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Dr. Chip Cleary leads the Advisory Services practice for the Knowledge Solutions Business of NIIT. He works with Fortune 500 companies, technology companies, and other organizations to develop strategies to maximize the impact they realize from learning. Cleary's interests are in developing more powerful approaches to enable continuous learning as well as in measuring and managing the impact of learning. Cleary holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University's Institute from the Learning Sciences, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and a B.S.E.E. from Yale University.
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Ed Cohen, a strategic leader with more than 25 years' experience in corporate learning and organization development, is Senior Vice President for Satyam School of Leadership, Satyam Computer Services in Hyderabad, India. He is an international speaker on leadership and learning strategies, and a contributing author to 'Next Generation Corporate Universities', published by Pfieffer Publishing, a division John Wiley and Sons, Inc. He has also written numerous articles on strategic learning and leadership.
Ed's background includes eight years with Booz Allen Hamilton, a global strategy and management consulting firm.
He was founder and strategic leader of what became one of the world's most widely recognized corporate universities. During Ed Cohen's tenure, Booz Allen received more than 30 "Excellence in Practice" recognitions from American Society for Training & Development.
Ed lives in India with his wife and daughter.
Ranked #1 for learning by American Society for Training & Development
2007 ASTD BEST Award
Author of Leadership Without Borders (http://leadershipwithoutborders.com)
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Eric is a Managing Partner of WHI Capital Partners and brings more than 14 years of operational, managerial and M&A transactional experience. Prior to joining WHICP, Eric oversaw all operations and acquisition initiatives as General Manager of Midwest Air Technologies, Inc., a consumer and industrial products company. Under Eric’s leadership, sales grew from $100 million to over $200 million and the company captured the leading market share position in its industry niche.
Before Midwest, Eric was CEO and majority owner of Ampere Automotive, Inc., a middle market family-owned automotive component remanufacturer. At Ampere, Eric grew sales from $25 Million to $50 Million and doubled profitability by successfully completing two acquisitions and implementing the Toyota Production System. With this system, production lead times at Ampere dropped from 3.5 days to 4 hours and inventory turns tripled.
Previously, Eric was a manager at General Electric, holding various operational and business development positions with GE Medical Systems, GE Power Systems, and GE Corporate. Throughout Eric’s career, he has been consistently successful in developing and executing strategic plans, growing revenues, dramatically improving margins and integrating acquisitions. Eric has a BS with honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Dr. Cohen is a 35+ year veteran of the human resource management field, having founded or led numerous consulting firms focused on the assessment, education and development of mid-to-senior level leaders.
His professional goal has always been to help leaders improve their effectiveness by aligning their performance with their organization's strategy.
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As Chief Learning Officer, Jay Colker leads Learning and Development for all of ShoreBank Corporation’s affiliate companies. Jay and his team collaborate with business unit leaders to ensure that employees at all levels have the right skills to maximize business unit outcomes. As a member of the senior management team in Human Resources, Jay and his HR colleagues have evolved an integrated approach to talent management including recruitment and selection, on-boarding, compensation and benefits, performance management, developmental planning, human capital strategic planning, succession, leadership and high potential development, employee relations, and learning and development.
Jay understands the challenges of creating a continuous learning culture for employees and aligning with business unit leaders to achieve business results. Jay established ShoreBank University with multiple delivery channels including classroom, live webinars, and self-paced learning solutions to support both business unit needs and career development.
ShoreBank was a 2004 award winner recognized by Workforce Chicago 2.0 as a best practice company in employee development and a 2006 award winner of the Right Workplace award recognized for its positive people practices.
Jay holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology, a Masters Degree in Business Administration, and a degree of Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership. Jay also holds a certificate in mediation and conflict resolution. Jay is currently a part-time instructor at the University of Phoenix and was previously a part-time faculty member at the Adler School of Professional Psychology.
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Rob is a co-author of Doing Business in China for Dummies, which was released by Wiley Publishing in August 2007 and President of Doing China Business L.L.C.
Rob has been associated with developing opportunities in the China market for 25 years. Prior to establishing his own firm, Rob developed the China business strategy for Aon Corporation and several other leading international companies.
Mr. Collins lived and worked in Beijing and Hong Kong, China for 12 years. He led business development, P&L management, and new market entry for 14 Asian countries. He also developed successful new market entry strategies in Europe, South America, and Australia.
Rob obtained a joint MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Rob is an active member of the Mayor of Chicago’s Sister City Committee.
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Kevin provides consulting time to various technology ventures in mainland China and is the President of A Full Life, Inc. and a Trustee for A Full Life (UK Trust) an organization creating a financially self-sustaining transition home for adult orphans in developing countries.
Kevin ‘s past EMEIA career adventures include being the Managing Director of The Chalfont Project and Vice-President of Program Management for marchFIRST Europe, based in London.
From 1992 to 2000 Kevin was based in Shanghai, PR China. In 1992 he founded and became General Manager of the Shanghai In Dex Computer Company. The company was sold in 1998 with three offices in Shanghai, Bejing and Guangzhou and 250 employees. The buyer, Zhaodaola Internet services required Kevin to stay on for two years as their Chief Operating Officer as part of the transfer.
Kevin has an MBA from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.
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Career focus on organizational change, leadership development and adult education in non-profit, private and publicly held companies in healthcare and financial services industries.(Domestic and international). Extensive experience in change management, leadership development and cultural integration in global organizations. Experience in mergers and acquisitions, (acquiring, being acquired and a merger of equals). Management experience includes both staff and line management and liaison roles. Responsible for P&L of an educational product line in a public company and for creating a new business unit function. Strong background in teaching, facilitating, writing, customer and industry relations and management. Successful and adept working with senior executives, directors and all levels of staff to achieve organizational objectives.
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Bev owns a multilingual enterprise solutions consulting firm specializing in language automation, knowledge systems, learning systems, localization, data center design and managed services. She manages data centers with a team of enterprise architects, developers and specialized consultants. Bev specializes in designing global web services and enterprise workflow systems that integrate legacy systems with learning and language automation technologies. Bev also consults for specialized technical learning systems with a unique focus on the relationship between machine learning and human learning.
Bev is personally dedicated to education and teaches for the University of Chicago’s Translation Technology in Business Program and assists with the program’s development. She is a member of the Globalization Management Strategies Group with the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Bev has helped start and develop several non profit and for profit organizations, serving on boards, and has served on the advisory boards of several companies. In addition to her work in learning and language technologies, She has coordinated language services for international conferences, coordinated global business leadership events such as the Executive Speaker Series for the Seattle University Albers School of Business and Economics, provided technology services for Localization World Conferences, and other international business leadership events.
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Maureen Costello is an image management expert who brings insight, candor and more than 20 years of experience to help clients project a sophisticated, high-impact presence. As a corporate trainer, she has worked with hundreds of emerging leaders from the X & Y Generations.
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