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Most people don't fail because they're incapable. They fail because the support disappears too early.
Brigid sits down with Stephanie Alayyoubi-Trattles, founder of Kyoshi Consulting, to explore what it actually takes to build learning that drives measurable change.
Stephanie has spent over a decade leading learning strategy and design across EdTech unicorn Multiverse, London Business School, and global organisations. She began her career in the classroom, and she makes a compelling case that the teaching frameworks we left behind in education are exactly what corporate L&D is missing.
At the centre of the conversation is the gradual release of responsibility: I do, we do, you do. Stephanie unpacks what this looks like in practice inside an organisation, how to model best practice before expecting people to replicate it, and why most programmes skip the very steps that make learning stick.
She also shares how to build the wider ecosystem around a training programme, from communities of practice and peer feedback to manager reinforcement in the flow of work.
She doesn't shy away from the harder conversation either. L&D teams too often operate as order takers, delivering ad hoc content that isn't tied to business priorities. Steph's challenge is to pause, get a seat at the table, and design with intention so that learning creates real capability, not just compliance.
If you're designing, running, or rethinking how learning lands in your organisation, this episode will give you a sharper, more grounded way to approach it.
What you'll takeaway from this episode:
- What the gradual release of responsibility looks like in practice and why it works just as well for an 8-year-old as a 48-year-old
- Why people cannot do what they haven't seen and how to audit your existing programmes for this blind spot
- The two traps that stop L&D from modelling best practice: the curse of knowledge and imposter syndrome and how to overcome both
- How to build a competency framework that defines best practice before you design a single piece of learning
- What scaffolding looks like inside a real organisation with a detailed example from Stephanie's time at Multiverse
- Why communities of practice and mentorship are the parts of the learning ecosystem that create lasting capability
- How to build a learning culture where people don't just attend, they queue up to get in
- The first practical step for any L&D team ready to start integrating this approach
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