About
About Learning Uncut
We’re a learning and development consultancy for organisations that want to thrive.
Results Focused
Build a business case for L&D with evidence-informed approaches and measurable outcomes from your learning and development activities.
Expert Guidance
Our multi-award winning team brings decades of experience, both working in and contributing to the learning and development industry.
Tailored Approach
Our L&D consultants work closely with you to tailor your learning strategy so that it’s practical, high-impact, and delivers maximum business value.
How we can help
The Support You Need to Unlock Learning Potential
Are you a progressive L&D leader who wants to add real value to your organisation?
Shifts in the world of work require L&D teams to become more relevant, engaging, impactful, and agile than ever before. At the same time, emerging skills, learning innovation and research bring exciting potential for more efficient, effective and inclusive organisational learning.
Despite these opportunities, you can expect barriers as you create change and transform learning. Whether you’re unsure of your next step, time-poor, short on budget, facing resistance, lacking confidence, or even just overwhelmed by the enormous amount of work involved... you’re not alone. Even the most forward-thinking L&D teams are hard-pressed to keep up with the pace of change.
Are you ready to unlock real business value and truly transform learning in your organisation? You need a clear learning strategy, the right mindset, a supportive culture, and expert guidance. That’s where we come in.
See our servicesShifts in the world of work require L&D teams to become more relevant, engaging, impactful, and agile than ever before. At the same time, emerging skills, learning innovation and research bring exciting potential for more efficient, effective and inclusive organisational learning.
Despite these opportunities, you can expect barriers as you create change and transform learning. Whether you’re unsure of your next step, time-poor, short on budget, facing resistance, lacking confidence, or even just overwhelmed by the enormous amount of work involved... you’re not alone. Even the most forward-thinking L&D teams are hard-pressed to keep up with the pace of change.
Are you ready to unlock real business value and truly transform learning in your organisation? You need a clear learning strategy, the right mindset, a supportive culture, and expert guidance. That’s where we come in.
Our company
Who is Learning Uncut?
Learning Uncut are learning and development consultants that work with learning teams and business leaders to accelerate learning transformation. Our L&D specialists take the time to get to know you and your business, educate and guide you, and work closely with you to tailor our approach to meet your needs.
Whether you need to create or update your learning strategy, enhance your learning team’s capabilities, align learning to business value, or implement modern learning approaches, we’re here to support you at every step of the way.
Founded by respected and sought after L&D expert, Michelle Ockers, Learning Uncut is your trusted source for organisational knowledge and advice. We’ve worked with businesses of all sizes, including TAFE NSW, National Australia Bank, Schindler, the Australian Public Service, Sport Australia, Orica, Merivale, Manawa Energy, Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency, Invest Blue, Department of Education NSW, Grampians Health, National Australia Bank, Northern Land Council and the University of Wollongong. We’d love to help you, too!
Together, we can align your learning to your business needs, unleash continuous learning, and build capability to help your business thrive.
Whether you need to create or update your learning strategy, enhance your learning team’s capabilities, align learning to business value, or implement modern learning approaches, we’re here to support you at every step of the way.
Founded by respected and sought after L&D expert, Michelle Ockers, Learning Uncut is your trusted source for organisational knowledge and advice. We’ve worked with businesses of all sizes, including TAFE NSW, National Australia Bank, Schindler, the Australian Public Service, Sport Australia, Orica, Merivale, Manawa Energy, Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency, Invest Blue, Department of Education NSW, Grampians Health, National Australia Bank, Northern Land Council and the University of Wollongong. We’d love to help you, too!
Together, we can align your learning to your business needs, unleash continuous learning, and build capability to help your business thrive.
Values
Our Values
Always Learning
We constantly explore, challenge ourselves, and learn through our work, networks and resources - and support others to do the same.
Impact
We focus on achieving outcomes that make a difference in the world, from the work we do, to our community contributions.
Collaboration
We build and sustain close working relationships with our clients and partners based on shared values, purpose, and trust.
Pragmatism
Our approach is grounded in the real world of the people and organisations we work with, accelerating your transformation one stretch at a time.
Our Founder
Michelle's Story
I'm an organisational learning and modern workplace learning practitioner who works with leaders who want learning to make a bigger impact in their organisation.
Learn more about Michelle OckersI’ve spent close to three decades in learning and development. After 16 years in the Royal Australian Air Force, I brought my training and project management experience into the corporate sector.
By 2012, I was setting up and leading Coca-Cola Amatil’s Supply Chain Technical Academy. Soon after, I started sharing what I was working on (and how I was doing it) on my blog and Twitter. As I began to connect with experts and other learning professionals around the globe, new opportunities opened up for me to contribute to the learning industry in a much bigger way. My understanding of the possibilities for learning shifted dramatically and I embraced a business-first mindset, supported by contemporary, evidence-informed learning practices. By 2016, I was consulting to some of Australia’s most well-known brands.
In 2018, I started my popular podcast, Learning Uncut, helping L&D professionals share real stories about their work. And in 2019, I was awarded Learning Professional of the Year by the Australian Institute of Training and Development, and the Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award for contribution to the field of informal learning.
During the pandemic, more organisations reached out to me, realising that I was ready to support them anywhere around the world. The podcast became a global go-to source for examples of leading-edge industry practice, matching my vision for the industry’s potential - and how we can achieve that together. So, I decided to make it the official business name, launching the Learning Uncut brand in 2021.
Through Learning Uncut, I can leverage our global presence and network to offer L&D leaders everywhere the opportunity to thrive, with the support of leading experts.
Every day I get to see L&D leaders and teams make progress, tap into new ways of working, and create real impact in their organisations.
I look forward to getting to know you and your team!
