Lead the People #34: Learning Ecosystems with Katja Schipperheijn
Katja Schipperheijn is an internationally recognized learning strategist and founder of Habit of Improvement, a consultancy that focuses on learning strategies that foster growth and well-being in a human-machine symbiosis. Besides her work in corporate settings, she is founder of the sCooledu foundation with which she reached over 15,000 children participating in her workshops on digital citizenship. Based in Antwerp, Belgium and Dubai, UAE, she is also an international keynote speaker and guest lecturer.
Top 3 Takeaways
- Cultivate learning. Think of a learnscape as a garden. Whether you’re constructing the learning ecosystem or you’re contributing to it, embrace organic growth and sustainability of your learning assets.
- Go there. Be an active participant—or at least a dabbler—on the platforms that your employees turn to for learning. Don’t shy away from newer spaces like TikTok and Roblox that are heating up.
- Let them in. If your organization is depending on external and contract providers to do material work, don’t prevent them from accessing your knowledge systems and capturing their learnings and insights.
From the Source
“Sometimes things don't happen like you want it to be but that's not always the bad thing about it, because we have to learn and unlearn and try again. That's what I say: this is a habit that you create to improve yourself, to improve your organization, the society, the people that you work with. So it all comes to—habit to improve.”
“Now more than ever with the accelerating speed of innovation—the world that is—changing. We had a pandemic, we have a war. Things are going so fast, like waves coming over this garden, we have to adapt all the time. And I think learning as human beings to understand all the impact of this is the only way that we can survive and thrive as people and as an organization.”
“When I'm doing presentations or keynotes for L&D people, HR people, or leaders, I always ask them: when was the last time you went on TikTok? Fortnite? Roblox? And I know the answer about the last time. They never went on it. But that's the future. Those are learning ecosystems.”
Connect with Katja
Website: https://habitofimprovement.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KatjaHoI
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katjaschipperheijn/
Links
Katja's book Learning Ecosystems: Creating Innovative, Lean and Tech-driven Learning Strategies: https://amzn.to/3o0S6ve
Katja's article on hope: https://habitofimprovement.com/2022/11/24/hope-as-the-leadership-competence-for-a-growth-culture/