19 October 2022, Amora Hotel Jamison Sydney
Managing Director
Learning Ventures
Managing Director
Learning Ventures
Evelyn is an entrepreneur with 40 years commercial and business experience. Her belief that leadership really matters to delivering business results has crafted her last 20 years in the Leadership and Learning and Development space.
As Managing Director of Learning Ventures, she is a 4 x time finalist and winner of both AHRI and AITD Awards in categories of Leadership Development, Talent Development and Innovation & Creativity in Learning. In 2021 Evelyn and Learning Ventures won the AHRI Award for Best Leadership Development Program. Her belief is that great cultures and leaders can deliver measurable returns.
Evelyn’s passion for leadership led to her role as Curator of the about to be published book “Leadership Lessons”. This book is a collection of short stories from Leaders in Australia including CEO’s Politicians and Social Entrepreneurs about their leadership lesson from the pandemic years. As a business owner, mum of 2 boys, volunteer fire fighter, mentor to women in leadership in the Pacific Islands, and kayaker, Evelyn brings a variety of perspectives to the table.
Regional Director-ANZ
Whatfix
Regional Director-ANZ
Whatfix
At Whatfix, Sri is responsible for driving business outcomes for Whatfix’s customers and expanding Whatfix’s footprint within enterprises in the Asia Pacific. With 16 years of technology delivery (read: generous experience in failed projects), business consulting, and sales in the US, India, and Australia, Sri has had a ring-side view to digital transformation, and the many slips between the cup and the lip.
The workplace has changed dramatically – with the great reshuffle, hybrid ways of working, and skills shortages as the backdrop – setting the conditions for workforce capability development is the one of the most pressing challenges organisations face today. How can our leaders and organisations prime their people to actively pursue learning with the ultimate outcome of growth: in our people, businesses and communities.
Head of Organisational Development & Learning
Vocus
Head of Organisational Development & Learning
Vocus
Jason has over 10 years of experience in identifying, assessing and developing talent at executive levels, having done so with some of Australia’s most respected consulting firms, for himself running his own business, as well as partnering closely with organisations to deliver from within. A few years ago, Jason was awarded the prestigious Australian Psychological Society’s national excellence award for leadership development and was a runner-up for the Australian Human Resources Industry award for talent. While Jason is an organisational psychologist by profession, he also operates in the clinical domain as a counselling psychologist, supporting the community to overcome mental health challenges while simultaneously focusing on personal growth and fulfilment. Jason’s purpose is to enable others to deliver more value through creating meaning and fulfilment in their professional and personal lives. Working across dual-settings, Jason’s areas of expertise span people strategy, leadership development, culture transformation, talent management, capability development, psychometric assessment, and personal transformation.
Organisations are facing an extremely challenging business environment. The rapid pace of change, global competition and changing customer preferences makes it crucial for organisations to equip their leaders with the necessary skills to manage disruption. In this session, Australia’s top companies will discuss how they are shaping their leaders to become agile, forward-thinking and resilient to change.
Managing Director
Learning Ventures
Managing Director
Learning Ventures
Evelyn is an entrepreneur with 40 years commercial and business experience. Her belief that leadership really matters to delivering business results has crafted her last 20 years in the Leadership and Learning and Development space.
As Managing Director of Learning Ventures, she is a 4 x time finalist and winner of both AHRI and AITD Awards in categories of Leadership Development, Talent Development and Innovation & Creativity in Learning. In 2021 Evelyn and Learning Ventures won the AHRI Award for Best Leadership Development Program. Her belief is that great cultures and leaders can deliver measurable returns.
Evelyn’s passion for leadership led to her role as Curator of the about to be published book “Leadership Lessons”. This book is a collection of short stories from Leaders in Australia including CEO’s Politicians and Social Entrepreneurs about their leadership lesson from the pandemic years. As a business owner, mum of 2 boys, volunteer fire fighter, mentor to women in leadership in the Pacific Islands, and kayaker, Evelyn brings a variety of perspectives to the table.
Global Leadership and Talent Development Leader
Lion
Global Leadership and Talent Development Leader
Lion
Samantha is the Global Leadership & Talent Leader for Lion. She works across the organisation to facilitate cultural shifts, optimise performance, and create the conditions where people can thrive.
Sam’s 20+year career spans leadership and talent development, cultural transformation, Head of People and Culture roles and she is an accredited coach.
