A Strategic African Partnership
Join us at Bridging the Gap: Shaping skills and agility for tomorrow’s workforce on 19 November 2024 at African Pride, Melrose Arch.
This exclusive, in-person event brings together forward-thinking experts for a day of insightful discussions, interactive workshops, and inspiring thought leadership.
Don’t miss this opportunity where you’ll discover how to seamlessly integrate talent intelligence, close skills gaps, and leverage analytics to stay ahead. Limited seats are available, so secure your spot among the top leaders shaping the future of work, now!
Registration and delicious refreshments (best in the galaxy!)
Get ready to take a giant leap with our intergalactic MC, Winston Nolan
Exploring the increasing importance of adaptability and continuous learning in the face of rapid technological advancements and market shifts. Craig introduces a framework for assessing organisational future readiness and highlights the crucial role of leadership, culture, and a growth mindset in navigating the complexities of the modern business world. He will touch on areas of AI and the overlap with humanness, and explore the careers of the future.
Come and listen to Yandri’s story and hear how Moyo unlocked talent potential with their HR Information System now proudly called ‘MyMoyo’. Come and hear about the business case and value and impact measures that got the whole team collaborating, performing and engaging in new and exciting ways!
Spacewalk and networking break
Light lunch and networking in the galaxy’s finest dining nebula
Chief Executive Officer
Wingnuts Solutions
With 20 years of experience and over 500 keynotes delivered to 5,000 global leaders, Dr. Craig Wing is your expert navigator through the ever-changing landscapes of the future.
His blend of theoretical expertise and real-world application ensures fresh perspectives and unseen models for embracing innovation and navigating ideal futures.
His PhD research has been dubbed as “avante garde”, and focuses on new frameworks for futures thinking, has revolutionised the field and led to the development of the Future Fitness score for future preparedness assessment.
Beyond his academic and professional achievements, Dr Wing is a true explorer at heart. He’s travelled to 53 countries and counting, and pursued the unusual relentlessly, going on adventures like swimming in the Amazon and chasing tigers, sharks and gorillas.
“The key to having a better future is being prepared for a better future. And focusing on the how, not the what.”
Talent Enablement Executive
SYSPRO Central
Nicole Engels is a seasoned professional with a rich and diverse career journey. Nicole started her career in the retail management sector, where she discovered a strong passion for learning, development, and coaching. Eager to expand her expertise, Nicole transitioned into the IT industry, tackling new challenges and embracing exciting opportunities for growth.
In her current role as Talent Enablement Executive at SYSPRO Central, she brings her deep expertise to drive talent development and foster organisational growth. A dedicated advocate for innovation, Nicole is particularly interested in how it can be harnessed to create impactful, engaging learning experiences that truly resonate.
Executive: Talent Solutions
MOYO
Yandri transforming good organisations into great ones through the development of people has contributed largely to Moyo’s exceptional market reputation - one of the key reasons why the company has been able to attract and retain top talent. As the proverbial “lighthouse keeper” at Moyo, Yandri’s role encompasses every aspect of an employee’s work-life cycle.
From talent management, coaching and mentoring to leadership and career development, Yandri and her team of HR professionals continue to build a workplace where employee morale is highly regarded and nurtured, while driving efficiency and excellence at all levels of the organisation.
Managing Director:
Talent Technology
LRMG
My passion is proving value and impact from technology implementations, being able to link projects with actual bottom-line impacts for every size organisation in our market. Technology brings with it such amazing enablers, and taking HR from transactional to strategic is my ambition and life purpose.
With over 10 years’ experience implementing Cornerstone's talent and learning technologies in and around Africa, including m-Learning, e-Learning, Learning, LXP, Performance, Succession, Compensation, Recruitment Management and HRIS platforms. Additionally, with content development going hand in hand with Talent Development systems, I have been fortunate enough to be involved intricately with this element of the value chain as well.
