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Rebekah’s is a specialist in organizational workforce solutions and designing talent development programs.
Her current area of focus is in helping organizations develop workforce and talent strategies that align with and enable their business strategies.
Prior to her current role at Right Management, Rebekah led a global, cross-company team in the design, development, implementation, management and evaluation of Manpower's global, enterprise-level sales training program.
She has also managed Manpower’s Global Client Services and Solutions group responsible for working with clients to enhance their complementary and permanent workforce management strategies. In this role, she was responsible for leading several initiatives to improve Global Sales’ business development and retention strategies.
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Tom is an industry leader with more than 25 years leadership experience in Learning BPO and IT. His expertise includes knowledge management and learning technologies, IT service delivery and workforce management, learning and employee development, business process outsourcing, organizational systems and process, mergers and acquisitions, and product management. The power of Tom's leadership lies in his proven ability to link enterprise outsourcing engagements with market and business strategies and to drive vision to reality.
Tom joined Accenture in 2001 to help the early stage development of Accenture Learning, a learning BPO business before moving to their human capital consulting practice in 2003 to help build and grow the talent management practice in the Financial Services Operating Group. Tom's last major assignment was to help design and operationalize Accenture's global learning and collaboration consulting practice. Tom recently retired from Accenture in December of 2009.
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Danielle is a results-driven, highly motivated organizational development professional with 11+ years experience managing projects and enterprise-wide initiatives. Proven success in leading performance management, talent management (succession planning, talent review, hi-po identification), organization development planning strategies, workforce planning, consulting, and compliance and ethics. Demonstrated excellent communication, public speaking, training and facilitation, coaching/mentoring, and project management skills. Highly strategic and skilled in the design and execution of successful programs aligned with overall business goals.
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Chrysler Manager for Organizational Learning & Leadership Development, William J. Kurolvech is currently managing development activities aligned to support Chrysler performance management behaviors, corporate values and leadership development for 15,000 global Chrysler executive, management and salary bargaining unit employees.
Bill Kurolvech started his career in public education with the Grosse Pointe Public Schools after graduating from Eastern Michigan University. Bill then moved to Chrysler Corporation in 1984 as a technical instructor in the Advanced Product Training group. Bill progressed to Senior Instructor / Programs Developer over 13 years while working and servicing operations in Mexico, Italy, Austria, Germany, South America & China. Bill then moved to the Management and Executive Education Group in 1995 to focus on developing management skills training to support Human Resources and Employee Relations. During this period Bill participated in the implementation of a customized corporate LMS solution and later spearheaded joint activity to implement an enterprise purchased LMS solution for the Chrysler Group in conjunction with the UAW and CAW.
As one of Chrysler early leaders in eLearning Bill began efforts in 1998 to standardized eLearning platform directed through the Chrysler Training Provider Forum that Bill now chairs. Standardization of the LMS, Virtual classroom tools and eLearning course offerings was accomplished over a 3 year period.
Recent efforts have been focused on a major redesign to the management development offerings and processes, providing a new corporate product labeled “The Management Performance Zone”. The MPZ is an application of a blended learning model of technology and traditional classroom instruction. This model addresses corporate culture, learning styles and learner demographics while providing complete alignment to the requests of various internal customers.
Bill has been in education and development for 32 years and is also a member advisor for the Automation Alley eLearning Sub-Committee for Oakland County Michigan,
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Richard specializes in customized writing and improvisational comedy for any industry. He firmly believes that humor is the most valuable tool in delivering a company's message. (See video samples.)
And he uses humor in a way that reinforces your message, rather than cheapening it. In other words, he uses humor the right way. Richard's overall goal: "To deliver your information professionally and effectively."
An 18-year veteran of corporate entertainment, Richard began his career with Chicago's famous Second City comedy troupe.
For more than 15 years, he's been making corporate events fun and engaging for such clients as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Fisher-Price, United Way, Microsoft, Mattel, the Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference and many more.
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Sailesh Lalla is the Vice President of Business Development at NIIT CognitiveArts and leads the company's learning outsourcing initiatives across corporate markets in North America and within key industry segments such as banking & insurance, automotive and retail. Sailesh has been a part of NIIT's learning outsourcing business for 15 years, and has rich experience inforging and managing the governance of large scale outsourcing relationships. He also brings rich international expertise, having lived and worked on major learning outsourcing relationships in Singapore, Australia and India.
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As an entrepreneurial marketing executive following path of community service through active involvement with Rotary International and community service, Rich is looking to create partnerships between local service clubs.
Rich’s specialties include marketing, P&L management, advertising planning and management, consumer and trade promotions, and market research integration. Rich is a board member for RightStart4Kids.org.
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Brian joined ASTD in 2007 to lead the business segmentation effort. In this role, he is responsible for creating relevant and personalized content, tools, and resources for individuals within specific strategic industries and markets. Brian has fifteen years of experience in all facets of sales, sales management, and sales training and is an internationally recognized expert on transforming sales team systems, processes, and people through learning. In this capacity, he also leads the sales profession competency modeling project for ASTD while managing the research, product-development, and educational offering to help ASTD members and non-members attain their goals with their sales teams.
Before joining ASTD, Brian was the Executive Director of the United Professional Sales Association where he led the global effort to define sales competencies for high-performing sales people in complex/consultative selling environments. He has been a sales performance consultant and account executive for small- and large-sized organizations including Dun & Bradstreet, the world's leading provider of business-to-business information. Before joining corporate America, he was a Captain in the United States Air Force where he served as a Logistics Officer and Director of Group Training, managing new-hire and ongoing development programs and human performance improvement initiatives within that service branch.
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As a Senior Manager in Baxter’s Talent Management Center of Excellence, Leif is leading the Management Essentials program -- the company’s development program for over 5100 new managers in 38 countries. In addition, he is also responsible for the design, development and implementation of the Baxter’s new leadership training program for senior managers and directors. Leif has been with Baxter for over three years, bringing several years of organizational development and human resources experience from Sears, Deloitte Consulting and Accenture.
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