Learning Labs New - Hungry Minds

For when your
organisation needs
an entirely new
approach to learning...

Work with our expert learning strategist and let us
cook-up your new organisation-wide learning approach

At Hungry Minds, we believe a strong learning culture is the backbone of orgranisational success. While our regular serices specialise in one-off project creation, Learning Labs focuses on the bigger picture-helping organisations like yours whip up a learning culture so good, it’ll have your teams lining up for seconds.

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For when your organisation needs an entirely new approach to learning...

Work with our expert learning strategist and let us
cook-up your new organisation-wide learning approach

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WORD ON THE STREET

"Learning Labs completely transformed how our organisation approaches learning. The strategy they provided was logical, elegant and easy to follow. Learning is something our people actually look forward to now."

"Thanks to Learning Labs, we've gone from a reactive training culture to a thriving learning ecosystem. Their expertise in strategy and human-centred design made all the difference."

"Before Learning Labs, our Sharepoint pages were a mess-now they're beautiful, functional, and loved by our teams. Their insights and design skills are a game-changer!"

"Learning Labs helped us cut through the noise and build an LMS that's easy to use and genuinely enjoyable for our learner."

"Working with Learning Labs felt like having an extension of our own team. They're fun, creative, and brilliant at what they do. We couldn't recommend them more."

WHAT’S COOKING

IN THE LAB?

WHAT’S COOKING

IN THE LAB?

We don’t do cookie-cutter solutions, and we definitely dont serve up corporate mumbo-jumbo.

Here’s what we actually do. We:

Get to Know Learners: Who are they? What do they need? How do they learn best? We dig in and find out, so you’re not throwing random training at them and hoping it works.
Build Your Learning Brand: Yes, your learning strategy needs a brand. And no, it’s not just a logo. We craft a vibe, a voice, and a vision for your organisation’s learning approach-so it’s something people actually want to engage with.
Create a Learning Culture That Sticks: We help you move beyond one-off workshops and into the realm of ongoing curiosity, growth, and (dare we say it?) fun.
Future-Proof Your Strategy: Things change-fast. We make sure your learning culture is ready to grow and adapt as your organisation evolves.

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WHY USE

THE LAB?

WHY USE

THE LAB?

Because the old way of doing L&D is dead. (RIP to boring slide decks and irrelevant workshops.) Organisations are waking up to the fact that if you want real results, you need a learning strategy baked into your culture-not just slapped on top like icing.

At Learning Labs, we’re like that quirky sous chef who knows exactly how to balance creativity with structure. We bring big ideas, proven strategies, and just enough irreverence to keep things interesting. Think: less “corporate consultancy,” more “let’s roll up our sleeves and make something amazing together.”

Let’s Stir Things Up

If your organisation is ready to stop pretending learning is just another tick-box exercise and start creating a culture that actually works, we’re here for it. Let’s chat, plan, and build something your teams will love-and that your organisation will thank you for.

OUR DESIGN

THINKING PROCESS

OUR DESIGN

THINKING PROCESS

WHAT THE

LAB DOES

We’re here to change the way your organisation learns. We’ll help you connect your learning strategies with your business goals so every initiative packs a punch, keeps your teams engaged, and builds a culture where growth and improvement are the norm. Here’s how we do it:

Learning Strategy

By uncovering patterns and simplifying decisions, we work with you to build a learning culture that is cohesive and built for long-term success. Human-Centred Designs

Learning strategy

By uncovering patterns and simplifying decisions, we work with you to build a learning culture that is cohesive and built for long-term success. Human-Centred Designs

Human-centred designs

Learning should be designed for people, not robots. Our human-centred approach focuses on creating experiences that motivate and inspire change, keeping the learner front and centre every step of the way.

Learning templates

Our custom-branded templates are intuitive, easy to use, and designed to help your internal teams deliver high-quality content quickly and confidently.

Technology Recommendation

We’ll help you choose and set up the right learning technology for your organisation-saving you money and giving your learners a seamless, enjoyable experience. From LMS, to authoring tools to SharePoint integration and AI bots we will design the right solution for you.

Professional Development

Through self-paced courses, engaging resources, and coaching, we teach L&D teams how to become the go-to learning expert in your workplace. Flexible, interactive, and actionable, our professional development services are designed to help you lead the charge in creating a thriving learning culture.

WHY WAS THE

LAB STARTED?

At Hungry Minds, we had a lightbulb moment: why stop at creating exceptional learning for our clients when we could also help L&D legends like you thrive in your own workplace? You’re our kindred spirits-fellow learning nerds-and we love nothing more than teaming up with kindreds.

Here’s the thing: we’ve seen plenty of L&D teams like yours doing it tough. You’re the unsung heroes, carrying the weight of rolling out initiatives and making learning the lifeblood of your business. But let’s be real-learning often gets a bad rap, way too many eye-rolls, and not nearly enough support. That needs to change, and that’s why we started this service.

WHO IS ON

THE TEAM?

