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National L&D Week

2026

March
23rd – 27th

Online Event.

Focusing on professional development and learning.

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Welcome to the 2026 National L&D Week, an extraordinary week filled with unparalleled opportunities for professional development designed to enhance your capabilities and connections.

About the Event

A week filled with L&D professional development through masterclasses aligned to the L&D Capabilities Framework. What L&D professionals need to be successful now and in the future.

Join us for 5 Days of Masterclass Interactive Sessions

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March 23

Mon

Amy Stewart

Dr André van Zyl

Karina Calder

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March 24

Tue

Jill Candappa & Dr Daniel Groenewald

Julian Davis

Adam Le Good

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March 25

Wed

Trevor Manning

Sarah Yip & Kym Robinson

Helen Melville

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March 26

Thu

Shaheen

Mark Vollmer

Shivani Gupta

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March 27

Fri

Petra Zink

Neil Von Heupt

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Who is it for?

Internal or External Trainer​ | Facilitator​ | Teacher | Coach | Instructional Designer | Corporate Learning & Development Professional | Trainer & Assessor | RTO owner

A week filled with masterclasses, covering topics aligned with the L&D Capability Framework.

An initiative of the Institute of Learning & Performance (ILP) with support from the broader Learning and Development (L&D) community.

Meet The Experts

Our Speakers

Amy Stewart

Emotional Intelligence Specialist, Keynote Speaker and Facilitator

Dr André van Zyl

Company Director, Education & Business Facilitator

Karina Calder

Founder of Gather Leadership – Leadership and Wellbeing Development Expert

Jill Candappa

Senior Learning & Organisational Development Leader

Dr Daniel Groenewald

Senior Leadership Development Manager and Adult Learning Expert

Julian Davis

Digital Learning Solutions Architect, Presenter, Facilitator, and Award-Winning Author

Adam Le Good

Director of Fundamental Training and Development. Facilitator and ILP Lifetime Achievement Award winner

Trevor Manning

Director of Trevor Manning Consultancy. Leadership Consultant, Author and Trainer.

Sarah Yip

CEO & Group Managing Director, KEASE Group. Keynote Speaker, Consultant & Facilitator

Kym Robinson

Executive Functioning Specialist & Senior Speech Pathologist

Helen Melville

Workplace Culture Coach and Capability Development Specialist.

Shaheen

Learning Strategy & Design at Ta’leem Consulting

Mark Vollmer

Presenter and Specialist in Inspiring Leaders and High Performing Teams

Shivani Gupta

Founder and CEO Passion Institute. Speaker, Coach and Facilitator

Petra Zink

Strategic Advisor to Executives and Founders. Executive and Leadership Coach

Neil Von Heupt

Director and Learning Designer at Divergent Learning

What to Expect?

Grab Opportunities to enhance your professional journey during the 2026 NATIONAL L&D WEEK:

Empowering Learning & Development: Innovate, Collaborate, Elevate.

Interact with highly experienced facilitators in real time.

Live Online Sessions

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Build self-awareness, empathy and resilience for stronger leadership.

Emotional Intelligence

Validate and showcase your professional growth

Collect CPD Points and Digital Badges

Learn from the best in the field.

Masterclasses with Industry Experts

Unlock exclusive benefits

Discounted ILP Memberships

Don’t miss out.

BOOK A SEAT

Take advantage of this chance to empower yourself and your organisation.

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Contact us

Institute for Learning & Performance Asia Pacific

Suite No. 1535
17 Gould Road Herston Qld 4006
PO Box 255, ASHMORE CITY QLD 4214

Phone: 1300 768 660

Email: [email protected]

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Don’t miss this opportunity to empower yourself and your organisation.

Earn CPD Points

Earn 2 points per session for ILP L&D Week!

Enhance skills, network, and thrive in a week of valuable insights.

It’s all about what suits you best!

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L&D Week 2025 Feedback

I found the sessions I attended to be perfectly pitched, offered valuable content, and were presented in an interactive and engaging manner.

What a fantastic week! Thanks Nicole and your team at ILP. Very engaging and inspiring.

Each session was unique. I enjoyed seeing different presenters in action and learning from them. The range of topics covered was fantastic.

Most challenged my thinking and I have many takeaways.
This was my first time in a session as I’m new to ILP and just starting out on my own as an external consultant… great to see such lovely people with great resources and knowledge to share
So much energy from Day 3 speakers, and some really valuable takeaways.

