We all want work-and life-to be better. So how do we make it happen? How can we learn from the experience we have to create a future that we want? This is the realm that much of Dr. Heidi Brooks’ work explores. As we navigate the everyday, she invites us to cultivate the capacity to learn through experience, and to apply the wisdom gained to co-create a future that is worth fighting for.
Almost all adults work and experience organizational life. Work is the common connector; it dominates where we engage with the world and where the world engages with us. And for Dr. Brooks, it’s a canvas for the great re-imagining of our humanity. So, what can we do every day to help create an experience of work that people want to be part of? This everyday leadership invitation goes beyond deliverables and tasks into thinking of work as a space that we co-create.
Season Three of the Learning Through Experience podcast follows Dr. Brooks’ course structure-the beginning of which is all about learning to learn. In this first episode, we talk with Dr. Lisa Lahey about how we can overcome change and learn to create a better experience at work-for ourselves and our teams. Together, they explore the pedagogy of hope and transformation in the contemporary world of work, focusing on interpersonal and group dynamics. Dr. Lahey shares her insights on the complexities of listening, adult development theory, and the importance of curiosity in resolving personal and professional conflicts.
Learning Through Experience is produced through the Yale School of Management