He highlights that Agile is not a one-size-fits-all approach and should be adapted to fit the unique characteristics of the organization. Damien encourages the mindset of constant improvement and adaptation in pursuit of a more agile and learning-focused culture.
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In a special Learning to Fly episode we welcome Chris Maika, CEO of Māori eLearning and capability consultancy, Ruku ki te ako.
As a follow on from our most recent Inspire Connect events, Chris shares insights into embedding Te Ao Māori in organisations, emphasizing the importance of leadership engagement, understanding the organisation's why, and implementing a strategic direction. He highlights the need for a sustainable, long-term approach that involves both top-down and ground-up efforts.
The discussion also touches on the significance of Te Tiriti ō Waitangi, and the importance of meaningful embedding to avoid tokenism. Chris addresses concerns about disengagement, urging organisations to create a supportive environment where individuals feel safe to make mistakes and learn.
Links to resources discussed in the episode:
- Business Readiness Assessment (adapted from the Te Arawhiti Framework)
- Free eLearning Module - Pronouncing Māori Vowel Sounds
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Join your host (and our New Zealand CEO), Aidan Stoate, as he has a kōrero with the agent of change, Digby Scott.
Digby's superpower is bringing people together to create high-trust, deep-learning environments. He geeks out on making the complex simple (but not simplistic).
His perspectives on leadership and change are what made him the perfect guest to kick off the revitalisation of our Learning To Fly podcast.
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We dialled in for a kōrero with Gemma Sides, the Kaiwhakatere for Inspire Group. We discussed 'Decolonising Ohu Inspire' which is an internal initiative—now in it's third year at Inspire Group—which is focused on helping the organisation become better Treaty partners, and develop better, more inclusive learning for their clients.Gemma shares the what, why and how, of Decolonising Ohu Inspire as well as sharing tips for organisations looking to embark on a similar journey.
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Time flies! Inspire Group is 20 years young!
Aidan Stoate interviews Dan Tohill on all the challenges, changes and lessons learnt in the L&D industry over the last 20 years.
Inspire started with an idea, to bring to the market a new approach to organisational learning with the belief that – 'better learning is life changing'.
Over the last 20 years we have grown from our Wellington base to Auckland, Australia and Malaysia and now serve a global market with learning solutions, leadership development and talent solutions.
From a distance the growth curve looks like a smooth trajectory, but just like personal growth, there’s been plenty of ups and downs, steps forward and backwards and a few sideways moves.
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In this episode Dan Tohill talks to Fran Hoover who shares some of her experiences while working for many years in the public and community sectors and the importance of ensuring learning is culturally appropriate.
Connect with Fran Hoover:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fran-hoover-15ab225b/
About Fran Hoover:
Although she hasn’t been in a traditional classroom for many years, Fran describes herself as a ‘teacher by trade’ because it was as a high school teacher that she first saw the amazing things that can happen when people are really engaged and participating in their own learning.
Her career has always had learning at its heart, and has included working with executives and senior leaders on leadership and developing organisational learning and change strategies, through to hands on design and delivery of learning programmes for refugees to help them thrive in their new home.
With 30 years experience working in the public and community sectors, Fran enjoys the challenges and benefits of both. As a senior manager and executive herself Fran has successfully led and implemented new strategic visions, helped grow learning cultures, developed high performing teams and delivered transformational change.
Whether it is directly through her own delivery, or in collaboration with others Fran brings warmth and energy to facilitation and learning events, always creating a space where real engagement is happening.
