Elevate 49: Gari Yala - Speak the Truth | Indigenous Employment and the L&D Responsibility
Release Date: 07/13/2026
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Most L&D teams don’t choose the wrong learning platform because they’re careless, they choose it because the process is confusing, rushed, or driven by shiny demos. In this episode, Audrey Chan and Adam Hepper join Michelle Parry-Slater to explore how L&D teams can make better decisions when choosing learning technology. They unpack what a good RFP process looks like, why getting clear on your requirements before speaking to vendors is so important, and how to look beyond features to find a technology partner that genuinely fits your organisation. They also discuss how AI is...
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191: Team alignment is commitment, not agreement - Lindsay Uittenbogaard and John Dobbin
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190: The Education Revolution – Jeff Davis
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The choices we make in education today shape the workforce thirty years from now. In this episode Michelle Parry-Slater speaks with Jeff Davis, Executive Head at Hillcrest Christian College on the Gold Coast and author of Leading the Learning Revolution, about what happens when a school decides to turn education on its head. From teaching curriculum on Coolangatta Beach to a framework of six secret skills that prepare students for a world of AI and rapid change, Jeff argues that character, service and emotional intelligence are not extras. They are the curriculum. This conversation challenges...
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189: What Happens After the Award, Reflection 18 months on – Millie Law ANZ
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188: Minimal Interventions, Maximum Outcomes - Andrew Lawson & Alice Smith
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Michelle Parry-Slater is joined by Andrew Lawson (2026 AITD L&D Professional of the Year) and his client Alice Smith, about a deliberately different approach to leadership training. Instead of two days out of the office, where delegates leave with overwhelmed brains but make little change back at work before the learning gets totally forgotten, Andrew offers a leadership programme deliberately designed to benefit learners. Using spaced learning practice, retrieval practice, and highly engaging short interventions, Andrew shares his TARGER framework, which is a brain-friendly learning...
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Elevate 49: Gari Yala - Speak the Truth | Indigenous Employment and the L&D Responsibility
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It will take 118 years, at the current rate of change, before an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person can go to work without hearing a racial slur. This is not history. This is what is happening in Australian workplaces right now. In this Elevate episode, Michelle Parry-Slater speaks with Professor Nareen Young and Josh Gilbert from the Centre for Indigenous People and Work at the University of Technology Sydney, both Aboriginal researchers and practitioners who have spent decades working to shift the Indigenous employment narrative from deficit to truth. Together they share the...
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187: Recognition as a Learning Tool Sarah McVanel & Lisa Anstey
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Recognition is often written off as a "nice to have." In this episode, Michelle Parry-Slater speaks with Sarah McVanel, Canada's recognition expert and founder of Greatness Magnified, and Lisa Anstey, manager of Medical Device Reprocessing at Waterloo Regional Health Network, to make the case that recognition is not soft. Recognition is one of the most powerful learning and behaviour-change tools available. Together they share the story of a deeply disengaged hospital team that became one of the most recognised in the country. The framework, the coaching, the daily huddles, and the sheer...
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Elevate 48: Eight Years of Learning Uncut – Michelle Ockers
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186: Building L&D from Scratch – Elyse Toomey
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The brief was simple: we need an L&D function. Go and start one. In this episode, Michelle Parry-Slater speaks with Elyse Toomey, Head of Learning and Development at Ironbark Financial Group, about what it really takes to build an L&D department from nothing in a fast-moving financial services business, from coaching coaches to become trainers and launching peer-to-peer onboarding at scale, to doubling LMS engagement, growing a team of six, and learning to lead with a strategy that bends with the business. A story for anyone who has ever been handed a blank page and told to get on with...
info_outlineIt will take 118 years, at the current rate of change, before an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person can go to work without hearing a racial slur. This is not history. This is what is happening in Australian workplaces right now.
In this Elevate episode, Michelle Parry-Slater speaks with Professor Nareen Young and Josh Gilbert from the Centre for Indigenous People and Work at the University of Technology Sydney, both Aboriginal researchers and practitioners who have spent decades working to shift the Indigenous employment narrative from deficit to truth.
Together they share the findings of the 2025 Gari Yala (Speak the Truth) report, Australia’s only Indigenous-led national survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment experiences and make a direct, generous and urgent call to L&D professionals to act.
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