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Frameworks I keep coming back to.

A working library of the models, sequences, and rules of thumb I rely on most. Some are mine, some are borrowed and refined, all are road-tested in real client work. Bookmark the ones that are useful.

AI & Technology

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The AI Fluency Framework

Four competencies, three interaction modes, six prompting techniques. A practical model for how knowledge workers can actually become fluent with AI, not just literate.

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The Three Gaps in AI-Assisted Learning

Why most AI agents deployed in learning and safety contexts underdeliver, and the three structural gaps that explain it. A diagnostic for L&D leaders before they sign the next contract.

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7 Safety Learning Innovations

A framework of seven technologies reshaping safety learning, from Critical Controls and Smart Permits to VR/AR, Digital Twins, Edge AI, Connected Worker, and AI Agent Suites. Used to brief leadership teams considering serious investment.

Learning Design

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13 Rules for a Gold-Standard HLDD

Thirteen quality rules I derived from a gap analysis of three best-in-class High-Level Design Documents, the discipline that separates a course that ships smoothly from one that melts in production.

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The eLearning Audit & Redesign Methodology

A seven-dimension audit framework for evaluating existing eLearning, plus a maturity scale and a redesign playbook. The rubric I use when a client asks 'should we keep this course or scrap it?'

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Atomic Habits for L&D Designers

Why most L&D programmes fail to change behaviour, and how to design them so they actually do. James Clear's habit loop applied to learning design, with the four-part formula I now use whenever I'm building a programme that has to change what people do on the job, not just what they know.

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Designing Learning Across Generations

Four generations in the workplace, four learning preferences, one design framework that respects them all without dumbing anything down. Includes a decision rule for when to apply Bloom and when to apply Kolb.

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Self-Onboarding for L&D Professionals

How to land in a new L&D role and become useful inside 90 days, built from a real onboarding programme I went through, plus the small operational moves that quietly separate consultants who get invited to the second meeting from those who don't.

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Strategic L&D Consulting, A Sequence That Works

A business-first sequence for L&D consulting work that keeps the conversation anchored to performance and outcomes, not training output. The discipline that separates an L&D function that the business respects from one it tolerates.

Leadership & Culture

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WRAP: A Four-Move Toolkit for Better Decisions

The four predictable villains that make leaders decide badly, and the four moves the Heath brothers' research found will systematically defeat them. The framework I now use whenever I catch a leadership team about to make a decision the way they always have, instead of the way the moment actually requires.

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Radical Candor in Practice

The two-axis feedback model that quietly improved every leadership conversation I've ever taught: care personally, challenge directly, and never give one without the other. Distilled from Kim Scott's Radical Candor and the L&D programmes where I've watched the framework click for managers who'd never had a useful feedback conversation in their life.

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The Culture Map for Leaders

Eight cultural dimensions that quietly decide whether your message lands in the room you're standing in, or bounces off it. Distilled from Erin Meyer's research and the EMEA leadership work where I've watched the same well-intentioned communication fail across borders, again and again, for entirely cultural reasons.

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The Bradley Curve, Safety Maturity

A four-stage maturity model for safety culture: Reactive → Dependent → Independent → Interdependent. The most useful diagnostic I know for figuring out what to invest in next, and what would just be wasted.

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Public Speaking as Identity Work

The argument that public speaking is a learnable skill, but only after you've done the harder, quieter work of making peace with your own voice. The thesis behind my book, and the reason most public speaking training fails for the people who need it most.