The Ultimate L&D Podcast Guide
As podcasts have become more popular across topics and categories, the training industry has developed many great podcasts on a variety of learning and development topics. Training Industry, which hosts our own podcast, The Business of Learning, has gathered some of the best and most popular L&D podcasts here.
Thanks to Sam Rogers, founder, president and chief consultant at Snap Synapse, for his initial work compiling this directory.
| Podcast | Produced by | Frequency | Description |
| The Business of Learning | Training Industry, Inc. | Monthly | The Business of Learning focuses on the intersection of business performance and human capital development. |
| Beyond L&D | Northpass | Monthly | The Beyond L&D Podcast/Video Series discusses how modern teams use enterprise learning to drive business performance. |
| Catalyst Sale | Catalyst Sale | Weekly | Be the founder that can clearly articulate the problem your company solves. Be the sales professional that your customers want to work with. Be the learning professional who can deliver your solution in the context of the business. |
| CELab: Customer Education Labs | CELab | Bi-weekly | CELab’s mission is to explore how to build customer education programs, experiment with new approaches, and exterminate the myths and bad advice that stop growth dead in its tracks. |
| Chief Learning Officer Podcast | Chief Learning Officer Magazine | Weekly | Listen in on a one-of-a-kind conversation about what’s happening in corporate education and what it takes to develop the people an organization needs to be successful. |
| CIPD Podcast | Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development | Monthly | Since the series began, it has charted the ebb and flow of an HR profession that’s fast-evolving into a 21st-century powerhouse. |
| Dear Instructional Designer | Kristin Anthony | Weekly | What is the life of an instructional designer really like? This show is going to delve into all of the mess and how we can deal with it. |
| DIY Narrator | DIY Narrator | Variable | Narrating your e-learning is about more than just delivering information, it’s about engaging your learners. |
| eLearning Coach | Connie Malamed | Monthly | If you have a passion for instructional design, cognitive psychology, visual communication, social media learning, mobile learning and related topics, this podcast is for you. |
| First Time Facilitator | Leanne Hughes | Weekly | Whether you’re a first-time facilitator or a seasoned pro, listen in for tips and tricks to make a bigger impact at the next workshop you deliver. |
| Funny Ideas: Learning and Development With Humour | Julie Flower | Monthly | Join learning and development consultant and improviser Julie Flower and a special guest as they explore the bigger concepts in modern working life in a refreshing and humorous way. |
| GoodPractice | GoodPractice | Weekly | From learning needs analysis and evidence-based practice through to the impact of technology on work and hot topics at industry conferences, you’ll get critical insights into the world of work, learning and performance. |
| Instructional Designers in Offices Drinking Coffee | DominKnow | Weekly | Recorded completely live and candid, Brent Schlenker and Chris Van Wingerden talk weekly about instructional design. |
| Instructional ReDesign | Cara North and Josephe Suarez | Monthly | The Instructional Redesign podcast features stories and conversations around the design of modern learning experiences. |
| Kineo’s Stream of Thought | Kineo | Monthly | These informal chats offer the latest thinking that’s happening inside of Kineo HQ. |
| Leading Learning | Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele | Weekly | Leading Learning is the podcast for leaders and aspiring leaders in the business of lifelong learning, continuing education, and professional development. |
| Learning & Development Stories Podcast | Experiential Communications | Monthly | The Learning and Development Stories podcast is an interview show in which we pick the brains of L&D leaders from different organizations. |
| Learning and Development in Transition | Wired Roots | Monthly | Learning & Development in Transition explores the emerging roles and functions of L&D in a rapidly chanaging world, sharing stories and perspectives from leaders in the field to help you effectively evolve in your work as a learning and development professional. |
| Learning Is the New Working | The Learning Futures Group | Bi-weekly | Learning Is The New Working is the podcast about the Future of Workplace Learning and the people helping us get there. |
| Learning to Go | Margie Meacham | Monthly | Margie Meacham, aka “The Brain Lady,” interviews experts from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, education and corporate training to uncover the latest discoveries in how we learn and how our amazing brains work. |
| Learning Uncut | Learning Experts | Monthly | Real conversations about real learning solutions and real experiences with real advice from real people. |
| Learning While Working | Sprout Labs | Monthly | Listen to the Learning While Working podcast to hear how learning and development is transforming. Common themes on the podcast include trends in e-learning and digital learning, performance driven instructional and learning design and learning data. |
| LMScast | LifterLMS | Monthly | LMScast is here for one simple purpose…To empower people like you to generate more impact and income with online education. |
| MindChimp | MindChimp | Weekly | MindChimp speaks with some of the best people in the industry to discuss what shapes them and their thoughts, from learning and development, experience design, product/service design right through to marketing, comms and corp culture. |
| PodLearn Adventure | Kineo | Monthly | A short monthly jaunt through all things learning, with a digital slant. What clients are asking for, how they are meeting those needs, and how learning has affected them this month. |
| The eLearning Guys | Nejc Žorga Dulmin and David Charney | Monthly | The eLearning Guys is a discussion show about Articulate Storyline development and all things e-learning by two guys passionate about education, multimedia, creativity and problem solving. |
| The Learning & Development Podcast | Looop | Weekly | This is a topical podcast show for L&D professionals. Each week David James will be discussing and debating topics affecting the profession today, alongside various guests. |
| The Learning Circle | Defense Acquisition University | Monthly | The show devoted to instructional design and technology, this podcast brings you conversations with leading lights in learning, from theory to practice, from classroom to online delivery. |
| The Learning Hook Podcast | The Learning Hook | Monthly | Hosts chat about the work that inspires them and ideas for creating better learning experiences; from tech to design, they’re always on the hunt for the best learning hooks. |
| The Lounge | Jacqueline Hutchinson | Weekly | Casual conversation elevating corporate learning, ed tech and performance improvement. |
| The Online Course Coach | Jeff Long | Monthly | The Online Course Coach Podcast is THE podcast for the latest in online course creation tips, news, interviews and ideas with the Online Course Coach, Jeff Long. |
| The Talent Development Hot Seat | Advantage Performance | Weekly | The Talent Development Hot Seat podcast with Andy Storch provides interviews and insights from leading talent development professionals and company executives who are passionate about developing their people. |
| The Talented Learning Show | Talented | Variable | In this podcast series, John Leh goes one-on-one with the world’s most innovative and successful learning systems executives, customers and other experts. |
| TLDCast | TLDC | Daily (weekdays) | Interactive livestreaming broadcasts for the training, learning and development community. |
| Trainer Tools | John Tomlinson | Monthly | In each Trainer Tools podcast, John Tomlinson interviews an experienced L&D professional and asks them to talk on a specific topic of interest to people working in organisational learning and change. |
| Training Insights | Training Magazine | Monthly | This podcast series, produced by Ottawa-based writer/audio producer Kevin McGowan in partnership with Training magazine, includes one-on-one interviews with fascinating people in the training/learning and development world. |
| Training Journal | Training Journal | Monthly | The L&D community for training professionals. Owners of the TJ Awards #TJA19 and #TJtalks series. |
| Trends & Issues in Instructional Design, Educational Technology, & Learning Sciences | Abbie Brown and Tim Green | Bi-weekly | Dr. Abbie Brown and Dr. Tim Green–professors of instructional design and educational technology–share their observations every two weeks in this podcast. |
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