Learning Experience Leader

Rex’s 40 year professional career has spanned training positions as an Instructor Pilot in the U.S. Air Force, a corporate trainer in the financial services field, and trusted performance consulting partner inside more than 50 companies in more than two dozen industries. Rex Conner is the author of "What if Common Sense Was Common Practice in Business?"He is the happily married husband of one, father of seven, and grandfather of 14+.

Rex is also the Co-Founder and Lead Partner of Mager Consortium which is entrusted to publish and teach all of the world-renowned human performance and training tools and systems developed by Dr. Robert Mager.

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Today’s guest is Michael Matthews, an instructional designer in the world of online higher education. Michael earned a master's and Ph.D. in instructional design and dreams of someday becoming a professor. A few years ago he completed his dissertation on the subject of learner agency and responsibility, and it is on this topic we explore in some detail today.

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As a Learning Experience Designer, Kyle designs interactive educational products and experiences - if you're a 90's kid, think Oregon Trail. In this role, he is responsible for defining a product vision, validating ideas through user research, and collaborating with a product team through design and delivery. He currently works at WGU Labs in support of its mission to improve quality and increase access to educational opportunities. Check out Kyle's post that we discuss in the episode: 2019 Personal Learning Report.

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Travis Waugh is an instructional designer, developer, speaker, and author with specialized interests in philosophy, psychology, technology, and law. He has spent the last 15 years creating relevant, timely learning programs for professionals in a variety of settings and as a dedicated learning professional, Travis tries, above all else, never to waste anyone’s time. He is motivated by his dogged belief that people are generally good, and always worthy of good learning and development.

Today we discuss Travis’s book Fully Compliant, Compliance Training to Change Behavior.

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Peggy has written thousands of articles first as a daily journalist and now as a training and writing consultant. Her most recent work is focused on the value of human expertise in knowledge management in an age of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Her areas of interest span across many topics including Training design and corporate knowledge management, Lean and continuous quality improvement, and more!

I recommend her book "Working with SMEs: A Guide to Gathering and Organizing Content from Subject Matter Experts". Additionally, we discussed some of her ideas from her most recent book "Retaining Expert Knowledge: What to Keep in an Age of Information Overload".

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Bear Shelton has spent 8 years in consulting or training in some capacity. He currently works as an associate manager of product and customer education at LucidChart with the goal of make learning FUN for SaaS customers and exterminating weak software training, one bad joke at a time. By focusing on the needs of adult learners and striving to deliver training that is story-driven, upbeat, humorous, and hands-on, learners have more fun and not only do they learn more, he believes learners FEEL more positively towards what they've learned. Join us in discussing facilitating product training. Support the show

Today we deviate from our regular focus to try and address the question: how have people in the past managed to thrive and innovate during times of disaster and crises? Our guest is my brother, Indiana University Professor Dr. Trent Williams. Trent is an Assistant Professor studying and teaching strategy and entrepreneurship at the Kelley School of Business at IU. His focus is on new venture and value creation under resource constraints, resilience, strategic management, overcoming obstacles in building a professional identity, and entrepreneurial decision making.

• You can view the resources discussed here: Open Resource Book
• IU Weekend Solutions Sprint
• Additional resources: Hack the Crisis

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Elizabeth is an award-winning project management writer. She is also an active professional project/program manager with more than a decade of experience in financial services and healthcare. She runs an award-winning blog A Girl's Guide to Project Management, which aims to encourage and support women in project management and provide tips to everyone.

Today we talk about a post from Elizabeth's blog titled The Definitive Guide to Project Success Criteria. Project Management is such a big part of developing and leading learning experiences and Elizabeth provides some really great insights.

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Today’s guest is Alana Schroeder. Alana helps organizations understand their users & discover actionable insights for digital products. Currently, at TaskRabbit she uses a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods across the product lifecycle to help make strategic product recommendations based on user needs, pain points, and satisfaction, triangulate findings from a variety of data sources including usability testing, surveys, analytics, customer support tickets, & other user research. Support the show

Niels is a pioneer in the field of learning experience design. As an entrepreneur, trainer, teacher, creator of the learning experience canvas and initiator of the LXDCON events he is a driving force in the global learning experience design community.

Resources

• The website discussed in the episode is Learningexperiencedesign.com.
• Another great conversation with Niels (podcast episode)

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