From Learner to Leader: Building a Learning Program from Scratch

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Replay our live conversation with Dr. Theresa Brough about rising from learner to L&D leader and standing up a full learning program from the ground up.

Theresa shares the exact mindset, relationships, and metrics she used to move from “solo ID” to building a strategic, business-aligned learning program inside a Fortune-500 retailer.

Connect with Dr. Theresa Brough on LinkedIn:   / theresabrough  

Here are the books Theresa mentioned in the interview:

The Building Blocks of Sales Enablement (Mike Kunkle)
101 Training Activities and How to Run Them (Good & McFadyen)
Helping people change: Coaching with compassion for lifelong learning and growth (Boyatzis, Smith, & VanOosten)
The Coaching Effect (Eckstrom & Wirth)
Connect First (Katzman)
Radical Candor (Kim Scott)
Start with Why (Simon Sinek)
The Coaching Habit: Say less, ask more, & change the way you lead forever (Michael Stanier)
Coaching Questions: A Coach’s Guide to Powerful Asking Skills (Stoltzfus)
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (Stone, Patton, & Heen)
StandOut 2.0 (Marcus Buckingham)
First, Break All the Rules (Marcus Buckingham)
Chasing Failure (Ryan Leak)

Here is Theresa's dissertation link as well: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7vf11s...

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:07:24 How do you start building a learning program from scratch?
00:11:22 How do you win stakeholder buy-in and launch the program?
00:15:00 What does real relationship-building with SMEs look like?
00:18:19 How do you pivot when learner data says “change course”?
00:22:32 What roles help you gain program-building experience?
00:26:51 How can you rack up early wins before you’re hired?
00:30:04 Will training actually solve the business problem?
00:34:16 Why isn’t “pretty” eLearning enough?
00:41:14 How can you stand out to L&D hiring managers?
00:50:58 Where is instructional design heading next?