For the Love of Learning

Craig and Christina discuss driving accountability for employee learning so it is formatted in an asynchronous, self paced manner.Guest Bio Craig Adams is the VP of Talent and Transformation at Envision Healthcare, America's Leading Medical Group. In his role, Craig oversees talent agenda, learning and development functions, while driving internal HR transformation initiatives that enhance patient and stakeholder outcomes. Craig has over 10 years leading large-scale business transformation initiatives and advising leading companies on key talent and customer experience initiatives having worked previously with PwC, Deloitte, and Accenture.Host BioChristina Asbaty is the COO and Co-Founder of ion. She is known for being a deeply curious leader with a keen ability to ask the right questions to extract wisdom and foster connections with others. Her own challenges with corporate learning in prior careers led Christina to architect the vision for the ion platform. Now, Christina’s ultimate goal is to empower all companies to help their employees build trust and connection at work through learning.Sponsored by ion — transforming the way learning and connection happen at work. Check us out at ionlearning.com.If you have any guests you would like featured on this podcast series or have any questions, you can reach out at podcast@ionlearning.com

Renny Bloch, Director of Talent Development at Regeneron, and Christina Asbaty explore how the right conversation between a manager and their direct report can make or break an employee’s experience.Since Regeneron took on the challenge of finding an antibody treatment for COVID-19 in 2020, the company more than doubled in size. This put a lot of pressure on departments across the company, including the learning and development team, who were responsible for training thousands of new managers, remotely, for the very first time—amongst the team's many other priorities. About Renny Bloch, RegeneronRenny Bloch is the Director of Global Leadership & Organizational Development at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Prior to this role, Renny was the Director of Global Talent Development at The Estée Lauder Companies, and a Sr. Training and Development Specialist with Langone NYU Medical Center’s Organizational Development & Learning department.It is important to Renny that he stays on top of, and leverages, the most effective research from organizational psychology, positive psychology, leadership and management, neuroscience, emotional intelligence, mindfulness and philosophy to help leaders acquire the requisite ‘power skills’ needed for today and the future.Sponsored by ion — transforming the way learning and connection happen at work. Check us out at ionlearning.com.If you have any guests you would like featured on this podcast series or have any questions, you can reach out at podcast@ionlearning.com

Welcome to "For the Love of Learning"! We launched this podcast with the same mission as our company, ion Learning—to transform the way learning is designed and experienced. Starting January 5th, we'll connect with different learning and development leaders to see how their positive changes are shaking up the corporate learning environment. Sponsored by ion — transforming the way learning and connection happen at work. Check us out at ionlearning.com.If you have any guests you would like featured on this podcast series or have any questions, you can reach out at podcast@ionlearning.com