Skills to Performance

About Us

Skills to Performance is co-founded and co-led by three practitioners who have spent their careers at the point where skills, learning and business performance meet. The programme is built on SIIO™ and delivered on SkillSuite™, Abodoo's skills intelligence platform.

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Dr Elisa Forestan

Co-Founder & Co-Lead, Skills to Performance · Chief Skills Officer, Abodoo

Elisa is a workforce intelligence consultant, researcher and learning scientist who turns labour-market data and learning science into strategy that organisations and policymakers can act on.

As Chief Skills Officer at Abodoo, she leads skills intelligence work across enterprise, higher education and government. She is an author of Abodoo's 2026 Green Skills Gap white paper and has led published work on EU Erasmus+ programmes, presenting workforce strategy directly to EU policymakers in Brussels.

She is a researcher at the International Centre for EdTech Impact, advises Series A–C EdTech companies, and designs executive masterclasses on skills-based workforce strategy and responsible AI.

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Vanessa Wainwright

Co-Founder & Co-Lead, Skills to Performance · Founder & CEO, Abodoo

Vanessa is a skills strategist who helps business, education and government leaders close the capability gap holding back AI ROI, and leave no one behind.

She is Founder and CEO of Abodoo and creator of the S.K.I.L.L.S 1st System™. She also hosts the Global Skills Podcast, named #1 Must-Listen L&D Podcast 2026, with listeners in 20+ countries. She has coached more than 2,000 professionals and speaks internationally, including at AI Summit Barcelona 2026, the EU Commission and Parliament, and on CNBC.

Her book, Seeing Clearly, is published in 2026.

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Sandra Murtagh

Co-Founder & Co-Lead, Skills to Performance · Former VP, Global Learning and Development, Dell Technologies

Sandra brings deep enterprise learning and transformation experience from her role as VP, Global Learning and Development at Dell Technologies. She shapes the programme's design and delivery, so every session reflects how large organisations actually build and deploy capability.

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Delivered on SkillSuite™, Abodoo's skills intelligence platform, with Abodoo's analysts running live data behind every session.

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