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How to Improve Adaptability Skills and Embrace Change
AI & Neurodivergence: Tools, Accessibility & Support
AI as a Metacognitive Scaffold for Neurodivergent Learners
AI Is Moving Faster Than Your Workforce Strategy. Are You Ready?
AI in the workplace: A report for 2025 | McKinsey
AI and cultural debt | Deloitte Insights
What is a Career Garden and why you need one | by Martín Pettinati | manas.tech | Medium
The double standard of women’s expression at work | New University | UC Irvine
Showing Up as a Leader: The Power of Authentic Presence
Male leaders can’t be afraid to admit their mistakes – The Globe and Mail
Quote Origin: Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
Game-Changing Strategies to Improve Women’s Representation in the Workplace – RE-WIRING
Developing effective change management strategies | Deloitte Insights
https://www.qfcc.qld.gov.au/sites/default/files/paper-changing-the-system-not-the-student.pdf
CURVEBALL | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Applicant tracking system – Wikipedia
Women Talking About Learning – The Mean Girls One
Women Talking About Learning – The Accessibility One
This week’s first guest is Janet O’Hehir. Janet is a HR & OD consultant and social scientist. She works with organisations to help them manage complex workforce and cultural change programmes, ensuring people are placed at the centre of organisational transformation. Janet has worked in sectors ranging from emergency services to magic circle law firms, across public, private and not-for-profit organisations in both the UK and her native Australia. As a social researcher, her work has spanned projects including designing strategies for age-friendly cities, reviewing education programmes for teenage mums, and evaluating resilience and wellbeing interventions in workplaces and community settings. A systems thinker and passionate advocate for human-centred workplaces, Janet sees learning as integral to her work.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janetohehir
Sophie Malik is a People and Culture leader with more than fifteen years running HR functions across the UK, US and EU. She has twice led People functions, at Limejump and EnergyHub, and scaled global People operations through an IPO at Nerdy. She now runs an independent practice coaching senior leaders and advising founder-led teams, and designs career programming at the New York Public Library, where her Inside HR series has reached more than 200 patrons. She holds an MSc in Organisational Psychology from Birkbeck, University of London.
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Sarit Gafan is the Founder of Highest Good Wellbeing, a mental wellbeing company with healing at its heart. Through 20 years of working in education and a continuous journey into self-awareness, she has become a passionate practitioner of holistic, student-centred, progressive and nature-based education. Through an enlightening spiritual journey, she discovered her purpose: living by the principle of Compassion 360 to facilitate greater capacity and willingness to serve from a place of love, not burnout. Her book, Gratitude Goldmine, describes her journey out of a 15 year depression and into greater wellbeing through theory and tools that have transformed her life.
https://highestgoodwellbeing.com
Elycia French is Head of Membership at the LPI (Learning & Performance Institute), the global professional body for workplace learning and performance. Having entered the learning profession in 2016, her career spans learning, organisational and talent development, leadership, performance enablement and capability across commercial, public sector, NHS and not-for-profit environments. Earlier in her career, she worked across sales, sales operations and membership, shaping her commercial instinct and understanding of what it takes to stay close to the business and deliver value. She’s always been the person asking, “Why is it like this?”- challenging what needs challenging and questioning what needs questioning, particularly when it comes to L&D’s place in business.
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