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Hosted by John Helmer · EN-US · 10 episodes
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John Helmer hosts The Learning Hack podcast, a education show with 10 episodes published.
Nobody is born into the world already able to design a brochure, cut a dress, light a photoshoot or shred on the guitar. All of it has to be learned. The question this episode asks is how, and whether the answer has anyt
What education and workplace learning can take from sports coaching. Modern sports coaching has abandoned the drilling of isolated techniques in favour of practice that is variable, contextual and informed by data. Openi
Every genre has a shadow canon — the writers who don’t make the syllabus, don’t sell out on Amazon, and rarely get the Netflix series. In science fiction, that shadow canon is where some of the most intellectually advent
A hundred years ago this spring, a magazine called Amazing Stories hit the newsstands and — almost by accident — gave a name and a shape to the genre we now call science fiction. Its publisher, Hugo Gernsback, was an imm
In 1983, Isaac Asimov predicted that computers would let every person learn what they wanted, in their own time, at their own speed. Forty years on, that vision is more or less the world we live in. So what else might sc
Augmented Workforce, Learning at the Frontline and the Destiny of L&D. For a long stretch, you could skip Learning Technologies for a year and miss almost nothing. Not this year. AI has stopped being something L&D is pil
Your organisation has probably spent years building a learning library. Courses, videos, SCORM files, PDFs — hundreds of them, living in the LMS or scattered across SharePoint. You can enrol in them. You can sit through
What does it take to change how an industry works — and what happens when it doesn’t change fast enough? Lars Hyland has been asking that question for thirty years, from the early days of interactive multimedia through n
What if the ideas that L&D has been nodding at for thirty years are finally about to become unavoidable? Bob Mosher has spent his career arguing that training and performance are not the same thing — and that building co
Does L&D know where it’s going? What separates the L&D functions that genuinely move organisations forward from those that stay busy but never quite shift the dial? That question has driven Laura Overton‘s research for o
The results of the 2026 Global Sentiment Survey are out — and the mood in workplace learning is uneasy. In this episode, John speaks with Donald H. Taylor about AI’s “hangover moment,” rising pressure on L&D teams, diver
What if the most powerful learning system in your organisation is already there — hidden in plain sight? In this episode, Dr Kinga Petrovai introduces The Learning Hive: a structured, research-informed model for peer lea
The year ahead for learning, skills and work As organisations head into 2026, Josh Bersin returns to The Learning Hack to make sense of what is really changing in work, skills and learning. Drawing on his latest research
Recorded live at Online Educa Berlin, this episode of Great Minds on Learning explores AI and the Global South through history, hard lessons, and contemporary debate. John Helmer and Donald Clark examine early techno-uto
Recorded live at Online Educa Berlin, this episode of Great Minds on Learning explores AI and the Global South through history, hard lessons, and contemporary debate. John Helmer and Donald Clark examine early techno-uto
2025 was billed as a “make-or-break year” for L&D. But what actually happened? To make sense of a turbulent twelve months in learning, talent and HR, John Helmer speaks with Myles Runham of Fosway Group, Europe’s leading
How AI agents are reshaping learning workflows and the L&D ecosystem “Agentic AI” is the buzzword of the moment. But how many people fully understand what it really means—or how it will change learning and work? Dr. Ashw
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Bob Mosher
Chief Learning Evangelist · APPLY Synergies
1 appearance on this show
Michelle Ockers
1 appearance on this show
Donald H Taylor
author of the Global Sentiment Survey
1 appearance on this show
Donald H. Taylor
Chair of the Learning Technologies Conference and Founder and Lead Researcher of the L&D Survey Series
1 appearance on this show
Donald Clark
WildFire
2 appearances on this show
John Helmer
2 appearances on this show
Dr. Ashwin Mehta
AI strategist and learning technology expert · Learning & Performance Institute
1 appearance on this show
Christian Ray Flores
Entrepreneur, International Recording Artist, Philanthropist & High-Performance Coach
1 appearance on this show
Jay Moore
1 appearance on this show
Doug Scott
Co-founder, Co-owner and President · Movement Search and Delivery
1 appearance on this show
Brian Murphy
Global Head of Learning & Development · NASCAR Stewart Haas Racing
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Jan Liphardt
bioengineering professor · OpenMind.org
1 appearance on this show
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