Chris Shearer-Wright, the Senior EDI & Community Partnerships Manager at Oliver Bonas, speaks about the importance of EDI within learning and development, how organisations can avoid using inclusion as a tick box exercises, the mechanics of training workshops for neurodiverse people and more.

Kirsty Lewis is the founder of The School of Facilitation, A global community of facilitators and trainers, coming together to think, do and be better. In this interview, Kirsty talks about her time at Diageo and how that informed her philosophy of learning design, how trainers can facilitate workshops so behaviour change sticks and how L&D can be taken seriously within organisations.

Gary Butterfield is the CEO of Joy Junction, a wellbeing training company that helps organisations take a top down approach with all wellness practices. In this interview, Garry talks about how to build the right user journey in the space, how to avoid wellbeing washing and industry trends.

Paul Matthews is the founder and CEO of People Alchemy and the author of three books, including Learning Transfer at Work. In this interview, he explains why traditional training so often fails to create workplace change, how learning workflows can bridge that gap, why L&D needs to focus on organisational outcomes, and how to use AI and evidence with better judgement.

Jordan Rawilson is a Learning and Performance Manager at Kirkpatrick Partners, where she helps to promote the practical benefits of the Kirkpatrick model in training programmes. Find out how you can get the most out of this methodology for measuring impact in your programmes.

Ian Townley is an L&D expert and creator of the Practical Training Transfer methodology. In this interview, he explains how to use this method to create training programmes that lead to real behaviour change and gather quantitative and qualitative data at each stage of the programme.

Melanie Martinelli is the CEO of the Institute For Transfer Effectiveness. In this interview, she talks about the science of transfer effectiveness and the 12 levers that can be used to create real behaviour change across all aspects of an organisation in training programmes.

Emma Baylin is the founder of Shared Harmonies, a company that specialisies in leadership development, communication training and more through the act of communal singing. She discusses the mechanics of how singing can be used as a mechanism for training and behaviour change at work.

Kristina Middleton has a background in organisational psychology that she’s put into practice to help guide NHS wellbeing programmes and initiatives. Here’s what you can learn from her journey about how to get buy in for wellness training in your organisation and how to promote behaviour change out of these initiatives.

Learning and development consultant Gavin Heryng specialises in building training programmes and learning experiences that help organisations become more awareness of human and work rights risks. See what these keep of topics constitute and what to do about them if you suspect there’s an issue in your company.

Bec Healey is the founder of Komorebi Coaching. She uses her wide experience across HR, L&D and wellness to start conversations about changing work culture on an individual and organisational level. Here she shares how different teams can communicate with each other to make sure culture change is moving forward.

Rachel Burnham is a tenured learning and development expert with a unique style of learning transfer called sketchnoting. Find out what this method is and how to apply it to creating stronger learning experiences for your training programmes and for yourself.

Andy Candler has has a storied career in learning and development. From starting the world’s first digital agency to applying tried and testing L&D principles in retail, Andy’s philosophy has always been to keep the human factor in everything he does. Here are the takeaways from his journey.

Kim Ellis is the founder of L&D Free Spirits, a business community that supports learning and development professionals and trainers in their business growth. In this interview, she discusses why more L&D pros need to come together, industry trends and more.

Human design is an interesting and practical discipline for helping people to show up at work as their best selves and to create the foundation for a thriving work culture. Human design consultant Fiona Bleetman shares how to put these principles into practice.

Leyla Okhai is the CEO of Diverse Minds, a race equity, wellbeing and inclusion training business. She shares her honest thoughts on the realities of DEI in the workplace today and the practices that truly need to happen for a difference to be made.

Emotional intelligence is a vital part of discussing how to bridge the gap between learning and behaviour change at work. EI trainer Dr Robin Hills discusses what emotional intelligence really is, the state of the global training market and why trainers need to embrace AI.

Asking the right questions and being able to look inwardly to find what you need from the culture of your workplace is a starting point for changing it. Seb Busz, coach and founder of the philosophy of Inceptivism talks about how you can take steps to doing this.

Laura Hounsome shares her perspective on what it takes to create a strong leadership culture using her experience at Amazon, IBM and as the co-founder of AuthentiCulture.

L&D as a function isn’t always visible within an organisation. Stats and metrics are often used to show passive activity for training programmes instead of genuine impact. Kelly Rodrigues shares how to solve these issues by building a credible L&D brand within an organisation and tell human stories that drive impact, buy-in and funding.