Amy Stewart

Emotional Intelligence Specialist, Keynote Speaker and Facilitator

Amy Stewart brings over two decades of experience designing and delivering high-impact learning and professional development across finance, government, tech, education and not-for-profit sectors. 

A well recognised and accredited Emotional Intelligence Practitioner, she works with humans who lead and influence other humans — clearly, confidently, and with emotional intelligence. Whether partnering with CEOs or emerging leaders, her focus is the same: build capability, spark meaningful conversations, and maximise the opportunity to thrive. 

Today, Amy’s here to bring energy, insight, and just the right amount of challenge —getting you talking, thinking, and leading with a little more emotional intelligence.

Dr André van Zyl

Company Director, Education & Business Facilitator

Dr André van Zyl brings more than 30 years of experience in corporate governance, business leadership and education, both in Australia and overseas. He specialises in governance, strategy, risk and helping leaders make clear, confident decisions in times of increased levels of uncertainty and change.

Andre’s work spans strategic planning, sustainability, AI and cybersecurity, and the development of boards and leadership teams. They support a wide range of clients, including SMEs, not-for-profits and independent schools.

Karina Calder

Leadership and Wellbeing Development Expert

Gather Leadership’s Founder and facilitator, Karina Calder helps teams and those that lead them to build high performance and healthy cultures.

Karina has lead teams and coached leaders in some of the largest organisations globally (including Deloitte, PWC, EY, ANZ, CBA, NAB, Medibank, Government) as well as small and medium enterprises. Drawing on her dual perspective — both as an internal Head of Learning and as an external advisor — Karina will share practical insights to help you create an impactful leadership program.

Jill Candappa

Senior Learning & Organisational Development Leader

Jill Candappa is the General Manager, Learning and Leadership Development at MACS. She holds two Masters degrees, and certifications in PDP Profiling, Situational Leadership, BrandMe techniques, and Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”.

With a background in psychology, Jill has over 15 years’ of senior leadership experience driving innovative learning initiatives in Academic and Organisational Development roles. Demonstrated success in designing and implementing L&OD frameworks to increase workforce capability and sustainability in complex work environments.

Dr Daniel Groenewald

Senior Leadership Development Manager and Adult Learning Expert

Dr. Daniel Groenewald is Manager, Leadership Development Programs at Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools. He holds an EdD, two Masters degrees, and certifications including LSI, DISC Advanced, and Prosci Change Management. His doctoral research on high-performing teams earned a post-graduate award.

Daniel is an Australian Council for Educational Leadership Fellow, specialising in evidence-based leadership development across educational settings. Daniel has over ten years of experience designing enterprise leadership programs. He is a published researcher in high-performing teams with international speaking credentials and a proven track record building leadership capability frameworks for large educational systems.

Julian Davis

Digital Learning Solutions Architect, Presenter, Facilitator, and Award-Winning Author

Julian Davis is a Digital Learning Engineer, xAPI Specialist, and Founder of Remote Reviewer, with over 25 years of experience in web and digital learning technologies. Also known as The Digital Learning Guy, he helps organisations unlock powerful insights from learning data through xAPI and AI, creating authentic, decentralised, and data-driven learning experiences.

Adam Le Good

Director of Fundamental Training and Development. Facilitator and ILP Lifetime Achievement Award winner

Adam Le Good brings thirty years of learning and development knowledge to the session and is the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.

His background in both Psychology and the performing Arts informs his presentation and he is a long-time accredited user of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, DISC Advanced, the Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument, Team Management Systems and the Belbin Team Roles.

He wrote the Module on Psychometric Tools for the Certificate IV and has produced a range of videos on these topics.

Adam specialises in Leadership, Team Building, Communication and all things pertaining to human behaviour in the workplace.

Trevor Manning

Director of Trevor Manning Consultancy. Leadership Consultant, Author and Trainer.

Trevor Manning has over 30 years of international experience as both a technical leader and an educator. A qualified engineer, his career has spanned design, project delivery, and operational management before progressing to senior management and advisory board-level roles. Today, he runs his own consultancy focused on helping technical professionals strengthen their business and leadership capabilities, delivering programs through institutions such as Oxford University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Engineers Australia’s graduate development program.

Trevor is a published author of books on both technical and leadership topics, with his tenth title recently released.

