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Britt Andreatta
CEO of 7th Mind, Inc.Dr. Britt Andreatta is an internationally recognized thought leader who creates brain science–based solutions for today’s challenges. As CEO and President of 7th Mind, Inc., Britt Andreatta draws on her unique background in leadership, neuroscience, psychology, and learning to unlock the best in people and organizations.
Britt has published several titles including Wired to Connect: The Brain Science of Teams and a New Model for Creating Collaboration and Inclusion, Wired to Grow: Harness the Power of Brain Science to Learn and Master Any Skill and Wired to Resist: The Brain Science of Why Change Fails and a New Model for Driving Success. Upcoming books focus on the neuroscience of purpose and the conscious evolution of organizations.
Former Chief Learning Officer for Lynda.com (now LinkedIn Learning), Britt is a seasoned professional with more than 25 years of experience. She regularly consults with businesses, universities, and nonprofit organizations on leadership development and learning strategy. She was named a Top 20 Influencer for 2020.
Corporate clients include Fortune 100 companies like Comcast and Apple, and also Ernst & Young, Microsoft, Domino’s, LinkedIn, Franklin Covey, TransUnion, Avvo, Rust-Oleum, Alter Eco Foods, and Zillow.
William Aruda
Co-Founder of CareerBlast.TVWilliam Arruda is a motivational speaker and the world’s leading authority on the topic of personal branding. He’s the bestselling author of the definitive books on the topic Digital YOU, Career Distinction and Ditch. Dare. Do! William is the Chief Encouragement Officer of Reach and co-founder of CareerBlast.TV – a personal branding video learning platform for innovative organizations. William is a senior contributor to Forbes where he shares his thoughts on talent development and branding.
Raman K Attri
Senior Global Technical Training & Learning Manager at KLA CorporationDr Raman K Attri is a performance scientist and an author with over 25 years of international experience, specializing in competitive strategies to reduce time to proficiency of employees. An organizational learning leader, he manages a Hall of the Fame training organization, named one among the top 5 in the world, at a $30bn technology corporation. He is the world’s leading authority on speed, specializing in speeding up human learning, expertise, and performance. An accomplished business researcher, he runs a forum XpertX, making evidence-driven organizational research on accelerating learning and performance accessible to senior leaders. He guides leaders and professionals on research-based best practices, models, and frameworks to address daunting performance problems at the workplace. Passionate about learning, he has been awarded with over 100 international educational credentials and nominated for some of the world’s highest certifications. He is a double doctorate in human performance and learning. A humble inspirer, he speaks internationally on strategies to excel at an accelerated rate in professional and organizational life. A prolific author of 20 multi-genre books, he writes about the deeper aspects of human excellence, learning, capabilities, performance, expertise, and training.
Nader Bechini - Facilitator, ATD Master Trainer, Association for Talent Development (ATD)
Director – MENA of The ROI InstituteNader is passionate about assisting people and organizations improve and maximize their performance and bottom line results. His life mission is to support others to strengthen their abilities to inspire, influence and create an impact.
He is the founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute and the director of ROI Institute in the MENA region.
he is also global facilitator with the Association of Talent Development (ATD).
For more than 19 years he led human performance improvement projects, programs and initiatives, in more than 30 countries in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia.
Nader has received several awards for his achievements. On two occasions, ROI Institute awarded him for the best international implementation of the ROI Methodology. The Moroccan Society for Human Resource presented him an award for the best African HR expert in 2019. His articles in learning and development has been translated to Korean, Russian, Chinese, French, Arabic and Spanish.
Nader facilitates workshops, consults with organizations, and speaks at conferences worldwide. He has been interviewed by several radio and TV programs in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, France, and Algeria.
Nader holds a Master degree in Marketing from University of Tunis Elmanar, Tunisia.
Lysia Bell
Senior Account Executive at Go1Lysia joined Go1 3 years ago to continue her passion of working with businesses to achieve their outcomes in an effective and collaborative manner. Lysia's extensive experience consulting with enterprise and mid-market organisations allows her to understand and therefore assist to deliver positive and measurable outcomes.
