Skillsoft Labs

Announcing our 2022 Skillsoft Live Event Speaker Series

November 2, 2021 | by Nancy Santacesaria, Project & Program Manager, Leadership and Business Skills

Skillsoft’s Live Events, our premiere series of keynotes, invites learners to invest their time; to further their knowledge and to unleash their edge. Delivered by leading experts, authors, and game-changers, learners will be immersed in an experience like no other.

Considered a powerful learning tool and leveraged by Fortune 500 companies and other leading organizations across the globe, Skillsoft’s Live Events inspire individuals and leaders, bringing teams together to spur innovation and catapult organizations forward.

We are delighted to announce the 2022 Skillsoft Live Events lineup:

David Burkus

On February 24th, we kick off our series with David Burkus.In this session, Leading from Anywhere: How to Build High Performing Remote and Hybrid Teams, Burkus provides managers with a complete guide to leading remotely, packed with everyday examples and illuminating insights.

In this meticulously researched, refreshingly practical talk, Burkus also tackles the key inflection points and challenges that remote managers face from taking the team remote and adding new members, to communicating effectively and quickly, managing performance, keeping the team engaged, and even helping them strike the right balance between work and life. This talk provides everything you’ll need to survive and thrive as the leader of a remote team—which is something all leaders will need to consider themselves from now on


Simon T. Bailey


On May 10th, we are thrilled to host Simon T. Bailey, award-winning motivational speaker and author of five literary works that will set you on your path to brilliance. Simon believes that every single person is brilliant, and by the end of his message, you'll believe it too.

In his session, Spark Next Level Leadership,Bailey will discuss how to lead lead through crisis and change, how to hear, heal and help, and leading on all levels.


Ethan Kross


Join us on September 14th for a Live Event with Ethan Kross, one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he is the director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory.

In this session titled after his book, Chatter: The Voice in our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It, Kross discuses how he interweaves groundbreaking behavioral and brain research with colorful real-world examples to explain how the conversations we have with ourselves shape our lives, and gives us the power to change them.


Katy Milkman


We wrap up the 2022 Live Event series on November 9th with Katy Milkman, author, behavioral scientist, Wharton Professor, and Co-Director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative.

In her session titled Decision Biases: Improving the Quality of Our Everyday Decisions, Katy will illustrate how to identify and overcome the barriers that stand in the way of change. Katy is the author of How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You are to Where You Want to Be (Portfolio, 2021).



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