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Learning Hack Opens New Season with Bold 2026 Agenda
Brighton, UK – 9 Jan 2026Learning NewsThe Learning Hack
Learning Hack launches its new season on 15 January with Josh Bersin setting the agenda for workplace learning in 2026. The top-5% global podcast producer also unveils live events, new series, and an ambitious slate of shows planned across 2026.
A new season of the Learning Hack podcast is launched on Monday 15th January with an episode featuring Josh Bersin.
This popular and influential podcast, among the top 5% of podcasts globally for listens (Listen Notes), has been running since 2019 and has followers in more than 150 countries around the world.
In the opening episode, The Changing Shape of Work, Josh Bersin sets the agenda for workplace learning in 2026. Key insights include:
- AI has crossed a threshold, as organisations move from experimentation to reality, with 2026 marking the shift toward enterprise-level adoption
- Jobs are being transformed, not eliminated wholesale
- Skills velocity is key, and primarily a cultural issue
- L&D is facing a structural reinvention
The Learning Hack is also unveiling exciting plans for 2026:
- A brand new podcast currently in development, working title: Sci-fi and the Tech Imaginarium. With the 100th Anniversary of the launch of Amazing Stories in April 2006 marking the birth of the science fiction genre, John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach look back out how sci-fi has influenced technology - and vice versa - and continues to do so in the era of AI. Sponsorship opportunities available, contact John Helmer for details.
- John Helmer speaking live at the Podcast Learning Festival (26 February at Mary Sumner House, London)
- A show special from Learning Technologies London in May
- A new season of Great Minds on Learning, with Donald Clark, to feature learning in the creative arts (Visual Art, Music and Performance) and an episode on dog training (yes, dog training)
- Further episodes of the Learning Leaders podcast, in association with NIIT
- And more ...