Building Learning Infrastructure For The AI Era

People are already learning with AI. The question is whether L&D helps shape that learning, or gets left handing out content no one asked for.

Mirza Selimovic’s story does not begin in a classroom or a corporate learning team. It begins with resilience. As a refugee from Bosnia, a first-generation graduate, and someone who wrote his dissertation while his newborn son was in the NICU, Mirza brings a deeply human lens to learning, growth, and leadership.

In this episode, I speak with Mirza about what happens when L&D stops acting like a content function and starts working closer to the business. His view is grounded in adult learning theory, shaped by real operational pressure, and sharpened by the speed of AI. Learning, for Mirza, is not just an art or a science. It is both, and the best teams know how to hold those two ideas together.

Some curious takeaways:

Design learning around real business problems, not requests for more content
Use AI to test, build, and learn faster without losing sight of the human need
Give teams the infrastructure to solve local learning problems with shared guidance

Episode highlights:

(00:00) Welcome to Harald’s Curious Corner

(00:33) How resilience shaped Mirza’s view of learning

(02:18) Writing a doctorate from the NICU

(04:28) Finding the path from healthcare to L&D

(05:06) Building a corporate university that changed culture

(07:32) Why adult learning theory still matters

(09:47) What AI is forcing L&D to rethink

(11:40) Moving fast without losing business focus

(13:41) Why L&D is becoming an enablement architect

(16:58) What happens when people learn without L&D

Connect with the guest:

Dr. Mirza Selimovic, EdD on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/merzudinselimovic/

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Harald Overaa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haraldovera/

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