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Based in downtown San Francisco, Learnit has served the training needs of businesses, government agencies, and individuals since 1995. CEO Damon Lembi drives a team of employees dedicated to making learning efficient, valuable, and pleasurable. Learnit also manages a carefully selected network of nationwide instructors, allowing us to train on a national scale or for major rollouts.

10/15/2026

Ever notice how your patience disappears right when the pressure peaks?

That’s biology, not a character flaw.

In this episode of The Learnit Lounge, Dr. Mickey Fitch-Collins sits down with Chantelle Kohn | Building Human Capability, founder of The Change Collab to explore how stress pulls our brains into protection mode and makes empathy harder to reach.

Mickey and Chantelle talk about how to notice it, name it, and slow down enough to stay connected to the people around you.

Chantelle also shares why empathy actually fuels high performance.

If you lead a team, or want to someday, this one’s worth your time.

Listen here: https://www.learnit.com/podcast-the-learnit-lounge/75-from-protection-to-connection-leading-with-empathy-when-the-stakes-are-high-chantelle-kohn

10/08/2026

4 things your leadership program is missing.

Manager reinforcement. Application assignments. Coaching. Peer accountability.

Loren Sanders, MBA, PCC, PHR, SCP, CPM, CPTM joined Dr. Mickey Fitch-Collins on The Learnit Lounge to talk about why so many programs fade by Monday, and what makes the learning stick.

If you’re a new manager wondering what real development looks like, this one’s for you.

Listen to the full episode - https://www.learnit.com/podcast-the-learnit-lounge/74-sophisticated-order-taker-or-strategic-partner-loren-sanders

10/01/2026

In this episode of The Learnit Lounge, Dr. Mickey Fitch-Collins talks with Van Lai-DuMone, CEO of WorkSmart Advantage, about a truth most organizations don’t want to admit out loud: leadership development still gets treated as optional.

Mickey and Van explore what happens when companies invest in everything except the people leading their teams, and what to do about it when the budget isn’t there.

They discuss:

🔹 The leader who told Van, “I’ve never had any leadership development,” after twenty years of leading teams

🔹 Why leadership is a skill that has to be built, not a title you’re handed

🔹 Low cost ways to start developing leaders when there’s no budget for a program

If you’ve ever led a team without ever being taught how, this one’s for you.

Listen to the full episode - https://www.learnit.com/podcast-the-learnit-lounge/73-legos-leadership-and-the-business-case-for-play-van-lai-dumone

09/24/2026

Zero feel-good tactics survive a budget cut.

In this episode of The Learnit Lounge, Tina Linder, Vice President of Talent Management and Program Management at Bank OZK and Dr. Mickey Fitch-Collins explore why talent management keeps getting treated like a kitschy one-time event instead of a daily discipline, and what it actually takes to tie people work to business outcomes leadership will fund.

They discuss:

🔹 Why culture content isn’t the same as culture strategy

🔹 The hard metrics leaders avoid looking at

🔹 How to make talent work defensible in the boardroom

If you’ve ever had to justify a people initiative with a straight face and no data behind it, this one’s for you.

Listen to the full episode - https://www.learnit.com/podcast-the-learnit-lounge/72-chess-not-checkers-rethinking-talent-management-tina-linder

09/18/2026

1 truth about AI nobody wants to admit.

In this week’s episode of The Learnit Lounge, Dr. Mickey Fitch-Collins talks with Gabe Aponte, HR Division Manager for the County of San Mateo and President of the Public Sector HR Association’s Bay Area Chapter, about the biggest myth in AI adoption today.

They explore what happens when leaders treat AI like a magic fix, and how to build a healthier relationship with the tool instead.

Mickey and Gabe discuss:

• Why “AI is not magic” is the hardest lesson for teams to learn
• The one thing AI can never take off your plate
• Why the liability of every decision still lands on you

If you’ve ever handed a decision to a tool and hoped it would just handle it, this one’s for you.

Listen to the full episode: https://www.learnit.com/podcast-the-learnit-lounge/71-the-liability-always-lands-on-the-human-gabe-aponte

Your team is being judged on 6-month-old data. In the latest episode of The Learnit Lounge, Dr. Mickey Fitch-Collins sat...
09/14/2026

Your team is being judged on 6-month-old data.

In the latest episode of The Learnit Lounge, Dr. Mickey Fitch-Collins sat down with Ash Hynie, former head of DEI at Credit Karma and founder and CEO of ManageUp, about what happens when performance management finally catches up to real time.

They get into what happens when the annual review can no longer keep pace with how fast people actually grow, and how AI can help managers see the human in front of them instead of a snapshot from two quarters ago.

Mickey and Ash discuss:

🔹 Why “who you were six months ago” has no business in today’s feedback

🔹 How real-time data makes feedback feel fair instead of personal

🔹 The one question to ask before you trust who built your tools

If you have ever walked into a Monday with 200 unread messages and no real sense of how your team is doing, this conversation is for you.

