Johannesburg 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.

Tuesday, 10 June 2025

08:30 - 16:45 SAST

Protea Hotel Fire & Ice! by Marriott, Melrose Arch, 22 Whiteley Road, Melrose Precinct, Johannesburg

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

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This is your chance to experience what’s next in learning, talent and workforce performance.

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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

08:30 – 09:00

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

09:00 – 09:15

Welcome from LRMG and Skillsoft

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.

09:15 – 10:00

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

45m session (30min + 15min Q&A)

Presenter:

  • Sally Acton – LRMG

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

10:00 – 10:30

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

30m session (20min + 10min Q&A)

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.

10:30 – 11:05

Client Spotlight: How leading brands are building future-ready teams

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

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

11:05 – 11:30

Refreshments and Networking

11:30 – 12:05

Client Spotlights: How leading brands are building future - ready teams

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

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

12:05 – 12:35

Skillsoft Innovation Roadmap

30m session (20min + 10min Q&A)

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.

12:35 – 14:00

Lunch and Networking

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

14:00 – 14:35

Client Spotlight: How leading brands are building future-ready teams

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

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

14:35 – 16:35

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

Choose three of the five 35min Unlock Lab sessions to attend
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 wingman: AI Coaching 
    Explore how Skillsoft’s AI-powered coaching helps your people grow, respond, and lead in real-time moments that matter.
  2. Learning that knows you: Curated Learning Journeys 
    See how personalised, role-aligned learning pathways accelerate growth — and turn learning into lasting impact.
  3. 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.
  4. Mix It. Match It. Master It. Blended Learning 
    Experience how digital + live learning work together to engage teams and drive performance at scale.
  5. Next Level Leaders: Accredited Learning 
    Discover how you can develop confident, capable leaders with accredited learning that’s ready to go.

16:35 – 16:45

Summaries and Close-out

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Speaker Line-up

Workforce Readiness | 25

Skill UP. See MORE. Move FAST.

Skill UP.
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Move FAST.

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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