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Harald’s Curious CornerHow to Build Experiences Users Actually Engage With“How do you design learning and skills experiences people actually want to use?”A lot of skills and learning programs don’t fail because the content is bad. They fail because the experience feels like extra work: hard to find and navigate and disconnected from what people are trying to get done.To explore what actually changes that, I spoke with Samantha Murray, founder of AlignedCX. Sam has led customer education at Shopify, worked on the vendor side at Docebo, and now advises teams on designing experiences that remove friction and drive real outcomes.Too...
2026-02-0549 minHarald’s Curious CornerConnecting Skills with Real-World Career PathsImagine if learning wasn't just about courses, but about unlocking real career opportunities through the right skills.In our previous conversation, we explored the overwhelming number of systems that impact employees' ability to learn and grow. In this episode, I’m diving deeper with Matthew J. Daniel, Senior Principal, Talent Strategy & Mobility at Guild Education, on a crucial topic: how we can link learning to real career opportunities.We talk about how a skills-based organisation thrives when it prioritises practical, business-driven outcomes and the importance of linking skills to opportunity, ensuring that learning initiatives directly tr...
2026-01-2945 minHarald’s Curious CornerWhy Informal Learning Can’t Be Ignored“How do we drive real skills transformation within a company?”That’s the question we explore in this episode with Eran Vaisfailr, former Product Owner of Learning and Development at Booking.com, now Co-founder and CEO of Plynn, a learning startup focused on turning informal learning into measurable skills. In his time at Booking.com, Eran was at the forefront of building a skills-based organisation, focusing on aligning employee capabilities with business needs.Our conversation explores why skills-based transformation isn't just about formal training systems or shiny new AI tools. Eran shares his experience at Bookin...
2026-01-2253 minHarald’s Curious CornerWhy Skills Only Matter When They Solve Real Business Problems“Skills only matter if they solve a real business problem.” In the last episode, we explored why skills require a deeper understanding of the work being done and why HR and L&D cannot build this alone. This conversation picks up that thread and moves it into the real world. Sandra Loughlin, PhD, Chief Learning Scientist at EPAM, joins me to show what a skills-based organisation looks like when it is designed around data, roles, and the actual needs of the business. We explore how EPAM unified its skills ecosystem, blending formal and informal learning, and st...
2026-01-1544 minHarald’s Curious CornerMind the Skills Gap: How to Build a Skills-based Organisation with Koreen PaganoHow do you actually build a skills-based organisation in practice, and why does it matter now?L&D has been mainly about designing learning content and delivering training. Now, we’re moving towards reimagining the very foundation of how we work, especially with the rise of AI.I chatted with Koreen Pagano, co-founder of Rising Tide Cooperative and author of Building the Skills-Based Organization: A Blueprint for Transformation. Koreen shares her expertise on the intersection of learning, technology, and skills data. She offers a fresh perspective on how AI is not just reshaping workflows but re...
2026-01-0849 minHarald’s Curious CornerWhat I Learned About Being an L&D Leader In the Age of AIOver the past few episodes, I’ve gone down a lot of rabbit holes with Lori Niles-Hofmann, Laura Overton, Michelle Ockers, Dr. Ashwin Mehta, Nicki Finnigan, Hannah Frame, and Erica Farmer, trying to answer one big question: What does it mean to be an L&D leader in the age of AI?In this wrap-up, I’m connecting the dots. While AI can absolutely accelerate your impact, it can just as easily derail it, depending on how you use it. Ultimately, it’s a powerful enabler, not a silver bullet. And that’s why using it...
2025-12-1114 minHarald’s Curious CornerLeading Learning in the Age of AI: Three Practitioners' Perspectives“How do L&D leaders stay grounded, strategic, and human while leading through the age of AI?”In this episode, we’re exploring how leadership adapts when AI accelerates change faster than traditional models can keep up.I’m joined by Hannah Frame and Nicki Finnigan of Every Day's a School Day Podcast and Erica Farmer of EricaFarmer.a, three of the best L&D consultants and practitioners I’ve come to know. Collectively, they bring perspectives from large-scale corporate environments, emerging AI practices, and hands-on upskilling work with L&D teams. Together, w...
2025-12-0446 minHarald’s Curious CornerCan L&D Keep Up With the Speed of AI?“How can L&D leaders stay strategic in the age of AI?”Previously, we were shifting our perspective from technology to leadership. For this episode, we’re shifting the focus to leadership and strategy. I chat with Dr. Ashwin Mehta, founder and CEO of Mehtadology, an AI researcher, and someone who runs a company with more agents than people. He brings sharp technical and practical insight to a question many L&D teams still face: How does AI reshape our work?We discuss the three k...
2025-11-2746 minHarald’s Curious CornerHow L&D Leaders Can Stay Human in the Age of AI“How do we keep the human touch as L&D leaders in the AI era?”In our last episode, we explored how AI is transforming L&D from reactive to strategic, helping leaders prove business value beyond completion rates. This time, we’re shifting our perspective from technology to leadership.Laura Overton and Michelle Ockers, co-authors of the book The L&D Leader: Principles and Practice for Delivering Business, remind us that while AI can amplify what we do, it’s courage and connection that define how we lead. The tech...
2025-11-2044 minHarald’s Curious CornerWhat’s The Role of L&D in The AI Era?“What’s the real role of L&D in the age of AI?”This is the first big question we hope to answer in Harald’s Curious Corner. To get some perspective, I spoke with Lori Niles-Hofmann, strategist and author of Eight Levers of EdTech Transformation. She has spent years helping organizations navigate big shifts in learning technology and knows what works and what doesn’t. We discussed where L&D teams often get stuck with AI, how automation affects our day-to-day work, and what it means to design learning that feels perso...
2025-11-1340 minHarald’s Curious CornerThis is Harald’s Curious CornerHarald’s Curious Corner is where curiosity meets connection. Harald chases that question with a guest, gathers perspectives from voices across the industry, and then steps back to reflect on what it all means. The show unfolds like a story arc, part exploration, part roundtable, part reflection, blending imagination with analysis. The result: trusted insights, meaningful conversations, and forward-looking takeaways that shine a light on where learning is headed next.
2025-11-0401 min
Every Day's a School DayBusting L&D Myths with DoceboWelcome back to 'Every day’s a School Day' and in today's episode, hosts Hannah Frame and Nicki Finnigan are joined by Harald Overaa, Tech Advisor at Docebo.
What’s Docebo? It’s a learning platform that enables you to drive engagement, productivity, and connections with your customers, partners, and employees.
We cover Docebo and their mission, the importance of change management, the role of AI in L&D, the learning tech jungle, and the excitement for L and D professionals moving forward. However, the episode focuses on tackling famous Learnin...
2024-06-2822 min
Generation X VS ZEpisode 125: Antidepressiva Episode 39: Komedie (Episode 125: Antidepressant Episode 39: Comedy)I dag snakker Per og Henrik om komedie. Det er flere grunner til dette. Den ene er fordi det er samefolkets nasjonaldag og de er kjente for sin spesielle humor. De andre og hovedgrunnen bak valget er fordi en lytterne har bursdag. Per gir deg sketsjen Norsk Supperåd fra 1976 med komikerduoen Wesensteen som bestod av Rolf Helge Wesenlund (1936-2013) og Harald Heide-Steen jr. (1939-2008) samt en forestilling fra Båtehusrevyen i Fredrikstad fra 2011 med Vivi Haug (1936-2014). I tillegg til dette har Henrik med seg en rekke forestillinger fra Jeffery Dunham og Erik Andre Mogen Stenersen. Alle disse er...
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