Episode 312: Growth Is What You Learn From the Leap w/ Megan Torrance - Readiness, AI, and Leadership
About the guest: Megan Torrance is a workplace learning and development leader who helps organizations create better systems for growth, performance, and skill development. In this conversation, she brings together practical insight from her work in learning design, her perspective on AI as an augmentation tool, and her own lived experience as an athlete, coach-supported leader, and endurance hiker.
About the episode: In this episode, Steve sits down with Megan Torrance to unpack what it really means to be growth ready. Megan reframes growth as what we learn from a leap, not just the leap itself, and explains why readiness is less about feeling fully prepared and more about having the mindset, tools, support, and willingness to step into the next challenge anyway.
Megan shares how real growth happens when people are clear on the goal, supported with the right systems, and willing to reflect in the middle of discomfort.
Key topics and themes discussed
- What “growth ready” really means
- Why growth comes from learning through the leap
- The difference between being a teacher and teaching
- Why workplace learning should focus on performance, not completion
- Reflection as a critical part of the learning loop
- The role of AI in personalized learning and leadership development
- Readiness, uncertainty, and the “gulp” before the next challenge
- Building systems that make the next right action easier
- Curiosity as a driver of long-term growth
- Expanding capacity inside and outside of work
- Lessons from ice hockey, coaching, and endurance hiking
Resources mentioned
- Megan Torrance on LinkedIn
- Torrance Learning — torrancelearning.com
- AI Implementation Guide for L&D by Megan Torrance
- Khan Academy
- MagicSchool
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