In this podcast episode, Rustica interviews Bodo Hoenen, an entrepreneur and founder of Nolej, and Dev4X a social enterprise that is leveraging technology to improve education and learning opportunities for underprivileged children around the world. Bodo shares his inspiring stories of working in refugee camps and his innovative approach to solving complex social challenges using technology. He is a thought leader in education, technology and social entrepreneurship, and is widely recognised as a prolific writer and speaker. The conversation touches on the limitations of current learning pathways and LMS content delivery and how Bodo is creating a "Google Maps for learning" that enables people to learn for jobs that don't even exist yet.

Best moments:

• A heart-warming story of how Bodo helped his daughter regain movement in her paralysed arm, by building her a brain-controlled exoskeleton in just five months with no medical or technical knowledge, and without any experience!
• How collective intelligence could solve the World's greatest challenges.
• Move over LMS, Google Maps for learning is here!

About the Guest:

Bodo is a renowned entrepreneur, business consultant, and speaker who has dedicated his career to driving positive change in the world. He is the founder of Nolej, and Dev4X a social enterprise that uses technology to improve access to education and learning opportunities for children in underprivileged communities worldwide.

Through his work with Dev4X, Bodo has demonstrated a deep commitment to using technology for good and empowering individuals and communities to achieve their full potential. In addition to his work with Dev4X, Bodo is also a prolific writer and speaker, sharing his insights and perspectives with audiences worldwide.

About the host:

Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator, and CEO and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best-known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor, and a well-respected leader in the industry.

Rustica has 25+ years of experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager, and mentor. Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number and range of organisations and held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015 and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.

In 2021 she was awarded her Masters in Technological Futures at the Tech Futures Lab. She is currently working on several tech projects, including www.findalms.io and an Augmented Reality Game that will eventually teach English to refugee children in camps around the world, bringing joy, happiness, hope, and compelling futures.

Podcast Resources:

Connect with your host, Rustica Lamb on LinkedIn

Connect with Bodo Hoenen on LinkedIn

Learn more about Dev4X and the brain-controlled exoskeleton Bodo built

Learn more about Nolej

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Summary:

Rustica invited the CEO and Founder of HowNow (The Intelligent Learning Platform) Nelson Sivalingam back to the Learning 3.0 podcast to share his new book, Learning at Speed. In his book, he shares the nine fundamentals of creating a learning strategy on just one page, and he breaks down each of those building blocks in this insightful episode!

Tune in to find out why Nelson believes L&D teams should adopt a more entrepreneurial mindset!

Best Moments:

“When you embed learning within existing habits, you reduce the friction for someone to be able to access the learning they need”

“Having an entrepreneurial mindset helps understand business, which helps L&D perform better”

About the guest:

In 2016, Nelson co-founded (and still currently is) the CEO at the educational technology company HowNow, disrupting the way in which digital learning is delivered and knowledge is monetised. He has been recognised by Virgin Media Business as one of the top 30 young innovative founders in the UK as well as one of the top Asian Stars in Tech by KPMG. He is a thought-leader on Startups and Tech contributing to publications such The Guardian, The Telegraph and Startups.co.uk, he was featured in Bloomberg's documentary on Entrepreneurial Mindset and is now the author of his very first book.

About your host Rustica Lamb:

Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator, CEO and Founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best-known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor, and a well-respected leader in the industry. Rustica has 25+ years of experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager, and mentor.

Rustica has worked with a number of organisations, including Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Warehouse Group, Powerco, Tertiary Education Commission, and many more.

In 2021 she was awarded her Masters in Technological Futures at the Tech Futures Lab. She is currently working on several tech projects, including www.findalms.io and an Augmented Reality Game that will eventually teach English to refugee children in camps around the world, bringing joy, hope, and compelling futures.

In this episode we discuss:

• The inspiration behind Nelson’s first book - Learning at Speed
• Why Nelson believes the fastest learner wins by going through exponential change
• Does L&D need to adopt a more entrepreneurial mindset?
• Nelson’s 9 fundamentals of an L&D strategy you can create on one page

Podcast Resources:

Connect with your host, Rustica Lamb, on LinkedIn

Get a copy of Nelson’s book - Learning at Speed - with 20% off (Use code KOGANPAGE20) at checkout.

Connect with Nelson on LinkedIn

Learn more about HowNow

Tune in to hear Nelson's latest Ask Me Anything podcast episode!

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Former Evangelist and current Director of Sales at Rustici, Chris Tompkins is my latest guest on the Learning 3.0 podcast. You definitely read that right, Chris’s first role at Rustici was ‘Evangelist’, a role he describes as explaining inherently complex software solutions to normal people. Now as Director of Sales he leads the business team to teach their customers about the latest in eLearning technology and to uphold learning standards.

Rustici helps elearning companies play nicely together. As the world’s leading eLearning standard experts, Rustici provide the tools and knowledge to help companies create, distribute, manage and play eLearning-compliant content.

Tune in to the episode to hear Chris’s captivating explanation as to why SCORM is not dead yet!

About the guest:

Known amongst his team as an innovative ping-pong player, bird expert and snowboarder, Chris has been at Rustici for over ten years. As Director of Sales Chris spends his days chatting with customers from around the globe to help tailor Rustici products to their needs, and he leads the business team, even though their sales process isn’t typical.

About your host Rustica Lamb:

Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator, and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best-known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor, and a well-respected leader in the industry.

Rustica has 25+ years of experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager, and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering, and inspiring.

Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number and range of organisations, including Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Warehouse Group, Powerco, ScreenGuild, Tertiary Education Commision, Health Promotion Agency and many more.. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015 and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.

