{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Harald’s Curious Corner","title":"The Neuroscience of Learning for L&D Professionals with Stella Collins","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2694,"description":"What does it take for learning to make a real difference at work? According to Stella Collins, the answer is not another course, a higher completion rate, or more content. Meaningful learning changes what people do, how they think, and how effectively they contribute to the organisation around them.\n\nIn this episode, Stella Collins, author of Neuroscience for L&D and The Learning Organization, shares her perspective as a performance alchemist, neuroscience specialist, and entrepreneur. She breaks down the science behind effective learning and explains why effort, attention, motivation, repetition, curiosity, and resilience matter more than simply delivering information.\n\nThe conversation also looks at the wider environment in which learning takes place. Managers, leaders, workplace culture, collaboration, communication, and psychological safety can either reinforce new behaviours or make them almost impossible to sustain. For L&D teams, the challenge is to understand what the business needs, identify what is preventing progress, and support learning as part of everyday work.\n\nSome curious takeaways:\nDesign learning around effort, attention, motivation, energy, and repetition\nBuild organisational cultures where people can experiment, collaborate, and learn from failure\nUse AI to support performance while protecting human judgement and creativity\n\nEpisode highlights:\n(00:00) Welcome to Harald’s Curious Corner\n(01:08) What it means to be a performance alchemist\n(02:36) Stella’s journey from neuroscience to L&D\n(04:40) What L&D needs to understand about neuroscience\n(05:57) Challenging myths and pseudoscience in learning\n(07:49) Neuroplasticity and the possibility of lifelong learning\n(09:24) How curiosity and resilience support learning\n(10:11) From individual learning to organisational learning\n(15:50) Experimentation, collaboration, and shared responsibility\n(18:02) Why managers are essential to learning transfer\n(26:23) How L&D can hunt the friction\n(28:52) Why...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/FG-8Qa20DpR75migQzJyOrVTLX_iP1P41938xDc_r1c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xODkz/ZDhjYjM5YTA1NDk0/MjM0ZDVkNzIzNzU2/YmUyNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}