"HRD: 30 Minutes With..." is the weekly podcast series where host, Darren Short, spends thirty minutes with an HRD scholar from around the world to learn about their career and about the person behind the scholarship. Conversations explore a wide range of topics, including how guests became interested in HRD, how their career progressed, how they selected research topics, their life outside of work, advice for those early in their career, and much more. Subscribe today to ensure you don't miss an episode. For further details visit https://www.allbypodcast.com/30minutes
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Tonette Rocco, Professor of Adult Education and Human Resource Development in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, Florida International University. Tonette and I talked about her journey from walking out of school in the 70s through to joining the faculty at FIU, the background to her writing about social justice issues, the joy of writing with other people, how she lives her values, the importance of asking for help, and much more. To read Tonette's...
2 Feb 2023
Dr. Robert Yawson
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Robert Yawson, Associate Professor of Management and the Chair of the Entrepreneurship, International Business & Strategy Department, Quinnipiac University. Robert and I talked about his start in biochemistry, how growing up in Ghana influences his research, writing, and worldview, how his move into HRD was by accident, how he embraces being called an unorthodox HRD scholar, and much more. To read Robert's bio and to learn more about the series, visit http...
26 Jan 2023
Dr. Elwood (Ed) Holton III
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Elwood (Ed) Holton III, Professor Emeritus in the School of Leadership and Human Resource Development at Louisiana State University. Ed and I talked about how he fell in love with research, his work on learning transfer, how book writing was a personal passion for him, the honor of his twenty-five year involvement with The Adult Learner, the key role that mentors have played in his career, and much more. To read Ed's bio and to learn more about the series, vis...
19 Jan 2023
Prof. John Walton
Join me for 30 minutes with Prof. John Walton, who was the first chair of the University Forum of HRD and the first person from the UK to be on the Board of AHRD. John and I talked about how his love of chess put him on a path that led to HRD, about being a part of so many firsts for HRD in the United Kingdom and beyond, how his experience in practice helped his teaching and writing, what it took to write his 600-page Strategic HRD book, how he’s still like a bull at a gate when it comes to r...
12 Jan 2023
Dr. Michael (Lane) Morris
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Michael (Lane) Morris, Associate Dean & John W. Fisher Professor of Innovative Learning in the Haslam College of Business at The University of Tennessee. Lane and I talked about his atypical career path that started with chemistry, the fun he has at the dean level, how he fell in love with HRD and found a home within AHRD, the transformational investments made by his parents, how he and his wife now own a farm and rescue horses, and much more. To read Lan...
5 Jan 2023
Dr. Consuelo Waight
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Consuelo Waight, Professor of HRD at the University of Houston and Founding Director of the UH Executive HRD program. Consuelo and I talked about her start as an elementary school teacher, her time in the Peace Corps, how a newspaper advertisement led her to a Fulbright, the importance of innovation and core values, defining your own career path, and much more. To read Consuelo's bio and to learn more about the series, visit https://www.allbypodcast.com/30Min...
15 Dec 2022
Dr. Neal Chalofsky
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Neal Chalofsky, Associate Professor Emeritus in the Human and Organizational Learning Department of the George Washington University in the United States. Neal and I talked about the practitioner career that eventually led him into academia, his extensive involvement in professional associations, how he found himself a part of a lot of beginnings for the field of HRD, how he came to focus on meaningful work in his research and writing, how academia allowed him ...
8 Dec 2022
Dr. Jessica Li
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Jessica Li, Professor of HRD in the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in the United States. Jessica and I talked about her background as an engineer, the ten years she spent in practice after completing her Ph.D., the challenges of transitioning from practice into academia, the gap between research and practice, how she took on a 30-day hike having never previously hiked for longer than a couple of days, and much more. To rea...
1 Dec 2022
Dr. Maria Cseh
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Maria Cseh, Director of the Human and Organizational Learning Doctoral Program at the George Washington University in the United States. Maria and I talked about her move from Central Europe to the United States, how her career changed from electronic engineering to HRD, how she was socialized into academia, the significant part that research collaborations have played in her work, the importance she places on being with the people she loves, and much more. T...
