The Women Talking About Learning Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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This episode explores women, data, and AI — where they intersect, why representation matters, and how we can build more inclusive paths into data science and analytics. Expect conversation on leadership, bias, and the realities of working in data-driven roles.

Full episode resources All the articles, research, and podcast links mentioned in this episode are listed on our website: 👉 https://womentalkingaboutlearning.com/2025/10/14/the-data-one/

Guests

Rebecca Oliver — Founder of Juxta Marketing Solutions, helping startups and scale-ups build smart, human-first go-to-market strategies that make people feel something. Her work focuses on meaningful connection, storytelling, and empathy in marketing. After redundancy during maternity leave, Rebecca became an advocate for mums in marketing and shares advice and support through her community @marketing__mum. • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-oliver14/

Rachel George — Generative BI Senior Manager leading AI transformation within Business Intelligence. Rachel designs and delivers education programmes in data and AI, including an industry-leading Data & AI Summer School, now in its third year. She champions practical learning, ethical AI, and representation for women in tech. • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelemmadickinson

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This episode explores writing, confidence, facilitation, and how learning happens inside teams. You’ll hear honest stories and practical insights from our guests.

Full episode resources All the links, articles, and books mentioned are listed on our website: 👉 https://womentalkingaboutlearning.com/episodes/

Guests

Hannah Brown — Author of Into the Hands of Leaders and Training that Clicks. With 25 years in learning development and two design awards, Hannah helps organisations build learning cultures through leadership. • Website: https://hannahbrown.co • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahbrown-learning/

Pam Hamilton — Collective intelligence expert, author of The Workshop Book and Supercharged Teams, and founder of Paraffin. Pam’s mission is to change the way the world works together, one team at a time. • Website: https://www.superchargedteams.com • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/workshopbook/

Beth Cougler Blom — Facilitator, designer, and author of Design to Engage. Her new book, Everyday Acts of Facilitation, is due Winter 2025/26. She also hosts the Facilitating on Purpose podcast. • Website: https://bcblearning.com • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethcouglerblom/

Emily Gardner — Trainer, coach, and author of The Path of the Guide. Former head of Ninety Academy, recognised at the Learning Awards. Emily supports facilitators to grow their impact. • Website: https://www.emilyfacilitates.com • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilygardnerfacilitator/

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Episode Links:

Personal Boardroom – Who is in yours?

How to build a personal board for your career

Comparative Analysis of Trust in Online Communities

6 Tips To Build Trust In Your Online Community

Building trust in communities

How To Develop A Community Strategy

Community Strategy Insights

How to Create a Learning Culture: 18 Best Practices

Build a Strong Learning Culture on Your Team

Creating learning cultures: assessing the evidence

: State of the Global Workplace Report

GLDC (Global Learning and Development Community)

Example of Career Change as a Journey with a Clear Destination in Mind

Ep. 23: Efficiency vs. Effectiveness: Learning generosity in the L&D profession

Tayloring learning: generosity of the L&D community

The 10 Golden Rules of Building Communities That Matter

The Institute for Performance and Learning

The evolution of L&D: Strategies for success and impact | People Management

The evolution of learning and development

The evolution of L&D strategies examined

The Learning Network

L&D SHAKERS

This week’s guests are Anita Gouveia. Anita is an organisational development and learning leader who's spent the last 20+ years helping people grow, lead and making work better fo

This week’s guests are Ros Stephens and Jo Royce.

Ros is an award-winning lesbian photographer, based in London. She’s been heard on Women's hour, BBC NI, BBC Essex and the East End Women Activists archive at the Bishopsgate Institute. Ros lives with her two kitties, her bass guitar and her bike and loves all aspects of photography. 

Jo Royce is a people-curious lover of learning, coaching and creativity. Currently Global Director of Marketing Capabilities @ Unilever, Ros is Women in Advertising and Communications, Leadership member; a coach, mentor, and teaches & learns as much as I can, on the side. 

