Learning Uncut

Michelle Ockers built Learning Uncut around a simple promise: real conversations about real learning solutions. After 271 episodes, that promise still holds. The show features unscripted discussions with L&D professionals who are actively building and delivering programs in their organizations, not just theorizing about them. You hear about what worked, what bombed, and what they would do differently next time. The format alternates between standard interviews and the book club series, where Michelle and guests unpack important L&D books together. Recent book club episodes have covered Michelle Parry-Slater's Learning and Development Handbook and discussions about navigating to business value as an L&D leader. On the case study side, episodes have featured virtual induction tools built on learning science principles and flexible onboarding at Sodexo Academy. Michelle has a warm interviewing style that gets people to open up about the details that matter. She asks follow-up questions that a practitioner would ask, not the surface-level stuff. The show publishes weekly and typically runs 30-45 minutes. It has built a particularly strong following in the Australian and APAC L&D community, though the insights translate everywhere. If you are tired of podcasts that talk about L&D in the abstract and want to hear how real people solve real problems, Learning Uncut delivers exactly that.