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by Michelle Ockers
Learning Uncut is about real conversations around real learning solutions and real experiences with real advice from real people.We're all about keeping it "real."Here's an overview of our approach:Strategy and tactics. We want to unpack the strategy and how-to's of creating great learning solutions, frameworks and teams.CONVERSATIONS, NOT SCRIPTED DISCUSSIONOur podcasts are professional but not so edited and polished that they lose their authenticity. We want our audience to hear real people having real conversations and sharing real examples and advice.PROGRESSIVEWe want to showcase the "unsung L&D heroes" out there doing great work, being brave and trying new things.PRACTICALWe invite our guests to share tips and strategies to help listeners take their solutions to the next level. We aim to provide actionable takeaways for our listeners through show notes, links and downloads wherever possible.
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- Today54 min
191: Team alignment is commitment, not agreement - Lindsay Uittenbogaard and John Dobbin
What does alignment really mean when the stakes are high? Drawing on a global banking case study involving a major regulatory deadline, Lindsay and John share how surfacing different perspectives and working through tensions enabled hundreds of people across multiple geographies to coordinate action and deliver results. This conversation offers practical insights into collaboration, performance, change, and the role learning can play in creating organisational alignment when it matters most, both for L&D professionals and those working in adjacent industries. Transcript and related resources: learninguncut.global/podcast/191 Podcast information and more episodes: learninguncut.global/podcast
- 2 weeks ago45 min
190: The Education Revolution – Jeff Davis
The choices we make in education today shape the workforce thirty years from now. In this episode Michelle Parry-Slater speaks with Jeff Davis, Executive Head at Hillcrest Christian College on the Gold Coast and author of Leading the Learning Revolution, about what happens when a school decides to turn education on its head. From teaching curriculum on Coolangatta Beach to a framework of six secret skills that prepare students for a world of AI and rapid change, Jeff argues that character, service and emotional intelligence are not extras. They are the curriculum. This conversation challenges common assumptions about what schooling is for, explores whole person teaching that blends academic knowledge with purpose and resilience, and surfaces practical ideas for L&D and HR professionals wondering why great candidates are so hard to find and what might change if education did. Transcript and related resources: learninguncut.global/podcast/190 Podcast information and more episodes: learninguncut.global/podcast
- 4 weeks ago45 min
189: What Happens After the Award, Reflection 18 months on – Millie Law ANZ
What happens after the award, is won? In this episode, Michelle Parry-Slater welcomes back Millie Law, Enterprise Capability Lead at ANZ for an 18-month update on the Better Business Development programme first shared in Episode 161 for reflective practice in action The BD program delivered a 20–25% improvement in a key business metric and a four times return on investment. This revisit episode explores how an award-winning program built on genuine performance consulting, a deep understanding of business language, and deliberate mindset design has continued to live in the business long after the enterprise team stepped back. Millie also takes us inside the capability community of practice she leads at ANZ, with a virtual, open, monthly drumbeat that keeps a federated learning community connected, curious and growing, and how you know it's working as the numbers don't tell the whole story. Transcript and related resources: learninguncut.global/podcast/189 Podcast information and more episodes: learninguncut.global/podcast
- Aug 10, 202645 min
188: Minimal Interventions, Maximum Outcomes - Andrew Lawson & Alice Smith
Michelle Parry-Slater is joined by Andrew Lawson (2026 AITD L&D Professional of the Year) and his client Alice Smith, about a deliberately different approach to leadership training. Instead of two days out of the office, where delegates leave with overwhelmed brains but make little change back at work before the learning gets totally forgotten, Andrew offers a leadership programme deliberately designed to benefit learners. Using spaced learning practice, retrieval practice, and highly engaging short interventions, Andrew shares his TARGER framework, which is a brain-friendly learning design checklist built on neuroscience. Alice shares what it actually felt like from the client side to experience an 8-month programme of 90-minute sessions a month plus a variety of practice activities and coaching. With results that shifted behaviour and real change, together they turned a group of siloed managers into a genuine leadership cohort. This is a masterclass in how to create a much more effective, efficient, engaging and enjoyable leadership programme. Transcript and related resources: learninguncut.global/podcast/188 Podcast information and more episodes: learninguncut.global/podcast
