The Insider Who Stepped Outside
Three decades in the system. Now sharing the questions and provocations we need to ask.
The ideas in Training Is Broken are rooted in lived experience—messy, imperfect, and honest.
About Me
The Journey
I spent 32 years in global leadership roles at Unilever, Korn Ferry, Corporate Executive Board, Gartner, and the Center for Creative Leadership. I worked across research, consulting, talent development, and innovation—helping build many of the systems I'm now questioning.
I witnessed billions spent on training programs that didn't change behavior. I watched competency frameworks that promised clarity but delivered constraint. I saw the gap between what we measured (activity) and what we needed (impact) grow wider each year.
Eventually, I realized the fundamental architecture of corporate learning was designed for a world that no longer exists—a world of information scarcity, stable careers, and the assumption that experts should control the learning journey.
What fascinates me most today is how AI is fundamentally reshaping the learning and training landscape. Not as another tool to improve content delivery—but as a force that exposes the obsolescence of our entire approach. AI makes visible what many of us suspected: that the constraint was never about access to information. The possibilities this presents for rethinking learning from first principles are what drive my current work.
The Book
Training Is Broken isn't about declaring that everything in L&D is worthless. It's about helping practitioners and leaders see what might no longer be working—and why.
AI and information abundance have made our old models obsolete. We're using 20th-century approaches to solve 21st-century challenges. The book offers frameworks, questions, and provocations to help you rethink learning for an age where the constraint isn't knowledge—it's curiosity and autonomy.
The Stance
I'm not positioning myself as someone who has all the answers. My goal is to ask the questions and surface constructive provocations. I'm a practitioner sharing observed patterns, proposing possible directions, and offering frameworks for experimentation.
My mission is to equip you with better questions and starting-point frameworks—not guaranteed solutions. The L.I.Y. Method and SPARK approach are simply "seeds" for further exploration. Whether they work in your context is something you'll discover through experimentation.
This work is grounded in lived experience across multiple organizations and geographies—not peer-reviewed academic research. Take what resonates, challenge what doesn't, and adapt anything that helps you navigate a world where the old maps no longer work.