Sometimes a narrow focus on alignment can become a vehicle for unquestioned assumptions and a drag on progress.

The problem with your company’s AI adoption program?

It might be because you’re looking at it like it’s a training solution.

It isn’t…

If we’re still measuring success by courses developed, butts in the seat, and boxes checked, instead of how capabilities emerge and evolve… then maybe we’re still preparing for the last war while the landscape has shifted.

As MCP and AI technology matures, the bottleneck won’t be the tools. It’ll be the quality of the learning experience we design with them.

A while back, I posted about a conversation with a leader at a company I worked with recently.

It touched on the idea of what makes for a solid organizational learning culture.

I dropped this video breaking down four things that came to mind straightaway…

When we develop training, we often focus on teaching learners many things related to a particular subject matter in small “chunkable” chapters throughout a course, and hoping it all sticks.

But performance support isn’t that…

In his book, The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge used the metaphor of a rubber band to describe Creative Tension. It's the gap between reality and vision. One end of the rubber band is tied to your current reality, the other to your goal. That tension? It’s what pulls you forward. Or snaps you back.

Udemy recently announced that instructors will soon be able to author AI-assisted role-play interactions.

Not just to use it… but to author it.

Is L&D ready for human + AI teams?

The future of work isn’t humans using AI. It’s humans and AI working together.

Reflecting on some of the organizational characteristics that worked well in some high-performing teams and organizations I’ve worked with…

Then there was that time I was responsible for having sunk a Navy ship. (True story.)

What "survival, evasion, resistance, and escape" (SERE) training taught me about learning design…