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01/06/2026

The L&D Morning Brief! Where L&D Pros Start their Day!
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MONDAY’S TOP HEADLINESSTORY 1 (BREAKING) — Coursera + Udemy: The ...

21/05/2026

The L&D Morning Brief: RECAP TOP STORY 5-21-2026

50% to 55% of US jobs will be RESHAPED by AI over the next 2-3 years — BCG, April 2026

Future-built companies upskill 50%+ of employees on AI. Laggards: 20%. The gap is the competitive moat. — BCG, 2026

WHY IT MATTERS
BCG's analysis is the most comprehensive workforce reshaping study of 2026 — and it arrives the morning after ATD, giving every L&D professional the data to walk into their leadership team and make the case for structured upskilling investment. The six-segment framework is actionable: it tells you which roles in your organization need what kind of learning strategy. Amplified and Rebalanced roles need AI fluency and workflow redesign training. Divergent roles need deliberate entry-level development programs. Substituted roles need reskilling pathways before they disappear. L&D owns all of this. The study says so.

L&D TAKEAWAY
Pull BCG's six-segment framework and map your own organization's roles against it this week. Which roles are Amplified? Which are Divergent? Which are on the Substituted list? That mapping IS your L&D priority matrix for 2026. Then bring BCG's '50% upskilling vs. 20%' stat to your next budget conversation. You're not asking for training budget. You're asking for the infrastructure that separates future-built companies from laggards.

06/05/2026

Apple's "Extend" Tool - What it signals for the future of L&D eLearning Developers

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APPLE DROPS THE "EXTEND" BOMBSHELL (TECH/INNOVATION)MIKE:If you’re an Instructional Designer, Apple just did your job for you—or at least made it so your 10-...

27/03/2026

This is for my friends working in L&D.

The 'AI Readiness Gap' is a corporate Rorschach test. Stop treating it as a monolithic problem with one training solution.

The reality is a fractured landscape of THREE distinct gaps:

1. The L&D Gap: We're stuck on 'AI Literacy' (efficiency) and haven't achieved 'AI Fluency' (transformation). Are our own processes ready to lead?
2. The Worker Gap: It's not about prompting skills. It's the 'Social Readiness Gap'—atrophying soft skills and fear of the 'Gary' algorithm replacing teams.
3. The Strategic Gap: Businesses view AI as a 'patch' instead of a transformation, failing to link readiness to the three pillars of success: Revenue, Cost, and Risk (R-C-R).

You can't fill the gap until you diagnose the fracture. Our job as leaders is to audit which gap we're solving and for whom.

What gaps are you seeing in your organization?

Every time I see a post about the "AI Readiness Gap," I cringe slightly. Not because the gap doesn't exist (some research puts it at a $6.

02/12/2025

Are you playing around with AI yet?

Here's what nano banana created from my LinkedIn profile. It's not perfect but it sure does paint a good picture of my career.

And my personal favorite is The Grand Unified Theory of Over-engineered Instructional Architecture.

Maybe now my family will understand what I do for a living. 🤣

14/09/2025

Just chillin in Paris.

10/09/2025

Nobody needs to know that Brula was the real reason we flew all the way to Santorini island. Shhh… 🤫

10/09/2025