Unpacking learning experience and leadership at Optus with Kirk, Optus's Learning Experience Manager

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 6:49 a.m.

Optus is truly an agile business and one of our favourite brands. Having learnt quickly from the SARS virus, Optus’s business and crisis response to COVID-19 was swift, smart and measured. Kirk who heads up Optus’s learning experience team is no different. This conversation with Kirk is rich in leadership and learning experience insights including:  

  • How learning and learning experience is structured at Optus

  • Hints about the future of learning at Optus 

  • The key skills Optus is focusing on to future proof their employees and arm them through uncertainty 

  • Business partnering at Optus 

  • Empowering leaders to own learning and development 

  • Coaching as the missing link  

Join Kirk and Emily Walker, co-founder of Change Republic, and host of Learning to Thrive - a brand new podcast about learning to thrive in this rapidly changing, digital world. Come on a learning journey with us as we explore insights and learnings from experts in future skills, behaviour change, learning and development, mindset and leadership.