Develop and implement a tailored learning strategy with L&D Strategy Accelerator
Find out more
Speaking

Speaking and Workshops

Need to build a high impact L&D function?

Want to equip your managers and teams to take charge of their learning and career development?

 Looking to increase organisational learning agility?

 We can create and deliver a keynote session or workshop tailored to your organisation’s needs.

L&D Keynote Speaker and Workshop Presenter Michelle Ockers

Michelle Ockers speaking on stage at AITD

With a contagious commitment to modern learning approaches and high impact L&D strategy, Michelle Ockers combines her unique insight and experience with practical application to provide L&D professionals and their organisations with the tools they need to build a compelling L&D function with significant results.

Michelle’s speaking and presenting style is clear, inclusive, engaging and enthusiastic. She is well-prepared, structured and thoughtful, ensuring that her content is timely, interesting and useful. Michelle has experience speaking at conferences within Australia and abroad, and within organisations to both L&D teams and at broader employee events. No matter what the event or who the audience Michelle directly aligns her presentation to suit the audience and their needs.
“Michelle’s ability to translate theory into practice, as well as her straight-talking and engaging communication approach was exactly what we were looking for”
- Diane Hickman, Australian Public Service Commission
"Michelle Ockers was the keynote speaker at our Administrative Professionals Conference. The theme of our conference was 'Be Future Ready’. Michelle's presentation stimulated participants thinking as she explored the changes that we are all facing and the future skills we would need. She stressed the importance of all of us taking responsibility for our own learning, rather than relying on our organisation providing it. Her presentation was inspiring, visually stimulating, thought provoking and practical. What I appreciated most was that she tailored her presentation to the brief we gave her, learnt about our organisation and was very generous of her time. I would sincerely recommend Michelle as a keynote presenter."
- Lorraine Denny, Professional & Organisational Development Services, University of Wollongong
Do you want contemporary, engaging, effective approaches to build shared responsibility for learning and enable continuous learning in your workplace? Whether your transformation has slowed, stalled, ready to take to the next level, or not yet begun, it’s time to build momentum – with expert support.

Through a keynote session or workshop, Learning Uncut will shift mindsets, bring fresh ideas, share relatable examples and provide strategies to transform learning in your organisation.
Enquire Now
Michelle Ockers speaking at ICG

Presentation Options

Learning Uncut creates and delivers keynote sessions and workshops tailored to your needs and goals for L&D professionals, leaders and your workforce

Choose between the following formats:

  • Conference keynote: internal or external conferences (in person or virtual)
  • Webinar: 1-hour online delivery
  • Mini-Workshop: Interactive workshop of 1-2 hours (virtual)
  • Workshop – Half- or full-day workshop (in person)

Topics for Learning and Development Professionals

These sessions are perfect for L&D professionals and teams who aspire to increase the value and impact of their work within their organisation and build their credibility.

Develop a Compelling, High-Impact Organisational Learning Strategy

In the wake of the pandemic organisations are re-examining business strategies, workforce models, values, and culture. L&D has become more central in helping organisations address significant challenges, while faced with talent disruption and skills shortages. Amid this relentless activity, many have struggled to prioritise developing or refreshing their learning strategy. Yet the deep thinking this requires is essential to effectively make the strategic contribution needed. A well-crafted learning strategy provides a strong framework for L&D to contribute to your organisation’s goals and create value. This is a ‘how to’ session to discover a robust end-to-end process to create a compelling, high impact organisational learning strategy. Brought to life with real-world examples.

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:

L&D Leaders and teams who know it’s time to develop or refresh an organisational learning strategy and are looking for practical approaches and examples to ensure that it is compelling and effective for their organisation, with strong stakeholder buy-in.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

  • An approach to understand what your organisation really needs and expects from L&D
  • A robust process to shape a compelling business and workforce value proposition for L&D
  • Steps to craft your learning strategy so that L&D can deliver on this value proposition
  • Real-world case studies and examples

FORMAT

  • Keynote
  • Webinar

Download Session Brochure

Reimagining L&D – Shaping the Future Value Proposition

In a world of continuous change, learning will always be essential. With the landscape of L&D changing rapidly, now is the time to reassess and redefine its future value proposition. How can L&D ensure it remains relevant and prepared for the future? Before we can communicate our value proposition across the organisation, we need to clearly define it for ourselves.

