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brand & culture.
Learning, brand & culture may seem separate, but they’re deeply connected:
Learning shapes how we grow. Brand shapes how we show up. Culture shapes how we work together.
This intersection is my sweet spot: where teams find clarity, people feel belonging, and businesses build something meaningful.
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scaling organizational culture
Cultural ambition has to be explicitly expressed + given guardrails, especially when scaling. Otherwise the strongest or loudest voices will create it.🎙️ I've seen this firsthand (with varying degrees of success, candidly) at renowned brands like lululemon, Zalando, Adidas, Apple and On and talked through a couple of ways I've worked to impact it w/ Adam Lacey & The Assemble You team.
How To Make A Leader (Podcast Interview)
Most L&D teams are building programs — yet the best ones are also building philosophies.
A brand's Learning Philosophy is a North Star — a shared belief system about how people grow — and it repositions your L&D team from content creators to Cultural Amplifiers. 🚀
L&D Open Forum with Mentimeter
From Menti, “Hosted by Lisa Wetter (with Brownie in frame, obviously), we were joined by Lori Niles-Hofmann, Dwayne Britton, and Saga Forsmark for a session shaped entirely by the audience.
Here’s what you wanted to talk about:
🧠 How to build a real learning culture
🤖 Making AI actually useful for learning
🫠 And what to do if your LMS disappeared tomorrow”
Beyond Just Borrowed Logic (Interview)
Great to connect with the Manageable team a while back on a topic close to my heart: how we can move beyond popular frameworks to build culture-steeped learning experiences that are more human, on-brand – AND strategic!
Special thanks to Serge Faldin at Manageable for the great conversation.
From Culture to Competitive Advantage: The Case for a Learning Philosophy.
“When L&D teams can show how their approach shapes business culture — by defining how learning becomes a strategic edge — then suddenly, you're not just running programs. You're shaping the future.”