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Ulrika Brunner interviews Michaela Boye - Managing Director from Scania Group Taiwan, and they discuss how leadership is democratising globally and the importance of having open discussions to nurture your company culture through developing trust and ensuring employees align with core values early on in their induction process.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaela-boye-2518992/
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Ulrika Brunner interviews James Hudson from Drive Development Solutions and L&D Mastermind and they discuss leadership and L&D challenges at this time and how to lead with genuine compassion and understanding to help people adapt to change and this new digital world of virtual working. They also discuss the three stages of leadership development:
- Lead self
- Lead others
- Lead results
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Dan Tohill interviews Peter Keegan. At the time of recording Peter was the Capability Development Manager for the Department of Conservation. Peter shares some of the work he's done around personas for the learning and development of DOCs diverse workforce.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterandrewkeegan/
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In this episode Nat Gunn chats to Dan Tohill and provides practical tips on building your team culture online.
Nat, co-owner of Epic Learning, is a Learning and Development Specialist with a lot of experience both working and learning online. She leads a remote team, spread across Australasia. Epic has carved a great company culture online, continue to grow and develop their people and even get a chance to have some fun, even if they have never all physically been in the same location together at once. Nat enjoys the challenges of leading a remote team, and this year her experience in the area has been put to good use, helping others adapt to the shift toward remote working.
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https://epiclearning.co.nz/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/natashagunn/
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Kimble Vowless shares his thoughts with Dan Tohill on the incredibly unique year that was 2020, how he managed working 80 hour weeks urgently training people in the health sector, his tips on virtual working and the 'remote learning revolution'.
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Aidan Stoate interviews Andrew Curtis, one of our trusted associates here at Inspire Group.
Andrew Curtis is captivated by finding the answer to one question, How do you really help someone?'. This search began in his teens as he tried to find ways to help friends and family members with mental health challenges and has since become part of his journey as an entrepreneur, leadership coach and training facilitator. Andrew's skills as a communicator are combined with his understanding and compassion for the human condition; fostering safe and inspiring environments where life-changing insights are possible. Listen to this episode to get tips and techniques on how to effectively lead and engage with people in a virtual working environment and how to facilitate great learning experiences and meetings online.
Some of our favourite quotes from Andrew in this episode:
"The only way to get trust is to give trust. If I'm the leader then I have to show trust first. I have to look for ways that I trust you."
"If I have trust I have everything."
"When it comes to creating that trust environment, I look for opportunities to share moments where I haven't understood, or where I have failed to meet an objective. And what I'm saying as a leader is that I want to create a high-trust environment here. So whereby I'm sharing an area that I had to learn, people pick up that this is a place where they can say they don't understand."
"In a virtual meeting I find I need to be really directive and really clear on what I want and how I want people to respond."
"The principle of trust and open sharing is the foundation of really good conversations. In terms of how you really help someone, one of the most powerful things that I have discovered is if a person is safe to notice their own thinking about something, that is when change can become possible."
"As a leader I have to think how can I give trust first, how can I give safety first, how can I give as sense non-judgement first, and then I can build from there."
"Your energy will follow where your heart is, and you can't fake that long term."
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgcurtis/
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In this episode Dan Tohill interviews Todd Hammington a Visual Designer, Illustrator, UX and UI expert and product owner of Chameleon Creator an online learning authoring tool.
Listen to Todd explain how UX and UI principles can be used in a learning design context to enhance learning outcomes.
Some of our favourite quotes from Todd in this episode:
"A good learning designer really cares about the user experience, they really care about the end user learning something"
"Sticking to UX design principles means you're taking away the subjectivity around whether you like the colour blue or not. You're bringing in real data into the conversation because you've gone out and tested it with the end users. It's hard to argue with that"
Learn more about how Chameleon Creator can improve the user experience of your learners. Feedback:
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Aidan Stoate interviews Alyson Garrido, one of our trusted associates here at Inspire Group.
Alyson is an established Career Coach with a number of years’ experience in helping her clients to identify the right career path, hone their leadership strategies and present themselves in the best possible light for their job search and career advancement. Alyson is an ICF credentialed PCC, Professional Certified Coach and also trains fellow coaches in systemic practices as the co-founder of the Systemic Coach Academy of New Zealand. Connect with Alyson Garrido:
https://www.alysongarrido.com/
https://www.systemiccoachacademynz.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alysonloeffelgarrido/
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Trends in L&D contracting * Are you thinking about becoming an L&D Contractor and want tips on how to go freelance? * Are you looking for L&D talent and want insights on how to get the right person in this perceived ‘candidate rich’ market? * Want to know how recent events have impacted the L&D contracting market in NZ? * Want to know what key L&D skills organisations are looking for right now?
