L&D Go Beyond
L&D Go Beyond Podcast
A deep dive into learning, capability, and performance by Upside Learning
The L&D Go Beyond Podcast brings together leaders who are shaping the future of workplace learning. Each episode moves past traditional training conversations to examine how learning drives capability, performance, and real organizational outcomes.
The series explores the forces redefining the learning landscape, including AI, skilling demands, capability building, learning design, business alignment, and the growing pressure to demonstrate impact. Conversations are grounded in practice and informed by the experiences of CLOs, strategists, researchers, authors, and practitioners from across industries.
Guests share clear, practical insights into how learning can be designed, supported, and measured with intention. The discussions highlight what becomes possible when L&D operates with clarity, purpose, and a focus on meaningful results.
Upside Learning, a Mitr company, brings 20+ years of experience in delivering award-winning custom eLearning, learning consulting, and staff augmentation services.
If you are committed to creating learning that works and contributes to performance in the new world of work, this podcast is your space.
Listen. Learn. Go beyond.
L&D Go Beyond
AI and The Upskilling Imperative for L&D, with Maria Leggett
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In this insightful podcast, Amit Garg speaks with Maria Leggett, Director of Education, Talent Development and Credentialing at MHI on AI and the up-skilling imperative for L&D.
She talks about the changes and impact that AI is having on L&D, how it will be completely reinvented, developing skill taxonomy, amongst other things.
Here are the key takeaways from this podcast-
- Shift in organizational learning strategy from learning event culture to learning performance culture.
- Focus on soft skills more than functional skills.
- Data Interpretation challenges for L&Ds from the AI perspective.
- Need for a universal skill taxonomy for learning development.
- Leveraging content curation to enhance learning in the 'moment of need'.
- Streamlining processes, systems for robust metrics, data collection and effective data usage.
- Building data analysis skills from the L&D’s perspective.
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About The Guest
Maria has extensive experience in and has been driving learning, talent development, and organizational change management for 15 years. She has steered fortune 500 corporations and mid-size firms to new performance levels, acts as an executive faculty for MHI’s professional development programs, and coaches and facilitates executive workshops and leadership cohorts for MHI’s 800+ global member companies.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marialeggett
Twitter: maria_leggett
Email: mleggett@mhi.org
About The Host
Amit has been involved in the workplace learning domain for over 19 years. He is passionate about improving organizational performance through better learning solutions. He consults organizations around the world on resolving business and training challenges through uniquely crafted learning solutions by combining his vast experience and quick adoption of evolving trends on learning and technology fronts.
You can follow and connect with Amit Via:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gargamit100
Twitter: gargamit100
Email: amitgarg@upsidelearning.com