Over and above taking the Cornerstone suite of products to market, we have a dedicated team of Implementation Consultants as well as Technical Support resources per product within the business, thus allowing us to work with local and international clients in a more efficient and value adding manner.
Assistant Vice President (AVP): Ecosystems and Growth
Cornerstone OnDemand
Che has over 20 years of experience in Learning and Development, specialising in helping organisations harness the power of emerging technologies, including Assessment, Virtual Reality, AI, and Skills Development. Currently, Che leads the Ecosystems and Growth function for Cornerstone OnDemand in the EMEA region, where he works closely with teams across the globe (excluding North America) to help organisations address the critical challenge of Workforce Agility.
Throughout his career, Che has worked extensively in South Africa, building strong partnerships with regional leaders such as LRMG, supporting their efforts to leverage cutting-edge technologies to drive learning and organisational transformation. With a deep understanding of both the technological landscape and the specific needs of businesses in diverse markets, Che is passionate about delivering innovative solutions that empower organisations to build agile, future-ready workforces.
Senior Sales Architect
Talent Development
LRMG
Winston is one of South Africa's, and indeed Africa's, leading sales coaches.
For the past 18 years, he has been on the front lines of sales, working in both B2B and B2C roles, and helping sales teams exceed their targets. He built his first multi-million-rand business at the age of 26. Now, twelve years later, he has been instrumental in the growth of hundreds of enterprises, both large and small, implementing business growth plans and developing high-performance sales professionals.
Winston holds a BCom in Management from Unisa, a Diploma in Marketing from the IMM, and is currently an MBA candidate. He is a published author of three books on sales and business growth.
Founder and
Chief Executive Officer
LRMG
Founder and CEO of LRMG, Ricky Robinson, has devoted his life and career to inviting teams and organisations to challenge themselves to stretch into their potential to enable growth and success.
In the last 26 years, Ricky's entrepreneurial spirit, strategic insight and business acumen have played an important role in growing LRMG into a high-performance company with long-term client partnerships built on credibility, trust and growth.
Today, LRMG employs more than 300 people who innovate, test, refine and deploy solutions internally first before taking it to client environments to help ignite success in people and organisations across Africa.
Ricky believes that "success is less about being a performer and more about performing; less about the podium and more about the progress. True, sustainable success is a combination of mindset, perspective, effort and self-leadership. It is an ongoing journey."
Bio
Certified learning paths that build relevant skills and competencies
University-certified online and blended short learning courses
B-BBEE (South Africa) and other scorecard solutions
Digitally enabled learning solutions supported by dedicated teams of Wits, Queen's University Belfast, UFS and GIBS academics and experience managers
Find, recruit and custom train youth to your demand-led specs, getting them work-ready and employable
We find the talent, match personalities and abilities to your culture fit, and then train them to meet your digital skills needs
Rapidly improve your scorecard metrics: create a talent pipeline for 4IR, ICT and Tech-future Skills
We find the candidates (or you find them). We train them to use your technology and digital systems within the defined roles
Learn to meet customers’ social, emotional and functional requirements
Digital sales activation challenges
Sales leadership and culture solutions
Sales strategy validation and optimisation
Customer-centric sales strategy
Digital learning content for Sales
Human capital strategy, learning strategy and transformation
Learning and talent assessments, talent management and people balance sheet planning
Onboarding, talent development and learning mapped to your individual and company needs
Smart learning and talent experience platforms, tools and digital learning assets
Digital learning content (customised or plug-and-play)
Make better future-fit data-driven decisions for your talent and organisation
Inspire your people to change and ignite their passion to deliver business results
Enable your leadership teams to create their unique brand and to build new high-performance habits and behaviours
Enable people processes through digital technologies that transform performance
Better understand your people's strengths and your team’s productive habits to compete and win
Create a culture of feedback that actively measures performance
Interactive multimedia inspirational stories
More than 13 intriguing true stories of high performance
Expertly facilitated moderated conversations
Smart toolboxes to activate habits for success