24 Nov 2022
Dr. David McGuire
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. David McGuire, Reader in HRD at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland. David and I talked about how a debate at an HRD conference led to 20 years of figuring out what HRD is, how professional associations have supported him throughout his career, the important influence of mentors, how he benefits from working on journals, how he first met one of his heroes when driving Route 66, and much more. To read David's bio and to learn more about the series, visit h...
17 Nov 2022
Dr. Gene L. Roth
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Gene Roth, Emeritus Distinguished Teaching Professor, Northern Illinois University, in the United States. Gene and I talked about how his early life experiences on a farm influenced his career, how his start in architectural drafting eventually led to a focus on HRD, how he developed his interest in researching and writing on humor, how doing a doctorate resulted in him also learning the harmonica, and much more. To read Gene's bio and to learn more about the...
10 Nov 2022
Dr. Shani Carter
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Shani Carter, Professor of Business at Wagner College on Staten Island in the United States. Shani and I talked about how she picks research topics that are important to her personally, her research into career paths of female faculty, how she achieves balance in professional and personal lives, her love of house renovation and travel, and much more. To read Shani's bio and to learn more about the series, visit https://www.allbypodcast.com/30Minutes
3 Nov 2022
Dr. Larry Dooley
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Larry Dooley, Chief Operating Officer of the TECH Training Group, and retired associate professor in the Department of Educational Administration & Human Resource Development at Texas A&M University in the United States. Larry and I talked about how his start in agriculture and banking eventually led him to HRD, how his career changed thanks to the key influence of a visionary person, his international work, how faith played a part in meeting his wife, ...
27 Oct 2022
Dr. Sally Sambrook
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Sally Sambrook, Emerita Professor of Human Resource Development, and former Deputy Head, at Bangor Business School in Wales. Sally and I talked about her pathway into HRD, how injustices she witnessed and experienced led to her interest in critical HRD, how she was drawn to qualitative research, her love of mountain biking, surfing, and kayaking, and much more. To read Sally's bio and to learn more about the series, visit https://www.allbypodcast.com/30Minutes...
20 Oct 2022
Dr. Lyle Yorks
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Lyle Yorks, Professor Emeritus, Teachers College, Columbia University in the United States. Lyle and I talked about the interplay between research and practice, Lyle’s path to Teachers College, his love of field research and being part of a research team, the influence of his wife and children, how he should have been like Seinfeld, and much more. To read Lyle's bio and to learn more about the series, visit https://www.allbypodcast.com/30Minutes
13 Oct 2022
Dr. Jia Wang
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Jia Wang, tenured Professor of Human Resource Development at Texas A&M University in the United States. Jia and I talked about how her early experiences of working in Africa influenced her research, how an accidental meeting led to her doing a Ph.D., the key role that personal values play for her, the influence of her parents, the difference between Chinese Jia and American Jia, and much more. To read Jia's bio and to learn more about the series, visit ht...
6 Oct 2022
Dr. Rob Poell
Join me for 30 minutes with Dr. Rob Poell, Professor of Human Resource Development in the Department of Human Resource Studies at Tilburg University, Netherlands. Rob and I chat about how he developed interests in research and in HRD, his career path to professor, his research focus on workplace learning from an employee perspective, writing in a second language, being a father, the challenges of balancing time at work and home, his joy of volleyball and saunas, and the lessons learned from h...
11 Sept 2022
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"HRD: 30 Minutes With..." is the podcast series where host, Darren Short, meets HRD scholars one-to-one for 30 minutes to learn about their work, career and the person behind the name. Episodes release weekly starting October 6, 2022. You can find out more at Allbypodcast.com/30Minutes. Subscribe today to ensure you don’t miss an episode. HRD: 30 Minutes With is a production of ALLbyPODCAST.com
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