488: Auditing Portfolios and Pressure-Testing Strategy with Lauren Brechner
32m | Sep 29, 2026Many learning portfolios accumulate over time—a Webinar added here, a course there—until nobody’s quite sure which offerings are still earning their keep and whether, collectively, they reflect what the organization is trying to accomplish.
In this episode of the Leading Learning Podcast, co-host Celisa Steele talks with Lauren Brechner, founder of Ember Forge. Lauren shares how a portfolio audit can double as a pressure test of a learning business’s strategy, why she recommends focusing on a handful of flagship offerings rather than tackling an entire catalog at once, and how her background in marketing and digital experience design shapes the way she diagnoses what’s really behind an underperforming offering.
Show notes and a downloadable transcript are available at https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode488.
