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490: Learning Evaluation as a Competitive Advantage with Will Thalheimer
Tuesday, 27 October, 2026
Decades of research say the traditional learner survey—the smile sheet many learning businesses still rely on—is virtually uncorrelated with whether people actually learned anything. So what would it take to do better?In this episode of the Leading Learning Podcast, co-host Celisa Steele talks with Dr. Will Thalheimer, author of Performance-Focused Learner Surveys and someone wise in the ways of science-backed learning evaluation. Will shares takeaways from his global survey of how workplace learning professionals evaluate their programs, the three fundamental reasons to evaluate learning, and how his LEADS framework (Learning Evaluation As Decision Support) can help a learning business decide which programs to keep, revise, retire, or reprice.Show notes and a downloadable transcript are available at https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode490.