Our Team
Learning Uncut Team
When you work with us, you tap into the knowledge and experience of some of the world’s top learning experts
Michelle Ockers
Founder & Learning Strategist
Award-winning speaker and host of the Learning Uncut Podcast, Michelle brings decades of learning and development experience. Michelle focuses her time on developing and implementing learning strategies. She also helps L&D professionals learn new skills and shift their mindsets through engaging workshops and presentations.
Jessica Gorka
Marketing & Operations Manager
Jess has a background in data analytics and mathematics, complemented by expertise in audio and video editing. Combining creativity with attention to detail, Jess manages podcast production, marketing, and operations.
Expert Partners
Our Current Partners
Australian Institute of Learning and Development
AITD
The Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD) is a professional membership organisation fostering excellence in individual and organisational learning for a better future. In partnership with the AITD, Learning Uncut contributes to their efforts in continuous learning and professional development to build a thriving, adaptable workforce.
Laura Overton
Learning Changemakers
Award-winning international speaker, author, and leader of a global research programme for 15 years, Laura helps drive change in learning innovation. Alongside Michelle Ockers and Shannon Tipton, Laura supports L&D Leaders who want to influence change in their organisations through Emerging Stronger.
Ravina Bhatia
LearningTribe
Ravina is an experienced learning leader and practitioner. She supports our clients as they develop learning strategy and capability. Drawing on insight from her work across a wide range of industries and experience using new and emerging forms of learning, her practical guidance helps drive results.
Michelle Parry-Slater
Kairos Modern Learning
Michelle is a people development business strategist, author and practitioner. Leading the profession, she is listed on the 2023 HR Most Influential Thinkers list. Michelle specialises in supporting organisations to embrace change for more impactful capability and people development. Moving the profession forward, Michelle has brought her years of people development practice to the People Profession through her work and globally popular book, The Learning and Development Handbook.
COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATION
Work With An Experienced L&D Transformation Team
Book a free consultation with our learning and development consultants. We’ll review your situation and share tailored recommendations for the next steps in your learning strategy and capability building.
Book a free consultationOUR ACHIEVEMENTS
Recognised for Our Impact
2019 Australian Institute of Training and Development
Learning Professional of The Year
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Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award
For contribution to the field of informal learning
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Our Work
Case Studies
Qantas
We provided strategic guidance on a transformation program over a 16-month period to reshape Learning and Development across multiple airlines and functions in the Qantas group. As a result, we modernised learning approaches, improving effectiveness and efficiency without compromising safety and compliance.
Coca-Cola Amatil
Our learning experts designed and implemented a technical academy to create sustainable capability in core operating functions. We introduced and sustained continuous workplace learning, creating a more connected, collaborative organisation.
Sydney Children’s Hospital Network (SCHN)
The team at SCHN were drowning under a sea of demand for software training. We helped them find ways to reduce the training burden using more sustainable approaches, while protecting patient care.
The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI)
Our learning experts led a global collaborative effort involving more than 50 leading practitioners and experts to refresh the LPI’s Learning and Development Capability Map in 2018. This contemporary framework defines the competencies required by a modern L&D team to meet the needs of organisations today and equip them for the future.
National Australia Bank (NAB)
Using the LPI Capability Map, we guided NAB to define the capability required by their learning team to successfully implement their modern organisational learning strategy. We assessed current L&D team capability and assisted NAB to create a strategic action plan to build capability.
Sport Australia
Sport Australia’s Women Leaders In Sport program ground to a halt for the first time in 18 years when COVID-19 hit. We supported the redesign of their learning program to leverage the online environment, while evaluating it to identify further improvements. We’ve also been engaged to deliver professional development sessions on the programs and help establish a Women Leaders in Sport network.
Australian Public Service Commission
In response to an independent review of the APS, the Australian government committed to develop an APS Learning and Development strategy. We provided evidence-informed insights into best-practice approaches and facilitated stakeholder consultation. We helped write their L&D strategy and action plan, equipping them to build a highly capable and future ready workforce of 150,000 people.
Orica
Orica, a provider of mining blast services and supplies, made a significant shift in their business strategy. Faced with talent shortages and an ageing workforce, they needed to improve invest more in learning. Learning Uncut helped to develop an organisational learning strategy and optimise Orica’s global L&D operating model. Our evidence-informed approach built the case for change, positioning L&D to boost skills development and competitiveness.
Stockland
To achieve their growth ambitions this property developer needed their people to work and learn differently. Using the L&D Strategy Builder service, we supported the L&D leader to develop and implement a strategy to create ‘an empowered and future-ready workforce; learning for tomorrow, today.’ This included launching their Future Ready Careers flagship initiative covering critical business capabilities and career development opportunities.
Invest Blue
This small, growing financial advisory firm needed to adopt learning approaches that would help them to scale rapidly. Our experts guided them using the L&D Strategy Builder process. They adopted peer to peer learning, reducing silos, strengthening connection and leveraging internal expertise. We developed role-specific development toolkits and redesigned their L&D Operating Model to deliver on their strategy.
TAFE NSW
Since 2019 Learning Uncut has assisted the TAFE NSW Capability team to develop business-centric capabilities and practices in performance consulting and evaluation. We’re now guiding them to create a 3-year learning strategy to help build a workforce that aligns with the TAFE NSW 2022-2025 strategic plan.
Learning Uncut was honoured with the prestigious Platinum LearnX Award in 2023 for Best Learning and Development Team. This award was presented jointly to our Chief Learning Strategist, Michelle Ockers, in conjunction with our partner, Ravina Bhatia from LearningTribe. This award celebrates talent, hard work, high standards, and collaboration. Recognising our pursuit of excellence in delivering high-quality project outcomes supported by continuous commendation from clients.