Future Work Summit 2022 | State of Skills

Liz Jakubowski and Siobhan Savage shared insights from their work at the Future Work Summit in Adelaide and online on 9 March 2022. They were joined by Gaurav Kheterpal, Michael Bromley and James Windon for a discussion with Harry Godber.

The conversation was wide-ranging and considered what the data tells us and what trends are emerging. With increased competition for talent and a resetting of priorities by workers since the pandemic, we considered how organisations find the skills they need. We also discussed how they can uncover the skills their people already have, how they reskill those people they wish to retain and identify the talent they want to attract??

Finally, we noted that to secure better-paying jobs, Australians need to create the companies that produce these jobs and the confidence to develop the skills to do these jobs. So how are we connecting the dots to make this possible??

Presentations

Watch each presentation and the Q&A facilitated by Harry Godber?here.

About

Liz Jakubowski is the Director of the Digital team for the National Skills Commission. She is a leader experienced in building digital and data platforms, communications and managing stakeholders. She has held senior executive and leadership roles across research & public agencies including CSIRO, NICTA, ABC, NSW Health and consulting to the private sector. At CSIRO, Data61, Liz founded the student job matching platform, Ribit.net, which matches tertiary students with STEM + digital skills to casual roles and internships with fast-growing businesses. Ribit established a community of 40,000 students across universities in Australia and 5000 of the nation's leading startups and employers. Ribit was acquired by Stone & Chalk in 2020.

Siobhan Savage is an award-winning workforce strategist obsessed with developing inclusive workforce intelligence and designing meaningful careers at scale. For almost two decades, Siobhan worked across the UK, Ireland, Middle East, South East Asia, China, Australia and New Zealand, delivering the workforce behind some of Australia’s largest projects including the Melbourne Metro, Roy Hill, W2B and Sydney Metro.

Gaurav Kheterpal is Chief Learning Officer at MTX Group, a leading global technology consulting firm. Based in India, he plays a key role directing MTX’s global internal training and career development function and engaging with external stakeholders to advance industry skills development. Gaurav is a BITS Pilani, India alumni with 21 years of industry experience and was nominated to Forbes Technology Council as an official member in 2020. Gaurav has presented as a speaker at significant industry conferences including Dreamforce, Salesforce World Tour, London's Calling and others. He has been recognised by Salesforce as an MVP and a Trailblazer and he serves on the Partner Advisory Board for Service Cloud. Gaurav has previously held several leadership positions in leading consulting and product development organisations. He is passionate about creating stable and rewarding career pathways in tech through training and mentoring for youth and people with diverse experience and backgrounds seeking new career opportunities later in life.

Michael Bromley is the Group CEO of Stone & Chalk. He is a digital and innovation change agent. He helps businesses transform into digitally innovative organisations through the implementation of Lean, Agile & Design practices. These are business principles designed to create nimble & responsive organisations that can respond to the velocity of change. He has demonstrated success and innovation across IT, Marketing, Product Development, and Digital Transformation. With over 15 years experience as a member of Executive Leadership Teams in telecommunications, financial services, online services, and consulting, my successes include innovations in product development, delivery and lifecycle management at global leaders like AOL, Blackberry, Telstra and the National Broadband Network (NBNCo). Following a 10 year career as an investment banker in the US Micahel has been building sustainable high performing teams in Australia.

James Windon is an entrepreneur and investor with deep experience creating groundbreaking digital platforms in Australia and the United States. As Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Flare, James oversees Australia’s leading pay and benefits platform, used by one in four new Australian employees. Previously, James was the Co-Founder of Brigade, a social network for voters whose mission is to build technology that modernises democracy. Prior to Brigade, James served as President of Facebook Causes, the world’s largest platform for activism with over 200 million users.?As an investor and mentor, James has worked with dozens of technology companies locally and in the US, including through leading accelerators Tank Stream Ventures and Startmate. He has been profiled in Entrepreneur Magazine, the Washington Post and the SF Chronicle, and is a regular speaker at some of the world’s leading marketing and technology conferences, such as Cannes Lion and the Web Summit.?James holds degrees in history and law from the University of Sydney, and a Masters degree in International Trade from Georgetown University. Previously James practised law at Allens Arthur Robinson, and at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva.

Harry Godber, the Head of Strategy at Flare, a Sydney-based tech scaleup that is transforming the way Australians receive their pay and benefits.?Prior to that, Harry spent six years as a policy adviser and helped launch the Consumer Data Right, led the creation of the Government’s fintech strategy – including initiating significant reforms to the national payments regulatory system – and oversaw critical support initiatives for Australia’s digital economy through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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