Brandon Carson
Author of Learning in the Age of Immediacy; Director of Learning at Delta AirlinesBrandon Carson is a strategic business leader with a proven record in learning and organizational development, instructional design, leadership training, curriculum development, orientation programs, sales training and performance consulting. Brandon is a transformational and forward-looking leader focused on aligning business and human capital strategies to achieve desired outcomes. As Director of Learning at Delta Air Lines, he is responsible for learning and development for the company's global airport operations. As a practitioner, educator, and business leader, Brandon has developed extensive expertise in the areas of talent management, leadership development, technical and compliance training, influence and change management, and innovative training design. Brandon holds an M.Ed in Educational Technology, a BA in Business, and certification in advanced analysis. His forthcoming book, "L&D's Playbook for the Digital Age" presents a tactical plan for formulating digital learning strategies. It's available for pre-order at td.org/books/l-ds-playbook-for-the-digital-age.
Seema Nagrath Menon - ATD Facilitator, Association for Talent Development (ATD)
Talent Development Architect & MD at CALM Worldwide- LIVE MINI-BOOTCAMP: Agile Learning: Creating Innovative Learning Solutions
- Industry Disrupted: The Future of Work & How it will Reshape L&D
Seema Nagrath Menon is the Managing Director & Founder of CALM Worldwide (Center for Action in Learning Management), a professional and dynamic Management & Learning Consultancy.
Seema is a Talent Development Architect, ATD Expert Master Facilitator, Emotional Intelligence Specialist, Marshall Goldsmith SC Leadership Coach & International Speaker based in Dubai. As a Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD®) and a qualified COTU-BPS (Level A & B) from Cambridge University, she has been working internationally in the fields of leadership development, learning strategy, instructional design and emotional intelligence for 20+ years. She is an expert in the Neuroscience of Learning and has trained as a Leadership and Emotional Intelligence specialist, at Yale University and Case Western Reserve University.
Her principal area of experience and expertise has been in designing and delivery of interactive and innovative developmental learning programs, aimed at facilitating the enhancement of targeted skills in her clientele globally. Using her cross-cultural international business exposure to add value and positively influence the life of her clients in global business she has coached executives and leaders for peak performance and worked with major organizations in Europe, Asia, Middle East and all-over North America.
Avinash Chandarana
Global Learning and Development Director of MCI Group
Wendy Chow
Senior Vice President, Learning & Development at LazadaWendy has been in the Learning and Development domain for over 2 decades, where she has held global and regional roles covering a wide array of industries such as retail, hospitality, banking and now in e-commerce. Her multi-industry and global experience is underlined by her key experience in scaling learning transformations and technologies. She has a demonstrated track record of designing contextualized learning and human capital solutions to support business transformation and growth strategies.
Wendy is deeply passionate about optimizing the potential of organizations and people through a strong culture of innovation and continuous learning. A firm believer in life-long learning, Wendy embraces the latest technologies and new working methodologies that drive the exponential digitization at both the organization and national level.
Kimberly Devlin
Managing Director of EdTrek, Inc.A popular writer, speaker, and facilitator, Kimberly (CPTD) leverages her communication skills and industry-leading expertise to help organizations attain business goals with highly effective learning events and other initiatives. She has authored ATD’s best-selling Customer Service Training and Facilitation Skills Training as well as Same Training Half the Time, Don’t Waste My Time, and Focus on This Not That. Visit her blog at kimberlydevlin.com.
Maud Durand
EMEA & LATAM L&D Partner at Facebook- A Vision for The Future: Talent acquisition & talent development to future proof your workforce planning
- Conversation with Maud Durand
More than a decade ago Maud started the most fascinating journey, working in the Human Resources world. She is a passionate person for whom the greatest career achievement to date is to bring out the best in talent and being surrounded by the people that encourage her to be everyday a better human being and professional.
After a few years as an HR Generalist in France, she entered the magic world of working internationally, across hundreds of countries globally, as a Recruiting Specialist. With LinkedIn and then Facebook, she had the chance to design and implement Strategic Sourcing models that involved: Being a strong business partner, strategically and proactively designing creative ways to talent map, surface top notch talents, engage, coach and bring them all the way to an offer!
Two years ago she made a new turn in her career and became a Learning & Development Partner for Facebook EMEA & LATAM. She is now working on enabling the amazing potentials of the talents that surround her. She’s a partner, teacher and advocate to her Recruiting & Sourcing colleagues. She ensures they have the guidance and resources to turn their high-impact work into the talents Facebook needs now and in the future.
Elizabeth Faber
Chief Talent Officer at Deloitte Asia PacificElizabeth Faber is the Chief Talent Officer for Deloitte Asia Pacific. She is member of the firm’s Executive Committee. She represents AP on the Global Executive Talent Council and the Global Societal Impact Council. Within AP, she chairs the AP Talent Executive, Inclusion Council, and Societal Impact Council.
