
L&D Disrupt
The world and the L&D space are changing faster than ever, but are you evolving with it?
L&D Disrupt brings you tactical advice, proven tactics and honest experiences from people in the industry, helping you drive more impact every day.
Every week, join Gary Stringer and Nelson Sivalingam for the podcast that's powered by HowNow, to empower every L&D professional.
Latest episodes

May 19, 2023 • 57min
Becoming A Great Place To Work-Certified Company | L&D Disrupt Live | Episode 42
Great Place To Work-Certified companies are up to four times more successful at attracting, retaining, and engaging talent…
But, you have to be a fantastic place to work in the first place!
👉 So, how can you figure out if you’re ready to apply?
👉 How do you approach the entry to stack the odds in your favour?
👉 And can you use the insights from the survey to keep building that great environment?
Our panel has been there and done it at GPTW-certified companies, so they’ll be giving you the tools and mindset to build a great application.
Running order:
0:00 Intro
1:45 Are you ready to apply for GPTW certification.
7:27 Getting buy-in internally
14:11 The application survey
27:50 The culture audit
32:55 Using the survey insights
46:00 The benefits for your employer brand
How to connect
Download your FREE Death of the LMS guide: https://try.gethownow.com/death-of-lms-guide
Find Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbrown91281/
Find Jeni on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeni-brown-6953037/
Find Harrison on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrisonryle/
Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/
Find HowNow on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/
Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

May 10, 2023 • 44min
The Death Of The LMS: How To Build A Skills-First Approach | L&D Disrupt Live Workshop 4
Download your FREE Death of the LMS guide: https://try.gethownow.com/death-of-lms-guide
See HowNow in action! Sign up for a live walkthrough: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__J-hCcCsRiaXc2LuLp5nQA#/registration
Work has changed, the LMS hasn't.
In this live workshop, we get to the bottom of what's driving disengagement with L&D and share a tested blueprint to "win back" employee trust and drive impact.
Expect to learn:
The statistics: where we are now & where we need to be.
How to close the L&D Engagement Gap.
Actionable changes you can make to your L&D strategy (today!).
Use cases: Learn from the L&D experts doing it right.

Apr 20, 2023 • 57min
9 L&D Life Hacks From Leading Consultants | L&D Disrupt Live | Episode 41
Give us one hour, and we’ll give you lessons from more than 40 years in L&D!That’s the collective experience of the consultants joining us on this episode of L&D Disrupt Live. And all three are brought their three best hacks, tips, and lessons to the table!
Meet our experts
👋 Tim Lambert, Kay-Lambert Associates Limited
👋 Georgina Cooke, Lima Delta
👋 Viv Cole, Viv Cole Associates Limited
Expect to learn…
How to build relationships that help you act like a partner, rather than a hired hand. The golden rules of effective change management.
How to use data to get a true understanding of your audience, tactics for truly defining a problem, and much more.
Running order
0:00 Intro to today’s show.
1:17 1. The best consultancy is a partnership, Tim Lambert
5:28 2. Getting timing right and finding problems to solve, Georgie Cooke
11:18 3. Get stakeholders to articulate what success looks like, Viv Cole
14:47 4. Put the audience above everything, Georgie Cooke19:39 5. Context is king, Viv Cole
29:14 6. Avoid the cut and paste approach, Tim Lambert
44:42 7. Sustainable change management, Tim Lambert
45:56 8: Marrying L&D/internal knowledge with outsider perspectives/skill sets, Georgie Cooke
48:14 9. Ask why as many times as you dare, Viv Cole
How to connect
Free Guide - Get 37 Lessons For A Winning L&D Strategy: https://gethownow.com/disrupt/
Find Tim on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/klatimlambert/
Find Georgie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgina-cooke-ld/
Find Viv on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivcole/
Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/
Find HowNow on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/
Our Website: https://gethownow.com/
Get the More Than A Jukebox guide: https://skillsjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/More-than-a-jukebox-1_5.pdf

