2021 Award Judges
Rachel Kay
Learning Director
Capita
Category Judge
Rachel Kay started her career in Learning with Defence contractor Thales, starting her career in the management training team and then progressing through the organisation, over a 20 year period, where her final position was Managing Director for Thales Learning & Development. In 2018 Rachel joined Capita Learning where she now holds the position of Learning Director. Rachel’s expertise is in end to end Learning Services, supporting clients through the phases of learning transformation to deliver robust outcomes which support improved organisational performance and capability assurance.
Her team is responsible for the design and delivery of learning programmes across Capita Learning cleint base, both in the public and private sectors. Recently Rachel was part of the solutions design team for project Selborne, the Royal Navy’s Learning transformation contract and continues to be involved in the roll-out of the Modernisation workstreams . A Fellow of the Learning Performance Institute (LPI), Rachel is passionate about all areas of learning specifically around L&D effectiveness and the role is plays in supporting performance.
Rachel also holds a Non-Executive Director position with BCS, Institute of IT and is a school Governor with an Independent girls school in Sussex, where she supports the STEM agenda within the school. Both of these roles support her passion for all things ‘learning’.