Kaplan‘s Learn Better Podcast

In this week's episode of our Learn Better Podcast host, Stuart Pedley Smith, Head of Learning at Kaplan, takes a look at entrepreneurship and how to succeed in your career. Our guest is Paul Cheetham-Karcz, Founder of Sedulo Group, an award winning advisory firm and investment house. He is also the author of Taking Care of Business and host of the namesake podcast.

In this week's episode of our Learn Better Podcast host, Stuart Pedley Smith, Head of Learning at Kaplan, discusses careers in tax and the routes you can take towards this area of finance. Our guest is Neil Da Costa, Senior Tax Tutor at Kaplan, well known for the advice and resources he provides his students. Neil explains his personal journey into a career in tax, what makes tax professionals so important to businesses, and how the specialised knowledge can help to futureproof your earning potential. 

This episode our Learn Better Podcast host, Stuart Pedley Smith, Head of Learning at Kaplan, explores the connection between resilience, compassion and overcoming failure. Our guest, Kirsty Lilly, is a Mental Health expert who specialises in helping people develop their compassionate self. Kirsty talks about the importance of resilience when it comes to failure and how self compassion is integral to this. 

In this episode our guest is Anthony Clarke, Business Development Manager at AAT.  Anthony covers the versatility finance qualifications can give your career, the current hot jobs in the finance sector and how to approach your applications and interviews. Anthony also talks about how the sector has made a commitment to drive diversity and social mobility and how this has changed the way businesses are recruiting.

Finding motivation can be difficult, but when you learn how to apply your strengths you can begin to tap into your intrinsic motivation.  This week our host looks at motivation and how you can learn to lead a more engaged life. Our guest is Ross Anderson, an expert in well being sciences and human optimisation, also known as The Motivational Dude. Ross shares details of his past involving drugs, crime, suicide and family struggles. Plus, how he found a more purposeful path through motivation.

We are back! Kicking off series 2 of our Learn Better Podcast, host Stuart Pedley Smith, Head of Learning at Kaplan, explores career planning and how to find a job that you enjoy. Guest Sarah Pritchard, Head of Banking, Finance & Management Design at Kaplan, tells her own personal journey from studying Set Design at university to finding passion in education. Sharing what she discovered to be important in loving what you do, Sarah provides useful tips  for assessing your personal skill set and in turn identifying if a job is right for you.

Find out how the accountancy profession embracing AI technology could benefit society and give employees in the sector an instant promotion. In the final episode of the Learn Better Podcast first series, our host Stuart Pedley Smith, Head of learning here at Kaplan, talks about AI in Accountancy and its implication on jobs in the sector. Guest Ben Grubert, CEO at Inevitable, helps break down the technological jargon that surrounds AI and explains the benefits it can bring to the working world. Putting simply what AI is and how it works, Ben shares examples of how it can take over monotonous, repetitive tasks and free up time for people to create value in their profession.

In this episodes our host Stuart Pedley Smith, Head of learning here at Kaplan, explores accountancy around the world and how you can work abroad after qualifying in the UK. Kaplan’s learn better podcast covers topical subjects to support our past, present and future learners to succeed in both their studies and careers. Alex Swift, Insurance Director at R5 and former Kaplan student, highlights the opportunities available abroad and shares his personal experience of being an accountant in a foreign country.

This week our host Stuart Pedley Smith, Head of learning here at Kaplan, explores the topic of wellbeing and it’s impact on your studies and working life.  Kaplan’s learn better podcast covers topical subjects to support our past, present and future learners to succeed in both their studies and careers. In this episode, mental health speaker, Ross McWilliam of Mindset Pro talks through the importance of acknowledging wellbeing and how to optimise our productivity through taking care of our wellness. He asks “Does being the best come at the expense of mental health?”, as well as sharing the 5 pillars to help you perform at your maximum.   

In this episode, our host Stuart Pedley Smith, Head of learning here at Kaplan, looks at the Digital Skills Gap and the opportunity it has presented for those willing to upskill. Kaplan’s learn better podcast covers topical subjects to support our past, present and future learners to succeed in both their studies and careers. Our guest is Jason Moss, who is the Apprenticeship Development Director at Kaplan. Helping us to understand the difference between knowledge and skills, Jason explains what employers are looking for and how studying an apprenticeship to learn these digital skills can help further your career and increase your employability.