As the AP Talent leader, Elizabeth leads the AP delegation to the One Young World summit, known as the ‘Davos for millennials’, to The Hague in 2018 and London in 2019, and to the UNLEASH global innovation lab in Shenzhen in 2019.
Elizabeth was awarded the 2019 Diversity Champion Award by Campaign’s Women Leading Change, and is on the Human Resources Director Asia Hot List in 2020.
Elizabeth has has been with Deloitte 26 years. After ten years as a US Strategy & Operations practitioner, she joined the Consulting practice in Shanghai. In 2008, she moved to Singapore to help form the new Southeast Asia firm, establish the SEA Partner Affairs Office, and serve as SEA CEO Chief of Staff.
Elizabeth has an MBA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and a BS from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She and her husband of 27 years have two daughters, both born in China.
Anita Guha
CIO Talent Advisor at IBM India LimitedAnita Sinai Guha is a Harvard graduate with a proven track record driving growth and transformation by influencing organizational culture. Her experience spans a range of industries and locations including public sector, pharmaceutical, shipping, beverages, & Information Technology in India (Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai), Japan, & Austria. Was formerly a member of the Tata Administrative Services, a management cadre of the Tata Group. Has demonstrated strong capabilities to lead global teams, effectively implementing complex strategies that require interlock with stakeholders & clients, and inspired teams to excellent results & performance, while finding areas of improvement & efficiencies.
Anita's professional passions and areas of specialisation include Leadership Development, Learning, Diversity, and Talent Management. She is currently working on becoming a certified coach.
Elizabeth Hannah
Associate Director, Learning Delivery of Association for Talent Development (ATD)Elizabeth Hannah is the director of program quality, partnerships, and facilitators at the Association for Talent Development (ATD).
She is responsible for the facilitator integrated talent management strategy and its implementation for the global team of ATD facilitators. For ATD’s education program deliveries outside of the United States, she oversees facilitator recruitment, training, management, content translation and development, sales training, and logistics.
Hannah has extensive experience in successfully developing cutting-edge programs for the talent development profession, converting face-to-face programs to the virtual classroom and launching new partnership programs in Dubai and China.
Ravi Hemnani
Head - Learning & Development India at Siemens IndiaRavi is a passionate innovator in the domain of Learning & Development & enjoys working on technology, human emotions and learner experience to drive the learning impact.
As an Engineer & MBA by qualification, he brings about 2 decades of experience & expertise on topics like Organizational Development, Learning, Talent Development and Coaching, across industry.
In his current responsibilities as Head- Learning & Development, Siemens India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, he is constantly working on creating disruption in the way employees learn while focusing on addressing the needs of the modern-day learner.
He has worked with companies like Dell, Nokia and Schneider Electric in various capacities leading regional and global teams. His work has brought various global/local awards like Golden Peacock, Brandon Hall, Leapvault in the areas of Human capital development.
He is a visiting faculty to many top B-Schools and often shares his ideas as guest speaker at various L&D and management forums globally. As a person he enjoys interacting with people and is motivated by helping others grow.
Ravi Strongly believes that “The best in you comes when your dream becomes your job.”
David Hendrick Jr.
Director, Centre for Healthcare Innovation - People Development (PD) of Tan Tock Seng HospitalDavid has more than 20 years of experience in corporate training. Now with Tan Tock Seng Hospital, as part of Centre for Healthcare Innovation, he is responsible for enabling the healthcare workforce, through defining new learning pedagogies as well as developing the healthcare workforce. In his previous employment with BASF, the largest chemical company in the world, he was responsible for the opening of their Asia Pacific Learning Campus, the first, outside Germany that focused on training leaders cross Asia Pacific in this multidiscipline organisation. Previous employment also saw him with Frasers Centrepoint Limited (now called Frasers Property), being responsible for full spectrum of Learning and Organisational Development needs of it’s 3 core businesses, Frasers Centrepoint Homes, Frasers Centrepoint Malls and Frasers Hospitality. His role required him to identify opportunities to strengthen and enhance leadership capabilities.
Jennifer Homer
Vice President of Community and Branding at Association for Talent Development- Important Trends of 2021: How Agility, Communication, and Connections are Shaping the Year
- A Conversation with Jennifer Homer
Jennifer leads multiple functions at ATD including governance, the association’s awards programs, research, customer service, ATD’s Certification Institute, and a special offering for enterprises called the ATD Forum. She started at (then) ASTD in 1999 and led its public relations work. As a volunteer, Jennifer served on the executive board for the International Association of Business Communicators and was president of the D.C. chapter. She holds IABC’s Accredited Business Communicator credential.
