Cape Town Event

Workforce Readiness | 25

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Join LRMG and Skillsoft for a high-energy, high-impact day where future-fit skills and technology meet fast-moving strategy so that you can build workforce readiness and drive strategy, growth and progress.

Thursday, 12 June 2025

09:30 - 16:00 SAST

Protea Fire and Ice Extreme Hotel, 198 Bree Street, Cape Town

  • Tuesday, 10 June 2025
  • 08:15 - 16:30 SAST
  • Protea Hotel Fire & Ice! Melrose Arch, Johannesburg

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About this Event

Join LRMG and Skillsoft for a high-energy, high-impact day where future-fit skills and technology meet fast-moving strategy so that you can build workforce readiness and drive strategy, growth and progress.

What to expect – Event running order

09:30 – 10:00

Arrival and Registration (Yes, there’s coffee. Yes, there’s a barista.)

Start your day right with coffee, conversation and a custom brew from our on-site barista. Get settled, meet fellow leaders, and gear up for an energising day ahead

10:00 – 10:15

Welcome from LRMG

Speaker:

  • Omri Yaari – Managing Director at LRMG

Quick hello from your hosts – setting the tone for a day of bold thinking, real solutions, and fresh energy to take back to your team.

10:15 – 11:00

Keynote: The Readiness Revolution - What’s holding you back?

45m session (35min + 10min Q&A)

Speaker:

  • Sally Acton – Chief Experience and Innovation Officer at LRMG

Is your workforce ready? Explore the urgency, the barriers, and the bold moves leaders must make to close their gaps and unlock performance.

11:00 – 11:35

The Double UNLOCK: Skills + Visibility in action (Skillsoft)

35m session (25min + 10min Q&A)

Speaker:

  • Billy Gager – Channel Account Executive at Skillsoft
Explore ideas, insights and trends to help you build the right skills, fast – and get the visibility to act with confidence. Two of the biggest readiness gaps. Solved.

11:35 – 12:10

Sanlam: How leading brands are building future-ready teams

35m client session (25min + 10min Q&A)

Speaker:

  • Frederick Stroebel – Head: Training and Development at Sanlam Personal Finance

Hear from organisations who’ve taken action. Real stories. Real results. Get inspired by how others are closing their gaps and accelerating performance.

12:10 – 12:45

Skillsoft Innovation Roadmap

30m session (25min + 10min Q&A)

Speaker:
  • Tim Walker – Vice President Global Channel at Skillsoft
What’s next from Skillsoft? Get a front-row seat to the roadmap, with insider insight into where the platform is going and how it’s evolving to meet the future.

12:45 – 14:15

Lunch and Networking

Fuel up and connect. Enjoy a relaxed lunch while meeting fellow leaders who are also building workforce readiness across Africa.

14:15 – 15:45

UNLOCK Labs: Interactive tech experiences - Explore. Ask. Play. Imagine.

Not just talk – this is your time to test, try, explore, and imagine what’s possible. Rotate through hands-on sessions built to show you real solutions in action.

  1. Your digital wingperson: AI
    Explore how Skillsoft’s AI-powered platform helps your people grow, respond, and lead in real-time moments that matter.
  2. How do you measure up? Skills Benchmarking 
    Find out how to get clear, actionable insight into the skills your people have – and the ones they need next.
  3. Next Level Leaders: Certifications (CodeCademy)
    Discover how you can develop confident, capable leaders with certified learning that’s ready to go.

15:45 – 16:00

Summaries and Close-out

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Speaker Line-up

Billy Gager Channel Account Executive at Skillsoft

Billy Gager

Channel Account Executive

Skillsoft

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Billy Gager

Billy has over 7 years of experience in the training and learning development sector, with his tenure split between instructor-led training and self-paced content segments. Currently, he serves as a Channel Account Executive within Skillsoft’s Channel business. His primary focus is on enabling the Skillsoft partner ecosystem across the African and Mainland Europe regions.

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Frederick Stroebel

Head: Training and Development

SANLAM

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Frederick Stroebel

Frederick is currently the Head of Learning & Development: Human Resources: Sanlam Retail Affluent responsible for the full function of Learning & Development, Performance Development and E-learning in the company. He graduated at the University of Port Elizabeth with a degree in Industrial & Organisational Psychology and has a post graduate degree in Industrial Sociology.

He was a national board member of the Institute of People Management (IPM) in South Africa and the Western Cape Chairman. He serves on the HR Advisory Board of the University of Johannesburg: Department of Industrial Psychology & People Management.

He has presented at various local and international conferences on the topics of Training and Development, Performance Development and Technology in Training.

During 2010 he was invited to attend the Executive Learning Forum in Germany. This forum is by personal invitation and limited to 50 European Chief Learning Officers and Board members.
In 2011 he was a recipient of the Sanlam Personal Finance CEO Award.

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Omri Yaari Managing Executive at LRMG

Omri Yaari

Managing Director Talent Development

LRMG

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Omri Yaari

Omri Yaari is the Managing Executive of LRMG’s Talent Development portfolio, which designs and implements business performance-enabling solutions targeting both broad-based and specific organisational capability development.