Apr 6, 2023 • 57min
Human-Centric Learning Experiences And Using AI In L&D | L&D Disrupt Live | Episode 40
More people Googled AI content in February than any month EVER! And it’s starting to knock on L&D’s door…
✍️ Can it be used to create learning experiences?
✍️ Would it remove the human feeling from content?
✍️ Does it offer a good way to test ideas at speed and scale?
These are all valid questions! And Filip Lam helped us answer them in this episode of L&D Disrupt Live.
With a background in psychology and over a decade’s experience in sales enablement and L&D, Filip knows human-centric learning experiences inside out.
Running order
0:00 Intro to Filip Lam
3:46 Defining human-centric learning experiences
11:21 Build systems for humans
16:54 How can L&D teams use AI?
22:03 Can AI help test ideas and analyse data?
35:47 What AI means for humans in L&D.
45:38 Writing prompts for AI
52:28 Closing questions
How To Connect
Free Guide - Get 37 Lessons For A Winning L&D Strategy: https://gethownow.com/disrupt/
Find Filip on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filiplam/
Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/
Find HowNow on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/
Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Mar 29, 2023 • 30min
How L&D Pros Can Build A LinkedIn Content Strategy | L&D Disrupt Live Workshop 3
There's a lot that L&D pros can learn and borrow from marketing!
Like building a LinkedIn strategy that gets you sharing valuable content.
This is where learners spend lots of their time, so you'll get more people learning through posting!
And what about your personal brand in the L&D community?
It's not going to build itself! Only 1% of LinkedIn users are posting, so becoming 'an expert' is closer than you think...
🚀 This 30-minute workshop will give you the right mindset, process, and strategy to start posting impactful content today!
Running order
0:00 Why this all matters.
6:25 Building the right mindset: You’re an expert, embrace it.
11:28 Building an effective content process.
15:08 Real-life examples of L&D LinkedIn posts.
18:30 The power of repurposing.
21:25 The anatomy of a good post.
23:28 When to post.
24:55 Improve your comment strategy.
How to connect:
Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/
Find HowNow on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/
Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Mar 24, 2023 • 57min
How To Build A Search-First Learning Culture | L&D Disrupt Live | Episode 39
56% of employees struggle to find resources and documents while working remotely.
And when they’re scattered in multiple places, knowledge isn’t being captured and the norm is to shoulder tap or Slack, it’s no wonder.
But by building a central brain and search-first culture, we can connect people to knowledge that makes them better at their job WHEN it can make them better at their job.
Scribe CEO Jennifer Smith joined us live to explain how we can create a culture where people search in moments of need and find resources that drive performance.
Running order
0:00 Intro to Jennifer and Scribe
5:25 Why people don’t search first
9:47 Building a central brain for knowledge
16:49 Scaling knowledge sharing as managers
26:26 Getting buy-in
29:34 On-brand ways to drive knowledge sharing
33:28 Do incentives work?
37:44 Audience question: Using the right language
45:45 Audience question: Correcting bad experiences
48:16 Best practices
How To Connect
Find Jennifer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferreneesmith/
Learn more about Scribe: https://scribehow.com/
Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/
Find HowNow on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/
Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Mar 10, 2023 • 54min
Are We Managing And Measuring Performance Wrong? | L&D Disrupt Live | Episode 38
Whether it’s measuring outcomes without understanding how we got there or shoehorning people into old-school performance models, there are plenty of pitfalls.
In this episode, Ron Stock helped us unpick the old ways and build something for the modern world.
Expect to learn how to measure skills effectively, the fundamentals of modern performance management, why it’s crucial to understand how we arrived at an outcome, and much more.
How To Connect
Find Ron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rstock/
Find Nelson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/
Find HowNow on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/
Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Mar 1, 2023 • 37min
How To Build Lean Learning Sprints | L&D Disrupt Live Workshop 2
In a fast-changing world, we need to break work down into smaller chunks and respond with the right learning just as quickly.
Our goal has to be maximising L&D impact while minimising wasted time and resources.
A Lean Learning Sprint helps you do this! Bringing the right people together over two to four weeks to define problems and test solutions at speed!
Borrowed from the agile startup world and adapted for L&D in Learning at Speed, author and HowNow CEO Nelson Sivalingam will give you the tools to build your own sprints in this 30-minute workshop.
How To Connect
Find Nelson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/
Find HowNow on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/
Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Feb 23, 2023 • 58min
Translating Learning Science Into Day-To-Day L&D | L&D Disrupt Live | Episode 37
Learning science: great in theory, often difficult for us to apply to daily L&D activities…
UNTIL NOW! Carl Crisostomo (AKA Carl Learns) joined us live to explain ways we can put research into action.
From neuroscience’s role in learning design to how we prepare our brains for effective application of information.
Plus, Carl gave us the tools to independently translate future research into day-to-day action.
Running order
0:00 Who is Carl Learns?
4:51 Exercises to improve focus and attention
10:23 What L&D can learn from Duolingo
13:41 Auditing how you learn and lessons for L&D.
24:06 Mastering the art of focus.
31:49 Why we need to learn how to learn.
37:46 The role of sleep in learning.
47:28 The role of diet in learning.
50:30 The role of exercise in learning.
How To Connect
Find Carl on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlcrisostomo/
Visit Carl’s website: https://www.carllearns.com/
Check out Carl on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@carllearns
Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/
Find HowNow on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/
Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Feb 10, 2023 • 57min
Getting Into And Smashing Your First L&D Role | L&D Disrupt Live | Episode 36
🤝 Thinking about transitioning into your first L&D role?
😀 Maybe you’re new to a role and need that early stage advice?
🤔 You might be an old-head who’d benefit from hearing non-traditional L&D perspectives?
Wherever you sit, you’ll learn something from Lauren Scholtz (L&D Manager at intelliHR) and Sarah Cannistra (The Overnight Trainer)
Lauren transitioned from customer success and enablement into IntelliHR’s first L&D role.
And Sarah Makes people’s learning and development career dreams a reality by coaching them into their first position in the industry.
Running order
0:00 Intro to Sarah, Lauren and today’s episode.
5:52 Finding your L&D why.
10:15 Transferable skills to L&D.
15:40 Having the right mindset.
21:37 Work out the context for the role.
25:45 Audience question: Transitioning to a new L&D role
30:10 Audience question: Preparing for an L&D interview
36:32 Building a personal brand
42:29 Audience question: Getting buy-in for L&D
50:17 Leveraging your network as a newbie
How To Connect
Find Lauren on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenscholtz/
Find Sarah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scannistra/
Learn more about The Overnight Trainer: https://www.theovernighttrainer.com/
Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/
Find HowNow on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/
Our Website: https://gethownow.com/