Her experience spans multiple industries ranging from financial services, travel and tourism, retail, technology, insurance, and consumer goods.
Head of People and Culture ANZ
Fujitsu Australia
Head of People and Culture ANZ
Fujitsu Australia
Sarah has over 25 years’ experience in Human Resources with a post-graduate diploma from Macquarie Graduate School of Management. Her broad generalist experience covers several industries both blue and white collar.
In her current role, she has been responsible for driving meaningful organisational change and transformation which resulted in a significant improvement in culture.
As a member of the Executive team, Sarah’s current strategic people focus is Inspirational Leadership that creates community connection and Wellbeing and Engagement of our people.
Talent and Development Lead
AstraZeneca
Talent and Development Lead
AstraZeneca
Clare Di Leva is a Learning and Development professional with experience in the Professional Services, Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industries. Clare has led L&D teams both in Europe and Australia focused on transforming learning cultures, designing and delivering learning experiences and equipping leaders with the skills to empower, inspire and coach their people and teams to succeed. Her passion lies in developing leadership development programs that focus on enabling organisations to achieve their business priorities as well as empowering people and teams to perform at their best.
Senior Enterprise Account Executive
Coursera
Senior Enterprise Account Executive
Coursera
Shivan has worked with numerous Australian enterprise level organisations, the challenges that he constantly hears is the difficulty to find and attract the right talent, manage talent as “individuals” and upskill and train staff to prepare them for digital transformation, which is affecting every industry.
As a senior sales executive for Coursera For Business, Shivan’s and his team partner with clients to provide the best education from over 200 universities and partners globally that enable organisations to drive their skills transformation initiatives.
Coursera’s belief is that learning empowers us to change and grow and redefine what is possible. That is why we partner with the best institutions in the world to bring the best learning to every corner of the world.
Remote experiential learning — sounds kind of like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? Pivoting to deliver successful, engaging, impactful experiential learning in digital and hybrid environments has required L&D teams to do more than merely replicate their old, in-person offerings. Instead, they’ve had to reimagine them, experiment, iterate and monitor the outcomes. Join this discussion focused on how learning leaders are pushing boundaries and rethinking the traditional in order to deliver powerful, transformative digital learning and development.
Regional Director-ANZ
Whatfix
Regional Director-ANZ
Whatfix
At Whatfix, Sri is responsible for driving business outcomes for Whatfix’s customers and expanding Whatfix’s footprint within enterprises in the Asia Pacific. With 16 years of technology delivery (read: generous experience in failed projects), business consulting, and sales in the US, India, and Australia, Sri has had a ring-side view to digital transformation, and the many slips between the cup and the lip.
How we build company culture has never been more important, and every aspect of our communication is fundamental to ensuring our culture is consistently nurtured. This workshop will empower your teams to understand the role that great comms plays in not only supporting them to produce their best work, but in creating a more positive, collaborative and confident culture.
Productivity Ninja
Think Productive
Productivity Ninja
Think Productive
Gavin Nelson is a certified Productivity Ninja, professional facilitator, and learning and development specialist practitioner.
Having spent many years of working life in the corporate world, Gavin has first-hand knowledge and experience to understand the pressures faced in today’s fast-paced environment.
Gavin’s passionate about helping people – by understanding what motivates them, their wants, and their needs.
He has experience in multinational, large and small organisations as well as leading sporting organisations. This provides a broad perspective when discussing productivity, stress management, mindfulness and work life balance.
Gavin’s style has been described as “a great facilitator”, “engages well with everyone”, and “super-helpful”.
Employees are seeking greater flexibility in their work and this transition includes the evolution of the learning experience. How can organisations find the balance between collaborative in-person learning activities and investing in hybrid options? Hear how Australia’s top companies are evolving their learning strategies to effectively engage hybrid workers.
Managing Director
Learning Ventures
Managing Director
Learning Ventures
Evelyn is an entrepreneur with 40 years commercial and business experience. Her belief that leadership really matters to delivering business results has crafted her last 20 years in the Leadership and Learning and Development space.
As Managing Director of Learning Ventures, she is a 4 x time finalist and winner of both AHRI and AITD Awards in categories of Leadership Development, Talent Development and Innovation & Creativity in Learning. In 2021 Evelyn and Learning Ventures won the AHRI Award for Best Leadership Development Program. Her belief is that great cultures and leaders can deliver measurable returns.
