AITD 2022 | Speakers

For over 15 years, Andrew has been helping learners get the most out of digital learning. As co-founder and managing director of learning platform, ClearXP, Andrew is changing the landscape of online learning platforms. 

Through his work with some of Australia’s largest organisations, Andrew has successfully designed, developed and delivered online training for hundreds of thousands of people. Andrew and ClearXP have been recognised for their work in this space, most recently by being awarded an AITD Excellence Award for Best Use of Learning Technology.

Andrew resides in Melbourne, enjoying life raising a young family.

One of Shine Lawyers’ values is to 'dare to be different', and in his role as eLearning instructional design lead, Chris Burke takes every opportunity to be daringly different. With over a dozen years’ experience as an instructional designer, Chris has applied his skillset working with clients in the construction, telecommunications and defence industries. These days, Chris works within the learning and development team at Shine Lawyers, one of the largest personal injury law firms in Australia.

Chris prides himself on trying new things and avoiding the sausage factory that eLearning development can sometimes become. When Chris isn’t adding pizazz to a preso, spark to a slide or vroom to a video, he’s at home with his wife and two small children. In fact, Chris is currently on extended parental leave following the birth of his daughter and is very much looking forward to attending a conference interstate. 

Julian Davis is an award-winning digital learning systems architect, presenter, facilitator and author. Julian has been involved in web and learning technologies for over 25 years, giving him a vast knowledge base and experience to understand what organisations need when it comes to digital learning (or eLearning).

He has extensive knowledge in many different learning technologies however has focused on Experience API (xAPI) for the past 5 years and how this emerging technology can be used to bring together orphaned digital learning systems or platforms, enabling greater exposure to learner behaviour through the use of learning analytics.

Julian is well regarded in the global xAPI Community for innovating solutions and adapting to xAPI. As well as being an active member of the Australian xAPI User Group, he is an associate fellow with the Australian Institute of Training and Development (AFAITD) and the president of the QLD/NT AITD divisional council.

Stacey is a global people, digital and talent technology leader with a broad experience base that includes big four and boutique consulting, academia and senior management roles across diverse industries and cultures.

Her background in psychology, sociology, education, IT, HR tech and digital production means she can lead and drive collaboration and innovation across multi-disciplinary teams, adding measurable value when enabling the ‘joining of the dots’ in the future of work, talent, skills and capability in a digital world. Stacey is internationally recognised for her employee engagement and digital reality experiences. A multi-award winning filmmaker, Stacey is a go-to person for film and digital judging for the New York Film Festivals and the International Stevies Business Awards.

Originally from the UK, Stacey began her career in youth work and teaching and alongside her focus on building an engaged future ready workforce, continues on her mission to democratise learning, enabling all people, regardless of their socio-economic background, equal opportunity to reach their life goals. A keen lifelong learner Stacey dives deep into different learning experiences, recently in Masterclass, learning acting with Helen Mirren, non-fiction writing with Malcolm Gladwell and stand-up comedy with Judd Apatow.  

Stacey spends quality time in digital reality with her boys including virtual reality Star Wars games, Dance on the PS4 and catching augmented reality Pokémon’s on the streets of the North Shore. She has a family of water babies; all year-round fun time is spent in and on the water.

Danny Ginsberg is a passionate people development professional with a strong eye for organisational needs and workforce competencies. He has a successful background in the creation and execution of leadership and professional development programs, implementing creative solutions to meet business needs.

Danny has been lucky to work for amazing local and international organisations including, IKEA, Bunnings, Department of Sustainability & Environment, Performance Partners Consulting, Specsavers, Xero & The Arbinger Institute. Danny has also ventured out on his own into consulting and worked with many large service, retail and franchise companies.

After being a big fan for many years, in January 2021 he had the opportunity to join Culture Hero, where he is now the Director of Engagement and Development. A wonderful combination of his years of learning & development experience, all his creative endeavours and a deep love of play. 

Danny’s passion for learning and working towards a successful and dynamic organisational culture is reflected in all he does. He is dedicated to helping individuals grow and develop into inspirational and motivated leaders.

Scott is a passionate and widely experienced adult educator who thrives on developing professional skills in individuals, teams and organisations; increasing self-awareness and building business confidence and competence.

