Former Half Dome head of people and culture, Lisa Lie, has launched a new microlearning app, Learna.
The app is specifically designed to transform how people learn, grow, and engage at work, creating workplaces built for the future.
Learna, which launches on January 30, provides users with curated, bite-sized people skills from experts, including organisational psychologists and performance coaches, while also offering data-based culture insights for workplaces.
The short format content is based on what today’s workers need to know and do, with quick, practical learning. It also provides insight into the skills impacting and influencing culture.
Businesses will pilot Learna during 2023, providing feedback to inform future features and development. These include leading independent publishers, agencies and industry recruiters – Hardie Grant, Hatched, Half Dome, Impressive and Creative Natives are among the first to pilot Learna with their teams.
Learna founder Lisa Lie, who is the former head of people and culture at independent media agency Half Dome, created the app after noticing a significant gap in the learning-for-work space.
“I developed Learna to change the way people learn and improve the way they work. With new work and career realities, the way we expected people to learn, grow and engage at work simply had to change,” she said.
“The worker of today wants new skills quickly – people have disengaged from learning because it feels too laborious, or one-size-fits-all. Learna is designed to provide personalised, short format, engaging content that can be easily understood and actioned at work.”
Stephen Fisher, Hatched managing partner, said: “We’re seeing a huge shift in the development needs of the Hatched team and how people want to engage in learning, with a much greater focus on tailored programs that deliver much broader skills than tools, processes, and discipline-based development. EQ, critical thinking, people management and engagement, and stakeholder inclusion have become even more critical skillsets within our day-to-day work.
“We’re pretty excited to partner with Learna to help deliver this. Lisa has built a fantastic platform that makes learning more engaging and actionable, all housed within a quality and brilliantly logical platform that our team can access at their own pace as and when they need it. Learna is a great solution to the shifting way that learning is happening – both progressive and simple. We can’t wait for our team to start using it.”
Lie brings her credentials to the tech start-up, as an accredited coach and behavioural profiling consultant, with a track record of future-of-work-oriented experiments. During her time at Half Dome, Lie created the agency’s award-winning people and culture strategy, including an industry-first unlimited annual leave experiment. She also used the pandemic lockdowns to run a flexibility experiment and championed Mental Health First Aid training ensuring the entire agency was upskilled.
During her research for Learna’s development, Lie interviewed 200 business leaders and people and culture stakeholders about the challenges they face and how work was happening.
“I know people are happier at work when they know how to work with others and they understand themselves. People skills are the ones that make the biggest difference at work. Time and again I’ve seen these be the skills that help people adapt, progress faster, and enable non-linear career paths – and these skills just make work more enjoyable,” she said.
“I’ve always been curious about how work happens, what people need to feel motivated at work, and challenging the norm to create better working lives. Learna is about changing how people learn, grow and engage at work. Learna keeps the realities of time and attention in mind and makes big concepts relatable and actionable.”
See also: Lisa Lie departs from Half Dome to launch her tech platform
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