PANEL: Developing Your Learning Career

Arun Pradhan |  GM of Learning, ANZ

Krystal Irving | Product Owner of Capability, ANZ

What capabilities do L&D professionals need to succeed and take them into the future?

Bring your questions for Arun and co to answer.

About Arun

A self-described curious, empathetic and geeky human, Arun is an experienced learning, performance, and innovation strategist, having developed solutions for some of Australia’s largest companies. He was recognised by the AITD as Australia’s Learning Professional of the Year in 2017 and has developed an international reputation, particularly for his work in enabling learning agility and using design thinking to co-design impactful blended learning solutions.

Arun has broad experience in emerging technologies and is an unashamed geek when it comes to learning science, cognitive psychology, behavioural economics, marketing, and anything that provides insights into how people think, behave and change. Importantly, Arun is adept at translating his diverse tech and geek knowledge into impactful strategies.

Arun has previously founded Learn2LearnOnline.com, a free crash course in learning agility, and most recently has co-founded ModelThinkers.com, a project to help people to be smarter, faster. He can be found at his website at arunpradhan.com .

About Krystal

Krystal Irving currently oversees learning culture and capability for ANZ, which includes driving an aggressive reskill and upskill agenda for the bank.

With seventeen years' experience in both learning and organisational development, she has spent time working on leadership strategy and development, capability development, learning design and curation as well as learning experience platform implementation. Krystal is particularly passionate about leadership capability and learning that has a genuine measurable impact.

She has worked across multiple industries, including financial services and telecommunications, holds a Masters degree in Adult Education, and also enjoys softball, writing and geocaching with her family.