Being Intrepid: Navigating the Future of Learning with Sam Herring

Being Intrepid explores the biggest challenges in corporate learning, bringing bold ideas and expert insights to help learning leaders shape the workforce of the future.

Being Intrepid: Navigating the Future of Learning with Sam Herring is a business podcast hosted by Intrepid by VitalSource, with 33 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Intrepid by VitalSource hosts Being Intrepid: Navigating the Future of Learning with Sam Herring, a business show with 33 episodes published.

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  Episode #1

  Executive Presence, Enterprise Thinking, and the Path to the CLO Seat

  Aug 26, 202636 min

  Half of all L&D professionals aspire to a senior learning leadership role. Less than 1% hold the title. And many who think they want the job have never really examined what it requires. Amy DuVernet, VP of Learning Products at Training Industry, joins Sam Herring to unpack what it takes to develop the career of the person who develops everyone else. Drawing on TI's research across 250,000 L&D professionals, Amy shares what separates those who reach the CLO level and what holds most aspiring leaders back. In this episode: The three competencies that define CLO readiness — enterprise perspective, executive presence, and business leadership — and why they require more than a course to develop Why executive presence is trainable, and how the Training Industry Senior Leaders Program uses Intrepid to bring together AI-enabled practice, peer learning, and expert-led sessions in a structured development experience The supply-side reality: how to assess whether the CLO role is actually the right fit, and what adjacent paths are worth taking seriously The highest-leverage skill most L&D professionals overlook (hint: it's not instructional design) How to pitch the CFO and the question that reframes the conversation Guest: Amy DuVernet , VP of Learning Products, Training Industry

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  Episode #28

  AI Transformation and Why Learning Leaders Must Engage Early

  Jun 4, 202627 minS0

  <p>When organizations kick off AI and agentic transformation — redesigning workflows, reimagining roles — business and technology leaders run the work. Learning leaders are rarely in the room. By the time L&D gets called, the decisions are made and the upskilling need is already behind. </p><p> </p><p>Yulia Barnakova, AI Innovation and Learning Advisor at Accenture and faculty in Accenture's AI Academy for Business Leaders, joins Sam Herring to make the case for why that has to change — and what learning leaders can do about it now. </p><p> </p><p>In this episode: </p>Why 95% of AI workflow redesign...

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  Episode #27

  From Content Delivery to Skills Validation: Inside ServiceNow’s Cohort Model

  May 14, 202641 minS0

  <p>At ServiceNow, the speed at which customers and partners can be certified is a real constraint on the company’s commercial growth. That makes learning a true strategic enabler — and it changes what L&D is accountable for. </p><p>Shellie Grieve, Director of Learning Innovation and Emerging Technology at ServiceNow, joins Sam Herring to discuss how cohort learning became the architecture for skills development across 28,000 employees, millions of platform users, and a global partner ecosystem. She shares the design discipline behind 18 Academy programs, a 75% reduction in admin time, and skill growth that shows up in week one. </p><p>In this...

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  Episode #26

  Healthcare Leadership: Applying Stoic Philosophy to Manage Complexity

  Apr 23, 202631 minS0

  <p>Physicians are trained to have the right answer under pressure. But when a doctor becomes a CEO, that expertise can become a ceiling. The real work is an identity shift, from expert to enterprise leader. </p><p>Raj Ramachandran, Senior Partner for Leadership Advisory at WittKieffer, joins Sam Herring to unpack how he develops senior healthcare leaders through executive coaching, stoic philosophy, and structured reflection. </p><p>In this episode: </p>Why the shift from problem-solving to "holding complexity" catches new executives off guard How the stoic framework E + R = O helps leaders focus on how they respond  The TFAL metho...

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  Episode #26

  The 93% Problem: Why AI Adoption Keeps Falling Short

  Mar 31, 202639 minS0

  <p>Most enterprise AI investments are funded backwards—93% to technology, 7% to people—and the ROI is falling short as a result. </p><p>In this episode, Sam Herring sits down with Matt Stevens, Managing Director for Human Performance and Learning at Deloitte Consulting, to explore what it actually takes to move AI from fragmented pilots to enterprise-wide adoption. </p><p>Matt draws on client work across financial services, healthcare, and beyond to make the case that learning isn't a support function for AI strategy. It is the strategy. </p><p>In this episode: </p>Why organizations are underinvesting in workforce readiness and...

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