The Strategic L&D One

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

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

Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com


Episode Links:

The career advice you probably didn’t get | Susan Colantuono

How to Become a BOLD Strategic L&D Leader | Kogan Page

Linking Learning & Development to Business Outcomes: From Vanity Metrics to ROI

What lies ahead for the L&D profession in 2025?

From AI Adoption to Organizational Capability: Why Mindset Is the Real Constraint Toward 2030 | Globant Blog

Aligning the L&D Strategy With Business Goals – Brandon Hall Group

Analysis | How L&D can create value: Focusing on skills development | CIPD

Why businesses need to start measuring L&D success

MAAS Marketing | How L&D Can Become More Commercially Savvy

Rethinking Organizational Learning Strategy with Dani Johnson

5 Ways to Measure the Impact of Your L&D Strategy

Redefining L&D Success Metrics – Elevation

Learning and Development Strategy: 6 Steps to Create It in 2025

What is a Learning and Development Strategy?

What is Learning and Development | L&D Overview

Learning and development strategy and policy | Factsheets | CIPD

ATD (Association for Talent Development)

The essential components of a successful L&D strategy


This week’s guests are Henriëtte Kloots, an organisational psychologist and senior L&D consultant. After years of working for both learning solution providers and on the corporate side of L&D, she founded her first company in 2015. Henriette possesses a unique combination of skills when it comes to tight project management, a strategic and analytical perspective, and a service-oriented approach. Interlocked’s mission for impactful learning is a dream she continues to pursue. She is known for her boundless energy and passion for the industry and, as she says herself: “I am here to challenge.”

www.interlocked.nl

https://www.linkedin.com/in/henriette-kloots

https://www.linkedin.com/company/interlocked-b-v

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Q6UaBoyjpokmtlYFIUyJZ?si=imWpauMTRIyd8_AM-r9UjA

Mary Rapaport spends her days helping leaders and learning teams think a little bigger, ask better questions, and avoid solving the wrong problem. As the founder of The Strategic Playground, she’s on a mission to make strategic thinking less intimidating and a lot more useful. Part strategist, part learning geek, and part professional dot-connector, Mary loves helping L&D professionals turn good ideas into meaningful business impact.

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

https://strategicplayground.com

Anne-Marie Burbidge is the founder of The Spark L&D Consultancy and a fractional Head of L&D, bringing over 20 years’ experience across sectors. She helps growing organisations scale the good stuff, fix the friction, and build the leadership, capability and people performance systems needed for sustainable growth. Anne-Marie believes L&D should be one of the most commercially impactful functions in any organisation, not a training provider, but a driver of performance.

https://www.thesparkconsultancy.uk/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-marieburbidge/

Leave a Reply