In 2021 she was awarded her Masters in Technological Futures at the Tech Futures Lab. She is currently working on several tech projects, including www.findalms.io and an Augmented Reality Game that will eventually teach English to refugee children in camps around the world, brining joy, happiness, hope and opportunity.

In this episode we discuss:

• What is SCORM and common misconceptions about it
• Is SCORM dead? (find out why Chris certainly doesn’t think so and how he changed Rustica’s mind!)
• What is Cmi5, and what are the benefits?
• Use cases for each of the standards

Podcast Resources:

Connect with your host, Rustica Lamb, on LinkedIn

Connect with Chris Tompkins on LinkedIn

Learn more about Rustici

Learn more about www.findalms.io

Visit the Scorm.com standards website

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Summary

What I love about hosting the Learning3.0 podcast is the amazing people I get to meet and Neha Bhardwaj is one of those! With a bluechip background working on large transformational projects in New Zealand, she really knows her stuff. She has worked for Air New Zealand, ASB, Vodafone, and she is now the CEO & Co-Founder at Cultivate.

In this episode she clearly defines what Agile is, and how it applies to HR and L&D teams.

I have no doubt that if your business or organisation is looking to implement wide-scale agile transformation, her and the people she can recommend are who you need to talk to.

About the guest:

Neha is the CEO & Co-founder at Cultivate, a CX & EX Transformation Consultant and Activator at SheEO. She is a results driven and commercially focused People Practitioner with over 15 years’ experience in specialist and generalist People & Culture roles. Neha is hugely passionate about the future of HR and how this profession is evolving, she believes that the best People strategies are human first, data driven and splashed with design thinking.

About your host Rustica Lamb:

Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor and a well respected leader in the industry.

Rustica has 25+ years experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering and inspiring.

Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number of organisations, including: Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Mighty River Power, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Orion Health and Morgan & Banks. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015, and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.

In this episode we discuss:

• What is Agile HR?
• How L&D can think about learning differently, to be more agile
• Traps to avoid on your Agile transformation journey
• How long it takes for culture change to be embedded in an organisation

Best moments

• CX/PX/LX what's the difference?
• "Don’t go the Agile route if you are not solving a problem"
• "Agile is mindset, mindset, mindset, the rest are methodologies"
• Human Centred Design, design thinking, what are they and how do they relate to Agile?
• Do you Meet? Beat? Compete? Where business value is realised

Podcast Resources:

• Listen to the David James Podcast with Tracey Waters from Sky TV
• Connect with Neha on LinkedIn
• Learn more about CultivateHQ
• Read ‘Agile People’ by Pia-Maria Thoren
• Read 'The Space Race to Build the Netflix of Learning' by Rachael Reeves
• Learn more about Dandy People

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Summary

This podcast episode has been inspired by the David James podcast interview with Tracey Waters on Agile L&D. Tracey taught 30,000 people from a very traditional learning and development process to an agile one, and it sparked my interest to find out who's doing this in New Zealand. My good friend Emma put me in touch with Nick Mackeson-Smith, Founder and CEO of FIVE NZ who develop world-class leaders, learning strategies, and capability programmes to give people an edge in business.

In this episode, I ask Nick key questions on what it takes to adopt the Agile way of learning in a traditional learning team, and he does not disappoint!

About the guest:

Nick Mackeson-Smith is the Director at Five NZ and an expert in leadership development, executive coaching, learning strategy design and implementation, culture change and engagement. He’s worked in capability and leadership in blue chip companies such as Mckinsey, Deloitte and Goldman Sachs. He’s passionate about people over process.

About your host Rustica Lamb:

Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor and a well respected leader in the industry.

Rustica has 25+ years experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering and inspiring.

Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number of organisations, including: Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Mighty River Power, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Orion Health and Morgan & Banks. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015, and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.

In this episode we discuss:

• What really is Agile learning?
• How to adopt the Agile way of learning in a traditional learning team
• How Nick and his team built their own LMS in just 5 weeks
• Traps to avoid when transitioning into Agile learning

Podcast resources:

• Listen to the David James Podcast with Tracey Waters from Sky TV
• Connect with Nick on LinkedIn
• Learn more about Five NZ
• Read 'The Space Race to Build the Netflix of Learning' by Rachael Reeves
• Learn more about 'The Five Moments of Need'

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It’s not often you find learning tech built on the blockchain and Bitdegree is one of those. It was a wide and ranging conversation talking with Dan, BitDegree's co-founder and CEO from Lithuania. Bit Degree is built on the emerging technology, Blockchain, the same technology that cryptocurrency is built on. It’s the best example of baked in gamification I have ever seen. With a focus on upskilling masses of people in technology and other skills, they have come a long way in their short 3 years.

Be prepared to see the future of the learning technology that transforms lives.

About the guest:

Previously, Danielius has spent 10 years in management consulting at Civitta, Europe's emerging leading consultancy covering 15 countries with 350+ consultants, where he served as a Partner and a Board member developing the Startups and Innovation stream.

He has won many entrepreneurial awards since completing his BSc in Economics and Business from the Stockholm School of Economics.

About your host Rustica Lamb:

Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor and a well respected leader in the industry.

Rustica has 25+ years experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering and inspiring.

Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number of organisations, including: Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Mighty River Power, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Orion Health and Morgan & Banks. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015, and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.

In this episode we discuss:

• What BitDegree is, and why it's different from the usual LMS
• Why Bitdegree is the future of learning technology
• How kindness is related to technology
• Personalised learning - how BitDegree does it differently
• Why Bitdegree is the best example of baked in gamification I have ever seen.

Podcast resources:

Connect with Danielius Stasiulis on LinkedIn

Read Rustica's LinkedIn article "Why the term LMS is losing it's primacy"

Learn more about Bitdegree

Learn more about your host, Rustica

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