Being Intrepid: Navigating the Future of Learning with Sam Herring

Being Intrepid explores the biggest challenges in corporate learning, bringing bold ideas and expert insights to help learning leaders shape the workforce of the future.

Being Intrepid: Navigating the Future of Learning with Sam Herring is a business podcast hosted by Intrepid by VitalSource, with 31 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Intrepid by VitalSource hosts Being Intrepid: Navigating the Future of Learning with Sam Herring, a business show with 31 episodes published.

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  Episode #28

  AI Transformation and Why Learning Leaders Must Engage Early

  Jun 4, 202627 minS0

  <p>When organizations kick off AI and agentic transformation — redesigning workflows, reimagining roles — business and technology leaders run the work. Learning leaders are rarely in the room. By the time L&D gets called, the decisions are made and the upskilling need is already behind. </p><p> </p><p>Yulia Barnakova, AI Innovation and Learning Advisor at Accenture and faculty in Accenture's AI Academy for Business Leaders, joins Sam Herring to make the case for why that has to change — and what learning leaders can do about it now. </p><p> </p><p>In this episode: </p>Why 95% of AI workflow redesign...

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  Episode #27

  From Content Delivery to Skills Validation: Inside ServiceNow’s Cohort Model

  May 14, 202641 minS0

  <p>At ServiceNow, the speed at which customers and partners can be certified is a real constraint on the company’s commercial growth. That makes learning a true strategic enabler — and it changes what L&D is accountable for. </p><p>Shellie Grieve, Director of Learning Innovation and Emerging Technology at ServiceNow, joins Sam Herring to discuss how cohort learning became the architecture for skills development across 28,000 employees, millions of platform users, and a global partner ecosystem. She shares the design discipline behind 18 Academy programs, a 75% reduction in admin time, and skill growth that shows up in week one. </p><p>In this...

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  Episode #26

  Healthcare Leadership: Applying Stoic Philosophy to Manage Complexity

  Apr 23, 202631 minS0

  <p>Physicians are trained to have the right answer under pressure. But when a doctor becomes a CEO, that expertise can become a ceiling. The real work is an identity shift, from expert to enterprise leader. </p><p>Raj Ramachandran, Senior Partner for Leadership Advisory at WittKieffer, joins Sam Herring to unpack how he develops senior healthcare leaders through executive coaching, stoic philosophy, and structured reflection. </p><p>In this episode: </p>Why the shift from problem-solving to "holding complexity" catches new executives off guard How the stoic framework E + R = O helps leaders focus on how they respond  The TFAL metho...

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  Episode #26

  The 93% Problem: Why AI Adoption Keeps Falling Short

  Mar 31, 202639 minS0

  <p>Most enterprise AI investments are funded backwards—93% to technology, 7% to people—and the ROI is falling short as a result. </p><p>In this episode, Sam Herring sits down with Matt Stevens, Managing Director for Human Performance and Learning at Deloitte Consulting, to explore what it actually takes to move AI from fragmented pilots to enterprise-wide adoption. </p><p>Matt draws on client work across financial services, healthcare, and beyond to make the case that learning isn't a support function for AI strategy. It is the strategy. </p><p>In this episode: </p>Why organizations are underinvesting in workforce readiness and...

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  Episode #24

  Leadership in the Age of AI: Human-Centered Onboarding

  Mar 10, 202638 minS0

  <p>How do you build strong onboarding experiences in a healthcare organization where the work is both operationally complex and deeply human? </p><p>In this episode of Being Intrepid, Sam Herring sits down with Gordon Trujillo, Vice President and Head of Talent Management and Development at DaVita Kidney Care. </p><p>DaVita welcomes thousands of caregivers into the organization each year—nurses, patient care technicians, and other frontline roles supporting people living with chronic kidney disease. Gordon shares how DaVita is studying the new hire journey, from attraction to onboarding to manager support, to better understand what drives engagement, retentio...

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