Godfrey Parkin is singing my song. He segues from the importance of informal learning to what we have to do about it: "nurture and focus those aspects that can leverage what people do naturally."

We need to start teaching employees how to learn. We need to create the culture that encourages innovation, experimentation, socialising, and networking. We need to make time for talking, and for dissecting failure without punishing it. And we need to start a movement, top-down, to dissolve organisational silos and the myopic tunnel-vision they produce, and to provide the facilities that make it easier for employees to engage with each other.

The Meta-Learning Lab is dedicated to increasing people's capacity to learn, improving the performance of individuals and organizations.


Everyone has the capacity to learn but most people can do a much better job of it. Learning is a skill one can improve. Learning how to learn is a key to its mastery.

Learning is the primary determinant of personal and professional success in our ever-changing knowledge age. People and organizations that strive to succeed had better get good at it. Our goal is to help them.

The Meta-Learning Lab focuses on the process of learning - helping individuals learn how to learn and groups how to create optimal learning environments.

"Never underestimate the power of a small but committed group of people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead