North American Learning Executive Summit

With roots as a high school teacher and varsity basketball coach, Ramona brings over twenty-five years of international experience focused on helping individuals maximize their potential and supporting organizations in developing their people in meaningful ways. Often referred to as a “talent tinkerer,” she infuses her expertise in career cognition, business strategy, mobility, and talent technologies to create modern, measurable talent solutions. She was recognized as the 2022 Chief Learning Officer of the Year by CLO Magazine while serving as Chief Learning Officer at Dell Technologies and is a recipient of the University of Texas at Austin President’s Award for outstanding contributions to the success of the University’s nationally ranked MBA program.

Ramona’s leadership is pushing the boundaries of HR talent strategies to drive business impact by transcending traditional approaches. She incorporates behavioral science, AI/ML, automation, kinesthetic and simulation-based experiences, data science, social learning, and even film.

Johann is the Chief Learning Officer in Global Learning & Development at Merck & Co., Inc. where he ensures learning solutions and innovations are aligned to the company’s mission to save and improve lives.  He has over 20 years of experience leading large global teams with a focus on furthering business transformation, defining and launching innovative user experiences and creating operational efficiencies to propel the impact of learning across all audiences.

For Johann, diverse talent is always at the forefront to achieve outstanding patient & employee experiences.  He is passionate and dedicated to coaching, motivating and developing our next generation of leaders.  As a result, he has worked tirelessly to improve:

• Organizations’ diversity & inclusiveness of thought leadership
• Digital capability in human capital, learning solutions, tools & processes
• On demand learning environments focused on self-learning & self-exploration
• Leadership & managements’ capabilities in advanced career development, coaching & mentoring opportunities

Johann has diverse and broad expertise in Learning & Development, Product Development, Product Marketing & Engineering, which have given him expertise in building & leading diverse global learning cultures. He holds a Master of Product Design & Development (MPPD) from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from University of Mississippi.

Ana Maria Sencovici (AMS) is an interdisciplinary Human Capital Leader with a stand-out track record of translating business needs into tangible, scalable talent solutions, with a focus on transformational and innovation-driven initiatives. She is currently the Chief Talent Officer of the Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL), a vacation industry leader with a global fleet of 65 ships across five best-in-class brands traveling to approximately 1,000 destinations. In her role, AMS oversees the company’s learning, development and performance functions as well as its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in support of the organization’s mission to deliver the best vacations responsibly.

Prior to RCG, AMS was the global head of Change and Organizational Advisory Services at Genpact, a professional services firm where she managed a global team advising clients on learning, talent and change transformations, as well as designing award-winning employee development programs.  Previously, she served as the head of Learning and Development Bridgewater Associates where she stood up its first learning and development function and was a founding member of the company’s talent council.

AMS is an unabashed neo-generalist, a stubborn status-quo disruptor, and a passionate practitioner of applied empathy, embracing the tensions in the space of “and”:  the practical and the conceptual, the soft and hard,  and the slow and fast. She has an MBA in Change Management from the Wharton School of Business, an MA from Bryn Mawr College and a BA from Haverford College. AMS lives in South Florida with her husband, Juan, and two sons Luca and Mateo.