The Learning Culture Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

What happens when the context you're preparing leaders for no longer exists by the time they get there? After seven years as Chief Learning Officer at Citibank building talent systems, Cameron Hedrick sees the cracks in how we predict potential.

In this conversation, Cameron reveals why mastery beats potential when everything is constantly emerging, why humans excel at inference with small data while AI needs millions of data points, and how self-knowing becomes the foundation for navigating what's next. 

He introduces his Prompt to Polymath framework, mapping our journey from basic augmentation to a world where your digital twin pre-flights conversations while you orchestrate outcomes across humans, agents, and proxies. 

From hiring people with scars to narrating learning in motion, Cameron shares why machines may calculate faster, but they don't rise stronger from failure and why that distinction matters more than ever. 

If you're still running quarterly talent reviews in static nine-boxes, this conversation will fundamentally challenge how you think about developing capability that endures.

HIGH POTENTIAL (for what?!)

New MIT Sloan research suggests that AI is more likely to complement, not replace, human workers | MIT Sloan

What happens when AI agents become your direct reports? 

Becky Karsh, VP of Talent and Growth at F5, believes we're approaching a fundamental shift: individual contributors won't just complete tasks, they'll manage multiple AI agents to achieve outcomes. 

In this episode, Becky reveals why delegation, work design, and crystal-clear communication are becoming essential IC skills, not nice-to-have manager competencies. She explains why "if you do something more than once, that should be an agent" and makes the case that the future belongs to ICs who think like architects, not just builders. From T-shaped careers to bringing your own OKRs to development programs, Becky maps out the new playbook for IC success. 

If you're wondering whether AI will replace your job, Becky has a different question: are you ready to manage the AI that will amplify your impact?

In this special episode, Andrew Barry takes us to Workhuman Live in Denver, where he engaged with six forward-thinking leaders across HR, consulting, and academia. Together, they explore how AI is transforming not just the way we create, but also how we influence action.

From first-draft generation and rapid prototyping to stress-testing ideas and influencing without authority, these leaders reveal how AI is collapsing the time from idea to execution. Yet, the real game-changer isn't speed - it's empathy, clarity, and the ability to make others care.

Featuring insights from voices like Tracy Graff, KeyAnna Schmiedl, Fatema Rizwana, Jacob Morgan, Nicole Eisdorfer, and Candice Mitchell, this episode delivers a powerful message: AI may accelerate our work, but human judgment, storytelling, and influence are still what drive change.

Joining me this week is Jen Collins.

Jen is the Director of Academy Enablement at Learn In, a talent academy platform that was recently acquired by Degreed, one of the largest players in the ed tech space.

Jen and I connected on LinkedIn a while back, kept in touch through the platform, and found a common passion for all things continuous learning.

In this "Rapid Fire 5" segment, I gather her first thoughts on five key questions related to learning and enablement. 

Joining me this week is Raquel Ferrari.

Raquel is the Revenue Enablement Manager at Spekit. She is an enabler, but in a good way!

She is also in a unique role in that she leads enablement for a company that serves people in enablement. And that made for a very interesting episode. We explored the benefits that she brings to her go-to-market team - from reps to customer success and everything in between.

In this episode, we talk about all things Just-in-Time Learning. It was really fun to pull out a framework that Raquel uses for deciding how to create content and communicate with her sales team. She ended up sharing a three step framework (which I think you'll find incredibly useful) that we spent the bulk of this episode unpacking.

So with that, please sit back, relax, and enjoy my episode with Raquel Ferrari.

Raquel Ferrari is the Revenue Enablement Manager at Spekit, a "just-in-time" learning platform that enables your team to find the information they need in the flow of work.

She is an Enabler, but in a good way, and she is also in a unique role, in that she leads enablement for a company that serves people in enablement.

In this "Rapid Fire 5" segment, I gather her first thoughts on five key questions related to learning and enablement. 

Joining me this week is Brooke Coletti.

Brooke is the Senior Partner Enablement Manager at AWS, a fairly new role for her. She has worked in various enablement roles, and this was the first time in her career that she has specialized in partner enablement.

As a result, this is the first episode I've done on this show that is focused specifically on partner enablement.

We go into all things channel partner-related, and we also bring in quite a big dose of microlearning (another topic that Brooke is very much an expert in and has leveraged a lot in her career).

If all that sounds interesting to you, sit back, relax, and enjoy this episode with Brooke Coletti.

 Brooke is the Senior Partner Enablement Manager at AWS. It's a fairly new role for her as we recorded this episode. 

She has worked in various enablement roles, and this was the first time in her career that she has specialized in partner enablement. And as a result, this is the first episode I've done on this show that is focused specifically on partner enablement. 

In this "Rapid Fire 5" segment, I gather her first thoughts on five key questions related to learning and enablement. 

Joining me this week was Kristen McCrae McMullan. 

Kristen is the Global Enablement Leader for Amazon Web Services ProServe. 

She first appeared on my radar at the beginning of this year when she released a three-part "new year's resolution" series on topics that were top-of-mind for her in enablement. 

The first part of that series was a topic called “Micro-KPIs” - and it's something that I have not been able to stop thinking about since I read it. I found myself explaining it to others as if it were my own idea.

For the uninitiated among us, micro-KPIs are a potential solution for measuring and showing the impact of enablement efforts. 

We explore all things micro-KPI in terms of how to set them up, what some of the top challenges people face are, and what Kristen’s go-to micro-KPIs are. We also break down for you a very simple step-by-step approach so that you can go and set up your own KPIs right now. 

Please sit back, relax and enjoy my episode with Kristen McCrae McMullan. 

Kristen is the Global Enablement Leader for Amazon Web Services ProServe. 

She first came on my radar at the beginning of this year, when she released a three part kind of new year's resolution series on topics that were top of mind for her in enablement. The first one of that series was on a topic called “Micro KPIs” - and it's something that I have not been able to stop thinking about since I read that. 

In this "Rapid Fire 5" segment, I gather her first thoughts on five key questions related to learning and enablement.