The Women Talking About Learning Podcast
Women Talking About Learning is a podcast about what it's actually like to work in L&D, HR, and organisational development. No frameworks, thought leadership, or advice you can't use. Just women reflecting honestly on the work, the challenges, and what they've learned along the way. All the signal. None of the noise. Find us at womentalkingaboutlearning.com
Episodes
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This episode's guests:
Lorraine Taylor has over 25 years' experience in L&D. She runs her own business advising organisations and individuals on how to align people cap...
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Natalie Ainsworth has more than a decade of global L&D experience across sectors including FTSE 100 and Fortune 100 organisations, spanning early career to leadership development. She holds an MSc in Sustainable Developme...
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi. Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com
Ilaria Boncori is a Professor in Organisation Studies and Human Resources Management and an Academic Fellow of CIPD. Her research focuses on inequalities in the workplace, particularly around gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and...
Allyship gets talked about a lot. This episode asks whether it actually changes anything.
Chloe Duncan, Fran Harrison, and Nzinga Orgill bring three distinct perspectives to a conversation about what allyship looks like in practice, where it falls short, and what organisations and individuals need to do differently.
Full episode resources are listed on our website at womentalkingaboutlearning.com
Guests
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website womentalkingaboutlearning.com
You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi.
Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com
This Episode: Grief is an inevitable part of life, yet it remains one of the most challenging topics to discuss, especially in the workplace. This episode considers many different forms of grief—just a heads-up, this is not a us...
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This Episode: Returning to work is rarely just a logistics problem. It's a confidence problem, an identity problem, and for many women, a systemic problem that organisations still haven't taken seriously enough.
Clair Madeley and Jo Edgar speak from experie...
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This Episode: Identity is not fixed. It shifts with experience, loss, diagnosis, place, and time. Susan Fitzell, Meghan Waldron, Niki Hobson, and Aiko Sato reflect on what it means to understand that fluidity — and what becomes possible when we stop trying...
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This Episode: Why does being on camera feel so uncomfortable, and what actually helps? Liù Batchelor and Sarah Pocklington share practical approaches to video presence, drawing on decades of experience as coaches, facilitators and performers. The conversat...
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This episode explores hybrid working and its impact on learning, collaboration and organizational culture. How do we manage change when teams are distribut...
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This Episode: When everything falls apart—work, health, loss—how do we keep going? Kirsty Lewis, Edeje Onwude, and Stella Collins share honest reflections on grief, resilience, and what it means to rebuild when life demands it. This episode is a conversati...
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This episode looks at learning, leadership and wellbeing in the charity and third sector. It explores emotionally demanding work, culture, compassion fatigue and why ...
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This episode explores networking from women's perspectives. How we build connections. What makes networking different for women. How communities can create opportunities and combat professional isolation. You will hear from three women who are buil...
The Learning Podcast Festival takes place in London on 26 February 2026. Details are at https://podcastlearningfest.live.
You can contact Women Talking About Learning at https://womentalkingaboutlearning.com. Support us at https://ko-fi.com/womentalkingaboutlearning. Email us at hello@llarn.com.
This episode looks at how learning design is shifting in an AI driven world. New tools appear every week. Old assumptions keep moving. We ex...
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This episode looks at women’s voices. How they are heard. How they are silenced. What happens when we choose to amplify them. It is about confidence, power, bias and allyship. You will hear from two women using learning, science and leadership to s...
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This episode explores the intersection of fun, engagement, and effective learning. Our guests challenge conventional approaches to leadership development and learning design, sharing insights on creating psychologically ...
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This episode explores women, data, and AI — where they intersect, why representation matters, and how we can build more inclusive paths into data science and analytics. Expect conversation on leadership, bias, and the realities of working in data-d...
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This episode explores writing, confidence, facilitation, and how learning happens inside teams. You’ll hear honest stories and practical insights from our guests.
Full episode resources All the links, articles, and books mentioned are listed on our website: 👉 https://womental...
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This episode explores writing, confidence, facilitation, and how learning happens inside teams. You’ll hear honest stories and practical insights from our guests.
Full episode resources All the links, articles, and books mentioned are listed on our website: 👉 https://womental...
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com
We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast
You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi.
Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com
Episode Links:
How to MC, compère, or chair events
What is typically expected of a conference session chair? - Academia Stack Exchange
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com
We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast
You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi.
Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com
Episode Links:
Your Past Does Not Define You or Your Future - Skilled at Life
No One Works Harder Than a Woman Who Doesn’t Like Asking for Help - luminate-group.co.uk
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