Irene Hornero
Global Leadership Development Transformation Lead at NovartisIrene is passionate about helping leaders, teams and organizations find their purpose, navigate complexity and continuously grow. With a Master's degree in Organisational Psychology, she has 19 years of global corporate experience in different Talent Management & Leadership Development roles across a diverse set of industries: retail, consumer goods, re-insurance and healthcare.
In her current role at Novartis she is leading the transformation of Leadership Development to enable a Curious, Inspired and Unbossed Culture. She oversees the strategic direction of the LD Center of Excellence and leads the efforts to enable the conditions for leaders to engage in a deeply transformative experience. Novartis is Reimagining Leadership to reimagine Medicine by becoming a human organization that adapts to the ever-changing context.
Niamh Jordan - ATD Facilitator, Association for Talent Development (ATD)
Senior Consultant at FranklinCoveyNiamh Jordan is a highly experienced executive coach and leadership consultant with an international career spanning 22 years in executive coaching and mentoring, leadership consultancy, corporate training and learning and development. She has a Bachelor of Education with honors, from Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a master’s degree in executive coaching and mentoring from the Institute of Leadership and Management. She is a faculty member at the Institute of Healthcare Leadership and Management, a member of the Association of Coaching and a senior consultant with FranklinCovey, delivering a range of leadership topics.
Niamh is a hands-on leader capable of strategic and critical thinking, identifying potential in others and inspiring them to action. Her strength lies in liaising and building strong relationships as well as in facilitating professional development across multiple platforms while consistently displaying exceptional communication skills and a strong sense of moral and ethical principles. She demonstrates a balance of professionalism, passion and practicality in inspiring others to action.
She is currently working across a range of industries, focusing on one-on-one executive coaching, skilled facilitation, team and leadership development, action learning facilitation and coach and mentor training. Niamh has completed executive coaching and leadership consultant assignments in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Ireland, Vietnam and Thailand. She has coached, facilitated and consulted in organizations at C-suite, middle management and new graduate levels in a range of industries, including; healthcare, hospitality, aviation, education, construction, entrepreneurships, oil and gas and government entities.
Anuj Kathuria
Chief Talent Officer at Reliance BP Mobility LimitedAn Avid People Catalyst & Practitioner with versatile experience of 19+ years, Anuj is working as Chief Talent Officer at Reliance BP Mobility Limited. Affianced to his passion, he is endeavouring at the confluence of human behaviour and technology by providing strategic leadership across Organization Design, Organization Culture, HR Digitization, Talent, and Learning landscape. With enriching experience across Brands as Reliance, Accenture, Vodafone. HSBC IBM etc, he has donned various hats of Talent Strategist, Learning Architect, Employee Experience Lead , Organization Development Lead, Platform Head, Coach.
Wendy Kirkpatrick
President & Founder of Kirkpatrick PartnersWendy Kirkpatrick is the President and Founder of Kirkpatrick Partners. As a global driving force of the use and implementation of the Kirkpatrick Model, Wendy leads companies to measurable success through training and evaluation.
Wendy’s results orientation stems from over two decades of business experience in retailing, marketing and training. She has held positions as a buyer, product manager, process manager and training manager,which leveraged her ability to organize multifaceted projects and yield rapid results.
Wendy and Jim Kirkpatrick have written four books, including Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Training Evaluation. They also served as the subject matter experts for the United States Office of Personnel Management’s Training Evaluation Field Guide.
Kassy LaBorie
Founder & Principal Consultant of Kassy LaBorie ConsultingKassy is the founder & principal consultant at Kassy LaBorie Consulting. She is a virtual classroom master trainer, specializing in developing trainers, instructional designers, & producers to be engaging and effective when facilitating programs in platforms such as Zoom, WebEx, Adobe Connect, & more. She has worked with many Fortune 500 firms in a wide range of industries & sectors, including hospitality, pharma, energy, government, & more.
Jaclyn Lee
Chief Human Resources Officer at Singapore University of Technology and DesignDr Jaclyn Lee has over 25 years of HR experience and is viewed by the community as a thought leader in the areas of HR Technology and Analytics. Her experience comprises of managing a full spectrum of HR at the regional level, spearheading new HR policies and processes, managing large scale organisation change and building up a new university from scratch. She is also an active speaker both locally and internationally.
