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Learning, skills and talent – the big picture

Connecting the dots of a future-ready workforce.

At a time when the entire world continues to go through dramatic shifts in the way we work and do business, anyone unwilling to understand the importance of skills and the need for reskilling is going to get left behind.

It’s said that ‘no man is an island.’ These days, no HR specialism can afford to be an island either. Learning and development cannot be tackled in isolation when the overarching importance of skills impacts everything from talent attraction, recruitment, onboarding, talent management, talent mobility, performance and succession planning. But how do you connect the dots? We’ll hear from learning and talent leaders and experts from Coursera, who are breaking down silos and powering organizations forward – with skills as their rocket fuel.

Join us live to:

  • Learn how to partner strategically with your HR colleagues to map the big picture of skills for your organization and talent.
  • Discover how you can be an advocate for change, leading the drive for skills development and bridging the skills gap.
  • Begin to understand how you can practically shift the talent conversation from CVs to competencies and create a skills ontology that’s built to last.
  • Commit to a data-driven culture, so you and the stakeholders in your organization know what skills gaps you have, and the best route to overcome these.

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Recorded on

Tuesday, November 1st, 2022

2:00 PM UK Time
Duration: 1 hour
Online
Who can attend: Everyone
Speaker panel
By: Kate Graham

Head of Content Labs and Insights, UNLEASH

Kate works with organizations using HR, talent, and learning tech to feed into the research and content agenda.
Dr. Nigel Paine

Advisory Board Member CLO Doctoral Program, University of Pennsylvania

With over 25 years of experience in corporate learning, Nigel is a regular speaker, writer and broadcaster on the topics of learning culture/learning organization, technology and leadership. Between 2002 and 2006 he headed up the BBC’s Learning and Development operation. Following this, he started his own company nigelpaine.com Ltd that is focused on building great workplaces that excel in all they do. He teaches on a doctoral program at an Ivy League University, he has written three recent books, presents a monthly TV program (Learning Now TV), and shares a weekly podcast (with Martin Couzins) called From Scratch. He splits his time between Europe, the US and Australia. He is a fellow of the CIPD, the UK’s professional body for HR and people development, The RSA (Royal Society of Arts Manufacturing and Science) and a Masie Fellow in the US. He was made a visiting Professor at Napier University in Edinburgh in 1998, and was recently awarded his Doctorate in Professional Studies from Middlesex University.
Valerie Focke

Regional Director, EMEA, Coursera

In her previous capacity at the SaaS cloud storage and collaboration company Box, she grew their South African footprint in her tenure as the Territory Manager, prior to which she managed their strategic accounts segment, aligning to the globally represented, high growth customers. While at Box, she also instantiated their Education business in EMEA through direct and indirect partnerships. Prior to this, during her tenure at Gartner, she succeeded in growing the Gartner research and advisory brand and footprint in the Higher Education market. Valerie holds a Masters Degree in History of Art from the University of Warwick and a Bachelors in Philosophy from King's University.
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Simon Brown

Chief Learning Officer, Novartis

Simon Brown is Chief Learning Officer for Novartis, a leading global medicine company based in Switzerland that is reimaging medicine. He leads the strategy for Novartis to ‘Go Big on Learning’ in support of the company-wide culture transformation to become ‘Curious, Inspired and Unbossed’. Before Novartis, Simon led the enterprise-wide learning transformation at Lloyds Banking Group. Previously, he led the UK Learning Strategy offering at Accenture, and co-founded one of the UK's leading e-Learning companies, BrightWave. He has worked with leading global organizations including Microsoft, HSBC, Barclays, BT, Canon and BP.

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