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We are thrilled to have a broad talent base sharing their insight and lessons learned as they network with their peers.
Several Chicagoland Learning Leaders have recently presented at a conference or a peer networking session and we have been fortunate enough to archive their lessons learned for our members. You can hear a preview of one of their recent sessions by click on the listen to hotlinks below.
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Nancy Ahlrichs is an international speaker, author and columnist. She has spoken to more than 450 audiences and management teams in utilities, insurance, healthcare, high tech, legal, banking, government and other fields in the past five years using her 25 years of experience in human resources, marketing, and management.
Her books, Manager of Choice, Competing for Talent: Key Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Becoming an Employer of Choice and Igniting Gen B and Gen V: The New Rules of Engagement for Boomers, Veterans, and Other Long-Termers on the Job are available through major bookstores and www.amazon.com. She is also a contributing author for On Staffing, an edited volume by Wiley & Sons.
Nancy is active in a variety of community and professional organizations, and was Kiwanian of the Year in 2001 and also named a "Distinguished Hoosier" for her service to the State of Indiana by the late Governor Frank O'Bannon.
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Consulting in learning strategy and technology with leaders of learning organizations.
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As Director of Training & e-Learning Operations (Global HR Shared Services) Tim is responsible for ongoing operations and new implementations of Baxter-wide talent management systems for e-Learning delivery platform, Compliance tracking systems, Performance management, Employee survey, and Succession planning.
Tim leads facility training leads globally: Multi-functions, Multi-businesses, Multi-regions/countries and serves on leadership team of Global HR Shared Services operation that leads 300+ staff in 50 countries and numerous outsourced partners.
Formerly Director of Training and Change Management at RR Donnelley, Tim was responsible for the management of manufacturing apprenticeship training, change management, HR communications and team development worldwide.
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With 40 years of business experience my passion is now clearly in training. The opportunity to enrich people’s lives by increasing their skills is personally highly rewarding. Google is the most ubiquitous software in the World today and yet few people take advantage of the full functionality of the software. I am very excited to start a new business to empower people with knowledge to take advantage of the full functionality of Google. Our mission is to create savvier consumers of knowledge.
Specialties: The Boost eLearning Google Search Training is unique in that it allows you to save time and improve the quality of your Google search results. Boost eLearning Google Search Training creates savvy consumers of knowledge.
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John is an innovator and entrepreneur, who co-founded OutStart and has been a key force in the development and implementation of its strategic vision, as well as serving as a chief architect of Evolution™ LCMS, OutStart’s flagship asset-based LCMS. John was an early adopter and evangelist of a broad range of standards, including learning technologies, metadata, and technical documentation and is an active contributor to a number of these including ADL (SCORM), AICC and MedBig. John is a noted speaker and educator on learning and knowledge-sharing issues as well as standards. All told, John has over 25 years of software development and over 10 years of instructor experience. Prior to OutStart John ran course development for a large software company. Early in his career, John spent over 10 years in the Oil and Gas Sector, providing software solutions to large capital projects.
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Sarah Alvarez is the Assistant Director of Adult Programs in the Department of Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago. At the Art Institute, Sarah coordinates the Art and the Workplace programs, which create ties between the corporate and professional world and the visual arts. Sarah also speaks regularly about the Art Institute's collections and various art historical topics. She is particularly interested in the art of the Ancient Mediterranean, including Egypt, Greece and Rome; Islamic art; Asian art; and Italian art of the medieval and Renaissance periods.
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Merrill C. Anderson, Ph.D. is a business consulting executive, author and educator with over twenty years experience improving the performance of people and organizations. He is currently a principal and chief business architect of Cylient, a professional services firm that offers coaching-based leadership development, culture change and evaluation services.
Merrill has held senior executive positions with Fortune 500 companies including chief learning executive and vice president of organization development. He has consulted with over one hundred companies throughout the world to effectively manage and measure strategic organization change. He has over one hundred professional publications and speeches to his credit including his latest book Coaching That Counts, co-authored with his wife and leadership coach Dianna Anderson, MCC, that broke new ground by presenting an insight-based leadership coaching process proven to deliver strategic value to the organization.
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Dianna has over 15 years of experience as a professional coach and management consultant, creating transformational change for individuals and organizations. Dianna is the co-author of Coaching that Counts: Harnessing the Power of Leadership Coaching to Deliver Strategic Value. She has served as an adjunct professor for the School of Education at Drake University where she taught graduate level courses on coaching. Dianna is a Master Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation (ICF).
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Michael is an organization development professional and executive coach with over 20 years of business experience as a leader and manager. Currently an SVP with Lee Hecht Harrison and the Regional Director of Leadership Consulting for the Upper Midwest, Michael brings the unique perspective of both leading and doing the work. For the past 12 years he has lead large-scale projects in the areas of executive coaching and leadership development.
Michael approaches each project by first seeking to understand the strategic goals of the business, gaining an appreciation for the client’s strategy and key business drivers, and exploring their short- and long-term plans. He then collaborates with the client to explore the gaps and barriers, resulting in a recommended solution that will address the client’s business needs. Hallmarks of Michael’s approach are his flexibility and drive to ensure that the solution is a good fit and works for that client and their specific needs. He firmly believes that a project approach and methodology should work for the client, not the client having to work to adapt someone else’s approach and methodology. Once project work begins, Michael’s focus is to act as an advisor and advocate for both the team and the client—being an objective business partner to ensure everyone gets what they need to accomplish the project’s goals. Once a project begins the implementation phase, Michael will continue to monitor the project, providing debriefs of the implementation at key phases, reporting on measurable results, and identifying next steps and recommendations.
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or nearly 20 years, John has consulted for a number of leading companies in a variety of different businesses, ranging from automotive and banking to computers, high technology, fast food, and packaged goods. His corporate clientele include Fortune 100 companies as well as entrepreneurial start ups and non profits, including the University of Michigan.
John is the author of seven books on leadership: Lead by Example: 50 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Results (Amacom 2008), How Great Leaders Get Great Results (McGraw-Hill 2006), Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders (McGraw-Hill 2005), Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders (McGraw-Hill 2003); Personal Leadership, Taking Control of Your Work Life (Elsewhere Press, 2001); 180 Ways to the Walk the Leadership Talk (Performance Systems, 2000); and with Eric Harvey 180 Ways to the Walk the Motivation Talk (Performance Systems, 2002). Two of his essays appear in two volumes of the Results Driven Manager series published by Harvard Business School Press. In addition, he co-authored an article with Marshall Goldsmith, "Selling Up is Leading Up: Coaching Your Manager Can Be as Important as Coaching Your Direct Report" that is contained in Coaching for Leadership (Second Edition) (Pfeiffer 2006).
John is a Discussion Leader for Harvard Business Online for whom he contributes regularly. Previous to that he has written extensively for FastCompany.com and CIO.com. John's articles on leadership have appeared in the Harvard Management Update, Harvard Management Communications Letter, Executive Excellence, Leader to Leader, Link & Learn, PR News, T&D, Wharton Leadership Digest, and Global CEO. John is also widely quoted on radio as well as in mainstream and trade publications including the New York Times, Arizona Republic, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Harvard Management Update, Presentations, PR News, Sales & Marketing Management, Selling Power, and Tech Republic.
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