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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Measuring learning impact is one of the oldest conversations in L&D and still one of the least resolved. This episode gets into what useful evaluation actually looks like, why so much measu...
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website https://womentalkingaboutlearning.com You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/wtalpod Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com
This Episode: Work throws curveballs. This conversation looks at how women navigate unexpected change, whether that is organisational, professional or personal, and what it takes to adapt witho...
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website https://womentalkingaboutlearning.com You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/wtalpod Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com
This Episode: AI is reshaping work fast, but the conversation about who benefits, who gets left behind, and what it means for women specifically is still catching up. This episode brings togeth...
You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website https://womentalkingaboutlearning.com You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/wtalpod Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com
This Episode: Apprenticeships are back in conversation, but the reality is more complicated than the headlines suggest. This episode looks at what apprenticeships actually deliver, who they wor...
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This Episode: Culture shapes everything at work: how people behave, how decisions get made, what gets said and what doesn't. This conversation explores organisational and cross-cultural dynamics, what leaders often miss, and w...
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Most of what people learn at work happens outside a classroom and outside a course. This conversation explores informal learning: what it is, how it works, and why organisations that ignore it are missing most of the picture.
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This Episode: Connection at work is easy to talk about and harder to build. This conversation explores what connection looks like, why it matters, and what gets in the way.
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Guests:
Henriette Kloots is an organisational psychologist and senior L&D consultant. After years working for both learning solution providers and on the corporate side o...
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Guests:
Laura Paget is the founder of Novature Solutions, a people strategy consultancy for scaling businesses. She works with founders who are spending too much time solving...
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The workplace keeps shifting, and the pressure to keep up is real. This conversation explores what it actually means to learn, adapt and stay useful in a world that won't slow down.
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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
Full episode resources at womentalkingaboutlearning.com
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...
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
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...
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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 no...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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