Dr. Ramona Arora is the Vice President of Enterprise Career Development and Talent Product Management at The Walt Disney Company, where she leads the strategic roadmap, design, and deployment of education, mentoring, and skilling programs for over 230,000 employees worldwide. She also oversees the talent technology infrastructure and product management team within the Talent & Learning Solutions Center of Excellence with a focus on driving innovation in this new era of work.
With roots as a high school teacher and varsity basketball coach, Ramona brings over twenty-five years of global experience helping individuals maximize potential and guiding organizations to develop their people in meaningful ways. She was named the 2022 Chief Learning Officer of the Year by CLO Magazine while serving at Dell Technologies and received the University of Texas at Austin President’s Award for her contributions to the nationally ranked MBA program.
Ramona’s leadership pushes the boundaries of HR strategies by integrating behavioral science, AI/ML, automation, kinesthetic and simulation-based experiences, data science, social learning, and film. Beyond work, she is a mother of three, ballpark DJ, and mixed-media artist. She enjoys farmers’ markets, live music, tea, and exploring coastal towns along the Pacific Coast Highway with her family as new residents of Southern California from Central Texas.