IMPACT LEARNING
121 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsCan learning transform your life? Welcome to Impact Learning with Maria Xenidou. On this shared journey, Maria reveals the future of learning and work through the stories of people who are disrupting how we learn, work, and live today and in the future. Together with her guests, she teaches you how to design your learning journey and create the life you want. The podcast puts full ownership of learning in the hands of students and professionals determined to build a better future for themselves and society. We can talk about learning, we can design it, or we can do both. This is Impact Learning!
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Episodes
Connecting the Dots with Heath Evans
July 11, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBProduction team: Host : Maria Xenidou Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian Introduction Voice: David Bourne Contact us: [email protected] Music credits: Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks Mentioned in this episode His first entrepreneurial venture, Future Talent AFL Players’ Association: http://www.aflplayers.com.au/ World Vision https://www.wvi.org/ https://www.worldvision.com.au/ Project Run India Samanth...
Changing How Educators Lead Students to Learn with David Reynolds
July 04, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBToday Maria sits down with David Reynolds. David is the professional learning director at the Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE) and the director of the Impact Project. He retired from the public school system where he served as a teacher, an assistant principal and a principal. Today, the focus of his work at PAGE is on developing and strengthening classroom, school, and district practices to ensure that all decisions are made for the benefit of students and learning and t...
Becoming a Corporate Vice President (Maria on Mic)
June 27, 2019 05:19 - 30 minutes - 24.5 MBOn this episode, Maria takes us through the learning journey of a chemist from Greece turned into VP of a global enterprise. She reflects on her career aspirations, the forks in the road, and the serendipitous moments that shaped the first decade of her corporate path. She talks about the opportunities she attracted through her commitment to people and customers and how she was able to leverage her experience and skills to achieve both business results and her professional goals. Tune in for...
Tilting the Future of Work with Karena de Souza
June 20, 2019 06:00 - 59 minutes - 53.5 MBToday, Maria chats with Karena de Souza, speaker, coach and host of the TILT the future podcast. Together, they unpack Karena’s learning journey starting from her childhood as a refugee in India, through her universities studies in computing and math in the UK and her corporate banking career in the USA. They explore the implications of algorithms on the way we learn, the power of strategic corporate scenario planning and the importance of human connection and advocacy for the others to help...
TILT the Future of Work with Karena de Souza
June 20, 2019 06:00 - 59 minutes - 53.5 MBToday, Maria chats with Karena de Souza, speaker, coach and host of the TILT the future podcast. Together, they unpack Karena’s learning journey starting from her childhood as a refugee in India, through her universities studies in computing and math in the UK and her corporate banking career in the USA. They explore the implications of algorithms on the way we learn, the power of strategic corporate scenario planning and the importance of human connection and advocacy for the other...
For the Love of Books with Adam Ashton
June 13, 2019 06:00 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBToday, Maria chats with Adam Ashton, co-host of the "What You Will Learn" podcast where he and his co-host Adam Jones read a new book each week and share the biggest lessons and best takeaways. Maria and Adam talk about his learning journey, starting from his childhood and his love for books. He shares the side projects he started while he was still a university student and how his entrepreneurial personality led him to carve his career path after a short tenure in the corporate ban...
Falling in Love with Books with Adam Ashton
June 13, 2019 06:00 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBToday, Maria chats with Adam Ashton, co-host of the "What You Will Learn" podcast where he and his co-host Adam Jones read a new book each week and share the biggest lessons and best takeaways. Maria and Adam talk about his learning journey, starting from his childhood and his love for books. He shares the side projects he started while he was still a university student and how his entrepreneurial personality led him to carve his career path after a short tenure in the corporate banking worl...
Creating Impact through Positive Psychology with Dr. Robert Zeitlin
June 05, 2019 22:00 - 42 minutes - 37.6 MBToday, Maria interviews Dr. Robert Zeitlin, a psychologist, altMBA alumni and co-host of the “I’m the worst parent ever” podcast. Together they discuss Robert’s learning and life journey from a clinical school psychologist, and a business owner to a parent, a positive psychologist, a blogger and a podcaster. They explore the forks in the road and his adventures that led him to the meaningful work he is doing today with parents, kids and wonder women! Dr. Robert Zeitlin is also the author of...
What do you Want to Be when you Grow up? (Maria on Mic)
May 29, 2019 22:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBOn this episode, Maria reflects on her learning journey that guided her studies and the work she decided to do after grad school. She shares stories from her childhood and throughout her public education in Athens, Greece, that led her to join corporate America. Maria opens up about how she made the big decisions when she found herself at different forks in the road. She talks about how she kept learning, exploring and adapting to new situations, allowing her intuition to guide her and trust...
Leaping for a Hire Cause with David Dvorkin
May 22, 2019 22:00 - 42 minutes - 34.3 MBToday, Maria interviews David Dvorkin, the founder of Hire Cause. During this inspiring conversation, David explores his love for how human beings organize systems and cultures that led him down his entrepreneurial path. He discusses how Hire Cause is empowering students through civic engagement programs to develop professional skills and become leaders in their community. David ends with his family story that has shaped his beliefs and continues to guide his work today and in the future. P...
