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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.
You can view all the thought leaders or select a learning area and/or company to narrow your search.
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Listen to Anne Marie
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She has experience in instructional design, multimedia design, management development, business writing, performance consulting . She has managed numerous performance improvement and training initiatives with Walgreens.
She has presented at International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) national meetings, at Training Directors Forum, at local Chicago events, and at Walgreen Co. national meetings. She worked with ISPI to design and review the national certification program for performance technologists, and in 2003 became a Certified Performance Technologist.
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Experience leading change and organizational transition in competitive business environments. Expertise in transforming the human resource function and implementing strategic plans in organizational and leadership development, succession planning, recruitment, labor relations, employee communications, sales talent improvement, and merger & acquisition integration.
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John has 15 years of experience in executive and leadership development and call center operations, in the retail, financial services, and consumer durables industries. Prior to joining Home Depot, John served as Vice President, Direct Sales for American Century Investments. Previously, Lawson spent five years in operations and leadership development roles with the General Electric Company, which included assignments at its preeminent Crotonville executive development facility.
John began his career as an officer with the U.S. Army, where he held a variety of leadership roles in fire support, intelligence, and reconnaissance. Mr. Lawson is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
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Collaborative professional with successful track record of working with executive level leadership to improve business results through people and HR solutions. Extensive experience in talent management, including the facilitation of: leadership and management development, talent retention, HR process redesign and organization effectiveness efforts globally. Distinct strengths in talent and HR strategy development, HR project leadership, employee engagement and retention solutions, and data-based decision making.
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Todd Lee is an advocate of continuous learning with over 17 years experience providing learning solutions aimed at improving human performance and subscribes to the belief that at the root of any learning success is the ability to know what we don't know (or at least having a willingness to admit that we can't and probably don't know everything) and persevere to overcome the fear of change. Todd was directing the expansion of Chicago-based operations for O/E Learning and has spent the bulk of his professional career as Director, Manager, and Training Consultant for numerous performance improvement programs for multiple global clients ranging from Fortune 500 to small businesses as well as designing, developing and instructing project management, training development, and business process methodologies related to learning initiatives. Additionally, Todd took his passion for home remodeling and founded a Chicago-based home improvement company which offers the unique service of personal coaches for home project training and guidance for DIY-minded homeowners.
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Mike likes to share about his life, his book and how to tell your own story.
In his 20-plus years with Today, Leonard has created wryly observant video feature stories on the often-overlooked aspects of everyday life. So instead of just judging the Jarlsberg at the cheese competition, Leonard also seized the opportunity to poke fun at the media for shunning a perfectly good event they dismissed as too ordinary to cover.
Leonard’s talent for sniffing out the smaller, more obscure stories is what makes his work so much fun. “I’ll usually tend to do something nobody’s ever done or will do,” he says.
For instance, sitting around his office one day, Leonard commented to a colleague, “Any Joe Blow could do that.” “So I thought, there’s got to be somebody out there named Joe Blow,” he explains. “I did a search and found this man in Texas, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Blow and the four Blow boys. I called him up and said, ‘Hey, Mr. Blow, this is Mike Leonard. I’d like to do a story on you.’ And he said ‘Why? I’m just an ordinary guy.’ Well, I know! He’s a Joe Blow!”
Mike will share a Today show story aired during the waning days of August 2006. It’s somewhat similar to a recent post about our wiffle ball stadium with a “goodbye summer/time is speeding by” twist. Isn’t that the motivation for any and all bizarre behavior? Time is speeding by. Our days are numbered.
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Amy Leschke-Kahle, Director of Learning & Development at Kohl’s, has extensive experience with using rapid learning delivery methods to impact employee performance.
She provides useful perspectives on how organizations can employ simple strategies to deliver content able to add significant value to their businesses including content they can deploy at their organization. Before joining Kohl’s Amy was the Division Manager, Employee Development Commercial and Consumer Equipment Division at John Deere.
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Randy Lewis is senior vice president of Supply Chain and Logistics for Walgreens in Deerfield, Illinois. He is responsible for the design and operation of Walgreens supply chain network including operations, engineering, IT systems, and inventory management. In addition to imports, Mr. Lewis overseas Walgreens’ domestic network of fifteen automated distribution centers and one of the U.S.’s largest private fleets to supply its 7,000 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Lewis was instrumental in introducing a new concept to Walgreens that would transform the company’s distribution centers and employment opportunities. Walgreens’ two most recent distribution centers employ an inclusive and integrated workforce composed 40% of persons with disabilities (PWD) who are held to the same work standards and earn the same pay as “typically-abled” fellow workers. As a result of this success of serving both shareholders and the community, Walgreens has set a goal of employing 1,000 people with disabilities (approximately ten percent of the workforce) in its distribution centers by 2010.
Lewis began his career at Accenture and finished his consulting career as a partner with Ernst & Young.
Lewis joined Walgreens in 1992 as divisional vice president of logistics and planning. He was promoted to vice president in 1995 and to senior vice president in 1999.
Lewis graduated from the University of Texas, where he earned a B.B.A. in accounting in 1971, a B.A. in economics in 1974 and an M.B.A. in 1975. He served in the Peace Corps in Peru from 1971 to 1973. He worked his way through graduate school as a dance instructor at Arthur Murray.
He has been chairman of the Distribution/Logistics Committee for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, and has served on the board of directors for Tim Hortons International. He is currently on the board of directors of Wendy’s/Arby’s Group.
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Listen to Brett
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As the Managing Editor, Corporate Learning for EBSCO Publishing, Brett helps to coordinate EP’s corporate learning solutions including Business Book Summaries/Business Book Review, EBSCO Business Basics and EBSCO’s Learning Centers. Brett also oversees the mapping of EBSCO’s learning content to corporate learning competencies and facilitates its integration with learning systems.
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Nancy Loo is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who joined WGN-TV as a Reporter and Fill-in Anchor on June 1, 2010. Nancy brings an extensive background of international reporting to WGN-TV, having worked as a reporter and anchor in Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York City, and Chicago. Nancy's career took her on news assignments to England, China, Japan, Taiwan, North and South Korea, Thailand and the Philippines.
In addition to her TV credits,
Nancy is also adept at social media,
actively engaging viewers through her "Chicago Now" blog, Twitter, Facebook, www.nancyloo.net, and
www.chicagomomsblog.com.
She is Co-founder and Managing Editor of www.YoungChicagonista.com -- 2010 Bloggie Nominee for "Best Teen Weblog"!
Before joining the WGN news team, Nancy Loo was an anchor/reporter at Fox Chicago News where she earned a 2004 Emmy nomination for her series "Chicago's Coolest Cribs" which featured unique homes in the Windy City. Before moving to Chicago in 2001, Nancy was an Anchor/Reporter for WABC-TV in New York, where she earned three Emmy Award nominations. Her team won the Emmy for Best Morning Newscast for a show in which she actually kept delivering the news through labor contractions.
In 1993, Nancy was among the team of journalists who launched New York 1 News. During her two years with the 24-hour cable news channel, she was named National Anchor of the Year by the New York Chapter of Women in Cable. From 1986 to 1989, Nancy worked as an anchor and reporter at English-language TV channels in Hong Kong and Japan. She also served as a correspondent in the Far East for ABC Radio.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Northern California, Nancy earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism at the University of Oregon. She speaks fluent Cantonese and has studied German, Japanese, and American Sign Language.
Nancy recently stepped down as Co-President of the Asian American Journalists Association Chicago Chapter but she remains active in AAJA, as well as the Chinese American Service League, the Organization of Chinese Americans and the Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce.
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