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b'Way back in 2019, we started this fifth season of the podcast, \\u2018Learning Leaders,\\u2019 with a commitment to let you hear from Learning Leaders from industry, academia, and technology who have made significant contributions to workplace learning, EdTech, and talent leadership disciplines. The program was originally initiated in collaboration with The Learning Leaders Conference, and some episodes were recorded onsite at the 2019 conference in Washington DC Watch this space for more details; this is one, though we haven\\u2019t featured a chat done this way for some time. We have a great return episode, though: Fernando Sanchez-Arias, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Talent Development (ATD) but who is now powering away at a Washington, DC-based think tank for research and education on culture, leadership, innovation, connection, and knowledge he set up called the CLICK (Culture, Leadership, Innovation, Connection, and Knowledge) Institute. When we spoke last year, Sr Sanchez-Arias was Head of Learning, Cultural Diversity, and Innovation at the body after being Chief People Officer; now he is now the organisation\\u2019s pro bono Co-Chair of the Advisory and Academic Councils. It was great to talk to Fernando last year, and it\\u2019s wonderful to be able to share this with you now. I am also delighted to say this is another episode in the Season sponsored by our friends at The Future Workplace Academy\\u2014a curated collection of five week online cohort courses to up-skill HR and HRIS team members for the future of work, with all content designed by and for HR leaders and which is being guided by an advisory board led by Future Workplace. It\\u2019s a great project, and I hope you have time to join us\\u2014but first, let\\u2019s hear from Fernando and his current schedule of splitting his time between D.C. and a \\u2018beautiful, green\\u2019 planned community in North Houston, as well as: his personal journey from studying business in Venezuela to Texas via Belgium, via time in armed forces, oil &gas and academic contexts that\\u2019s included many great milestones\\u2014including his years leveraging Learning as a way of building Trust with the world\\u2019s largest home improvement firm, Home Depot (which we dive right into!); his deep interest in multi-disciplinary approaches combined with a primary alliance to data, research and the science wherever possible; the way he\\u2019s pursuing the Lifelong Learning pathway, including an on-going Micro Master program; the aims and tactics of the CLICK Institute and the international network he\\u2019s rapidly building with it; the five \\u2018diseases\\u2019 that \\u2018kill\\u2019 innovation; the mentors who challenged him to leave his original love, business administration, to this world; and much more.'