Why the future of learning is in the middle

Become a workshop creator and magical things can happen.

The view was spectacular and the light poured in.

In a top-floor conference room located in one of Manhattan’s most noteworthy skyscrapers, it was time to close the door, ignore the rest of the world, lean up against the window, and take a precious few moments of private time before cleaning up.

One of Roman Roy’s moments of misbehavior in HBO’s ‘ Succession’? Fortunately not.

It was the end of a training day for two groups of senior executives at one of the world’s most well-known financial services companies, and my co-lead and I had just bid our last attendee farewell.

As well as navigating the groups through various technical concepts and exercises, we’d had to answer some challenging questions on a variety of topics: from privacy and ethics; to the best programming language for a specific type of data analysis. Taking a look at the feedback forms, we’d nailed it — both sessions were a big success.

My partner turned to me with a look of exhausted satisfaction at a job well done, and with questions on her mind. You wouldn’t have realised, but she was fairly new to this kind of work.

“Today went really well, but it’s a lot! I’ve done a good amount of public…