Evelyn’s passion for leadership led to her role as Curator of the about to be published book “Leadership Lessons”. This book is a collection of short stories from Leaders in Australia including CEO’s Politicians and Social Entrepreneurs about their leadership lesson from the pandemic years. As a business owner, mum of 2 boys, volunteer fire fighter, mentor to women in leadership in the Pacific Islands, and kayaker, Evelyn brings a variety of perspectives to the table.
Global Head of Learning & Development & Head of People & Culture Australia
Enero Group
Global Head of Learning & Development & Head of People & Culture Australia
Enero Group
Sarah is the Global Head of Learning & Development and Head of People & Culture – Australia, for the ‘Enero Group’, as ASX-listed international network of marketing and communication businesses located in 13 countries around the world. Country born and bred, Sarah commenced her career more than 15 years ago in HR roles for multinational food and beverage organisations ‘Stuart Alexander’ and ‘Lion’. Since 2013, Sarah has been an integral member of the Enero Group, developing, training, and coaching their 600+ team members across the world. Sarah’s personal journey of overcoming adversity has led to the shaping of her professional outlook: to lead with passion and empower the people around her to flourish and be the best they can be both personally and professionally. She knows instinctively that life can be hard – however demonstrates to people the power of showing up to emotions, being authentic, vulnerable, and intentional in leadership.
Head of Organisational Development & Business Partnering
humm group
Head of Organisational Development & Business Partnering
humm group
Stephanie is an experienced strategic people and culture leader who specialises in organisational transformation through aligning organisational design, culture and performance to create sustainable organisational culture change and inclusive leadership to maximise business performance outcomes.
Her passion for transforming the people experience at all stages of organisational growth has seen her setting up a HR function in a rapid growth consultancy scale-up (Across Australian, New Zealand, United States and Canada); transforming the people and customer experience within a large health organisation; and completely redesigning and transforming the organisational design, from a dated Financial Service Company into a fast-moving Fintech within an ASX listed environment (Across Australian, New Zealand, Ireland, United Kingdom and Canada).
Head of Talent Management, Leadership and Learning
ING Australia
Head of Talent Management, Leadership and Learning
ING Australia
“Michael is a pragmatic and progressive HR leader, who’s passionate about empowering and unlocking the potential of people. He finds it fulfilling to see his people achieve professional and personal success.
Culture + Capability + Change = a winning combination for what Michael gets the most energy out of.
He loves to learn and considers himself a true HR generalist. Michael has immersed himself in various HR roles during his career, everything from Senior HR Business Partnering, Talent Management, Leadership, Capability & Development and HR Operations to name a few. The best part is he has developed this experience across a diverse range of industries and cultures.”
A/Director Education & Skills Digital
TAFE Digital
A/Director Education & Skills Digital
TAFE Digital
TAFE Digital is the online provider for TAFE NSW. TAFE Digital provides online education to over 100,000 students in NSW, Australia and overseas. Linda’s portfolio includes Cyber Academy, a collaboration with Deloitte and the University of Wollongong, the Women in Business Program, byte size learning and social engagement for 15 000 female entrepreneurs and Ear Train, an Aboriginal Closing the Gap initiative.
Linda has 20 years’ experience in in the higher education and vocational education sector in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. She started her career as a lawyer, followed by roles with global consulting firms. Linda is passionate about using technologies to provide more students with improved access to employment outcomes.
Learning analytics can be a powerful tool to better understand employee trends and create positive learning experiences for a diverse workforce. In this session, Ingrid will demonstrate how L&D leaders can draw data from online and blended learning activities to support employees’ learning objectives.
Director of People, Pacific
CBRE
Director of People, Pacific
CBRE
Ingrid Massey leads the People function for CBRE across the Pacific, working within a global organisation to ensure HR strategy and transformation programs translate to business outcomes and performance. Ingrid is responsible for driving high performance, developing talent and creating inclusive cultures, and has a solid understanding of how People & Culture can partner effectively to achieve business strategy and results. Ingrid’s passion is developing leadership capability and coaching others, driving cultural change and enabling careers. Prior to her role in commercial real estate, Ingrid spent twenty years in talent and learning roles within the airline and travel industries, financial services and fast moving consumer goods.