Sarah Yip

CEO & Group Managing Director, KEASE Group. Keynote Speaker, Consultant & Facilitator

Sarah Yip is an award-winning leadership expert, neuroinclusion advocate, and founder of ADHD atWork Australia. With over 20+ years’ experience designing and delivering large-scale capability programs for ASX200 companies, universities, and government, Sarah combines behavioural science with human-centred design to create learning that sticks.

Diagnosed with ADHD at 22, she brings lived experience, academic rigour, and practical tools to help organisations unlock the brilliance of neurodivergent talent. Her pioneering work in leadership, inclusion, and executive functioning has positioned her as one of Australia’s leading voices on building workplaces where all minds can thrive.

Kym Robinson

Executive Functioning Specialist & Senior Speech Pathologist

Kym Robinson is a respected executive functioning specialist and speech pathologist with extensive experience in occupational accessibility and inclusive workplace communication. With more than two decades of experience across corporate, clinical, and consulting environments, Kym partners with organisations to identify neuroexclusive risks and redesign systems for inclusion.

She was recently engaged by a major aviation firm to conduct an organisational neuroinclusion audit — leading to the implementation of best-practice strategies that reduced cognitive load and improved workforce performance. Her expertise bridges communication science and practical workplace design, empowering businesses to embed inclusion by design, not by exception.

Helen Melville

Workplace Culture Coach and Capability Development Specialist.

I’m Helen, Workplace Culture Coach and  Director of Blue Dog Culture. I work with leaders and teams to create workplaces where emotion is seen as strength and courage is the norm.

I am an ECD Certified Consultant and my approach is grounded, practical, and centred on helping people understand themselves so they can lead with clarity and purpose.

I’m known for asking the kind of questions that spark insight, challenge assumptions, and open up new ways of working. Whether I’m coaching one-on-one or working with whole teams, my focus is always on building emotionally intelligent leaders who bring authenticity, curiosity, and heart into the way they lead.

Shaheen

Learning Strategy and Design Specialist, Ta’leem Consulting

Shaheen is an inclusive learning consultant, facilitator and the founder of Taleem Consulting, where she helps organisations build learning programs that are not only effective but equitable, accessible, and inclusive.

With a background in learning design, Shaheen specialises in creating learning experiences and teaching practical inclusive-design tools that improve learner outcomes.

Mark Vollmer

Presenter and Specialist in Inspiring Leaders and High Performing Teams

Mark Vollmer has extensive international experience in a broad range of Learning and Development areas.  His specialty across more than 35 years has been on integrating learning to improve organisational performance.  His project experience has covered both the corporate and government sectors.

His key skills are in Performance Diagnostics, Instructional Design, Integrated Learning (encompassing E, M and Micro Learning) and Performance Support Systems (PSS).

Mark brings a depth of knowledge and understanding to the topic of harnessing and developing Learning and Development capabilities.  He is currently a Lifetime Fellow with ILP Asia Pacific.

Shivani Gupta

Founder and CEO Passion Institute. Speaker, Coach and Facilitator

The world’s only Engineer turned Entrepreneur turned Educator. Her Why is to Activate Passion globally.

  • Keynote on local and global stages including TEDx
  • Coached 1,500+ leaders across industries
  • Authored 8 books on leadership
  • Facilitated workshops worldwide
  • Two successful exits of business

Petra Zink

Strategic Advisor to Executives and Founders. Executive and Leadership Coach

Petra Zink is a speaker, facilitator, and strategist who helps leaders, trainers, and consultants turn their expertise into practical tools and frameworks that create real impact. She brings together branding, learning, and leadership development and is the creator of the Trusted Authority™ methodology, a practical approach for becoming the “obvious choice” in your organisation or client base.

Through her work with impaCCCt and The360Talent.Co, Petra supports teams across industries to build capability, strengthen trust, and design learning experiences that people remember and reuse. Known for her energetic, interactive style, Petra helps professionals move beyond content delivery and create proprietary frameworks and assets that elevate their influence and create lasting value across the organisation.

Neil Von Heupt

Director and Learning Designer

Neil drives an awesome kombi and does fire spinning, African drumming and social media marketing for circus people in his spare time. Why put that in your bio? Good learning design involves divergent thinking – the proverbial outside the … cliché. That’s the space where Neil lives and designs from.

He’s a multi award winning learning designer – nothing boring, no #clickeraction snooze-fests – purposeful, engaging, collaborative, practical experiences that deliver performance and business outcomes.

Neil is a Fellow of the Institute for Learning & Performance Asia Pacific and the Australian Institute of Training and Development, and an occasional blogger at https://divergentlearning.wordpress.com/