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Mike is a frequent speaker at Chicagoland Learning Leaders peer-networking sessions. Prior to HCSC, Mike worked at Allstate.
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Strategic learning and development professional with seven years domestic and international experience. Proven ability to lead global initiatives by providing vision, setting direction, collaborating across borders and managing projects to identified timelines and budgets. Excellent interpersonal, presentation and facilitation skills. Well-respected people manager and developer.
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Barbara is the Director of Clinical Learning and Innovations at Children’s Memorial Hospital since 2007. Children’s Memorial Hospital is Illinois' only freestanding hospital exclusively for children. CMH, a teaching hospital, is ranked number one in almost every major pediatric specialty.
Throughout her 29 year career at CMH, Barbara has had numerous roles within the Nursing Department, including Coordinator for the Nursing Orientation Program. As coordinator, she assisted with the development and implementation of the RN Internship program. This program is a specialized orientation program for new graduate nurses, which transitions the new graduate from student nurse to R.N. in an environment that promotes learning and professional growth.
Barbara was an instructor in the nursing program at William Rainey Harper College and at the University of Illinois College of Nursing. Barbara holds a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from DePaul University and a Master’s degree in science from Northwestern University. Barbara has numerous publications and has presented at several conferences. She was the recipient of the Exemplar Nurse Researcher Award at Children’s Memorial Hospital and has been awarded several research grants.
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Tim founded StoryQuest to provide the service all of us want, but rarely get - to hear the stories, strategies and tactics of our peers. StoryQuest leverages the voices, stories and passion of organizations, in mobile learning and sales enablement solutions.
Prior to founding StoryQuest ,Tim was a sales manager for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Interim Technology and CARA Corporation. StoryQuest clients included: RSA Security, Keane, Lucent, CommScope, TPSA, CA and more. Tim has traveled the world to gather best practices and technologies that help to capture the stories and voices and leverage them into practical tools real people can (and do) use.
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Before Mike Kemmler joined Grant Thornton LLP, he spent over four years as an independent consultant focused on rapid e-Learning and LMS implementation. He also developed and implemented a progressive e-Learning strategy as Manager of Learning Technologies at a Fortune 500 company. He has over 15 years experience applying instructional systems design, adult learning principles, and cutting-edge instructional technology to both technical and soft-skills training needs.
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With over twenty years of international experience, Louise M. Kern began working in the business information industry in 1996. In 1998 she moved to Vienna, Austria as the head of European Operations for a top US business information company. Ms. Kern returned to her native Chicago in 2000 to head the International Division of the same company, expanding their coverage to include data on international companies. Seeing the surging need for high quality business information in the increasingly global economy, Ms. Kern founded Global Business Information Services, Inc. (GLOBIS) in 2003 to cater particularly to the growing number of small and medium sized enterprises expanding internationally.
Initially focusing exclusively on China business information, Globis forged partnerships with leading Chinese private and quasi-governmental credit reporting and market research enterprises, beating venerable international business information companies to win the US Commercial Service’s contract as its source for International Company Profile (ICP) reports on Chinese companies in the fall of 2004. In April 2005 Globis expanded its coverage to include information on businesses and individuals in over 200 countries.
Ms. Kern has lived in mainland China, Austria, Germany, and France. She speaks fluent Mandarin and German, and is conversant in French. She has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a graduate diploma from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Nanjing University campus. She is a Board Member of the International Trade Association of Greater Chicago, a member of the International Women Associates, the Chicago Sister Cities China Committee, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs China Roundtable, and the International Visitors Center of Chicago.
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Over 20 years of experience in planning, designing and developing corporate education. Competencies include the following: instructional design and development, presentation and facilitation, supervision and mentoring, content synthesis and analysis, graphical user interface design, sponsor relationship development, audio/video creation, interaction design, and project management.
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Gretchen Koch is the Sr. Director of Workforce Development Programs at CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association, where she is responsible for representing The Association and its members’ Information Technology (IT) workforce development initiatives to several Federal Government agencies. She is also the national IT Career Cluster Leader for the States’ Career Cluster Initiative.
Before joining CompTIA, Ms. Koch had over twenty years experience in Information Technology management at Digital Equipment, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard corporations. Her most recent position in the IT Industry, prior to joining CompTIA, was National Education Manager, Global Services Division, Hewlett-Packard Corporation.
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Karen joined CIGNA in 2002 as Vice President, Learning for CIGNA IT and Service. In September of 2006 she earned responsibility for all learning and development for CIGNA internal and external stakeholders. Prior to joining CIGNA, Karen was with IBM as a Learning Offering Executive for Advanced and Emerging Technologies within IBM Learning Services and a Global Offering Executive within IBM Mindspan.
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