Scott is a highly skilled communicator with experience in establishing and leading teams, conceptualising large-scale business initiatives, and working to engage others in achieving strategic learning and capability development objectives. Twenty-five years of instructional design, facilitation and management experience has developed a sound set of executive competencies and core skills. Scott’s extensive career has included project management, instructional design and facilitating technical and non-technical learning initiatives for more than 30 recognisable Australian and international companies across multiple industry segments.

Today, Scott bridges that divide between organisational objectives and learner needs by taking on the challenge of learner advocate – ensuring educational strategies align with learner profiles, preferred learning approaches and workplace application.

Michelle is the founder of Learning Uncut. She works with leaders who want learning to make a bigger impact in their organisation. 

Her core expertise is organisational learning strategy, capability uplift for learning teams, and continuous learning skills and practices. She has worked with organisations in a range of industries including defence, public sector, aviation, manufacturing and financial services. 

Michelle was awarded the Australian Institute of Training and Development’s 2019 L&D Professional of the Year. She also received the 2019 Jay Cross Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to the field of informal learning.

Dan is the founder and CEO of The Pontefract Group, a firm that improves the state of leadership and organisational culture.

He is the best-selling author of four books: Lead. Care. Win. How to Become a Leader Who Matters; Open to Think;  The Purpose Effect and Flat Army. A renowned speaker, Dan has presented at four different TED events and also writes for Forbes and Harvard Business Review. Dan is an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business and has garnered more than 20 industry awards over his career.

Dan is honoured to be on the Thinkers50 Radar list. HR Weekly listed him as one of its 100 Most Influential People in HR for 2021. PeopleHum listed Dan on the Top 200 Thought Leaders to Follow in 2021 and Inc. Magazine listed him as one of the top 100 leadership speakers.

Previously as chief envisioner and chief learning officer at TELUS—a Canadian telecommunications company with revenues of over $14 billion and 50,000 global employees—he launched the Transformation Office, the TELUS MBA, and the TELUS Leadership Philosophy, all award winning initiatives that dramatically helped to increase the company’s employee engagement to record levels of nearly 90%. Prior to TELUS he held senior roles at SAP, Business Objects and BCIT.

Dan and his wife, Denise, have three children (aka goats) and live in Victoria, Canada. 

Natalie is the Head of Client Delivery at Inkling, with over 20 years’ experience helping leaders and organisations co-create thriving cultures and propel purpose-driven growth.

In her work as an executive coach, facilitator and advisor, Natalie partners closely with senior executive teams to navigate complexity, solve for adaptive challenges and execute sustainable strategic outcomes that deliver value for communities and whole systems. She is a frequent speaker on strategies for well-being and performance, systems change and value creation, and is an award-winning learning designer. Her work is backed by over a decade of study in applied positive psychology, adult education, design and futures thinking, and an extensive career leading APAC teams in human, business and organisational development.

After experiencing an aha moment at a Beyonce concert (true story!), with $300 in her bank account, entrepreneur Rachel Service started Happiness Concierge™, the company empowering thousands of people across the globe.

Since then, she has saved companies millions by empowering their people, partnered with ASX listed companies, retail banks, universities and government departments and shifted the dial on workplace culture.

Rachel’s personal ethos is about giving people tools for empowerment. Her award-winning approach to personal and professional growth has been featured in the media, on the TEDx stage and implemented in companies across the globe. Rachel’s first book, outlines the highs and lows of personal and professional growth, a summation of her years of front line experience supporting thousands of individuals to thrive in life and work.

Tania Tytherleigh is the chief learning officer of the Master Trainers Institute Australia. With over 25 years’ experience in teaching and learning, Tania has been working with government and private organisations around Australia to design and facilitate strategically aligned professional development that change lives and change organisations.

Tania is passionate about creating unique learning experiences and is known for her highly interactive, creative and fun learning programs.

She is a regular presenter at national and international conferences including ATD2019 (Washington DC) and ATD2020 (Virtual), AITD2020 (Sydney), CPA Congress and LearnX Australia.

Emma Weber, learning transfer authority, made it her mission in life to make a difference to learning transfer worldwide. Frustrated by the amount of learning which is wasted when it fails to make it across the knowing – doing gap Emma created the Turning Learning into Action™ methodology to solve that problem.

This methodology is deployed throughout 20 countries and in 12 languages by a talented team and Coach M, a conversational intelligence. Coach M is challenging the industries thinking of what’s possible in learning transfer.

Emma shares her passion and expertise through her writing – her first book, Turning Learning into Action: a proven methodology for effective transfer of learning, was published by Kogan Page in 2014.