Speaking & Conferences

I speak at conferences, panels, events and workshops around the world on topics related to learning in the workplace. I also contribute to podcasts, magazines, websites and independent articles for publication.


Short Biography
Andrew Jacobs is a Learning Strategist who works with organisations to shift learning from training supply to capability, performance and real organisational impact. He is founder of Llarn Learning and produces the Women Talking About Learning podcast.


Medium Biography
Andrew Jacobs is a Learning Strategist and Organisational Impact Advisor. His work focuses on shifting organisations away from training supply and programme delivery, and towards capability, performance and real work impact. He works on the strategic and systemic conditions where learning happens through work, not around it. He speaks internationally on learning, capability and organisational change.


Long Biography
Andrew Jacobs is a Learning Strategist and Organisational Impact Advisor. His work challenges the dominant model of workplace learning – the outer loop of training supply, programme delivery and content consumption. Andrew works with leadership teams to move into the inner loop: diagnosing the real problem, brokering across the organisation, and shaping the conditions where learning happens through work itself.

He is the founder of Llarn Learning and has led learning, talent and capability work across public, private and third sector organisations, including senior roles in central government with HMRC and the Department of Health and Social Care.

Andrew is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, producer of the Women Talking About Learning podcast, and writes daily at lostanddesperate.com. His work has been recognised through national industry awards for informal learning, capability development, and learning strategy. He speaks globally at conferences and events about learning, leadership, and the systemic work required to build organisations that learn.


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