Being Intrepid: Navigating the Future of Learning with Sam Herring
Being Intrepid explores the biggest challenges in corporate learning, bringing bold ideas and expert insights to help learning leaders shape the workforce of the future.
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Speed to Capability: How GuideWell's L&D Team Is Built for Continuous Upskilling (opens the original)
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Member needs in healthcare shift constantly, the regulatory environment changes quickly, and the workforce has to keep pace. Kristine Ellis, Senior Director of Talent Development and Management at GuideWell/Florida Blue, has built her award-winning team to keep pace with constant change, and AI has become the operating engine that enables their speed. Kristine joins Sam Herring to talk about how her team moved from early AI uncertainty to full-on advocacy, why the Prompting Lab and Critical Thin
Executive Presence, Enterprise Thinking, and the Path to the CLO Seat (opens the original)
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Half of all L&D professionals aspire to a senior learning leadership role. Less than 1% hold the title. And many who think they want the job have never really examined what it requires. Amy DuVernet, VP of Learning Products at Training Industry, joins Sam Herring to unpack what it takes to develop the career of the person who develops everyone else. Drawing on TI's research across 250,000 L&D professionals, Amy shares what separates those who reach the CLO level and what holds most aspiring lead
Why Experiences Outlast Skills: Developing Leaders for an AI Era (opens the original)
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The L&D field has spent a decade on skills — frameworks, taxonomies, skills-based organizations. But as AI commoditizes skill execution, what actually develops a leader? Brian Miller, founder of Win With Talent and former head of talent at Levi Strauss, Adobe, Impossible Foods, and Gilead, argues the answer is experience: the judgment, discernment, and believability built through high-stakes situations that no model update can replicate. In this episode: Why skills are what you can do — but not
Live from ATD26 Podcast | Old Models, New Chaos: Developing Leaders for AI-Driven Change (opens the original)
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Traditional change management models were built for a different era. Today's leaders face complexity that's faster, messier, and less predictable than any framework anticipated. Recorded live at ATD26, Sam Herring spoke with Karie Willyerd, Head of Strategic Engagements at GP Strategies, about what it takes to prepare leaders for AI-driven change.They explore practical strategies for helping leaders unlearn outdated assumptions, build adaptability, and lead with confidence when there's no clear
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