You can prepare for everything: the slides, the mic, the sound, the room, the speakers, the notes, and the images. And then, midway through the session, you lose power for a fraction of a second, and you disappear. You can always prepare, but some things will always trip you up. The response isn’t to prepare… Read More Preparation
Have you ever thought about being a podcast guest? If the answer is ‘yes, but…’ this is for you. Women Talking About Learning is recording new episodes, and we’re looking for women in L&D who want to join the conversation. You don’t need to be a big name and you don’t need a polished media… Read More Speaking up
You need your sound on for this post. That was me last week. suffering with a basic cold. I had narration to record and online sessions to run. I know I could have used an AI tool to clone my voice and generate the narration for me, but it would not have sounded as good.… Read More Sound on
AI is becoming the production layer. and human judgement becomes the control layer. That is the structural shift underneath the Coursera 2026 Job Skills Report, which analyses learning behaviours across roughly six million enterprise learners. The surface finding is familiar; AI skills are rising sharply as prompt engineering, multimodal prompts, and generative model architectures become… Read More Beyond Skills
I’m really pleased to be joining the judging panel for the CIPD People Management Awards 2026. One of the genuine benefits of a role like this is seeing work that rarely gets visibility. Organisations doing rigorous, grounded people practice tend not to shout about it. Awards panels are one of the few places where that… Read More Seeing Real Work
Lost and Desperate 