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1AM talksEp. 3 - Culture Change Programme Design with Spiral LearningHow do you design for culture change using a coaching and leadership programme — including enabling leadership presence for Women of Colour? How do you do set up that L&D culture change programme in a friendly, values-driven organisation?
How do you facilitate L&D and OD programmes for teams where staff care deeply about their work but sometimes find accountability, difficult conversations, and stress hard to navigate?
In this episode of 1AM Talks, Andry McFarlane and Miranda Gay speak with Luna Ali and Aurora Arista from Spiral Learning, an inclusive charity supporting younger adults from underre...
2025-12-2715 min
1AM talksEp. 4 - Team Change.Leadership journeys. Diversity.Discover the impact of the 18 month culture-change journey at Spiral Learning. You’ll hear how clearer boundaries, honest conversations, and steady relationship-based work helped the team build a more sustainable and positive workplace culture. After 18 months of development with Spiral, see how staff have created healthier ways of working and made intentional space for younger and more culturally diverse leadership to grow.
At the heart of the episode is Luna’s leadership story. A British Black woman working in a youth-focused organisation, her journey shows how identity, culture and experience shape leadership. We hear how she steps into...
2025-12-1715 min
1AM talksTrailer 4 - Team Change.Leadership journeys. Diversity.This two-minute trailer offers a glimpse into a powerful 15-minute episode about real culture change — how an organisation found clearer boundaries, a more sustainable office culture, and space for younger and more culturally diverse leadership to thrive.
In the full episode, you’ll hear Luna’s leadership story. It’s compelling — a British Black woman stepping into new leadership identities in a youth-focused organisation, growing alongside younger learners, and finding a more grounded sense of personal power.
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2025-12-1502 min
1AM talksTrailer 3 - Designing L&D for Culture Change with Spiral LearningWhat does inclusive learning design look like for a culture change journey? In this 1AM Talks trailer, we share with you what’s in Episode 3, where we join Aurora Arista and Luna Ali from Spiral Learning — an organisation supporting younger adults from underrepresented backgrounds.
They discuss how a Coaching and Culture-Change Programme was created to strengthen communication, accountability and wellbeing, while staying true to the charity’s values of inclusion and safeguarding.
Hear how leadership, embedding diversity and values alignment, are driving themes in an OD journey, that aims to support both staff and impact on the yo...
2025-12-0902 min
1AM talksEp. 2 - Grounding, Confidence and Career Growth🎙 Episode 2 - Grounding, Confidence and Career Growth: How Good Foundations Help Impact in Coaching and Workshops.
🤔How do you help busy staff engage, grow and make confident career decisions when they’re stretched and not yet ready to focus? In this episode of 1AM talks, we explore that practical challenge - something nearly every for every Head of L&D, OD, organisational coach and facilitator faces.
At South London NHS Mental Health Trust , Amanda Cummins and Karen Nelson and other staff took part in a coaching programme and a communication skills workshop — that led to real workplace impact: clearer car...
2025-11-1722 min
1AM talksTrailer 2- Talent Development & CommunicationTrailer Episode 2: Discover how staff grounded themselves through somatic techniques, built confidence to communicate and grew their careers within a dynamic, lived-experience workplace culture — through co-design, inclusive coaching, and communication programmes.
1AM Talks hosts speak with Karen Nelson and Amanda Cummins about somatic learning and all things L&D impact — an insightful chat about a real L&D project at South West London & St George’s Mental Health Trust, and how we all made it happen.
Plus — what is 1AM Talks, anyway? At 2 mins 36 secs, it’s our longest trailer yet… we’re learning — next time, even short...
2025-11-1702 min
1AM talksEp. 1 - Getting a Team on Board: Coaching, Confidence and Psychological Safety🎙 Episode 1 - Getting a Team on Board: Coaching, Confidence and Psychological Safety
In this 20 minute episode we speak with Amanda Cummins and Karen Nelson from South London NHS Mental Health Trust about how a team with lived experience of mental health commissioned and co-designed a wellbeing-focused coaching and workshop programme.
This conversation offers a personal look at how collaborative commissioning, psychological safety and staff involvement came together to create a programme that really engaged staff. It met people where they were — acknowledging the realities of lived experience, imposter syndrome and identity — and worked because it followed...
2025-11-0523 min
1AM talksTrailer 1 - Psychological safetyTight L&D budgets, big staff learning ambitions, constant OD pressure?
1AM Talks shares bite-sized, real stories about what actually works in learning and organisational development. Each 20-minute episode takes a 360° look at one real programme — through the eyes of the commissioner, the facilitator and the participant. Launching 5th November.
🎙Your host Andry McFarlane shares a taste of what’s to come in Episode 1 when Andry and co-host Rachael Palmer meet Amanda Cummins and Karen Nelson from South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust, exploring how wellbeing coaching and a workshop were designed to help staff bu...
2025-10-1501 min