Jumping into the Messiness with Tamara Kemper
May 15, 2019 19:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBToday, Maria interviews Tamara Kemper, the founder of The Process Mentors. Tamara shares what she learnt during her years as an elementary school teacher, why she joined the ed-tech world and how she decided to run her own business coaching company, The Process Mentors. Tamara talks about how investing in a personal coach helped her kickstart her business and how she discovered a greater joy for writing. An insightful and delightful conversation! Production team: Host : Maria Xenidou Prod...
Building a Portfolio Career with David Nebinski
May 08, 2019 19:00 - 41 minutes - 36.9 MBToday, Maria interviews David Nebinski, the host of the Portfolio Career podcast and fellow coach at The Podcasting Fellowship. David shares his life story, the ups and downs, the defining moments and decisions as well as his experience with the Podcasting Fellowship, as a student and then as a coach. Tune in for an authentic and important conversation about how we can disrupt our lives and create a meaningful portfolio career. Production team: Host : Maria Xenidou Producer: Julie-Roxane ...
Learning by Doing the Work with Seth Godin
May 01, 2019 08:00 - 27 minutes - 24.6 MBToday, Maria interviews Seth Godin, a Stanford Business School graduate, international bestselling author and host of the Akimbo podcast. Seth has written over 7000 blog posts read by more than a million people and was inducted in the Marketing Hall of Fame in 2018. Seth shares his learning journey that led him to create the Akimbo workshops, a set of online community-based learning spaces that help thousands of people address their fear for change and create meaningful work in our fast-chan...
Becoming a Podcast Host (Maria on Mic)
April 25, 2019 07:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBOn this host on mic episode, Maria reflects on her podcasting journey so far, including the challenges along the way and the skills she is developing. She talks about her experience during The Podcast Fellowship created by Seth Godin and Alex DiPalma and how the community has become a source of inspiration and strength. She concludes with sharing why she chose the podcast medium to launch her Impact Learning journey. Production team: Host : Maria Xenidou Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian ...
Creating Modern Learners with Melissa Emler
April 18, 2019 07:00 - 37 minutes - 33.3 MBToday, Maria interviews Melissa Emler. ‘Missy’ is one of the cofounders at Modern Learners, an online network dedicated to serving school leaders and educators to change the way they teach and facilitate learning for the future. Together they talk about her journey joining Modern Learners, building the community and coaching over 1000 school leaders in 22 countries. Missy shares her deep insights about the way each of us can disrupt the way we teach, learn and help students create their own ...
Building a Community of Podcasters with Alexandra DiPalma
April 11, 2019 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBThis week, Maria interviews Alexandra DiPalma, a friend, podcast producer and co-creator of The Podcast Fellowship with Seth Godin. Together they talk about timing and its sometimes life-changing effects, how The Podcast Fellowship was born and what has happened since launching it. They exchange about the power of the community that this online learning experience gathers and Alex shares about her experience working with Seth Godin on this project and on his podcast Akimbo. Lastly, Alex shar...
Living an Unconventional Life with Julie-Roxane Krikorian
March 28, 2019 09:00 - 59 minutes - 51.2 MBIn today’s episode, Maria interviews Julie-Roxane Krikorian, the Impact Learning podcast producer and a fierce Impact Learner. They met recently through Seth Godin’s online workshop, The Podcasting Fellowship. From there, their relationship has blossomed into a creative partnership around this podcast. JR shares her unconventional life and career story, and explores different ways that Impact Learning has been guiding her decisions all along. They also discuss her first online learning exper...
The Impact Learning Podcast Origin Story
March 12, 2019 12:55 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBIn this very first episode of the season, Maria discusses the concept of Impact Learning; why she created this podcast, and who it’s for. She shares her story to show you that it’s possible to build a good career and a meaningful life when we leverage all resources available to us and explore all possibilities. Production team: Host : Maria Xenidou Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian Introduction Voice: David Bourne Contact us: [email protected] Music & sound effec...
The Impact Learning Origin Story
March 12, 2019 12:55 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBIn this very first episode of the season, Maria discusses the concept of Impact Learning; why she created this podcast, and who it’s for. She shares her story to show you that it’s possible to build a good career and a meaningful life when we leverage all resources available to us and explore all possibilities. Production team: Host : Maria Xenidou Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian Introduction Voice: David Bourne Contact us: [email protected] Music & sound effect credits...
Maria on Mic: Her Story & Who the Podcast is For
March 12, 2019 12:55 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBIn this very first episode of the season, Maria discusses the concept of Impact Learning; why she created this podcast, and who it’s for. She shares her story to show you that it’s possible to build a good career and a meaningful life when we leverage all resources available to us and explore all possibilities. Production team: Host : Maria Xenidou Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian Introduction Voice: David Bourne Contact us: [email protected] Music & sound effec...
Trailer
February 25, 2019 18:50 - 2 minutes - 2.32 MBCan learning transform your life? This is Impact Learning with Maria Xenidou. On this journey, Maria will reveal the future of learning and work through the stories of people who are already disrupting how we learn, work, and live in the connection economy. Together with her guests, she will teach you how to design your learning journey and create the life you want. The podcast puts full ownership of learning and work in the hands of students and professionals determined to build a better ...