Omri believes that technological disruption, growing skills shortages, and tough economic conditions necessitate rapid employee upskilling and performance optimisation initiatives. These initiatives are crucial for increasing operational efficiency, driving strategic execution, and improving business results. He asserts that learning and development must be integrated into business strategy for companies to stay relevant and competitive in a complex, ever-changing landscape.

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Sally Acton

Chief Experience and Innovation Officer

LRMG

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Sally Acton

Sally Acton is the Chief Experience and Innovation Officer at LRMG, where she leads a team at the forefront of the Talent Advisory and Employee Experience revolution. With a focus on reinvention and proven strategies, Sally and her team enhance workplace environments by tailoring approaches to each organisation’s unique needs.

They specialise in transforming internal processes and creating engaging activities that resonate with employees, making workplaces not only more productive but also places of joy and fulfilment.

A dynamic and energetic leader, Sally is known for her infectious passion for her subject matter and her ability to help people truly understand and embrace change. Beyond her professional expertise, she is a caring mother, a mentor, and a force of nature who enjoys competitive weightlifting, running extreme events, baking cakes, and birdwatching in game reserves.

Sally’s multifaceted personality and dedication to her work make her a standout figure in the field of employee experience and workplace transformation.

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Tim Walker VP Global Chanel at Skillsoft

Tim Walker

Vice President Global Channel

Skillsoft

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Tim Walker

Tim has worked within the training, platform and talent sector for over 23 years, primarily focusing on the development of Skillsoft’s Channel business. He began his career as an Account Executive, concentrating on the African and Middle Eastern markets, and has since been promoted to VP Global Channels. In this global role, he now leads the Channel teams, driving the development and sustainable growth of Skillsoft’s content and platform subscription offerings.

Based in the UK with his wife and two children, Tim holds a degree in Business, Finance, and Marketing from Hull University.

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Workforce Readiness | 25

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WHY attend?

You’re building something bigger than business as usual. You’re driving change. Scaling growth. Shaping the future.

This event is for CHROs, CIOs, HR, IT, L&D, and Talent leaders who want to:

  • Close skills and visibility gaps
  • Future-proof their workforce
  • See real solutions in action
  • Leave energised, connected, and ready to lead
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IGNITE

Career Dreams

Fast track career growth in the new world of work:

Certified learning paths that build relevant skills and competencies

Invigorate your skills development offering:

University-certified online and blended short learning courses

Rapidly improve your scorecard metrics:

B-BBEE (South Africa) and other scorecard solutions

Trusted certification:

Digitally enabled learning solutions supported by dedicated teams of Wits, Queen's University Belfast, UFS and GIBS academics and experience managers

Real-world scarce skills training for youth:

Find, recruit and custom train youth to your demand-led specs, getting them work-ready and employable

Learnerships:

We find the talent, match personalities and abilities to your culture fit, and then train them to meet your digital skills needs

Comply with your B-BBEE, transformation and skills levy agenda:

Rapidly improve your scorecard metrics: create a talent pipeline for 4IR, ICT and Tech-future Skills

Work-ready graduates and interns:

We find the candidates (or you find them). We train them to use your technology and digital systems within the defined roles

GROW

Sales and Unlock Customer Value

Discover why your customers buy what they buy:

Learn to meet customers’ social, emotional and functional requirements

Activate and strengthen sales team engagement:

Digital sales activation challenges

Cultivate a performance-based sales culture:

Sales leadership and culture solutions

Mobilise the right sales strategy:

Sales strategy validation and optimisation

Accelerate sales pipelines and spark growth:

Customer-centric sales strategy

Grow and sustain critical sales capabilities:

Digital learning content for Sales

INSPIRE

People Productivity

Engage for sustainable high performance:

Human capital strategy, learning strategy and transformation

Future-fit your organisation for success:

Learning and talent assessments, talent management and people balance sheet planning

Connect learning journeys to performance outcomes:

Onboarding, talent development and learning mapped to your individual and company needs

Move the needle on learning experiences:

Smart learning and talent experience platforms, tools and digital learning assets

Upskill people with new digital smarts:

Digital learning content (customised or plug-and-play)

NURTURE

A Performance Culture

Talent management:

Make better future-fit data-driven decisions for your talent and organisation

Strategy and change:

Inspire your people to change and ignite their passion to deliver business results

Leadership and culture:

Enable your leadership teams to create their unique brand and to build new high-performance habits and behaviours

Digital transformation:

Enable people processes through digital technologies that transform performance

Talent assessments:

Better understand your people's strengths and your team’s productive habits to compete and win

Performance enablement:

Create a culture of feedback that actively measures performance

SHIFT

Leadership Perspectives

Establish a high-performance culture:

Interactive multimedia inspirational stories

Unlock new thinking and shift mindsets:

More than 13 intriguing true stories of high performance

Empower leaders and teams:

Expertly facilitated moderated conversations

Build new habits for high performance:

Smart toolboxes to activate habits for success