Skills gaps will keep widening and organizations urgently need to rethink how they organize, develop and empower their workforce to execute their business strategy and address this skills crisis.

Michelle Connon-Roodt

EY Global People Consulting Learning Product Lead

Passionate about developing original, creative learning products. Amateur chef. Proud girl-Mom. Part-time yoganista.

Michelle has spent 15+ years collaborating with clients across the globe and leading diverse teams to help deliver transformative award-winning learning programs and products that measurably make an impact and provide return on investment.

She is currently leading an innovative technology initiative to harness the transformative power of AI to help accelerate development of skills-based learning programs, without compromising on legitimate learning science and human-centered thinking.

Michelle holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Laws and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education. She was recently shortlisted for the Learning Technologies Awards Learning Designer of the Year and the Learning Performance Institute’s Learning Professional of the Year.

How Michelle is building a better working world

Michelle leads the learning capabilities of the EY Skills Foundry, an upskilling and reskilling transformation program that gives businesses the fluid skills they need to adapt at pace in a fast-changing world. Transformation is inevitable, but technology alone won’t deliver growth, innovation or competitiveness. This is why Michelle believes human talent is essential to build a better working world.

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