Welcome and opening remarks from the chairperson

Treasa Branagan
Co-Founder and Director
The Culture Movement
19 October 2022, Amora Hotel Jamison Sydney
Co-Founder and Director
The Culture Movement
Co-Founder and Director
The Culture Movement
Treasa Branagan is the Co-Founder and a Director at The Culture Movement, a values-driven Leadership and Organisational Development Consultancy. Her work at The Culture Movement is committed to the positive evolution of the world of work and creating inclusive workplaces where people and businesses thrive. Treasa has more than 20 years of experience in learning and development, organisational development and human resource management, having held senior leadership roles in the Financial Services, Technology and Hospitality sectors. Her experience includes building and implementing human resources frameworks for startup organisations; developing and implementing workforce management, learning frameworks for large IT corporations to building human resources strategy, culture, diversity and leadership transformation programs. Her previous positions include Head of People and Culture at 1Cover Travel Insurance Group and Head of Learning and Organisational Development at NTT Australia (previously Dimension Data Australia). Treasa holds a Bachelor of Business degree with a major in Human Resource Management (WIT, Ireland). She holds a Cert IV in Training and Assessment, Hogan Assessment Certification, Coaching Level 1 Certification from the Institute of Executive Coaching, and is a Certified Online learning facilitator.
It has never been a more critical time to build constructive organisational cultures. Training provides organisations with an opportunity for employees to reflect on their behaviours so they may actively become more constructive. Integrating cognitive reflection into the instructional design process creates deep and reflective learning experiences.
Founder
Training Culture
Founder
Training Culture
Andres Jonmundsson (AJ), is the founder of Training Culture, a training and coaching organisation specialising in developing leaders. Having over 22 years as an organisational learning and development professional, AJ has held executive roles across varied industries including Banking, IT Consulting, Manufacturing and Pharmaceuticals. AJ is also a practising therapist and coach for professionals looking to optimise performance while maintaining physical and psychological well-being.
The World Economic Forum estimates that almost one-third of all jobs worldwide are likely to be transformed by technology in the next decade and every member of the workforce will need to continuously expand their skillset. It’s important for organisations to cultivate a culture of internal mobility to give employees access to on-the-job learning opportunities and to retain employees. Join this session to discuss key ideas around:
Director, LinkedIn Talent Solutions
LinkedIn Learning
Director, LinkedIn Talent Solutions
LinkedIn Learning
David Bellas is a Director for LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions business for Australia and New Zealand. David and his team are responsible for helping organisation the way they plan, hire, and develop talent. This is possible through the disruptive technology and unique data and insights from LinkedIn’s 800 million members and 57 million companies.
He is passionate about investing in people, everything sales, turning business visions into reality and working with customers to meet their business objectives.
Over the past 9 years at LinkedIn, David has had the opportunity to lead the growth and distribution efforts across all sectors at LinkedIn. When LinkedIn acquired Lynda.com in 2015, an online learning company, David was appointed as Head of Learning for Australia and New Zealand and helped oversee the successful transition to LinkedIn Learning.
Over the past several years David has been recognised with awards such as Diversity and Inclusion Manager of the Year and LinkedIn Manager of the Year and has a reputation for inspiring, coaching and developing talent.
A recent Gallup research study found that employees don’t leave companies, they leave managers, and these managers account for 70% of the variance relating to engagement, retention, and performance. In this session, we will discuss how Whole Brain® Thinking has helped organisations improve team engagement, increase job satisfaction, decrease turnover, and drive performance.
CEO
Herrmann Asia
CEO
Herrmann Asia
After working closely with Ned Herrmann, Michael founded Herrmann International Asia in 1988 and remains its Chief Executive.
For over 30 years, the Whole Brain® Model has been his passion and he is one of the region’s leading experts on how the HBDI® can stimulate innovation and creativity in the workplace.
