Kirsty Chadwick, Global CEO, TTRO

Kirsty Chadwick’s beginnings were seeded by ambition and a fervor to make a positive change on the world. She was born in New Zealand and quickly developed a love for music culminating in her becoming a concert pianist, gaining a degree in music, and receiving a LTCL from Trinity College of London. She applied the same dedication  and discipline required to reach that level, to her increasing passion for education, and the lives and communities it could benefit.

After obtaining a teaching diploma, she became the youngest executive on the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers  Union, and later established the Young Teachers Network, which encouraged and supported young educators to join and remain in the profession.

Since founding TTRO in South Africa in 2008, the past 13 years has given Kirsty a wealth of experience in designing learning solutions that leverage technology as a core enabler to transform educational and learning experiences. She has been involved in numerous projects across all phases of lifelong learning, within both the public and private sector. Through these collective experiences and projects, she has led a talented and high performing team of individuals, and most recently embarked on graduate development programmes to increase the EdTech talent pipeline in South Africa.

Kirsty is passionate about achieving her vision of using technology to bridge the divide to accessibility of quality education in emerging and developing markets. She believes in transferring knowledge and skill, building capacity and capability, and that the future of learning for all of us, will be digitally enabled within the 4th Industrial Revolution and beyond. Expanding the business into the Middle East from 2016. and then subsequently in the UK from 2018, was the start of a global expansion of the core services and products that TTRO offers in learning strategy, learning content, learning technology and managed learning services.

Arriving back home to New Zealand in 2020 amidst the global Covid-19 pandemic, Kirsty has established TTRO NZ and is looking to bring positive contribution back home to NZ from her 20-years experience whilst living abroad.