Julian Stodd
Author and Founder, Sea Salt Learning
Julian Stodd is an author and founder of Sea Salt Learning, a global learning consultancy helping organizations adapt and thrive in the social age. Much of his consultancy work is around the need for social leadership, the design of scaffolded social learning, planning for organizational change, and the impacts of social collaborative technology. Julian comes from an academic background in communication theory, psychology and neurophysiology, learning design, educational psychology, museum education, and philosophy. He is a proud global mentor with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, and a Trustee of Drake Music, a charity that works to break down disabling barriers to music through education and research. He was awarded the Learning Performance Institute’s Colin Corder Award for Services to Learning in 2016. He has written 10 books, including The Social Leadership Handbook, Exploring the World of Social Learning, and A Mindset for Mobile Learning.
Latest from Julian Stodd
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Sense-Making and Social Leadership
There is a gap between theory and practice: the space inwhich we ‘make sense’ of what we learn and build the vocabulary and behaviorsto put it into practice. In this session, we will explore how this ‘sensemaking’ works and consider the role of leaders in facilitating and enabling it. We will consider the difference between individual andcollective ‘sense making’ and the ways that our thinking is influenced orconstrained by the context we already know, as well as understanding howleaders who demonstrate humility in their own understanding can create spacefor others to learn more effectively.
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Panel: Addressing the Urgent Need for Upskilling and Reskilling
Upskilling is primarily focused on helping employees increase skills tied to their current position, while reskilling is focused on preparing employees for other jobs within the organization. During the opening session of our Learning Leaders Online Forum, our panel of guests will explore why these topics have become so important and describe strategies for developing and supporting upskilling and reskilling programs in your organization.
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The Pillars of Learning Leadership: 5 Perspectives
What makes a good learning leader? In this fast-paced and thought-provoking opening session youwill hear from five different industry leaders, each of whom will provide ashort, TED-like talk exploring a single pillar of leadership. You will explorewhat the pillar is, why it’s so important, and most significantly, how to incorporatethe pillar into your own leadership. These perspectives will help you see leadership throughdifferent lenses, which will help you fine-tune your own perspective onlearning leadership.
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How to Create a Dynamic Social Learning Space with High Engagement
Building a healthy social learning community takes a lot of time and effort, and it requires thoughtful strategy and implementation in four key areas. Do the job right and you enable a dynamic environment for learning—but one that you do not own. Here is some expert guidance on this somewhat paradoxical idea.