Louisa talks to Justin Collinge, the Founder of Leadability, a business dedicated to making great work easier. His career includes being a schoolteacher, university lecturer, firefighter, pastor, author of two books and has started four businesses. His previous start-up used big data to support high performing teams in large organisations. He sold that business to return to his passion - the practical application of social psychology & neuroscience. This episode we discuss how to create an environment and culture that allows optimal learning to happen. Within this we discuss: The importan ..read more

This episode, we do a book review of books which can be helpful tools for your Learning and Development, within the discussion we cover topics of diversity, equality, collective intelligence, leading through a crisis, making tough decisions and pushing through your comfort zone with mindset. We discuss four books: Rebel Ideas - Matthew Syed Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado Perez From Crisis to Calling - Sasha Chanoff and David Chanoff Can't Hurt Me - David Goggins We hope you enjoy the episode and the book reviews, if there are any books you w ..read more

This Episode we are joined by Tim Etherington -Judge, Entrepreneur and founder of Healthy Hospo which is a not for profit company working to build a healthier, happier, hospitality industry by supporting and improving the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of hospitality professionals around the world. He is also the founder of Avallen which is a Calvados with a difference as its designed with sustainability at its heart.  We discuss all things wellbeing in the workplace, looking after your teams and why this is important? . We also discuss Sustainability and how to bring sustainabi ..read more

Welcome back to The Talk L and D Podcast, this is Episode 1 of Series 2. This episode we have Graham Scott, the founder of The Learning and Development Consortium join us, to discuss all things Learning and Development in 2021. We discuss what themes might emerge? What the key learning interventions might be ? and how learning and development will support the ever changing world of work, during these times? Some areas we discuss are: Bringing an Agile way of working to Learning and Development Importance of culture Importance of people to organisations, looking after the team and their w ..read more

In this final episode of 2020 we do a review of themes in leadership and the world of work. We also consider what might be the emerging themes for 2021. We explore what we can do to look after our wellbeing during these times where work and home have merged into one. We hope you enjoy this episode, if you do, please rate and review this podcast, and share on Social Media so other people can find us. Thank you for all your support this year, we will be back with Series 2 in 2021 ..read more

This episode we are joined by Mark Gilroy, Business Psychologist, Executive Coach, Psychometrics specialist and the Managing Director of TMSDI. TMS Development International was established in 1980 by Dr Charles Margerison and Dr Dick McCann. TMSDI offer a range of accreditation programmes to give learning and development professionals the knowledge confidence to help people achieve their potential and add real value in a team-based environment. We  discuss with  Mark, all things Self Awareness: What is it?  How can we develop it? How is it useful? We explore the different types ..read more

Alex Firmin and I talk about change in relation  to the Kubler Ross Transition Curve, we consider how change of any type in our lives impacts on us as individuals, we discuss the impact of organisational change on teams. We consider the impact of 2020, the pandemic and all the change that has come with it, and how this may have impacted on us as a collective ..read more

In this episode we discuss the impact of Covid and 2020 on how leaders lead: What this means for organisations?  How leadership could be different going forward?  What will leadership look like in 2021 post Covid? We also consider the value of taking time to stop, reset and reflect on 2020! Warning there is some one word which is bad language in this one!  ..read more

This episode we have Dave Stewart join us as a guest, he is the Managing Director of the Fresh Air Leadership Company (https://freshairleadership.com/). He talks about his fascinating career journey from being in a rock band to setting up the Fresh Air Leadership Company. We discuss, high performing teams, psychological safety, importance of trust and the nature of conflict in teams. We explore what it means to be a great leader during this time and how the great outdoors can enhance learning and development ..read more

We have our first podcast guest join us on this episode. Simon Hall a former BBC Correspondent, Author, Entrepreneur and University of Cambridge Tutor, talks to us all about navigating  career transitions, overcoming Impostor Syndrome, the Power of Stories and what makes a great facilitator! We hope you enjoy this episode ..read more