
Leading Learning
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Leading Learning is the podcast for learning business professionals who want to thrive in this new landscape. Each week the hosts, Jeff Cobb, and Celisa Steele provide actionable insights based on their own deep experience and expertise or invite experts and practitioners to share their perspectives.
Leading Learning
1w ago
Culture, mindset, money—these are big and important concepts for any learning business. In this episode of the Leading Learning Podcast, number 445, we talk with Erin Pressley about all three.
Erin Pressley is senior vice president of education, training, and events at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Erin describes herself as being passionate about serving NRECA’s members and making money while doing it. She’s a thoughtful and energetic leader with practical and aspirational advice for other learning business leaders.
Show notes and a downloadable transcript are available ..read more
Leading Learning
2w ago
Podcast co-hosts Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele share four actionable ideas grounded in survey data collected by Leading Learning and informed by their experience with and observation of learning businesses and the global market for continuing education, professional development, and other lifelong learning.
All four ideas tie to the common theme of resourcefulness—Cobb and Steele’s watchword for learning businesses in 2025.
Show notes and a downloadable transcript are available at https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode444 ..read more
Leading Learning
2w ago
Podcast co-hosts Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele share key data points from Leading Learning’s latest year-end survey of learning businesses. They cover top strategic goals and the strategic drivers behind those goals, trends and issues impacting strategy, challenges with maintaining or growing enrollments and registrations, barriers to innovation in education offerings, and top areas of investment for the year ahead.
Your learning business can use this data for benchmarking and to help frame internal discussions about what you’re doing, what you’re not doing, and why.
Show notes and a downloadabl ..read more
Leading Learning
1M ago
Podcast co-hosts Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele share key data points from Leading Learning’s latest year-end survey of learning businesses. They cover top strategic goals and the strategic drivers behind those goals, trends and issues impacting strategy, challenges with maintaining or growing enrollments and registrations, barriers to innovation in education offerings, and top areas of investment for the year ahead.
Your learning business can use this data for benchmarking and to help frame internal discussions about what you’re doing, what you’re not doing, and why.
Show notes and a downloadabl ..read more
Leading Learning
1M ago
Innovation is an aspiration of many organizations, including learning businesses.
This episode, number 442, features a conversation with Mary Byers. Mary is an author, speaker, facilitator, consultant, CEO coach, and mastermind facilitator, and she’s deeply knowledgeable about innovation. Mary wrote Race for Relevance: Five Radical Changes for Associations, and her work focuses on helping organizations remain relevant in a rapidly changing environment.
Show notes and a downloadable transcript are available at https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode442 ..read more
Leading Learning
1M ago
A learning business must understand learning theory and put that theory into practice if it is to create offerings that result in positive change and impact.
This episode of the Leading Learning Podcast, number 441, features a conversation with instructional psychologist Dr. Ruth Colvin Clark and co-host Celisa Steele.
Ruth has spent her spent her career translating academic research into practical guidelines and advocating for the use of evidence-based approaches to learning. She’s the author of many articles and books, including Evidence-Based Training Methods and E-learning and the Science ..read more
Leading Learning
1M ago
In Leading Learning Podcast episode 440, co-hosts Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele share the questions and topics probed in Leading Learning’s annual survey on learning businesses—questions and topics that can provide a solid basis for strategy conversations in your learning business.
Show notes and a downloadable transcript are available at https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode440 ..read more
Leading Learning
2M ago
COVID changed how we live and work in many ways. One example is the increased need for remote communication and for managing and leading hybrid teams.
Wayne Turmel is part of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, and he and Kevin co-wrote The Long-Distance Leader, originally published in 2018, with a revised edition out in 2024. Wayne’s work focuses on remote and virtual communication in the evolving workplace.
In this episode of the Leading Learning Podcast, number 439, Wayne and Leading Learning Podcast co-host Jeff Cobb talk about what leadership is; how leadership does and doesn’t change in the cont ..read more
Leading Learning
2M ago
Effort contributes to lasting, durable learning, which means learning businesses have a responsibility to expect learners to put in effort and an incentive to support them in doing so.
Leading Learning Podcast co-hosts Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele discuss the role of effort in learning and how learning businesses can scaffold effort in this episode, number 438.
Show notes and a downloadable transcript are available at https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode438 ..read more
Leading Learning
2M ago
Competitive advantage, whether sustained or transient, is becoming harder and harder to maintain. Collaborative advantage may be the answer.
In this episode, number 422, we recap competitive advantage, sustained advantage, and transient advantage and then posit a fourth type of advantage for learning businesses to consider: collaborative advantage.
Show notes and a downloadable transcript are available at https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode422 ..read more