Good Morning L&D is the wake-up call for anyone who wants to rethink corporate learning.
Moritz Ettl meets the most exciting frontrunners from business, education and research. He talks to them about what really matters:
How we can finally turn learning from a compulsory program into a business enabler.
How leadership, culture, and technology must work together so that development is more than just a training session on the calendar.
And how we can make L&D a real lever for transformation—in a world that is changing every day.
AI Playtime Is Over: How Merck Gets 62,000 People Ready
Can HR really carry the AI transformation?
Khadija Ben Hammada's answer: "At some point, someone has to go first. So why not us?" Merck has also put some of its best talents, people who manage key accounts or are among its best marketers, on the most complex AI challenges. Khadija doesn't claim that's best in class. It's how Merck looks at it: the best people should unlock AI's potential. A live episode of GOOD MORNING L&D, recorded at UNLEASH World in Paris.
My guest:
🌀 Khadija Ben Hammada, Member of the Executive Board and Chief People Officer at Merck, the science and technology company headquartered in Darmstadt.
We talk about:
• How Merck moves from first experiments with AI tools to adoption across the whole workforce • Why AI upskilling is an HR responsibility, and why every leader still has to step up • The role of leaders in AI adoption • How to make the case for learning time in the boardroom • Skills, talent marketplaces and internal mobility • How to measure the ROI of AI in HR
Host: Moritz Ettl, founder of Forever Day One LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moritzettl/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/moritzettl/)
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Distribution: Forever Day One Editing and production: Tanja Kamp and Niko Moritz
23 Oct 2026
Inside UNLEASH #3: Learning now means redesigning the work itself
Three days in Paris, and one shift kept coming back: when companies at UNLEASH said learning, they meant redesigning the work itself. In the final episode, Moritz Ettl and Gary Bolles take stock of the week and ask what HR and L&D leaders can take back to work on Monday morning.In this episode:Three things for Monday morning: Gary's 'zoom in, zoom out, reinvent', and why Moritz says leaders can no longer delegate AI.Three questions to spar with: what to ask your team about experiments, performance conversations and how you'd know you're really learning.Worth your time: Gary recommends Markus Graf (Nestlé), Moritz recommends Brian Glaser (Google).What's one experiment your team ran this month, and what did it teach you?Stay in touch after Paris with the Forever Day One newsletter: https://bit.ly/4i1h9aRHost: Moritz Ettl, https://www.linkedin.com/in/moritzettl/Co-host: Gary Bolles, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbolles/All episodes: https://foreverday.one/en/good-morning-ld/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GML1D#UNLEASHWorld #GoodMorningLD #AITransformation
22 Oct 2026
Inside UNLEASH #2: Is HR still the right function to lead AI change?
Day two in Paris came down to one word: trust. When every company catches up on AI tools, what lasts is whether you trust your people to keep learning.
In this episode, Moritz Ettl and Gary Bolles talk about:
What shifted: Why an early AI lead won't last, and why German companies operating globally say AI change can't be steered from Germany.
Heard in the corridors: A wave of HR tech consolidation, and a senior HR leader asking out loud whether HR is the right function to lead AI change.
Worth your time: Gary recommends Markus Graf (Nestlé) on moving from knowledge to learning, and Barbara Martin Coppola (Patagonia board) on what boards care about in the people function. Moritz recommends Brian Glaser (Google) and Jayney Howson (ServiceNow), whose team crowdsourced its AI transformation from the bottom up.
Inside UNLEASH, every morning at 7:30 in your inbox:
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Host: Moritz Ettl, https://www.linkedin.com/in/moritzettl/
Co-host: Gary Bolles, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbolles/
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