In this podcast episode, Rustica interviews Bodo Hoenen, an entrepreneur and founder of Nolej, and Dev4X a social enterprise that is leveraging technology to improve education and learning opportunities for underprivileged children around the world. Bodo shares his inspiring stories of working in refugee camps and his innovative approach to solving complex social challenges using technology. He is a thought leader in education, technology and social entrepreneurship, and is widely recognised as a prolific writer and speaker. The conversation touches on the limitations of current learning pathw ..read more

Summary: Rustica invited the CEO and Founder of HowNow (The Intelligent Learning Platform) Nelson Sivalingam back to the Learning 3.0 podcast to share his new book, Learning at Speed. In his book, he shares the nine fundamentals of creating a learning strategy on just one page, and he breaks down each of those building blocks in this insightful episode!  Tune in to find out why Nelson believes L&D teams should adopt a more entrepreneurial mindset!   Best Moments: “When you embed learning within existing habits, you reduce the friction for someone to be able to access the learnin ..read more

Former Evangelist and current Director of Sales at Rustici, Chris Tompkins is my latest guest on the Learning 3.0 podcast. You definitely read that right, Chris’s first role at Rustici was ‘Evangelist’, a role he describes as explaining inherently complex software solutions to normal people. Now as Director of Sales he leads the business team to teach their customers about the latest in eLearning technology and to uphold learning standards.  Rustici helps elearning companies play nicely together. As the world’s leading eLearning standard experts, Rustici provide the tools and knowledge t ..read more

Summary In this podcast episode I interview Annette Leicht-Will, a Senior HR Professional, Certified Facilitator, Cultural Transformation Tools practitioner, Trainer and Coach. She has lived in Switzerland, Germany, the United States, Spain, France, and China and is currently an Agile Team Facilitator for Xero, one of New Zealand’s top 100 Tech successes. She is passionate about lifelong learning and continuously strives to acquire new skills. She holds an MBA, with Marketing, Human Resources and Languages, as well as professional training qualifications. She is also fluent in English, G ..read more

Summary What I love about hosting the Learning3.0 podcast is the amazing people you get to meet and Neha Bhardwaj is one of those. With a bluechip background working on large transformational projects in New Zealand, she really knows her stuff. She has worked for Air New Zealand, ASB, Vodafone, and she is now the Co-Founder and principal consultant at Cultivate HQ. In this episode she clearly defines what Agile is, and how it applies to HR and L&D teams. I have no doubt that if your business or organisation is looking to implement wide scale agile transformation, her and the people she c ..read more

Summary This podcast episode has been inspired by the David James podcast interview with Tracey Waters on Agile L&D. Tracey taught 30,000 people from a very traditional learning and development process to an agile one, and it sparked my interest to find out who's doing this in New Zealand. My good friend Emma put me in touch with Nick Mackeson-Smith, Founder and CEO of FIVE NZ who develop world-class leaders, learning strategies, and capability programmes to give people an edge in business. In this episode, I ask Nick key questions on what it takes to adopt the Agile way of learning ..read more

For the past year I have been working towards my Masters in Future Technologies and as part of that, I found myself being drawn to Blockchain Technology and how it could transform learning technology. During this time, I came across the Velocity Network Foundation who have a vision to create a simple solution for individuals to own, manage and share their credentials anywhere in the world. In this Bonus #Learning3.0 podcast episode, I interview Debasis Dutta, Vice President and General Manager of products at SumTotal Systems in Florida. He's a hands on leader with a proven track record of ov ..read more

It’s not often you find learning tech built on the blockchain and Bitdegree is one of those. It was a wide and ranging conversation talking with Dan, BitDegree's co-founder and CEO from Lithuania. Bit Degree is built on the emerging technology, Blockchain, the same technology that cryptocurrency is built on. It’s the best example of baked in gamification I have ever seen. With a focus on upskilling masses of people in technology and other skills, they have come a long way in their short 3 years. Be prepared to see the future of the learning technology that transforms lives. About the guest ..read more

In this week's episode, I interview internationally recognised L&D thought leader, Nigel Paine. Nigel is a Co-Presenter on 'Learning Now' TV and the 'From Scratch' Podcast, as well as an Advisory Board member for Penn University’s CLO doctoral programme. He is also the author of the "The Learning Challenge", "Building Leadership Development Programmes that Work" and "Workplace Learning: How to Build a Culture of Continuous Employee Development". Nigel has been a long-time supporter of Bloom Learning Technologies, as a return presenter for our annual eLearnz events, so it was a real privi ..read more

This week, I welcome Chris Buttenham to the Learning 3.0 Podcast. Chris is the Founder of Obie.ai, EdTech which helps companies find a faster way to capture and find knowledge at work, by securely connecting knowledge and documents that you already have into one searchable, intelligent, single source of truth. Chris has some very interesting insights into how to deliver the right knowledge, to the right people, at the right time in this new world.  About the guest: Chris is a young entrepreneur living in Silicon Valley. He is also the co-host and producer of the Accelerating Suppor ..read more