She is currently the Chief Human Resources Officer at SUTD. She has held previous roles as Senior Vice President at Certis Cisco where she managed global HR for the entire Certis group, as well as Regional HR Director for NEC Solutions Asia Pacific. At NEC Corp, she led the region’s HR directors in managing HR for the South Asia Region.
Jaclyn is the author of “Accelerating Organisation Culture Change” (Emerald Publishing). This book is a culmination of her research work in the area of culture transformation through the use of digital tools.
She has a PhD in Business Information Systems from Twente University, Master Degree in Business from Singapore Management University, Master of HRM From Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Brandon University.
Peck Kem Low
CHRO & Advisor at Singapore Public Service Division, Prime Minister’s OfficeAs the Chief HR Officer and Advisor (Workforce Development) for the Public Service Division, Prime Minister’s Office of Singapore, Peck Kem is responsible for professionalising HR in the public sector of 16 Ministries and more than 60 Statutory Boards.
She is also the elected President of the Singapore Human Resources Institute (SHRI).
Prior to her current appointment at the PSD, she was the Senior Director for HR & OD for a not for profit organization, The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) based in Geneva, where she was responsible for HR, OD, Legal, Internal Audit and Corporate Administration for the 15 global offices at GAIN.
Peck Kem has the unique combination of experience from a quality engineer to manufacturing manager to VP Human resources in the private sector (Tandon, Western Digital, Hewlett Packard, Agilent Technologies & Avago Technologies), a Divisional Director of National HR Division in the Singapore Ministry of Manpower in the public sector, a Senior Director ODHR in GAIN, a not for profit organization based in Geneva to now a Chief HR Officer for the Singapore Public Service Division. This combination has widened her perspective in private, public and NGO sectors, and viewing the leadership from an Asian and European perspective.
Peck Kem has a Masters in Human Resource Management from Rutgers University and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from NTU. She is also a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and IHRP Master Professional.
Hoda Nagah
Global Events Manager at Association for Talent Development (ATD)- LIVE MINI-BOOTCAMP: Measuring the Business Impact and ROI for Your Virtual Training Programs
- LIVE MINI-BOOTCAMP: Agile Learning: Creating Innovative Learning Solutions
- A Conversation with Ricky Somal
Hoda is the global events manager at the ATD international department. A creative and enthusiastic senior conference and event manager with 9 years experience building and delivering commercially-driven B2B conferences and forums. Skilled in industry research, commercial reporting and strategy, event P&Ls, content development, high-level speaker acquisition, marketing strategy, delegate and sponsorship sales support, project management and on-site delivery. Produce and project manage content-driven, corporate conferences in EMEA across multiple sectors: business leadership, healthcare, project management, supply chain and procurement, government and federal, asset and maintenance management, HR and talent management. In the last 4+ years, she headed up the portfolio of HR, L&D and talent development corporate events. Special interests include social entrepreneurship, volunteering and women in the workplace.
Amit Nagpal
Leadership Development Expert, Wholistic Leadership™ enabler and ATD Master Trainer at Association for Talent Development (ATD)Corporate experience of 31 years in business leadership and talent development has been full of experiential learning. Amit is a certified MBTI®️ Practitioner, ATD -Master Trainer™, Co-Active Coach® and an experienced Gallup CliftonStrengths® Assessment practitioner. By staying curious, seeking help and support, extensive research, inner work, and applying the education, Amit has drawn fulfilment and joy in this roller-coaster ride! His discoveries around Wholistic Leadership™, applying new learnings on self and several large organizations, have given him sufficient evidence and confidence to offer life-changing learning journeys and talent development programs.
Amit’s primary mission is to encourage leaders to make purpose-driven decisions, dealing with real-life business scenarios and personal challenges. He believes in the concepts of learner autonomy, contextually curated content, and learning reinforcement.
Nikki O'Keeffe
Senior Facilitator, ATD Education at Association for Talent Development (ATD)Nikki O’Keeffe is an internal ATD Facilitator. She is dedicated training specialist who delivers a positive, memorable, and meaningful service that repeatedly meets or exceeds the expectations of the client. She has experience creating strategies and visions to ensure training requirements and deliveries are in line with quality, probability, and client need.
Nikki has worked in varied industries, including education, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals. In her roles she has designed and developed courses for new and existing staff on technical systems, process changes, new products, and soft skills. Her educational background includes a BA in psychology from Butler University and a master’s degree in exercise science, from NIU. Her specific areas of interest include virtual training, facilitation techniques, and mentoring new trainers.
