L&D Backstage: Turning Social Connection into a Strategic Capability: A Journey of Scaling Peer-to-Peer Learning

​🛠️ L&D Backstage: Practical show & tell sessions. Present your projects step-by-step, showcasing both design and implementation. Real-world insights, straight to the point.

​✨ Participation: Presentation + Q&A at the end

​In this session, Deborah Madelaine will share what she has learned from designing and scaling Peer Circles at Mars: small groups of people who meet regularly to learn from and with each other.

​We’ll explore why peer learning can be particularly powerful in complex organisations, and what it takes to scale in a complex matrixed organisation.

​You can expect practical examples, lessons learned, things that didn’t work as expected, and some of the simple structures used to help people turn their colleagues’ experience into a source of learning.

​! Note that this is still work in progress so come ready to engage in a dialogue and bring your own perspectives and ideas to the conversation!

​You will leave with:

​•⁠  ⁠A practical understanding of what makes peer learning different from facilitated training.

​•⁠  ⁠Simple principles and structures for creating useful peer conversations where people learn from real experience.

​•⁠  ⁠Lessons from designing and scaling Peer Circles inside a large global organisation.

​Deborah Madelaine works as a Community and Culture Change Impact Leader at Mars, where she designs and scales social learning ecosystems that strengthen line manager capability, workforce connection, and organisational culture.

​With 20+ years of experience, having worked across seven countries, she brings a global, human-centred perspective to building cultures where learning is powered by people.