L&D Go Beyond
L&D Go Beyond Podcast
A deep dive into learning, capability, and performance by Upside Learning
The L&D Go Beyond Podcast brings together leaders who are shaping the future of workplace learning. Each episode moves past traditional training conversations to examine how learning drives capability, performance, and real organizational outcomes.
The series explores the forces redefining the learning landscape, including AI, skilling demands, capability building, learning design, business alignment, and the growing pressure to demonstrate impact. Conversations are grounded in practice and informed by the experiences of CLOs, strategists, researchers, authors, and practitioners from across industries.
Guests share clear, practical insights into how learning can be designed, supported, and measured with intention. The discussions highlight what becomes possible when L&D operates with clarity, purpose, and a focus on meaningful results.
Upside Learning, a Mitr company, brings 20+ years of experience in delivering award-winning custom eLearning, learning consulting, and staff augmentation services.
If you are committed to creating learning that works and contributes to performance in the new world of work, this podcast is your space.
Listen. Learn. Go beyond.
L&D Go Beyond
Design for How People Learn, with Julie Dirksen
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In this insightful podcast, Amit Garg, CEO of Upside Learning Solutions speaks with Julie Dirksen, a leading expert in learning design and digital learning.
Author of the book ‘Design for How People Learn’, she regularly teaches instructional designing in workshops and college courses, as well as in project management and cognitive psychology. Her biggest area of interest today is behavioral science and also likely to be the topic of her next book.
When asked about ‘Memory being the foundation of learning’, Julie mentions various contextual points to which things are being memorized and recalled in learner’s mind when it comes to encoding and decoding, especially since we live in this age of information overwhelm. She also emphasized on the importance of feedback in the digital learning environment.
Here are the key takeaways from this podcast-
- How organizations must leverage the consistent set of variables that help people help memorize.
- Spaced learning and repeated exposure over time.
- Disposable versus durable learning framework.
- Motivation & immediacy significance in learning methodology.
- Fostering motivation & learning in highly compliant organizational culture.
- Importance of practice-focus for learning designers.
- Challenges faced by learning designers vis-à-vis audience skill levels & solutions.
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About The Guest
Julie is a leading expert in learning design and digital learning. She regularly teaches Instructional Design workshops and has taught college courses in Project Management, Instructional Design, and Cognitive Psychology. Julie has also written a fantastic book called Design for How People Learn, which completes a decade.
You can follow and connect with Julie via:
Email: julie@usablelearning.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliedirksen/
About The Host
Amit has been involved in the workplace learning domain for over 19 years. He is passionate about improving organizational performance through better learning solutions. He consults organizations around the world on resolving business and training challenges through uniquely crafted learning solutions by combining his vast experience and quick adoption of evolving trends on learning and technology fronts.
You can follow and connect with Amit Via:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gargamit100
Twitter: gargamit100
Email: amitgarg@upsidelearning.com