About Sydney Savion

Dr. Sydney Savion has been instrumental in shaping iconic global workforces and workplaces. In her 20-plus years of executive experience at Air New Zealand, Dell Technologies, Booz Allen Hamilton and the U.S. Air Force, she has led broad transformation, optimization and sustainability initiatives across industry sectors ranging from consulting, computing, aerospace to emerging markets. She is currently serving as chief learning officer at Cityblock Health — a high-growth Google venture.

In 2020, Sydney was awarded Chief Learning Officer of the Year by Human Capital Media in recognition of her individual achievement across the industry worldwide. Under her leadership stewarding learning transformation, Air New Zealand received the prestigious LearningElite Silver award — a first for New Zealand. She is a member of the advisory board of Synapse — an award-winning Canadian software company.

Dr. Savion holds a research-based Doctorate of Education in Human and Organizational Learning from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. She previously served in a range of corporate education roles at Dell Technologies, as a learning practitioner with Booz Allen Hamilton, retired US Air Force commissioned officer and has 20 plus years of experience as a leader, practitioner and researcher in the learning and performance field. She is a noted author with articles featured in the Chief Learning Officer Magazine, AI Trends, American Management Association Magazine, Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems and Forbes. Dr. Savion is a fellow of the Center for the Study of Learning, George Washington University, a valued speaker on the application of behavioral and neuroscience research to learning processes and has presented at Harvard University and Columbia University.

Passionate about her research interests, she stands at the forefront of translating growing behavioral and neuroscience findings that link how people learn and learning interventions. She has spent the past decade evangelizing the rich possibilities that behavioral and neuroscience research can provide to corporate education programs.