- Jul 27, 202648 min
Elevate 50: What's next for L&D? Donald Taylor
For three years running, AI topped the list of what's hot in L&D. This year it dipped, and Donald H Taylor is taking it off the survey altogether. Don has run the Global Sentiment Survey for over a decade. In this Elevate episode, he joins host Michelle Parry-Slater to go back across five years of data and unpack what it actually tells us about where the profession is heading. They get into the transformation triangle's three destinations for L&D, the two separate futures Don thinks the profession may be splitting into, and why compliance training deserves to be taken seriously as a shop window rather than dismissed as a chore of endurance. And why hope on its own isn't enough. It needs action behind it, and courage for when things get hard. It's a conversation grounded in research, honest about what's difficult right now, full of ideas, and genuinely hopeful about what's next for L&D. Transcript and related resources: learninguncut.global/podcast/elevate-50 Podcast information and more episodes: learninguncut.global/podcast
- Jul 13, 202656 min
Elevate 49: Gari Yala - Speak the Truth | Indigenous Employment and the L&D Responsibility
It will take 118 years, at the current rate of change, before an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person can go to work without hearing a racial slur. This is not history. This is what is happening in Australian workplaces right now. In this Elevate episode, Michelle Parry-Slater speaks with Professor Nareen Young and Josh Gilbert from the Centre for Indigenous People and Work at the University of Technology Sydney, both Aboriginal researchers and practitioners who have spent decades working to shift the Indigenous employment narrative from deficit to truth. Together they share the findings of the 2025 Gari Yala (Speak the Truth) report, Australia's only Indigenous-led national survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment experiences and make a direct, generous and urgent call to L&D professionals to act. Transcript and related resources: learninguncut.global/podcast/elevate-49/ Podcast information and more episodes: learninguncut.global/podcast/
- Jun 29, 202654 min
187: Recognition as a Learning Tool Sarah McVanel & Lisa Anstey
Recognition is often written off as a "nice to have." In this episode, Michelle Parry-Slater speaks with Sarah McVanel, Canada's recognition expert and founder of Greatness Magnified, and Lisa Anstey, manager of Medical Device Reprocessing at Waterloo Regional Health Network, to make the case that recognition is not soft. Recognition is one of the most powerful learning and behaviour-change tools available. Together they share the story of a deeply disengaged hospital team that became one of the most recognised in the country. The framework, the coaching, the daily huddles, and the sheer persistence behind that shift. If you work in L&D and you have ever wondered how to make learning stick, or how to advocate for what your people really need, this one is for you. Transcript and related resources: learninguncut.global/podcast/187 Podcast information and more episodes: learninguncut.global/podcast
- Jun 15, 202647 min
Elevate 48: Eight Years of Learning Uncut – Michelle Ockers
Eight years. Nearly 200 episodes. One consistent heartbeat. In this special Elevate episode, Michelle Parry-Slater sits down with Learning Uncut founder Michelle Ockers to reflect on eight lessons from eight years of the podcast. From community as the engine that started it all, to the quiet discipline of showing up and being of service without knowing where it leads... Transcript and related resources: learninguncut.global/podcast/elevate-48 Podcast information and more episodes: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/
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Learning Uncut is about real conversations around real learning solutions and real experiences with real advice from real people.We're all about keeping it "real."Here's an overview of our approach:Strategy and tactics. We want to unpack the strategy and how-to's of creating great learning solutions, frameworks and teams.CONVERSATIONS, NOT SCRIPTED DISCUSSIONOur podcasts are professional but not so edited and polished that they lose their authenticity. We want our audience to hear real people having real conversations and sharing real examples and advice.PROGRESSIVEWe want to showcase the "unsung L&D heroes" out there doing great work, being brave and trying new things.PRACTICALWe invite our guests to share tips and strategies to help listeners take their solutions to the next level. We aim to provide actionable takeaways for our listeners through show notes, links and downloads wherever possible.
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