Bob Pike
Chairman at CTT PressBob Pike, CPLP Fellow, CSP, CPAE Speakers Hall of Fame, is known globally as the “trainer's trainer.” He has written more than 30 books and created a dozen video systems on designing and delivering training. His Master Trainer's Handbook is the bestselling train-the-trainer book ever published, with more than 333,000 copies in print in four editions. He has designed more than 600 training programs of one day or longer since 1969. He has presented at every ATD International Conference & Exposition since 1977, and is a regular keynoter at global training and performance conferences. He has worked in more than 25 countries during his career and his works have been translated into Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish.
Sriram Rajan
Head Novartis Learning Institute at NovartisSriram Rajan is a passionate Talent & OD Leader. With 19 years of experience across industries and geographies, he has lead teams in organizations like Deloitte Consulting, Deutsche Bank & HP.
From managing scales for organizations with an employee base of 35,000 people, to impacting critical business metrics around people engagement, Sriram has a wealth of experience across all critical functions of the HR/ Human Capital Engine.
A Performance & Leadership Coach, Sriram was felicitated as the MEA HR Professional of the Year in Nov 2017.His work around C-Suite leadership and culture development won the Top award across the MEA region in 2017. A Keynote speaker at regional and global forums, some of his other recognitions include work he’s done around digitizing & establishing innovative people development practices.
Rituraj Sar
Vice President – Learning & Development at Lupin Ltd.For over 30 years, Rituraj Sar has delivered cutting-edge talent management and learning solutions across world spanning geographies and industries. Rituraj joined Lupin from IBM, and contributed in its growth by 10 times in following 10 years. Business Cases have been written by premier B School - IIM Ahmedabad on work done in Managing Talent at Lupin.
Rituraj grew and contributed in Sales and Marketing before moving into Learning & Development. He has done extensive work contributing to business growth through areas of Performance Development, Leadership Development and Organization Development across various sectors with large MNCs and Indian organizations.
Recognized as a domain expert using his business insights clubbed with HR exposure, Rituraj has been frequently awarded for sterling contribution to People Development by various global forums. He is also invited to be on the Board of Studies of different Universities. He is regularly invited as Speaker on various forums of Business and HR.
He has been honored with Chief Learning Officers’ Award from Tata Institute of Social Sciences several times over last 10 years. He has also consistently received international awards from ATD (Association for Talent Development) in Washington DC. Global Leadership Award for Training & Development from World Training & Development Congress has been another honour received multiple times. He has also been consistently awarded for the Best Learning & Development Practices by BML Munjal Awards for Learning & Development.
Rituraj lives in Mumbai, India with his wife, Sushmita.
Rashmi Sharma
Global Learning & Wellbeing for South East Asia & ANZ at UnileverRashmi is a Learning & Wellbeing catalyst with 14+ years of experience in unlocking people potential. In her current role, she drives Learning and Wellbeing for South East Asia & ANZ for Unilever, which comprise 5 out of 15 performance units of Unilever globally. Prior to that she was with IBM and Aon where she led & consulted with diverse leaders on leadership development. Rashmi is a TEDx Speaker, and has 14+ years of experience in unlocking people potential by catalyzing action. Likely one of the fastest learners and multifaceted person you would meet, similar to a polymath, she derives leadership lessons from diverse sources - corporate hierarchies, start-up ecosystem or creative art forms. She speaks about how to stay fit in a dynamic future of work – which is starting to be dominated by AI. Personally, Rashmi enjoys being multi-skilled - she has been a start-up founder, a national level beauty pageant finalist, is an active member of professional theatre and also a regular Jazz dancer, having danced across 9 locations across the world.
Raman Sidhu
Chief OD & Learning Officer, Global Commercial at Shell- Predictors of Performance: How to Design A Learning Intervention That Impacts Business
- Conversation with Raman Sidhu
Chief OD & Learning Officer at Global Commercial, Shell with a unique blend of business experience in Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain and OD& Learning spanning over twenty five years. Has expertise in designing OD & Learning strategy and transforming business performance. Has a passion for Performance Consulting, Digital Transformation, OD & Learning to build individual, team and organisational capabilities. Raman has successfully led global teams in OD & Learning, Talent Acquisition, Sales and Supply Chain. In his current role as the Chief OD & Learning for Global Commercial, Shell, he leads a team of senior OD & Learning professionals in the Americas, Europe and Asia, and works closely with the global business leadership to successfully diagnose, design and deploy solutions that help the business address critical capability gaps, improve business performance and organisational effectiveness.