This workshop invites L&D professionals to stretch their thinking about the future of learning amidst relentless transformation. Together, we will explore and start shaping the future value proposition for L&D in your organisation.

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:

L&D leaders and their teams who are ready to challenge existing assumptions about L&D’s role and value and explore strategies to ensure L&D is well-positioned for ongoing workplace transformation.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

  • A deeper understanding of current assumptions about L&D
  • Fresh ideas on how to prepare themselves and their organisation for the future
  • Initial insights into a future value proposition for L&D, which can be further refined and applied within their own context
  • Practical steps to explore and communicate these ideas within their teams and broader business.

FORMAT

  • Interactive workshop – 2 hours

Download Session Brochure

Beyond Happy Sheets: Driving Real Impact with Learning Evaluation

How well are you really evaluating your learning solutions?  You’re not alone if evaluation isn’t a priority. In fact, only 12% of organizations are using data to measure the impact of their learning programs. But here’s why it matters: top-performing organizations are almost 15 times more likely to measure impact than others.* What if you could join their ranks by evaluating the right things—for the right reasons—in the right way?

This session will help you shift from viewing evaluation as a checkbox exercise to using it as a tool for continuous improvement. You’ll gain practical insights and strategies to measure the effectiveness and impact of your L&D efforts, so you can drive real results and deliver greater value to your organisation.

* Data source: Mind Tools For Business, Annual L&D Benchmark Report 2022

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:

L&D leaders and professionals who are ready to move past basic metrics like completion rates and learner satisfaction. If you’re looking to take a structured, evidence-based approach to evaluation, this session will equip you with the mindset, clarity and next steps to improve evaluation and drive both learning effectiveness and impact in your organisation.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

  • A clear understanding of why evaluation matters and how it can be leveraged to drive improved learning effectiveness and business impact
  • An awareness of the most common pitfalls in learning evaluation and how to avoid them.
  • A set of practical questions to guide your evaluation strategy and ensure it’s relevant and effective
  • Clear next steps to move beyond checkbox evaluations and use evaluation to support continuous improvement

Format

  • Webinar 
  • Interactive Workshop
  • Conference Session

Download Session Brochure

Topics for Your Workforce

These sessions are perfect for empowering and equipping managers and individuals in an ever-changing world to take charge of their development, remain relevant and collaborate effectively to learning together.

Take Charge of Your Career

The days of a steady, stable careers are over. Organisations have become flatter and more networked. The pace of technology is relentless, making many skills go out of date in only a few years. Jobs are continuously evolving. People change organisations after shorter periods of time, or simultaneously work on contracts across a range of organisations. While organisations still offer a broad range of career opportunities, we need to think and act differently to spot new opportunities and create them. The great news is that in today’s connected world you have more opportunity than ever to take charge of your own career. Take matters into your own hands and equip yourself to navigate an ever-changing landscape.

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:

Professionals who desire to carve out their career by continually adapting, reinventing and reskilling themselves.

Organisations that want to retain and more effectively utilise existing talent by encouraging and equipping their people to develop their career within the organisation.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

  • An understanding of the changing career landscape
  • The ability to spot and create new opportunities
  • Two vital practices to super-charge their career
  • An approach to build a personal safety net to face career development with courage and confidence

FORMAT
Keynote
Webinar
Download session brochure

Professional Development Planning

Are you clear about your professional direction? Many people don’t look far enough ahead. You may also be unclear about how to leverage and supplement your experience to prepare for a range of possible futures. Like most of us, you’re probably busy and struggle to make time for your professional development. How can you build strong, consistent learning practices and habits that will help you continuously develop yourself and be ready for new opportunities? It’s time to take to control of your future!