🎧 Listen to the full episode - https://www.learnit.com/podcast-the-learnit-lounge/70-ai-real-time-feedback-and-the-end-of-the-annual-review-ash-hynie

Your progress report isn’t being read. And you probably already know it. This week on The Learnit Lounge, Dr. Mickey Fit...
09/04/2026

Your progress report isn’t being read. And you probably already know it. This week on The Learnit Lounge, Dr. Mickey Fitch-Collins breaks down why progress updates fail and what to do instead.

She gets into:

🔹 The three Ps framework: Progress, Problems, and Plans forward

🔹 How to customize your update by audience so executives, people leaders, and operations each get what they actually need

🔹 Why building a consistent rhythm and cadence is one of the fastest ways to build trust and credibility

This episode is for anyone who has sent a detailed update and heard nothing back, or who suspects their reports are doing more to fill inboxes than to move decisions.

🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://www.learnit.com/podcast-the-learnit-lounge/69-theyre-not-reading-your-reports-the-three-part-fix-that-turns-updates-into-strategic-power-moves-dr-mickey-fitch-collins

L&D doesn’t have a training problem. It has a positioning problem.On this week’s episode of The Learnit Lounge, Jess Alm...
08/28/2026

L&D doesn’t have a training problem. It has a positioning problem.

On this week’s episode of The Learnit Lounge, Jess Almlie, former VP of Learning and author of L&D Order Taker No More, shared a line that’s hard to shake:

“We complain about not having a seat at the table. But we’ve never done anything to show we deserve it.”

Uncomfortable. And true.

Jess spent her career building what she thought were rock-star learning experiences. Then a stakeholder looked her in the eye and said her team’s training wasn’t good enough.

The training was excellent. The problem was, training was never going to solve what the business actually needed.

In this episode:

🔹 Why “being helpful” is exactly what keeps L&D stuck in a transactional role

🔹 The difference between a strategic yes and a costly yes that’s actually a no

🔹 What business acumen really looks like in an L&D context, and why it matters more than instructional design skills

For anyone leading a learning function who’s tired of being reactive, this one’s worth the listen.

🎧 Listen to the full episode - https://www.learnit.com/podcast-the-learnit-lounge/68-your-training-isnt-the-problem-your-positioning-is-jess-almlie

08/20/2026

Your leaders are either multiplying wellness or destroying it.

There is no neutral.

That’s the framing Michele Lau Torres brought to The Learnit Lounge, and it’s one worth sitting with.

Michele is the Chief Learning Officer for the City of Austin, a bestselling author, and a keynote speaker whose work sits at the intersection of leadership, equity, and organizational transformation.

She’s a survivor of toxic leadership. She wrote a book about it. And she built her entire career around making sure other people don’t have to go through what she did.

A lot of ground is covered in this conversation:

🔹 Why well-being and performance are the same thing, not competing priorities
🔹 What “accidental diminishers” look like and why good leaders don’t see themselves in that mirror
🔹 The uncomfortable truth about AI, and why organizations will use it as a reason to squeeze even more out of already depleted people

If you’ve ever worked for a leader who cost you sleep, your health, or your sense of self, this episode will name what happened to you.

🎧 Listen now - https://www.learnit.com/podcast-the-learnit-lounge/67-stop-squeezing-the-lemon-l-ds-role-in-ending-toxic-performance-culture-michele-lau-torres

08/13/2026

You know change is coming. You can feel it. And yet you’re still doing the same thing you did last time, waiting for the moment when it finally feels safe to move.

That moment isn’t coming. And according to this week’s guest, your brain is working against you by design.

On the latest episode of The Learnit Lounge, Mickey sits down with Megan Galloway, founder of Everleader, executive coach, and author of the upcoming book “Who Are You Now?”

Megan has spent nearly 15 years studying what actually creates real behavior change in leaders, and her answers challenge a lot of what we assume about learning, identity, and growth.

From the neuroscience behind your default mode network to a health crisis that forced her to completely rebuild her sense of self, Megan brings both the science and the lived experience to a conversation that will stay with you.

Here’s what you’ll take away:

🔹 Your brain favors familiarity over growth. Understanding that is the first step to overwriting it.
🔹 The cost of inaction is real. Staying stuck isn’t neutral. There’s a break-even point, and you may have already crossed it.
🔹 Regulated discomfort is a skill. Stretch too fast and you shut down. The goal is intentional, safe growth.
🔹 Leadership development needs to be action-first. 5-10% theory, the rest in the wild.

🎧 Listen now and ask yourself: who are you becoming next? https://www.learnit.com/podcast-the-learnit-lounge/66-who-are-you-now-the-leadership-identity-crisis-no-one-talks-about-megan-galloway

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