Topic

Learning Culture and Workplace

Articles and podcast episodes on learning culture, psychological safety, wellbeing, inclusion, and preparing people for change.

Articles

What is VUCD, and How Can L&D Leaders Navigate It?

Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and disruption (VUCD) shape today's business environment. How L&D teams can help their organizations navigate it by acting as a strategic partner to the business.

Upskilling as a Durable Competitive Advantage

Technologies, markets, and business needs keep changing. Why upskilling and a skills-based approach to talent give organizations an advantage that lasts, and what it takes to build one.

Cultivate an Agile Mindset in Your Organization

What an agile organization looks like in practice, and how an agile mindset helps individuals, teams, and whole organizations align quickly and act on new opportunities.

Psychological Safety: A Key to Unlocking Workforce Performance

When people feel safe to speak up, ask questions, and admit mistakes, performance improves. How a focus on psychological safety can reduce turnover and strengthen your workforce.

How will you adapt? Embracing change and the future workplace

Hybrid work has reshaped the workplace, and more change is coming. How well your organization prepares its people for change will shape its future performance. Here is how to get ready.

Podcast episodes

Episode

April 1, 2026

The 8-Decade Technical Spoof: The Encabulator

A lighthearted look at the Encabulator, a spoof that has circulated in technical and training circles for eight decades, from the 1944 Turboencabulator to AXIOM's Strategic Learning Encabulator.

Episode

March 16, 2026

Employee Voice, Trust, and Business Results: Building a Win-Win Workplace with Dr. Angela Jackson

Dr. Angela Jackson, author of The Win-Win Workplace, explains how investing in employee voice and trust leads to stronger engagement and better business results.

Episode

August 5, 2025

Wellness, Leadership and Resilience: the RENEW Experience for Women

Karen Hinds, Leida Centeno, and Inga Lee Puentes discuss the Renew Experience for Women and how to design learning that moves people from burnout to breakthrough.

Episode

June 2, 2025

Building a Learning Culture at Truist

Rick At Lee of Truist on building a learning culture after the BB&T and SunTrust merger, and growing Teammate Growth Week into a month-long learning event.

Episode

March 31, 2025

Elevating Experience: Women and Age in the Workplace

Laurie Johnson and Pamela Johnson on valuing the skills of older women in the workforce, driving cultural change, and breaking down barriers in the workplace.

Episode

November 14, 2024

Leading Transformation Through Training

Nina Hollon of Catalyst Learning Strategies on how L&D can help organizations through mergers, acquisitions, and other major change.

Episode

July 23, 2024

Workplace Mental Health Training for Managers

Why workplace mental health matters for productivity and retention, and how training managers and leaders helps build a healthier, more supportive workforce.

Episode

June 22, 2023

Transforming Culture with a Focus on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

DEIB expert Ken De Loreto on how neuroscience informs behavior change, and how workshops help organizations build cultures of inclusion and belonging.

Episode

June 2, 2023

Leading L&D: Creating the Environment for Growth at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Jay Letourneau on building a modern, engaged learning culture at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, operator of Boston's public transit system.

Episode

December 22, 2022

Building a Learning Culture

What is a learning culture, how does it connect individual learning to organizational goals, and what does research say about its link to performance?