For at least a decade, gamification proponents have claimed that gamification has the potential to revolutionise learning. Numerous platforms and applications have been rolled out with promises of improving performance and increasing motivation. While it is hard to dispute the potential of gamification, the reality is yet to reach those lofty aspirations. This session will discuss how to apply gamification to produce engaging and effective learning opportunities.
Learning Designer
NSW Department of Education
Learning Designer
NSW Department of Education
Claire Seldon works as a Learning Designer with the NSW Department of Education. and a lecturer in Learning Design at the University of Technology Sydney. She was previously a Science and Technology high school teacher. She uses her teaching and ICT background to create student centered, interactive, online resources with a focus on gamification and emerging VR/AR/MR experiences.
Lecturer, Learning Design
University of Technology Sydney
Lecturer, Learning Design
University of Technology Sydney
Dr Keith Heggart is an early career researcher with a focus on learning and instructional design, educational technology and civics and citizenship education. He is currently exploring the way that online learning platforms can assist in the formation of active citizenship amongst Australian youth.
Keith is a former high school teacher, having worked as a school leader in Australia and overseas, in government and non-government sectors. In addition, he has worked as an Organiser for the Independent Education Union of Australia, and as an independent Learning Designer for a range of organisations.
Employee engagement continues to be a key concern for organisations which presents a unique opportunity to leverage workplace learning to meet changing employee motivators. How can organisations create learning opportunities to actively engage employees? In this session, L&D leaders will discuss how to promote a self-driven learning culture to boost employee engagement.
Customer Success Manager-APAC
Udemy
Customer Success Manager-APAC
Udemy
As an Enterprise CSM, Natasha partners with L&D leaders in driving success strategies to equip a hybrid workforce with the ability to upskill, re-skill and cross-skill.
Her passion for promoting a growth mindset has only increased over the years and is at her happiest when developing programmes that engage learners and enhance the learner experience, to promote lifelong learning and a thirst for knowledge.
Head of Learning, IB&M
Commonwealth Bank
Head of Learning, IB&M
Commonwealth Bank
Megan Bennett is the Head of Learning for Institutional Banking and Markets (IB&M) at the Commonwealth Bank. Her focus is developing a culture where learning is ongoing, flexible, experiential and meaningful. Her team’s mantra is “we create learners not learning.”
As a psychologist and certified organisational coach, Megan has spent her career helping individuals and teams operate consistently at their best. She also has extensive experience leading learning and OD teams and projects across multiple industries including Finance/Fintech, Proptech and Consulting.
GM Organisation Development & Corporate
Stockland
GM Organisation Development & Corporate
Stockland
James Allan has worked in a range of senior HR roles over 20 years advising large, complex organisations going through major transformational change, including Deloitte, Qantas and currently Stockland.
Many of these roles have involved working closely with senior leaders to enhance capability and evolve culture towards new strategic priorities.
Earlier career experiences in the professional sports sector, consulting and front-line sales have helped James develop diverse perspectives and networks.
He lives in Sydney with his wife and two girls, maintains close ties to his homeland in New Zealand, is an avid non-fiction reader, and has recently started following major league baseball.
Director of People, Pacific
CBRE
Director of People, Pacific
CBRE
Ingrid Massey leads the People function for CBRE across the Pacific, working within a global organisation to ensure HR strategy and transformation programs translate to business outcomes and performance. Ingrid is responsible for driving high performance, developing talent and creating inclusive cultures, and has a solid understanding of how People & Culture can partner effectively to achieve business strategy and results. Ingrid’s passion is developing leadership capability and coaching others, driving cultural change and enabling careers. Prior to her role in commercial real estate, Ingrid spent twenty years in talent and learning roles within the airline and travel industries, financial services and fast moving consumer goods.
Learning & Development Manager
Car Next Door
Learning & Development Manager
Car Next Door
Ben has been a Learning Professional for the past 7 years working across a range of industries focused on developing digital strategies to assist with inducting employees across call centres in Australia and in the Philippines, also facilitating leadership programs to build skills and capabilities of aspiring and existing leaders. Ben has recently completed his Graduate Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, with a focus on expanding the Internet of Things to improve productivity, create a sustainable future and reduce costs. Ben has also won an innovation award for his augmented reality learning program (via Microsoft Hololens) to teach frontline bank employees how to manage their emotions during bank robberies and highly stressful situations.