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“Grow your people, and they’ll grow the business,” affirms NEXT Ventures’ Chief People Officer, who believes learning should be embedded into everyday work to drive engagement, performance, and retention.
The best learning might already be happening at work. For Elvira Moey (pictured above), people often grow fastest when development is tied to real business challenges, rather than confined to classrooms or formal programmes. Across her career, she has seen how doing the job, learning from others and formal training can come together to make development stick.
Moey is Chief People Officer at NEXT Ventures, a global fintech firm. With 17 years of HR leadership experience across fintech, technology, and multinational organisations, she has held senior roles at Warner Music Group, TDCX, TikTok, and 11street. Her expertise spans workforce design, compliance and organisational culture, while working with teams across more than 18 countries has strengthened her ability to navigate cultural nuances and adapt how she communicates and coaches.
A lesson from an early-career mentor also continues to shape her approach: people leaders do not need to have all the answers, but should ask the questions that help others find their own.
At Learning & Development Asia 2026 – Malaysia, Moey will make the case for treating learning culture as a business strategy rather than an HR project. Ahead of the session, Elvira speaks with Emily Chong-Gupta about learning through real work, coaching rather than dictating, and why growing people can help grow the business.
Read the full interview below.
Q Which L&D principle has most influenced how you help others or yourself learn best?
Learning sticks when it happens through real work, not just in a classroom.
Across TikTok, TDCX, and now NEXT Ventures, I've seen that people grow fastest when their development is tied to real business challenges. Most growth comes from doing the job, some from learning through others, and the rest from formal training.
Q Who has been a mentor or coach to you personally, and what is a timeless lesson they taught you?
Early in my career, a senior HR leader told me that my job wasn't to have all the answers. It was to ask the questions that help others find their own. That changed how I work with leaders today. The best people leaders coach and they don’t dictate.
Q What is an unexpected or interesting skill you have picked up that colleagues may not know about?
After supporting teams across more than 18 countries, I've gotten very good at reading cultural nuances. I adjust how I communicate and coach depending on whether I'm working with a team in KL, Dubai or Bangladesh. It's a quiet skill, but it's been one of my most useful.
Q In fewer than 10 words, what is your number one motto for helping people and teams grow?
Grow your people, and they'll grow the business.
Q A quick preview of your session at Learning & Development Asia: What is the one key takeaway you hope attendees will gain?
A learning culture isn't an HR project. It's a business strategy. When growth becomes part of how a company works everyday, engagement, performance, and retention all follow.
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