Listen to our latest podcast episode where Aidan Stoate interviews Shaiza Wan – our National People Partner here at Inspire Group. Shaiza works with hundreds of companies across New Zealand to help them resource their teams with learning and development talent. In this episode Shaiza offers valuable insights into the trends she is seeing in the Learning and Development contracting scene.
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https://www.inspiregroup.co.nz/learninganddevelopmentcontractors-inspireassist
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaizawan/
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In this episode Dan Tohill interviews David James the Chief Learning Officer at Looop and Podcast Host of The Learning & Development Podcast.
David James discusses the challenges in learning and development and how we're in for a tough time as a result of the pandemic as we're set to make up for lost opportunities in harsh economic circumstances. In this episode David shares his ideas on: * Accelerated apprenticeships - when it really mattered we didn't do any training at all * Why are we trying to solve problems that Google already has covered? * Performance support and performance consulting are key learning tools often undervalued. * L&D today can get stuck in administering and delivering courses whilst not taking into consideration performance in a meaningful way.
Where David believes the future of learning and development should be focussed on: * Eliminating the administration in learning and development for more efficiency. * High levels of automation in L&D focussed on the employee working experience - not trying to create a parallel learning experience. * Being more data driven and demonstrating the value and impact of learning. * The formative understanding of data, showing where the critical points of failure are in the organisation and addressing those issues directly.
David has been a People Development professional for more than 20 years, most notably as Director of Talent, Learning & OD for The Walt Disney Company across Europe, the Middle East & Africa. As well as being the Chief Learning Strategist at Looop, David is a prominent writer and speaker on topics around modern and digital L&D as well as an active member of the CIPD L&D Advisory Board.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/nurini-kassim-1222481/
Twitter: @DavidInLearning LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidjameslinkedin/
Website: https://www.looop.co/
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Being the Chief People Officer of AXA Affin General Insurance Berhad, Syukri Sudari has, like many of us, needed to adapt in work and life in recent months. But that is only half the story. In a wide ranging and very open conversation with our Inspire Group Asia CEO James McCulloch, Syukri shares how his love of people, ability to see challenges as opportunities and his inspiring strength to grow and learn from life changing and tragic events has shaped him and continues to do so. As Syukri says, ‘we need to live fully, and focus on what we can change and what we can influence’. Wise words indeed!
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As the recent CEO of Bernama, the Malaysian national news agency, Nurini Kassim has some great thoughts to share with our Inspire Group Asia CEO James McCulloch on leading in a changing world and industry- and how the blend of clear direction, empathy and also a higher calling of ‘service’ is key.
"You need to inspire people towards a greater good, not just because you are the boss!" - Nurini Kassim
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As the Senior General Manager for HR across the vast and diverse Malaysian conglomerate, Berjaya Corporation Berhad, Grace Chan has some great views to share on how HR can enhance its relevance at this time of great change. Grace also has a fantastic energy and a brilliant passion for caring for people and their wellbeing- which makes her the perfect leader for this conversation with our Inspire Group Asia CEO James McCulloch.
"If it is to be, it is up to me!” - Grace Chan
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Matt Ash is the Director of Learning Performance at Media Zoo. He's also the man with no name gunslinger who is here to clean up the town armed with with some badass tattoos and a gun called truth. I'm rambling but you get what I mean. We need more Matt Ash's in the industry shining a light on the good stuff and calling bullshit on the stuff that just doesn't matter. And asking the questions that need to be asked - like do we need learning designers? And his rage is very eloquent - must be the accent. Enjoy!
