News and Perspectives

Whether you spent the week in San Diego or missed ATD ICE 2023 entirely, catch up with this 15-minute episode straight from the expo floor! We interviewed real-life attendees plus Secret Society of Success member/speaker JD Dillon to find out what they were learning at the conference. Tune in to hear: Which sessions were their […]

For our final episode, we’re talking to VP Service Design Lead Lexi Malouta (JP Morgan Chase) about what user personas are and what L&D leaders can learn from them. Lexi shares how user personas are researched, which is very similar to the classic learner persona. She also peels back the curtain to show how user […]

Nicole Bowman, VP of Marketing and Communication at the International Association of Exhibitions and Events, joins us to talk tradeshows. She shares stats from their economists on the state of the tradeshow industry, plus common mistakes exhibitiors should avoid. Plus, she answers questions like: Do you need to spend big money on a 50×50′ booth? […]

To find out how instructional designers think about learner personas, we turn to Betty Dannewitz, host of the ifyouaskbetty podcast and Learning Solutions Architect at The Ken Blanchard Companies. Betty shares her experience building personas and why she thinks they are worth the extra work.

To find out more about learner personas, we’re turning to Jim Kraus, an expert on buyer personas used by sales and marketing professionals.  Listen in to hear how Jim’s team at the Buyer Persona Institute conducts research interviews, the target number of people you should speak to, and how to move beyond an avatar to […]

This season, we’re diving into learner personas. To kick things off, Danielle Wallace (Chief Learning Strategist, Beyond the Sky) joins us to define what a learner persona is and why they matter for your L&D strategy. Listen to the 30-minute conversation to learn: What a learner persona is What resources you need to build effective […]

Get your annual budget approved with these strategic tips from Matt Heinz.

Switch to agile sales compensation with plans that are clear, measurable, and easy to update. We find out how with Erik Charles from Xactly Corporation.

Seth Marrs works with 5-10 companies per week to understand how sales compensation models impact performance. In this episode, Mike and Seth investigate how companies think about sales compensation now, plus how market shifts, changing demographics, and new technology are going to lead to groundbreaking transformation.  Listen to the episode to learn: How companies leverage […]

In this special live broadcast, we wrap up season 1 by answering your questions. JD Dillon, Ann Rollins, and Brian Washburn return with Mimeo’s VP of Talent to answer questions submitted by you, our listeners, about hybrid learning. That includes what kind of transformation the industry has experienced, how to strike a balance of content […]

In our first season, we’re exploring hybrid learning: what it means and why it is so important to corporate training in the post-2020 world. Our first episode launches May 24 with the rest of the season landing on June 1!

March 2020. Mary Glowacka has spent nine months preparing a multiyear employee wellness program hinging on in-person training. And then the pandemic hits. This is the story of what happened next.