Bec

Lab Founder & Head of Learning Strategy

Bec Jeffrey leads the charge at the Lab. Bec has a rare kind of mind, perfect for strategy. She can grasp the big picture at supersonic speed while simultaneously drilling down into finer details to quickly identify the next steps.

It scares us regularly. Her years of experience as a social scientist and adult educator means her learning designs and understanding of people are exceptional. As a corporate consultant, she has worked with some of Australia’s most iconic brands to build exceptional learning cultures that have shifted behaviour.

Daniel

Senior Learning Designer

Working as Robin to Bec’s Batman is Daniel. For over two decades, Daniel has dedicated himself to not just educating but inspiring and engaging individuals at a deep level. He is passionate about the idea that it’s not about how much you can learn but about how much you care about learning. His motivation lies in coaching individuals to develop resilience and strength across the emotional, intellectual, and physical spectrums of their lives. In the realm of building better ways of doing things, Dan is a vital asset to the cause.

Bianca

Director & Senior Learning Designer

Bianca has over 20 years in Senior Learning, Development and Instructional Designer roles. This experience has shaped her expertise in project management of people and learning solutions to support change initiatives.

Michael

Managing Partner & Senior Learning Designer

Michael has 20 years of experience in a variety of senior Human Resource, Organisational Development, Learning and Development, Sales/Marketing, Instructional Design and General Management roles.

FAQS

What is an organisational learning strategy?

An organisational learning strategy is a detailed plan that organisations like yours use to develop an L&D culture. The plan maps out the cohorts that exist in your business, what their unique learning needs are and what strategies and methods of learning would most engage them and motivate them to learn and develop. Having a learning strategy means learning is not developed piecemeal, but rather is unified, on brand and in line with your organisation’s vision and values. Also, our strategies are not just words on a page, they come with what we call a ‘Learning Style Guide’; robust and development-ready learning templates designed to put lofty ideals into practical application.

What is an organisational learning strategy?

What is a learning and development culture?

Culture can most easily be described as the way people like us do things round here. An L&D culture therefore, is the way your organisation approaches learning. Are people rolling their eyes when asked to attend learning, or are they chomping at the bit, keen to dive in? Is learning developed in a systematic, learner-centric way that understands human-centred design, or is it a hodge-podge of PowerPoints and learning artefacts that people are constantly redeveloping because they’re just not quite right?

Learning is the lifeblood of a business, and yet, all too often, it’s neglected. Rather than pumping goodness through the organisation, it’s clogging up arteries, causing the organisation to limp along. A strong L&D culture will inadvertently mean your business thrives.

Can you provide examples of past projects similar to ours?

We certainly can. To give you a glimpse of how we’ve tackled challenges like this in the past, we invite you to explore our case studies page. There, you’ll find a collection of projects spanning various industries. We particularly invite you to look at the work we did with the Department of Justice in Victoria, and MMP in NSW. These were an excellent example of learning strategies that shifted culture.

What is your approach to creating a learning culture?

Collaboration, collaboration and then some more collaboration. We can’t provide you with a cookie-cutter approach in this instance. Culture, like identity, is a personal matter. No two businesses are the same.

However, we have developed some tried and true methods of collaborating that help us get to the key issues quickly. To read more about our process in full, CLICK HERE.

How do you ensure the quality and effectiveness of the strategies you develop?

Part of the design of our process is that we work with you on the first few learning projects to road-test the approaches. As lovers of learning, we don’t believe in one-and-done. It’s through reiteration and review, curiosity and courage, tweaking a bit here and leveraging a bit there that the melding of art and science weave their magic to create the end product. If you work with us, you are partnering up for a journey where we stick with you till our work with you is done and you are functioning beautifully without us anymore.

Who makes up the Learning Labs team?

Hungry Minds is a genuine partnership among learning design specialists. This service, that of cooking up learning cultures, is one of those specialties.

Bec Jeffrey leads the helm. Becca has a rare kinda mind. She can grasp big picture at super sonic speed, while simultaneously drilling down into finer details to easily identify next steps. It scares us regularly. Her years of experience as a social scientist and adult educator means her learning designs and understanding of people are exceptional. As a corporate consultant, she has worked with some of Australia’s most iconic brands to build exceptional learning cultures that have shifted behaviour.

Working as Robin to her Batman is Daniel. For over two decades, he has dedicated himself to not just educating but inspiring and engaging individuals at a deep level, with the idea that it’s not about how much you can learn but about how much you care about learning. His motivation lies in coaching individuals to develop resilience and strength across the emotional, intellectual, and physical spectrums of their lives. In the realm of building better ways of doing things, Dan is a vital asset to the cause.

Backing Learning Labs is the partnership of Hungry Minds. Hungry Minds has team members in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. Led by their fearless directors, Bianca Schimizzi and Michael Peart, this group know learning. The backing of this team means that Learning Labs is big enough to meet your needs while still being small enough to care about you as an individual. We call ourselves the ‘Golidlock team’.

To check out all our players, CLICK HERE.