Ricky Somal
Deputy Director of Organisational Development and Inclusion at Isle of Wight NHS Trust- Introducing the cultural conditions for the effective implementation of a digital workplace strategy
- A Conversation with Ricky Somal
After studying MSc Health Psychology, Ricky started his professional career in HR and Organisational Development and has worked for the European Social Fund, Severn Trent Water and AXA Assurance.
With 15 years National Health Service (NHS), Ricky adopts the principles of behavioral economics and positive psychology to design and lead strategies focused on Learning, Education and Organisational Development.
His goals are to use his motivational leadership style to unlock the potential in people and systems, ensuring they can maximise their impact, ambition and delivery, whilst remaining conscious of preferences and triggers for stress when in high pressure environments and in times of organisational change.
Lisa Spinelli
Senior Content Manager at Association for Talent Development (ATD)Lisa Spinelli is the Senior Content Manager for the Career Development, Talent Management and Finance communities as well as the ATD Job Bank administrator. Prior to joining ATD, Lisa worked as a content strategist, editor, and journalist for over 14 years. She has managed teams, websites, and social media accounts as well as reported and edited articles for places like Red Herring, the Boston Phoenix and Patch. Some of her works have been published with Fast Company, Huffington Post, Mental Floss, Northern Virginia Magazine, Houston Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Associated Press, to name a few. With her diverse and inside knowledge of content development and creation, along with content acquisition, management and marketing, Lisa brings a fresh unique perspective to the role. She resides in Northern Virginia with her three divas and Air Force veteran husband. Follow her on Twitter @atdcareerdev.
Adrian Stevens - Former Vice President, Talent Management, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Co-founder & Director of IdeaLeader.com- Accelerating enterprise and employee readiness in an age of transformation
- A Conversation with Adrian Stevens
Adrian is the Co-Founder and Director of IdeaLeader, a company focused on the development of leaders in an age of acceleration: Equipping leaders to ignite idea capital and innovative thinking; improve collaboration; inspire accountability; coach and facilitate transformative outcomes. Most recently Vice President of Talent Management at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Adrian embraced the responsibility for evolving HPE’s talent architecture into an ecosystem that supported both team member and business growth. Areas of responsibility encompassed succession planning, strategic skills, careers, the development of HPE’s people strategy, leadership model and the digital transformation of learning. Before pursuing a passion for people and a move to lead Talent Development teams and organizations, Adrian led business and go-to-market teams covering sales, marketing, and business operations within HP’s South Pacific organizations. More broadly, Adrian has contributed to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Systems initiative focused on the Future of Education, Gender and Work, the WEF IT Consortium and the publication of the Skillset Principles for Corporate Leaders at Davos in 2018. While residing in San Francisco’s bay area, Adrian has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific, contributing to his belief in the strength of diversity across organizations, communities, and government.
Francis Tam
Senior Sales Director of PanoptoFrancis is the Senior Sales Director for Greater China at Panopto. Francis has more than 12 years of experience in the Asia region, focusing the last 6 years in adult and team learning. He is particularly familiar in video for eLearning, training and development, and sourcing & manufacturing. Prior to his role at Panopto, Francis was at Team Building Asia facilitating training workshops in Greater China developing HR solutions for APAC clients. He has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Washington in the USA and is fluent in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. In his career, he combined a mobile app with video technology for recruitment purposes with metadata for analytics.
Vassilis Theocharides
Senior Regional Manager at Association for Talent Development (ATD)- Welcome Remarks
- Welcome Remarks
- LIVE MINI-BOOTCAMP: Tech Tools & Coach Approach to Making your Virtual Training Active
- Conversation with Maud Durand
- A Conversation with Simon Wallis
Vassilis (Vas) Theocharides is the Sr. Regional Manager at the Association for Talent Development (ATD) the largest talent development association in the world, overlooking Latin America, Middle East, India, Africa, and Europe. In his tenure, he has launched five major conferences in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Vas looks after strategic partnerships in the defined regions with the purpose of increasing the impact of ATD.
Ron Thomas
Managing Director of Strategy Focused GroupRon Thomas is the managing director of Strategy Focused Group DWC LLC, based in Dubai. Ron is the former CEO of Great Place to Work-Gulf and CHRO of Al Raha Group, based in Riyadh. Ron was cited by CIPD as one of the top five HR thinkers in the Middle East. He received the Outstanding Leadership Award for Global HR Excellence at the World Human Resources Development Congress in Mumbai, and was named as one of the 50 Most Talented Global HR Leaders in Asia.