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:

Professionals who want to put effective, efficient professional development practices and habits in place to work towards their goals – or to stay abreast of change in their field on an ongoing basis.

Organisations that want to encourage and equip their people to with skills, practices and habits for self-directed learning.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

  • Clarity on key career shifts they’d like to make in the coming 2-3 years
  • A professional development goal to support these shifts for the coming 6-12 months
  • A flexible plan to work on their development goal using contemporary approaches fit for the connected digital era
  • A workbook with questions and activities that can be used to refresh your goals and development plan at any time
  • A strategy to build a continuous development habit

FORMAT
Webinar
Workshop
Download session brochure

Learn as You Work

If you’re like most people, you’re motivated to get better at your job and improve your skills to open up new opportunities. However, your working day is full and it can be difficult to get time away from the workplace to do training. Even if you could, it’s hard to find the right course for your needs at a time that suits you. The good news is that you don’t need to wait to be sent on a training course to improve your skills, performance and outcomes. You can take matters into your own hands if you know how to spot and take advantage of opportunities to learn as you work. It’s time to take control of your own learning!

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:
Anyone who are ready to pick up some straightforward, practical ways you can learn as you work and from your work – getting better at your job every day.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

  • A clear understanding of how people really learn and improve your skills
  • A set of approaches and tools that you can use easily to learn as you work
  • A practice that you can use to intentionally extract learning from your past and future work experiences
  • A strategy to build a habit of continuously learning from your work

FORMAT
Keynote
Webinar
Workshop
Download session brochure

Engage Your Team to Learn as They Work

You’ve got a lot on your plate as a manager: hitting performance targets with limited resources and budget, keeping your people safe and getting your team to work together well are just the start of the list. You know that all of this is easier if your people have the right skills, can solve problems and flex to respond to issues and unusual events. The good news is that you don’t need to wait to send your people off on a training course to improve you’re their skills, performance, and outcomes. As a manager you have more influence over the development of your people than anyone else – and it can be easier and less time-consuming than you may think.

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:
Team leaders who you keen to continuously improve team performance without a big investment of time and money – through straightforward, practical ways you can help your team learn as they work and from their work.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

  • The ability to identify an important goal that is stretching their team’s skills
  • An actionable understanding of how people really improve their skills
  • Practical approaches and tools that you can use easily to help you team get better at their work
  • A plan to immediately put at least one of these approaches in place with your team

FORMAT
Keynote
Webinar
Workshop
Download session brochure

Watch Michelle in action

Enquire Now
Testimonials

What Our Clients Are Saying

Engaging, thought provoking and provided clear actionable outcomes

“Michelle tailored the session expertly to our network and provided valuable hands-on tasks to bring the concepts to life. Michelle provided practical advice and tools, and considered challenges for participants to consider to ensure it is applicable back in our local health services.

Michelle’s presentation was engaging, thought provoking and provided clear actionable outcomes for participants. Her passion, skills and knowledge in learning and development strategy is clear and kindly offered ongoing support to our participants for which we are so grateful. I look forward to working with Michelle again in the future and would strongly recommend working with, or learning from Michelle to anyone wishing to enhance their learning and development.”
- Rebecca Tivendale
Allied Health Workforce Education Lead at Western Health

Practical

"I loved the workshop on Reimagining the Future of L&D: always great to have a practical session to learn, collaborate and problem solve."
- L&D Leader
Participant at L&D Symposium 2024

Excellent

“Michelle's workshop on Reimagining the Future of L&D was excellent - she is such a good operator. The great thing about this was that we got to workshop some problems we are facing.”
- L&D Leader
Participant at L&D Symposium 2024

Favorite session at ATD23

"This was my favorite session at ATD23! I learned so much and took pages of notes. Thank you for your engagement and thoughtful presentation - it was amazing! I am following you on LinkedIn and only wish I was able to see you present more."
L&D Professional

Phenomenal

"Phenomenal, one of the best sessions I attended at ATD23."
L&D Professional

Polished and engaging presentation

"Great ideas/model that folks can take away and apply immediately. Very polished and engaging presentation."
L&D Professional

This was my favorite session at ATD23!

