The philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty is an unusual source of learning and development insight for trainers and L&D practitioners. Here’s how you can take the principles of his philosophy and apply them to designing your training programmes.

Niccolo Machiavelli is often caricatured as a teacher of manipulation and being evil for shits and giggles. But what if the pragmatic elements of his philosophy could be applied to learning and development in an ethical way? Find out more here.

Philosophy comes in handy for developing learner-centric content that takes into account how people think, feel and contradict themselves. Especially the ideas of the bloke who invented the essay genre.