Serious Learning & Development

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Serious Consulting Values

We have recently invested in articulating our "values".

Our Philosophy Serious Learning & Development helps all people at all levels in an organization understand the link between their behaviour and the business results This proved to be time very well spent as we were reminded why we do what we do. Human Dignity
Respect for people by:

Asking questions
Listening to the answers
Understanding that people's thoughts and positions are the result of expe

Ever wondered why the supermarket self-checkout experience feels so fundamentally broken? 🛒

Our Founder and CEO, Kevin Gibbons, sat down with Rory Sutherland at Re:commerce 2026 to look at how modern corporate structures are accidentally sabotaging their own long-term success.

In this clip, Rory drops a brilliant, brutally honest analogy on why optimising individual departments for short-term financial gains is a recipe for system-wide failure:

💡 A finance or procurement team installs self-checkouts, drastically reduces supermarket headcount, and claims a nice bonus for "saving money."

💡 Six months down the line, a massive shoplifting epidemic hits the business. Why? Because as Rory points out, "nobody feels that bad nicking from a machine."

💡 The individuals who claimed credit for the short-term win are never held responsible for the long-term, compounding consequences.

When corporate silos force individual teams to optimise only their small part of the puzzle, the overall business suffers. You cannot optimise the whole by sub-optimising the parts.

#RorySutherland #BehavioralScience

08/06/2026

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZKxkPXsW3n/?igsh=dmw2NDZnZHF3azVn

Ever wondered why the supermarket self-checkout experience feels so fundamentally broken? 🛒 Our Founder and CEO, Kevin Gibbons, sat down with Rory Sutherland at Re:commerce 2026 to look at how modern corporate structures are accidentally sabotaging their own long-term success. In this clip, Rory drops a brilliant, brutally honest analogy on why optimising individual departments for short-term financial gains is a recipe for system-wide failure: 💡 A finance or procurement team installs self-checkouts, drastically reduces supermarket headcount, and claims a nice bonus for "saving money." 💡 Six months down the line, a massive shoplifting epidemic hits the business. Why? Because as Rory points out, "nobody feels that bad nicking from a machine." 💡 The individuals who claimed credit for the short-term win are never held responsible for the long-term, compounding consequences. When corporate silos force individual teams to optimise only their small part of the puzzle, the overall business suffers. You cannot optimise the whole by sub-optimising the parts. #RorySutherland #BehavioralScience

19/05/2026

why not........

12/05/2026

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KW_bvB33kBc

Hannah Fry 284K likes, 11K comments. "The most beautiful invention of all time"

02/05/2026

Not Gordon Ramsay but a top NZ chef Ben Shewry who cleary understands and applies SIPOC learnings correctly.........

11/04/2026

Heading out to the streets of Santiago

Salesman explains why discounts kills value.

02/03/2026

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AcAv6B6tmeQ

"Discounting trains negotiators, removing value trains buyers"

Salesman explains why discounts kills value. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.