"This was my favorite session at ATD23! I learned so much and took pages of notes. Thank you for your engagement and thoughtful presentation - it was amazing! I am following you on LinkedIn and only wish I was able to see you present more."
- L&D Professional

Phenomenal

"Phenomenal, one of the best sessions I attended at ATD23."
- L&D Professional

Very polished and engaging presentation

"Great ideas/model that folks can take away and apply immediately. Very polished and engaging presentation."
- L&D Professional

Exactly what we were looking for

"We were seeking an L&D expert to share their perspectives with a group of public sector L&D practitioners. We invited Michelle to speak due to her track record in implementing learning strategies in large private sector organisations, such as Coca-Cola Amatil. Michelle’s ability to translate theory into practice, as well as her straight-talking and engaging communication approach, was exactly what we were looking for."
- Diane Hickman
Australian Public Service Commission

Informative and inspiring presentation

"Michelle delivered a keynote presentation at the launch event of NSW Department of Trade and Investment Knowledge Co-op. She gave an informative and inspiring presentation on Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), which included a demonstration of her own PKM practices. Michelle challenged the Co-op members to take personal responsibility for their own knowledge practices and routine, and to take small steps towards improving these. Ultimately, she provided everyone with a great challenge - how we might best support people to develop their personal and professional knowledge networks and routines as part of their work and learning."
- Matthew Hutchens
NSW Department of Trade and Investment Knowledge Co-Op

Stimulated participants thinking

"Michelle Ockers was the keynote speaker at our Administrative Professionals Conference. The theme of our conference was 'Be Future Ready’. Michelle's presentation stimulated participants thinking as she explored the changes that we are all facing and the future skills we would need. She stressed the importance of all of us taking responsibility for our own learning, rather than relying on our organisation providing it. Her presentation was inspiring, visually stimulating, thought provoking and practical. What I appreciated most was that she tailored her presentation to the brief we gave her, learnt about our organisation and was very generous of her time. I would sincerely recommend Michelle as a keynote presenter."
- Lorraine Denny
Professional & Organisational Development Services, University of Wollongong

Exceptionally well prepared and presented

"Michelle provided a great injection of energy when she facilitated a workshop for our Learning System Coordinators across the country in January of this year. The workshop focused on the development of an induction program, and also introduced the geographically dispersed team to Working Out Loud which they have embraced since the workshop. The workshop was exceptionally well prepared and presented."
- Anna Reid
General Manager

Passionate, professional, and engaging

"Michelle Ockers is a passionate, professional, and engaging subject matter expert in organisational learning and development who generously shared her knowledge and insights on how HR professionals could do to future-proof our learning and development culture in the Tasmanian State Service HR Forum held in Hobart on 27 November 2019. Before the forum, she worked closely with me to ensure that her masterclass aligned with the overall theme but she also proposed different ideas that would make it more interesting and insightful for participants."
- David Chen
Learning Consultant

Very engaging and enthusiastic

"I’ve attended multiple events where Michelle presented on particular topics around L&D and I found her to have an exceptional presentation style, very engaging and enthusiastic. Michelle has a vast wealth of knowledge in the industry and is seen as a subject matter expert. Michelle conducted a large amount of research on our agency, our vision and the development frameworks we have in place for our staff, and directly aligned her presentation to suit the audience. This allowed attendees to take away actions that can be used on an ongoing basis to support their development. As an L&D professional myself, I observed the way you facilitated the workshops and presented to the broader audience and took quite a few useful tips that I have since implemented. Looking forward to working with you again in the future!"
- Laura Curtis
IP Australia

Well prepared

"Michelle is a professional! She is delightful and was incredibly easy to work with. She was timely with everything and flexible and understanding when things changed (and they did). She was extremely well prepared and brought great ideas to the event. Michelle really helped us stitch it all together. I’m thrilled to know Michelle a little more and look forward to exploring ways we can continue to work together."
- Rosie Cairnes
Skillsoft