Ron’s prior roles include senior HR roles with Xerox HR services, IBM, and Martha Stewart Living. Ron’s board memberships include the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, McKinseyQuarterly Executive Online Panel, and HCI’s Expert Advisory Council on Talent Management Strategy. He holds certifications from HCI as Global Human Capital Strategist (GHCS), Master Human Capital Strategist (MHCS), and Strategic Workforce Planner (SWP). He is also a senior faculty member and representative of Human Capital Institute (HCI), covering the MENA/Asia Pacific region.
Megan Torrance
CEO of TorranceLearningMegan Torrance is CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, which helps organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data and ultimately performance. Megan has over 25 years of experience in learning design, deployment and consulting. Megan and the TorranceLearning team are passionate about sharing what works in learning so they devote considerable time to teaching and sharing about Agile project management for learning experience design and the xAPI. TorranceLearning hosts the xAPI Learning Cohort, a free, virtual 12-week learning-by-doing opportunity where teams form on the fly and create proof-of-concept xAPI projects.
Megan is the author of Agile for Instructional Designers, The Quick Guide to LLAMA, and two ATD TD at Work publications: Agile and LLAMA® for ISD Project Management and Making Sense of xAPI. She is a frequent speaker at conferences nationwide. TorranceLearning projects have won several Brandon Hall Group awards, the 2014 xAPI Hyperdrive contest at DevLearn, and back-to-back Learning Guild DemoFest Best-In-Show awards in 2016/2017 with xAPI projects. TorranceLearning is a 2018 Michigan 50 Companies to Watch.In 2019, the Learning Guild named Megan as a Guild Master for her contributions to professional development in the workplace L&D industry.
A graduate of Cornell University with a degree in Communication and an MBA, and an eCornell Facilitator in the Women's Leadership curriculum, Megan lives and works near Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Evelyne Van Vosselen
Director of Leadership and Organizational Development at BridgestoneEvelyne is an insatiable learner, with roots in a creative, artistic family. Having spent the first half of her career in sales & service management, she left the business side and discovered how her drive for problem solving could make a bigger, positive impact on people and organizations while working in HR.
Her heart lies with the development of organizations, groups, teams and individuals. She has built a wide and diverse strategic and tactical experience in highly complex multinational matrix organizations, such as Dell, Electrolux, Ingersoll Rand, Starwood and, today, Bridgestone where she heads up the CoE for Performance & Talent Management, L&D, Leadership Development as well as Culture & Engagement.
Raymond Victorino
Head-HR Talent Management & Development at Samsung Electronics - PhilippinesRaymond is currently the Head of Talent Management & Development for a global leading consumer electronics brand. He is a LinkedIn advocate, who writes content that gives people a SMILE (S-ervice, M-otivation, I-nspiration, L-earning, E-ncouragement). He also aspires to be significant and add value to the LinkedIn community through career coaching. As a Christian family man, he loves to share his faith with others.
Simon Wallis
Head of People & Development at Newtyne- From Classroom to Digital: Strategies for Accelerating The Performance of Your People by Blending Technical with Core Business Skills
- A Conversation with Simon Wallis
An L&D specialist by trade, Simon has worked in both public and private sectors within the UK. Most of his career has been in the transport industry, designing and delivering vocational learning and change programmes for front line employees. Right now, Simon is a member of the leadership team at Newtyne (a specialist data and analytics company, headquartered in Edinburgh, UK) supporting the transformation of its digital learning offer. In addition, Simon is a Director and Trustee of a community charity. Simon’s true passion resides in creating winning cultures where people can learn, thrive and do their best work.
Wei Wang
CPTD, Senior Director ATD Global of Association for Talent Development (ATD)Wei Wang is the senior director of ATD Global for the Association for Talent Development (ATD). She manages ATD global partners from more than 20 countries, develops and supports member convening and networking programs, and facilitates the exchange of knowledge among the global learning and development community. Her other role at ATD is manager of the association's global perspectives topic. In this capacity, she supports professionals around the world to share regional best practices, conducts global benchmarking, and discusses cross-cultural and global talent development issues. She holds a doctorate in human resource development from The Pennsylvania State University and a master's degree in management from Nankai University in China, is a Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP, now known as CPTD), and speaks Mandarin and English. Wang has published articles in numerous industry journals and has spoken at global conferences and workshops in China, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Mexico, and the United States.