INTERVIEWS by STEPHEN IBARAKI
Moira de Roche, Outstanding Multi-awarded Serial Social Entrepreneur and Senior Global Executive
This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Moira de Roche.
Moira de Roche is an independent consultant with a focus on helping business and educational organizations design and develop learning programs, and measure the impact and return of these programs. She is currently working with a large university, as technical lead for a small team who are designing and developing E-Learning modules for a diploma course. Moira also works with small companies, especially non-profit companies, to develop strategies and measure the achievement of strategic goals and objectives.
Moira was Managing Director of Laragh Skills, a SkillSoft distributor. She worked with the company for over 17 years, first as Regional Manager and then assuming the position of Managing Director. After the company was taken over she decided to work on her own as a consultant.
Moira has spent the last two decades in the E-Learning industry and has a keen interest in the impact of emergent learning landscapes, especially Social Media and the use of new technologies in learning. She has worked with corporates, as well as Education Institutions.
Moira is a Director of IITPSA (formerly CSSA), and a Past President. She is a Professional Member (PMIITPSA) and a Fellow of the Society and a proud recipient of the “EngineerIT/CSSA Distinguished Service in ICT” award in 2009. She currently serves as the Honorary Treasurer. She is also a member of ACM.
She is a trustee of the South African Computer Olympiad Trust, whose function is to run the Computer Programming and Applications Awards in South Africa. Moira is also Deputy Chair and a Director, responsible for Marketing, of IFIP IP3. She is also a Vice-Chair and Director of IFIP IP3 Global Industry Council.
During the past two years, Moira has also worked with some IT departments helping them develop career paths and job descriptions aligned to the ITJobCompiler© framework. This work fits well with her passion for developing IT professionals against a framework and in line with membership of professional ICT societies. She uses many platforms to spread the message about Ethical conduct, which she believes trumps any belief system.
Moira holds a diploma in Strategic Digital Marketing (SmartInsights). She was motivated to accomplish this by a desire to help small companies and non-profits to make the most of the marketing opportunities that Social Media offers.
Moira has spoken at several conferences on various aspects of education and learning including Virtual Learning Environments for Education, Measuring ROI in L&D, Social Learning, Emergent Learning Landscapes, Developing E-Learning, and Game-Based learning.
For more details: za.linkedin.com/in/moiraderoche
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