Over three decades, Michael has worked with some of Australia and Asia Pacific’s largest industrial, pharmaceutical, technological, educational and financial organisations. Through Whole Brain® Thinking, he has helped them develop and harness the true power and potential of their workforces. Using this powerful and scientific instrument, he has helped people at all levels develop a recognition and appreciation of their individual thinking styles. These transformative insights have enabled individuals to become more creative, intuitive, analytical and productive. He has helped teams communicate and collaborate more effectively and better appreciate one another’s vital contribution to achieving their shared goals.
Michael’s approach is to apply the principles of the Whole Brain® Model to stimulate innovative and problem-solving thinking that will be relevant to the client’s business model and drive bottom line results.
As well as delivering programs, Michael is a keynote speaker who has addressed professional audiences from a broad range of categories across Asia. He’s also the author of two seminal books – Making Innovation Happen and Creating Workforce Innovation. When he’s not working, Michael likes to use all four quadrants of his brain in the relaxing but sometimes challenging past-time of sailing.
Engaging your team in their online L&D is critical to expanding learning opportunities and enhancing the learning experience, yet it is common for companies to slight this portion of the development and focus more on compliance and shortchanging the eLearning content itself. Without a dynamic, inclusive eLearning content, you risk diminishing the ROI and impact of your eLearning investment. In this session, Kristian has identified a few ways L&D professionals can build an organised, streamlined, and engaging program:
Creative Director at eCreators
OpenLMS
Creative Director at eCreators
OpenLMS
Kristian has over 13 years’ experience in the design and technology industry. He has produced innovative and exciting design solutions for some of the largest companies globally including Electronic Arts (EA) and GDF Suez (ENGIE). He holds a Bachelor of Design and an Advanced Diploma in Screen & Media.
Kristian has led many eLearning design projects across the government and education sectors and has been recognised for leading a group of very talented instructional designers at the LearnX Live awards 2020 with a platinum title of Best Talented Design Team. He has also been awarded Best Overall Independent Game at the Pixologic Zbrush Awards and won the Independent Game Development title at the Australian Freeplay Awards.
Inclusion has taken centre stage in the culture agenda for many organisations. In this session, we take a look at how a learning culture is essential for achieving inclusive cultures and leadership. We will explore the interconnectedness between learning and the inclusion agenda, and how learning is a key tenant for the business case for inclusion.
Co-Founder and Director
The Culture Movement
Co-Founder and Director
The Culture Movement
Emma Jacob is a leadership and culture specialist and is the co-founder and Director at The Culture Movement, a leadership and organisational development consultancy. Emma has spent the past two decades in the people & culture field, delivering tactically and strategically to nurture talent, shape company culture and drive high performance teams. At The Culture Movement, Emma designs and delivers executive leadership programs that enable authentic and inclusive workplaces. Emma is also a leadership coach and holds a Bachelor of Social Science at UNSW.
Organisations need to rethink their learning strategies to find the right balance between focus and collaboration, avoiding disconnection and over-connection in hybrid work settings. How do we shift learning and development mindsets to help make great work happen, individually and collectively? This session will discuss implementing new rules of engagement for how we communicate and collaborate in a hybrid working environment.
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”.
The L&D function is creating more data than ever before. This has led to increasing pressure on L&D leaders to weave this information into compelling data stories about L&D alignment with business strategy, assessment of capability gaps and the success of learning interventions. Join TEDx speaker and StoryIQ CEO Isaac Reyes in this highly interactive workshop that will see participants apply a simple five step framework for creating effective L&D data stories.
Co-Founder and CEO
StoryIQ
Co-Founder and CEO
StoryIQ
Isaac Reyes, Co-Founder at StoryIQ is a TEDx speaker, international keynote presenter and thought leader in data storytelling. He was the keynote speaker at the 2019 Open Data Science Conference in Brazil and over 2018-2019, his “Art of Data Storytelling” speaking tour visited 26 cities across 5 continents. A data scientist by profession, his ultimate goal is to empower every organization to derive value from data.