Lets keep the fires burning people! Lori Niles-Hofmann is a dead-set legend in the learning world. A Senior Learning EdTech Transformation Strategist, Lori is one of the many voices that is calling out the poor practice (and getting blocked for doing so) while at the same time sharing her practical knowledge for how learning can play a key role in designing a better future for businesses and the people that work there. She's awesome - and a great rager. Turn it up.
Michelle Power is GM Capability and is power and positivity personified. If we could bottle and sell Michelle's mindset and way of working then the world would be a better place. We unpack some of where this all comes from and how its informed the type of leader she is today. Enjoy!
Special Edition of Learning to Fly – I’m joined by the one and only Matt Smith as we rage against the machine. The machine can be content (which isn’t learning), poor learning design, the state of the learning industry, thought leadership, you name it – its time to rage against what’s broke. Plus share some ideas around changes that can be made so the learning machine is a force for good, not pain. We get close to a couple of F-bombs but we keep it under control. Just. Let us know what you’d like to hear in the next rage if you’re digging the vibe on this one.
Jenny Mowat is the GM Capability at Tabcorp. She always has a genuine focus on the needs of her people and has some real insights into where the capability gaps will be in her organisation going forward, as we move through these transitional times. And she would've been a superb teacher had she chosen that career path. Enjoy!
Sarah Appleby is the Learning Experience Manager at Squiz and one hell of a good human and learning designer/thinker. Its always great to catch up with her and get her thoughts on where we're at and where we are going. And this chat is no different.
Bill Adamson is an Osteopath that is widely experienced in Biomechanics, Rehabilitation and the Neuroscience of pain.
He lectures at RMIT, clinically educates 5th year Osteo students at VU, Presidents at Osteopathy Australia and, contrary to his glass eyed aesthetic, captain/coaches a community football in his spare time.
Having worked with elite athletes, nursing home Nonna’s, Weekend Warriors, over worked desk workers and everything in between, Bill’s passion is helping people understand what is occurring and why.
The perfect man to chat with about learning and how he figured all this stuff out.
Robine Stephenson is the founder of Ahoyhoy which she's about to launch in the midst of a global pandemic. That takes guts right? As well as my partner in crime and life, Beanie is the smartest person I know and there's a lot above and below the line that goes into starting a company that is looking to help people do the right work for right now. And she's just the person to make it happen and make a real difference out there in the lives of others. Enjoy our chat in between daycare drop off and pick up.
Laura Staples is the Head of People and Culture at Laminex in Australia. But more importantly than that Laura Staples is a "Why Not?" person which is rare and hard to find. She wants to make stuff, break stuff (if she has to) and build a safer better culture for everyone to be a part of. And if she's told she can't do that or she has an idea that's never been tried before, her mindset goes straight to "Why Not"? and for those fortunate enough to work with her and her endless enthusiasm and energy, that makes all the difference.
Mark McOnie wears a number of hats. Dad and Husband. Business owner. Leadership thinker and doer. Outdoors survivalist. And he has time for a musical alter ego called Jensen Electric. And right now they're all stuck at home under one roof! How's he going? Recording quality is a bit all over the place but right now production beats perfection. The show must go on!
Futurist and RATM fan, Reanna is looking at the future of work with many lenses and asking the questions that don't get asked. Who's privileged in making the images we see and the words we read? Who isn't in the room? And what changes when we have answers to those questions? The future of work is the future of the worker. And that will fundamentally change the relationship we have with the word called work.
Elana Harari is the COO of Philotimo Global and the "Figurehead" of Loud Days. How did she learn this stuff, was it part of a plan, and what role does the band Smashmouth play in all this? Lets go for a journey!
Todd Hammington is head of visual design and product owner of Chameleon at Inspire Group in Australia. Oh, and he's also won a gold medal for New Zealand in the Commonwealth Games. What? We take a swim in Lake Todd and find out the events and experiences that shaped the legend that is Todd.