Tom McDowall

Wales, UK

Tom McDowall is a proponent of evidence-informed practice for people professionals, a consultant, speaker, and writer. He runs Evolve L&D, chairs the IDTX event series, and shares insight articles on the Instructional Design Tips Substack.

Sep

The Cost of Working Alone

I want to be careful about how strongly I put this, because ours is a field with a long history of big brain-related claims, but there are some things that we know: Isolation appears to degrade the quality of our thinking.

23 Sep 2026

7 min read