Links

Ros's Photography site https://www.rosalindstephens.com/

The book HELP! https://www.waterstones.com/book/help/oliver-burkeman/9781784709655

Edward Hopper https://www.edwardhopper.net/

Online Calendar tips https://www.calendar.com/blog/advantages-online-calendar/

Kanban https://www.atlassian.com/agile/kanban

For many years, Pilar Orti  has run her voiceover career in parallel to all her other ventures. She ran a small theatre company for ten years, and then became a trainer, facilitator and consultant. Her voiceover credits include the Spanish voice of the WiiFit and GoJetters' Xuli.

She's now also a podcast host, having been hosting the 21st Century Work Life podcast for Virtual not Distant for five years, and co-hosting My Pocket Psych and Facilitation Stories (IAF England and Wales).

Pilar's now looking into how in-house podcasting can help companies create a sense of community amongst their dispersed employees. 

Find out more: https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/ and http://www.adventuresinpodcasting.com/

Katelyn Dawn, as well as being a singer-songwriter who has been performing and recording her own songs since 2004, also has a background in digital media design  including web & graphic design and film and has been a freelance designer for years.

Katelyn decided to combine all her interests and dive into a career in voiceover in 2019. She built her recording studio in 2019 and sought out training at Edge Studio who are industry leaders in voiceover training. With over 16 years of experience recording and editing vocals, Katelyn has thousands of hours at the microphone singing and voice acting. Katelyn is interested in narrating eLearning because it is a unique area of voiceover where one can actively help people learn.

Website: https://www.katelyndawnvo.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katelyn-dawn-%F0%9F%8E%99-voice-over-525b521ab/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katelyndawnvo/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katelyndawnvo

Twitter: https://twitter.com/katelyndawnvo

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-INNeAAS5gGnJkAh4JTglw

Music: https://www.katelyndawnmusic.com/

Episode Links:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1075547018759345

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5132380/

https://www.world-voices.org/

https://theelearningcoach.com/elearning_design/the-art-of-writing-great-voice-over-scripts/

https://www.voicecrafters.com/blog/how-to-format-a-script-for-a-voice-over/

https://womentalkingaboutlearning.com/2021/02/23/the-passion-one/

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We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast

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Sarah Ratcliff is passionate about engaging learners to ‘want to learn’.  An expert in Virtual Classrooms and awarded Learning Professional of the Year Gold in 2020. Always happy to chatter about learning and helping people maximise their potential.

Twitter: Sarah Ratcliff (@splant33) / Twitter

LinkedIn: Sarah Ratcliff Assoc. CIPD, FLPI | LinkedIn

Website: www.sarahratcliff.com

Janet Webb is a freelance Learning and OD consultant. She helps people to understand what’s going on psychologically, that manifests in helpful or unhelpful behaviour, having been exploring this personally and professionally since 1992. 

Email: janet@janetwebbconsulting.co.uk

Website: www.janetwebbconsulting.co.uk

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/janetwebblandod

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/jwebbconsulting

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You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com

We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast

You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi.

Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com.

Hooked on learning and passionate about driving business forward, Aimee-Jayne Young is all about helping people make the most of their careers. With a keen interest in performance consulting, learning technology and employee experience, Aimee brings an enthusiastic yet measured point of view on learning and development and where it needs to go for the future. Aimee has experience working in the field of L&D research, HR strategy, learning technologies, professional services, retail and industry and commerce. 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aimeejayneyoung

Ellis Taylor is a Consultant Learning Technologist, and co-founder of Pea Consultancy, along with her trusty rescue dog Ernie, and partner Matt. Ellis has been helping businesses in the e-learning sector for the last four years, working with both private enterprises and in education, with particular focus on staff training and upskilling. Her previous clients have included Tier 1 banking institutions and Russell Group universities, as well as much smaller businesses and charity groups. You can contact Ellis on LinkedIn or through peaconsultancy.com

Episode Links:

https://hbr.org/2020/03/the-contagion-we-can-control

https://www.paulekman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Basic-Emotions.pdf

https://daretolead.brenebrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Glossary-of-Key-Language-Skills-and-Tools-from-DTL.pdf

https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/three-good-things

https://womentalkingaboutlearning.com/2021/02/23/the-passion-one/

http://sacraparental.com/2016/05/14/everyday-misogyny-122-subtly-sexist-words-women/

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You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com

We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast

You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi.

Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com.

This episode contains clips from the previous 17 episodes that have meant the most to our host, Andrew Jacobs. 

The blog post mentioned about International Women's Day is here:

https://wp.me/p1NUDi-2bF

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You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com

We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast

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Dana James-Edwards is a Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Specialist and has an independent consultancy - https://www.diversitydana.com/ - and has been established for almost 6 years.

E-Mail dana@diversitydana.com

Twitter @DiversityDana

Instagram @DiversityDana

Linked In in/diversitydana

Rita Sookrit is a learning strategist and has been working in learning for a number of years in a range of roles and organisations, most recently in Canada but also in Saudi and Belgium. Rita consults with global clients in various industries, helping them shape and foster workflow learning. She brings extensive experience in building, inspiring, and developing high performing L&D teams. Rita is currently collaborating with an organisation to digitise their learning strategy, and help drive employee engagement. She builds partnerships to develop cutting edge L&D solutions that address business and human needs.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rita-sookrit/

Kate Graham has worked in L&D and HR for over 15 years. In her role with Fosway Group, she works with organisations using HR, talent and learning technologies to feed into the research agenda and extend Fosway’s Corporate Research Network. In addition, Kate is social chair of the world's leading L&D event, Learning Technologies, co-host of Learning Now TV and a regular contributor to the Training Journal podcast. She is also a seasoned awards judge and long-time contributor and writer for numerous industry publications as well as co-founder of the #womeninlearning movement.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kategraham23/

Twitter https://twitter.com/kategraham23

Episode Links:

https://austinkleon.com/show-your-work

https://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldhtaylor

https://shots.net/news/view/the-imposter-virus-and-why-hurt-people-hurt-people

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/learningpro_networking-tool-learningpro-activity-6755079737305042944-izNt

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12210548/

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You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com

We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast

You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi.

Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com.

Jayne Harrison is a qualified executive coach and has over 25 years’ experience in the people development field in mainly leadership and career development.  She is interested in what makes people tick, why they choose the work they do and general wellbeing.  She has just launched the #WellbeingWednesdays series which examines how to stay well (particularly during a pandemic) paying attention to mind, body, soul and work. She has recently qualified in vegan nutrition and in her spare time she’s usually in the kitchen, ‘veganizing’ her favourite dishes.  Food is definitely a passion, as are her dogs and dancing (and sometimes all at once on a Friday listening to Radio 1).

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneharrisonpeakpotential

Twitter:  @JayneHarrison3

Web:  https://peakpotentialltd.co.uk/

Lorna set up little tent because she believed that there was a better way for business to work for people and to shape work for herself. Little tent offers coaching and people and change consultancy to organisations and leaders who want to make positive, impactful, change happen. She describes Little Tent as her passion project, livelihood and contribution to making work better for everyone.

When she’s not running Little Tent, she sings a bit – a passion that’s brought more to her world of work and beyond than she would ever have imagined.

Website: Littletent.co.uk

Twitter: @reallornaleeson

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lornaleeson/

Episode Links:

Scott Galloway Passion Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jIia7aXins

Cal Newport blog - https://www.calnewport.com/blog/

Brené Brown - https://brenebrown.com/

Judith Glaser Conversational Intelligence - https://www.conversationalintelligence.com/images/pdf/Sums-Conversational-Intelligence.pdf

Susan David - https://www.susandavid.com/

Marilyn Waring - https://www.marilynwaring.com/

Mariana Mazzucato - https://marianamazzucato.com/

Amy Cuddy - https://ideas.ted.com/inside-the-debate-about-power-posing-a-q-a-with-amy-cuddy/

Kim Scott Radical Candour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLBDkz0TwLM

Ikigai - https://jaspreettehara.org/2019/06/21/ikigai/

Life Wheel - https://positivepsychology.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Wheel-of-Life.pdf

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You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com

We’re on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast

You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi.

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