If nobody owns AI in learning, AI owns your learners. Earlier this week I showed you structural exclusion in a music festival lineup: 70% male headliners across five years. Small decisions repeated over time created a big pattern. The same thing is now happening with AI in European workplaces, especially financial services, where small procurement… Read More Someone else’s problem
When Led Zeppelin first performed Stairway to Heaven, the audience reaction wasn’t what you’d expect: “They were all bored to tears waiting to hear something they knew” John Paul Jones It takes a LONG time for people to realise what you’re doing is different, unique, and challenging the norms. New ideas might not be good… Read More New ideas
I am incredibly lucky sometimes. Jo Cook asked me to lead a session at the TJ60 event in London last week and gave me the chance to turn it into a podcast episode. Laura Overton, Kirsty Lewis and I spent an hour talking about what’s changed in L&D over the decades and what hasn’t. I… Read More Behind the Mic
Nick Davies at Thinqi has written a thoughtful piece on why L&D feels broken heading into 2026. His central argument: HR and L&D operate as separate functions when they should be one unified capability aligned to organisational outcomes. He’s right that this fragmentation isn’t new. What’s changed is that AI has made the conversation urgent… Read More Beyond Integration
I get frustrated hearing about learning as if it’s something you can buy. A course, a platform, a set of resources that arrives on time and solves the problem. But the parts that matter most never appear on a purchase order. You can buy content. You cannot buy attention.You can fund a programme. You cannot… Read More Unbuyable parts
Lost and Desperate 