The Performance Paradox: Solving L&D’s $100 Billion Waste Problem

Danielle Wallace, Chief Learning Strategist at Beyond the Sky, merges decades of corporate marketing expertise with cutting-edge L&D innovation to tackle the crisis of ineffective training. In this episode, she dismantles why traditional content-heavy approaches fail to drive real-world performance, revealing how AI-powered role-plays, immersive scenarios, and precision feedback systems can transform skill acquisition.

Drawing from her Fortune 100 experience and recent breakthroughs in behavioral design, Wallace provides actionable frameworks to close the "knowing-doing gap" while exposing common pitfalls that sabotage even the best of well-intentioned programs.

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Danielle Wallace, Chief Learning Strategist at Beyond the Sky, combines 20 years of Fortune 100 leadership (P&G, PepsiCo) with learning science to engineer measurable behavior change. A CTDP-certified pioneer in AI-driven immersive scenarios and coaching systems, she hosts the You in 2042: The Future of Work podcast, helping organizations future-proof workforces through behavioral psychology and adaptive tech.

Her consumer marketing-inspired methodology creates sticky learning experiences, delivering 260%+ business impact for clients like Sun Life and Roche Pharmaceuticals.