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Donna has been with Navistar for 5 years. She is known as a business leader who has expertise in human resources. Donna is currently responsible for creating and overseeing the people strategy development and execution for Navistar Financial Corporation. She focuses on employee engagement and leadership development at all levels. In addition, she has enterprise responsibility for HR Strategy Development and HR Leadership team effectiveness. Donna has been in Human Resources for over 17 years and has worked for companies in various industries like Retail (Sears), Non-Profit (American Hospital Association), Financial Services (Morgan Stanley Dean Witter) and government (City of Chicago). Donna is a busy wife and mother of 3 very energetic boys who are 11 years, 2 years and 9 months. She enjoys cooking and spending time with family and friends in her “spare time”.
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Jane Dowd is the Chief Learning Officer of NorthShore University HealthSystem (formerly known as Evanston Northwestern Healthcare), an integrated, academic healthcare system comprised of four hospitals, and 75 physician group practices, based in Evanston, Illinois. She has over twenty years of experience in the field of learning and development and a Masters degree in Education from Northwestern University. She has worked for the corporate university of a Fortune 500 corporation, in consulting, and for the last seven years has been leading the Learning & Development function for NorthShore.
Recently Jane received the Chief Learning Officer magazine Bronze Award for Leading Business Change for her role in leading a large-scale training initiative to transition over 8,000 healthcare providers to a new electronic health record. She also recently received a 1st place Corporate University Best In Class (CUBIC) Award for Most Innovative Industry Resource for her shared leadership role in founding a healthcare e-learning collaborative called HospitalU.
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John Drake is the Director of the Learning Strategies Department in Naval Service Training Command. Mr. Drake serves as the Command Learning Officer and as the behavioral education expert and advisor for Naval Service Training Command and the Naval Education Training Command claimancy. His work includes educational research by benchmarking new and innovative solutions to ensure sailors receive high quality training, which yields enhanced performance. Prior to his current position, Mr. Drake served as the Strategic Management Officer for Naval Service Training Command Training. In that position, he served as the principal expert on the development and execution of long-range corporate strategy for Navy accessions training.
Prior to joining the Navy, Mr. Drake was an Experienced Manager for Accenture Consulting in the Strategic Services Group. In that role, Mr. Drake collaborated with clients on creating and implementing innovative strategies that enable high performance.
Mr. Drake received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois in 1989, a Master of Science degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University in 1991, and a Master of Management degree (MBA) from Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1997.
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Ken Driscoll serves as Director, Talent Management Group at Navistar, Inc., one of the world’s largest truck and engine manufacturers. He was appointed to this position in August 2005.
As director, Ken leads a team of professionals accountable for the strategic and ongoing activities of talent management including: performance management, succession planning, leadership development, talent acquisition, and the Navistar University. The team’s primary objectives are to drive the design and implementation of programs and processes that result in enterprise wide talent acquisition sourcing & recruiting, support the development and growth of Navistar’s employees, and develop effective learning strategies which support the business strategies.
After joining Navistar in 1994, Ken served in a variety of human resource positions with increasing strategic planning and leadership responsibility in the areas of compensation & benefits, field human resources, organizational development and Navistar University.
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Since 2002, Cary responsibilities have focused on China for Motorola's product introduction and systems deployment. During this period he instituted operational process and discipline while recognizing and balancing cultural differences between teams based in the US and China.
Meeting regularly with customer executives to build relationships, understand requirements and deliver solutions has resulted in a high level of system performance as well as customer satisfaction and ongoing opportunity for business success.
Cary has nearly 30 years in the telecommunications industry spanning a broad set of management and engineering responsibilities. He has been associated with numerous successes including two US patents, several innovative technical papers and multi-million dollar product deliveries to global customers.
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Don has over 25 years of learning and development experience. His consulting experience includes the full spectrum of training delivery such as web-based, blended learning, and synchronous training. In addition Don provides consulting services in the area of learning strategy, Learning Management System/Learning Content Management System selection and implementation. He sits on the Board of Directors for GP Malaysia and has participated in the acquisition of several companies for GP. As a recognized authority on corporate learning and development strategies, Don is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and has been selected numerous times as a Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning judge.
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Jane Ehrenstrom is one of the founders of the CARA Group, Inc., a consulting firm that develops customized learning and performance solutions for Fortune 500 clients. Jane serves as Vice President of Professional Services. In this role, Jane is responsible for developing talent recruitment strategies, and creating awareness of the CARA brand as well as the firm’s PURE service approach to consulting.
Jane Ehrenstrom has been in the learning business for more than 20 years as both client and vendor. She is a member of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), and the National Association of Female Executives (NAFE). Jane also represents CARA to non-profit advocacy organizations like Chicago-based Women Employed.
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Diane Ehrlich (Ph.D., University of Iowa), is the Chair of the Educational Leadership and Development department. Diane teaches courses in the Human Resource Development program as well as coordinating the Leadership in Higher Education track of the Educational Leadership program.
Dr. Ehrlich holds a doctorate in English Education from University of Iowa with a
cognate area in instructional design and computer-based training, an M.A. in English from Northwestern University and a B.A. in English and History from University of Illinois, Champaign. Diane has taught courses in Instructional Design, Consulting, International Training, Human Relations, Foundations of Educational Leadership and Organizational Studies and supervises the Practicum in HRD and Educational Leadership.
Dr. Ehrlich has published articles on educational leadership, instructional design, interactive learning, leadership development and higher education leadership. She has also made numerous national and international presentations in these areas. She is currently serving as a member of the executive board for the International Council for Innovation in Higher Education.
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Randy Emelo, President and CEO of Triple Creek Associates, has devoted much of his life to helping others learn and develop, and his passion for mentoring and helping people with professional development continues to drive his life today.
Randy has over 20 years of experience in management, training and leadership development. He led the design and development of Triple Creek’s award-winning web-based mentoring program, Open Mentoring®, and has guided the company to become the market leader in web-based mentoring with users in over 56 countries.
A prolific author, Randy writes Triple Creek’s monthly newsletter on mentoring that reaches 21,000 subscribers and has authored numerous articles and research papers on topics related to mentoring, collaboration, innovation and creativity, management practices, and leadership development for Triple Creek and such publications as T+D, Chief Learning Officer, and Learning Circuits. He has also given numerous talks and presentations on such topics to varied audiences. Randy holds a master’s degree in organizational design and effectiveness from the Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, CA.
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Colleen has been delivering innovative solutions to clients for over twenty years. At Cedar Interactive, Colleen works closely with all of our project teams and serves as Project Manager on many of our projects. In her role as Director of Operations, she works with all of the project teams to make sure our clients are satisfied with what we deliver and in how we work with them. Colleen’s multi-disciplined expertise in project management, staff management and client management has been cultivated through her work on projects for clients large and small across many industries. Client satisfaction is Colleen’s top priority.
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