Kelly Stuart-Johnson is Global Head of Learning at VML, the world’s largest creative company, where she leads a six-person team serving 26,000 employees across 50+ markets. This year, Kelly and her team won six Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Awards, including Gold for Best Learning Leader and Best Learning Team. Her approach centers on one insight: people engage deeply with learning when it feels personally valuable, not organizationally mandated. That philosophy drove her team’s signature achievement—Open Everydai, a $3,000 AI training program that unlocked WPP’s $300 million platform investment by transforming VML into the network’s #1 user.