Speaking & Conferences

I speak at conferences, panels, webinars and organisational events on workplace learning, capability, leadership, evaluation and organisational impact.

My work focuses on how organisations move beyond training supply and build learning systems that support better decisions, stronger performance and measurable change.

I also contribute to podcasts, magazines, websites and independent articles on learning strategy, organisational capability and the future of workplace learning.


Short Biography
Andrew Jacobs is a Learning Strategist and Organisational Impact Advisor. He helps organisations move learning beyond training supply and into capability, performance and measurable organisational impact.

He is founder of Llarn Learning, a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, producer of the Women Talking About Learning podcast, and writes daily at lostanddesperate.com.


Medium Biography
Andrew Jacobs is a Learning Strategist and Organisational Impact Advisor. He works with organisations to connect learning strategy with capability, performance and measurable organisational impact.

He has led learning, talent and capability work across public, private and third sector organisations, including central government. Through Llarn Learning, he now advises leadership teams, people functions and learning teams on how to build learning systems that are grounded in work, evidence and organisational need.

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.


Long Biography
Andrew Jacobs is a Learning Strategist and Organisational Impact Advisor. He works with organisations to move learning beyond training supply and connect it more directly to capability, performance and measurable organisational impact.

He has led learning, talent and capability work across public, private and third sector organisations, including central government. Through Llarn Learning, he now advises leadership teams, people functions and learning teams on how to design learning systems that are grounded in work, evidence and organisational need.

Andrew’s work focuses on the conditions that help organisations learn in practice. This includes learning strategy, leadership capability, workforce capability, evaluation, performance support, and the relationship between learning, work and organisational change.

He 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 at conferences and events in the UK and internationally on learning, leadership and the systemic work required to build organisations that learn.


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