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Welcome to the Kirkpatrick podcast, where we bridge traditions and trends in learning and performance evaluation. Whether you're a seasoned learning professional or just starting out, join us as we dive into the Kirkpatrick Model like never before. Through stories and insights, we're fusing time-honored methods with cutting-edge innovations to help you navigate the ever-evolving world of learning and performance evaluation. Subscribe now to stay up-to-date with our weekly episodes and gain practical strategies to enhance your training programs. Don't miss out—be part of the learning revolution!
Kirkpatrick Partners hosts The Kirkpatrick Podcast, a business show with 103 episodes published.
Most organizations are confident they have data. Loads of it. But in this episode of the Kirkpatrick Podcast, Vanessa sits down with psychometrician and data-analytics professor Dr. Anna Lissitz to ask the uncomfortable
Everyone says they're behind on AI. According to Myra Roldan, Chief AI Officer of UnDesto AI, if everyone's behind, then no one really is — and that hype is costing organizations real money. In this episode, Vanessa sits
Ask executives whether they act on the feedback they get from employees, and 85 to 95% will say absolutely. Ask the frontline the same question, and the score drops by 30 to 50 points. That gap is the heart of this episo
In this episode of The Kirkpatrick Podcast, Vanessa sits down with Ted Kniker — co-founder of IMPACT Paradigm Associates, former Chief of Evaluation at the U.S. Department of State, and contributing author to Raising Ame
In this episode of the Kirkpatrick Podcast, Vanessa Milara Alzate makes a bold claim: your evaluation efforts aren't failing because of your model, your data, or your people. They're failing because of your system. Vanes
AI is forcing a difficult but necessary question for learning and development leaders: if knowledge is now instant, searchable, and increasingly automated, where does L&D create value? For years, many organizations built
Most organizations say they want better measurement. They invest in tools, dashboards, and surveys. They ask their L&D teams to prove impact. And yet, nothing really changes. Programs still get evaluated based on complet
Most organizations do not have an evaluation problem. They have an ownership problem. Evaluation often begins with one committed L&D leader, analyst, or internal champion who asks better questions, pushes for stronger da
Many organizations say they value evaluation. What they often mean is that they send surveys, track completion, and produce dashboards. That may create visibility, but it rarely creates better decisions. And when data co
Most organizations don't have an innovation problem. They have a clarity problem. Leaders push for speed. Teams launch new initiatives. Metrics are reported. Dashboards fill up. And yet, one critical question remains una
Most organizations believe evaluation fails because they don't have the right tools, data, or capability. But the real failure point is much higher. Evaluation breaks when leaders continue to treat it as reporting instea
Too many organizations say they want better evaluation, stronger learning impact, and clearer evidence of business value. Then they make one critical mistake: they assign the work to a single motivated person and hope th
Organizations rarely struggle because they lack data. They struggle because the data they have cannot tell a coherent story. Across large enterprises, teams measure success in different ways. One department tracks engage
Most organizations believe they have a culture of evaluation. They run surveys. They build dashboards. They report metrics. And yet performance stays flat. In this episode, we challenge a dangerous misconception: measure
For decades, organizations have used the Kirkpatrick Model to evaluate training. And for decades, many have misunderstood what it was actually designed to do. We measured reaction surveys. We tracked completions. We repo
Most learning leaders think they're asking the right question. "Did it work?" It sounds accountable. Efficient. Executive-ready. But this single question may be the very thing preventing your organization from improving
Most organizations believe they evaluate training. In reality, they document it—after it's already too late to matter. One of the biggest misconceptions we see is the belief that evaluation happens after training. Post-p
For decades, many organizations have believed they were "doing Kirkpatrick." In reality, they were completing forms. In this episode, we challenge one of the most persistent misconceptions in learning and performance: th
Pressure doesn't create failure. It reveals it. In this episode of The Kirkpatrick Podcast, we explore a leadership truth many organizations avoid: when performance breaks down under pressure, the root cause is almost ne
Financial ROI has long been the gold standard of proving learning impact—but what if the most meaningful results can't be captured in a spreadsheet? In this episode of The Kirkpatrick Podcast , Vanessa Alzate and Dr. Amy
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