Perspectives 22 - Unleashed

As Director of Strategic Research at ADAPT Matt Boon, is responsible for directing and developing ADAPT’s research content and positions.

Matt has been an industry leading Analyst for over 30 years leading local and global teams. In his role at ADAPT, Matt advises C-Suite executives across the end-user and technology provider landscape.

Over many years Matt has been a sought after and highly respected authority and speaker on the global IT Landscape, always with a focus on what that really means from a differentiated business first and local mindset.

During 18 years at Gartner in senior leadership roles Matt has led global business units contributing to high double-digit growth annually with a people and business first mindset.

Interacting with executives daily, Matt is also responsible for bringing together groups of C-Suite leaders to discuss and prepare for the myriad of challenges and opportunities they face.

DeAnna Burton works with organisations to strengthen the alignment between Purpose, Strategy, Leadership and Culture.

She has over 20 years’ experience in Financial Services in the US, Mexico, and Australia with a solid foundation and executive positions in business operations, project and program management, and strategy development and delivery.

Most recently DeAnna was Head of Culture, Organisational Development & Learning with a top 5 general insurer in Australia.

DeAnna is an endorsed Adaptive Cultures Practitioner and an NLP Practitioner. She has applied adaptive approaches to work as varied as culture integration for a complex merger, designing a risk culture framework and engagements to uplift risk culture maturity, engagement survey design, the design and facilitation of succession planning, senior leadership development programs, and coaching.

Luisa Golgini is the Senior Manager of Customer Success for APAC. In this role, Luisa is focused on guiding her team to high performance and ensuring they collectively drive success and value for customers in the region.

For the 7 years prior to joining Skillsoft in 2014, Luisa was part of the Global Learning Solutions team at Hudson Recruitment, with responsibility for technology and business systems training for the organization. It was here that she first experienced the benefits of a strategic learning partnership with Skillsoft.

Luisa began her career in the Financial Services industry, where she acquired more than 10 years of workplace learning experience. A highlight was successfully delivering a training & change program to 2000+ learners as part of a system replacement project for the Australian money market, during her tenure with the Sydney Futures Exchange. She also held various operational and training roles in the preceding years where she first discovered her passion for helping others achieve their goals.

Kath Greenhough is the Vice President, Asia Pacific for Skillsoft. In this role, Kath works with Technology and Organisational leaders to realise the potential in their most important asset, their people, through world-class learning solutions. At a continued time of skills shortages, developing workforces of tomorrow with the people of today is critical to continued transformation, innovation, growth and service delivery.

Kath has extensive experience in the learning and development industry, and across a 25+ year career with Skillsoft APAC has held leadership roles across consulting services, pre-sales, customer success, and sales.

With a firmly held belief that every person has the potential to be amazing. Kath is passionate about creating a world where learning is democratized, where no matter who you are or what you do, you’re given the opportunity and the tools you need to fulfill your unique goals and dreams.

James has enjoyed over 20 years in Organisational Development. With experience in multiple global locations including Australia, the UK, the US, New Zealand, and Germany he brings a fresh set of ideas, which often expands on traditional theories. In addition to Cardno, now Stantec James has been an integral leader in several world-class organisations including Jaguar Land Rover, BMW, and Eaton Corporation. James has predominantly focused on driving company performance by building organisational capability through employee experience strategies, talent management, and development programs, performance management systems and processes, and strategic workforce planning.

Asha Palmer is Skillsoft’s senior vice president of compliance solutions. Throughout her career, Asha has developed, enhanced, and optimized effective ethics and compliance programs for hundreds of companies worldwide. Her passion and expertise are in program development and enhancement, training and engagement, anti-bribery and corruption, risk assessments, and making compliance fun (dare we say it!). Asha pushes compliance out of the box. As a former Assistant United States Attorney and litigator, Asha is extremely passionate about making training and engagement stick and be meaningfully embedded in and with business and its leaders.

Karen has deep learning expertise that’s been developed in multiple industries including Technology, Telecommunications, Retail and Banking. Karen has recently joined Datacom Asia Pacific’s leading locally-owned IT-based service provider. Datacom operate across New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia and the Philippines. As Learning & OD Manager she and her team are engaged in building technical, professional and leadership capabilities as well as supporting strategic projects and group compliance.

Karen is passionate about creating a learning culture focused on continuous learning, learning in the flow of work enabling experimentation and innovation to engage our employees, keep their skills future fit and be invaluable to our customers.

A global technology executive with extensive strategy and growth experience, Eric joined Skillsoft as Chief Revenue Officer in 2021.

He previously served as Chief of Staff for the President of Global Sales, Services and Customer Engagement at SAP, where he supported global go-to-market strategy and operations. Prior to that, he was Chief Revenue Officer at Qualtrics and Chief Innovation Officer for SAP America.

Earlier in his career, Eric held positions of increasing seniority at SAP, Ciber, Virtustream and Blackboard.

Eric is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Boston University School of Law and founder of the Eric & Neil Stine-Markman Scholarship, the first permanent endowment to dedicate scholarship funds to the LGBTQ+ community. He also plays active board and fundraising roles for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Yale Pediatrics and Northwestern University.

Eric holds a Juris Doctorate from the Boston University School of Law and Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and History from Northwestern University.

Dr Lizzie Valentine is an award-winning researcher and transformation thought leader. An experienced CEO, CIO, and change and transformation consultant, Lizzie describes herself as a professional cage rattler - a fearless change agent and problem solver who involves and inspires people to bring their best to their work. She has led the technical, people and capability aspects of some of New Zealand and Australia’s largest mergers, industry and organisation transformations and capability development challenges. Lizzie is Managing Director of Enterprise Governance Consulting, a boutique consultancy specialising in transformation strategy, digital capability development and IT governance. Until March 2021 she was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Massey University (NZ). Since 2017 she also held the post of Adjunct Researcher and Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington. She holds a Doctor of Information Technology from QUT, Australia, 2016, and an MBA from Henley, UK.

Michael is responsible for driving innovation and growth in the Technology and Developer Customer Market. His role as General Manager of this customer market concentrates on leading the content, platform, customer success, sales and marketing teams to deliver compelling experiences to our customers.

Prior to Skillsoft, Michael led the council member organization at GLG, focused on growing GLG’s network of professional experts. Before that, Michael spent over a decade at Gartner, where he led several business units serving technology providers, chief information officers, professional services firms, technology investors, digital marketers, and small & medium businesses. He also led Gartner’s corporate marketing and corporate development organizations. Prior to Gartner, Michael spent 4 years at McKinsey serving high-tech, telecom, and pharmaceutical clients on a variety of strategic issues.

Michael began his career as a research physicist, leading fundamental R&D efforts in semiconductor nanotechnology at IBM, Philips Electronics, and Bell Laboratories. Michael received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard, and his Ph.D. from MIT.