#253 – (LIVE) Supporting hidden learner communities through human-centred design
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Hello beautiful listeners! In this episode, we chat to:
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A business on a mission to provide better opportunities to apprentices through technology and coaching, with
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Chichi Eruchalu, Head of Leadership Development, Multiverse
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A business that maps talented gamer skills traits to learner and employment pathways with
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David Barrie, Founder, Game Academy
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An online community working connecting 11 million unpaid carers to peer-to-peer learning with
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James Townsend, Founder, Mobilise
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This episode is part of our VocTech Podcast series produced in collaboration with Ufi VocTech Trust, as part of the annual #WeekOfVocTech.
Check out the full episode show notes and references here: https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast.
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Chichi Eruchalu, Head of Leadership Development, Multiverse
Chichi is a Leadership and Career coach passionate about empowering managers to become GREAT leaders.
She is experienced in helping leaders build high-performing teams at scale, having gone from managing a team of 2 to 200 in 18 months. All this during a pandemic and while homeschooling her two children.
She is currently Head of Leadership Development at Multiverse, supporting and training the leaders and teams who are delivering high-class training and coaching to apprentices across a range of business and tech programmes. Prior to that, she was their Director of Delivery for the UK.
Before joining Multiverse Chichi worked at HSBC covering a range of roles including Commercial Bank Manager, Graduate Assessor and Digital Project Manager.
Her superpower is solving problems and on this blog you will see posts about leadership, personal development and managing your career as a working mum.
David Barrie, Founder, Game Academy
I found and lead ventures that enable people to thrive and prosper. These ventures have delivered new physical and social infrastructure and investment in cities, towns and their neighbourhoods (c £0.5bn in value), supported the start-up and growth of new tech businesses (20+), community groups (5) and created many new jobs.
Currently, I am co-founder and CEO of Game Academy, a tech venture that supports the personal development of players of video games and onRedchurch, a non-profit leading the revitalisation and development of Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, East London.
I have founded five social ventures to date, including The People’s Supermarket, a pioneering food co-operative in London, and several large-scale initiatives and projects in former industrial towns and cities in the UK, Eastern Europe and Canada. They’ve won several prominent awards, including the public space category of the Stirling Architectural Prize, and been credited for their contribution to communities, entrepreneurship and growth.
My background is in media and digital. I’ve made around 150hrs+ of specialist factual and documentary TV programmes as Producer, Director and Executive Producer for broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and CNN. I’ve written for newspapers, magazines, produced books, exhibitions and extensively supported tech companies; and I have participated in many public events, speaking on social impact, innovation, venture investment and community.
James Townsend, CEO and Co-Founder, Mobilise
“I’ve learned from experience in my own family just how complex it is to care for somebody. That’s why after ten years leading organisations in the education sector I set up Mobilise, so that we can share what we’ve learned as carers and nobody has to figure it all out on their own.
We use technology to make human connections – to share the knowledge, wisdom and experience between carers. If you’re a carer, I’d love to hear your story and find out what we can learn from you.”
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Host of The Edtech Podcast and Founder of WorkTripp | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Sophie is the founder of the iTunes new and noteworthy, The Edtech Podcast. The mission of The Edtech Podcast is to improve the dialogue between ‘ed’ and ‘tech’ for better innovation, through storytelling. The podcast is downloaded from over 145 countries with the UK, US & Aus in the top 3. Sophie has spoken and moderated at a variety of events including SXSW EDU, Yidan Education Prize, ASU GSV Summit, and the Next Billion Edtech Summit. She is an industry mentor and advisor, a Reimagine Education, GESA Awards, Bett Awards and XPrize Adult Literacy judge, and previous Edtech50 and Edtech Digest winner.
Sophie is passionate about lifelong and everyday learning. If she’s not interviewing a University Vice-Chancellor, Edtech Investor, School Leader, or StartUp about education innovation, she’s engrossed in Teach Your Monster to Read or wrestling her lockdown baby. A keen cyclist, she has recently relocated to West Devon which she considers the English version of the Pyrenees. She is very lucky to work with a distributed team on The Edtech Podcast. She is now building WorkTripp.
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Thank you to the Ufi Voctech Trust
The Voctech Podcast Series is produced by The Edtech Podcast and supported by Ufi Voctech Trust.
Our aim is to help improve vocational skills in the UK’s workforce by funding digital solutions for vocational learning. We only fund activity that is ‘scalable’ through technology, ie projects that use digital methods to widen access to vocational learning. While digital learning solutions are potentially open to all, we are especially keen to assist digital projects which involve post-school age vocational learners that have failed to be engaged by the education system.
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