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Gayle Nadler with Time Warner Cable

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Gayle Nadler is a Learning Solutions Manager at Time Warner Cable Media, in New York. She works on a 3-person training team and is responsible for developing and delivering training to approximately 1,000 employees across the country. This small training team delivers classroom training, webinars and eLearning.

Gayle has been in the instructional design and training field for over 15 years, working in the consulting groups at IBM and Deloitte, at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and at MediaOcean in New York City.

Gayle has a M.Ed. from UCLA.

Joy Joseph with AXA Equitable Insurance Corp

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Joy Joseph is a senior executive at AXA and the Global Learning Business Partner for the Leadership and Management Domain.  She also heads up the Learning and Development department at AXA US.

Joy has extensive experience within the Financial Services Business which spans across several disciplines.  During her career, she has held several roles in the industry including as a Financial Advisor, Sales Management, Compliance & Risk Management, and Professional Development.  Two years ago year she joined AXA-US as the Head of Learning & Development and has led large-scale programs.  In addition, she co-chairs an internal Women’s network to promote their development and is a member of the Learning and Development Board at a global level for AXA.

 

 

Karen Angellatta-Wheeler with Effective Sales Strategies

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Karen Angellatta-Wheeler / Effective Sales Strategies

Karen Angellatta-Wheeler is a Human Capital, Sales & Marketing Strategist and Thought Leader with a 20 year proven track record of increasing sales, marketing awareness, employee retention and customer satisfaction, and building successful, award-winning teams from the ground up. Most recently, Karen was the Director of Sales Training for EarthLink Business in their Talent Management department in Human Resources. She was selected as the leader to build an integrated team of training professionals during their high growth evolution of combining 10 network and IT services companies.

Creating Talent Management Scorecards, especially for Sales and Leadership Training initiatives is an area of expertise for Karen based on her previous leadership roles with EarthLink, Verizon Wireless and GTE as well as her consulting firm, Effective Sales Strategies.

Talent Management Scorecards have also been called Balanced Scorecards and are designed to measure the effectiveness of the entire Talent Management cycle – from recruitment to turnover and everything in between. The development of these Scorecards involves the partnership across many departments, not just Human Resources. This 30-minute radio segment will explain Talent Management Scorecards, what type of data is needed to create them, and the potential outcomes you could achieve at your company.

 

 

Jennifer Williams with Turner Broadcasting

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Jennifer Williams / Turner Broadcasting Linkedin

Jennifer Williams is currently a Learning Development Consultant at Turner Broadcasting. She is responsible for the organization’s marquis Management and Leadership Development Programs as well as supports a Team of Global Technology Professionals. Throughout her career she has designed and implements game-changing initiatives that result in increased productivity, organizational capability, and revenue for such organization as AT&T, Chubb Insurance, the Department of Human Resources for the State of Georgia and Georgia Pacific. She has been a longstanding member of the American Society of Trainer and Developers , now ATD, occupying committee lead and board positions for several years while also being an avid volunteer in the community for organizations like Habitat for Humanity, Goodwill, Families First and the United Way. She lives in metro Atlanta with her daughter Amanda.

 

 

Carey Garback and Jenny Ergle with eSecuritel

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At eSecuritel, the learning and development department is engaging the employees of their clients through training initiatives. Listen as Carey Garback and Jenny Ergle discuss how they work with sales, implementation, and the actual customer to design and deliver training.

 

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DeShaun Wise with Kimberly Clark

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DeShaun Wise/Kimberly Clark

DeShaun is Senior Talent Management Consultant with Kimberly Clark. DeShaun is an experienced professional with over 10 years of experience in learning & development, project/change management and driving performance initiatives. Currently, the majority of her time is spent focusing on global projects and initiatives within her three regions, Latin America, Middle East/Africa and Asia-Pacific that ranges from onboarding or transformation agendas. Her passion lies in the design and strategic implementation of programs that accelerate the growth of their employees so they are positioned to deliver superior results year over year. In addition to her fulfilling professional career, Ms. Wise serves of the Board of Directors for the Pink Wish Foundation, is Chair of the Professional Development Committee for the African-American Employee Network, as well as, an active member in her community.

Ms. Wise is a graduate of Florida State University where she earned a dual-degree in Finance and Multinational Business Operations with an emphasis in Economics and continued on to receive a certification in both, Global Human Capital Strategy and Professional in Human Resources.

 

 

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ASTD Atlanta SIGs and GIGs- The Heartbeat of the Chapter

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Florida Starks/Verizon Wireless

Florida Starks is currently an Area Training Manager in charge of Business-Government Customer Operations and Vendor operations with Verizon Wireless. From 1993-2000, Starks worked with Ameritech Cellular where she was an Assistant Manager of Business and Learning Development and held a variety of sales and service leadership roles. Prior to joining Verizon, she was a Regional Account Manager and Trainer at Bencharge Financial.

Starks earned her BA in Human Resource Management from Lindenwood University. In 2010, she earned her Master’s in Adult Education Management from Strayer University. She will graduate from Capella University in March 2013 with a PhD in Leadership for Higher Education.

Florida is Director of SIGs/GIGs for ASTD Atlanta.

Chrissy Derrer/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Chrissy has an SPHR certification and a Master’s in organizational leadership and development. She is currently the Manager of design for management and leadership development programs at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She has a history of cultivating environments of continuous learning & improvement with proven HR & OD expertise in the areas of recruitment and selection, policy development, technical training, change management, operational efficiency, performance management, & leadership and management development. Chrissy has a passion for excellence, which is reflected in her initiatives to improve people, systems and processes. She has worked on varied projects that span research and analysis, project management, systems testing and implementation, business process reengineering, grant writing, and building community and collaboration. With ASTD, Chrissy is the chair for the NE GA GIG and has been involved with that GIG since its inception a little over 5 years ago.

Eric Langley/Abeo

Eric is a lifelong entrepreneur. He recently founded Abeo, a software platform leveraging predictive modeling to help business managers make better informed people decisions. Abeo’s clients are people and organizations that value improving productivity and reducing stress in the workplace.

Eric’s background is in diverse technology based solutions including; security, entertainment, automation and business processes In his spare time Eric enjoys sailing, sailboat racing, hiking, motorcycle riding and diving. Eric attended Merrimack College in Massachusetts studying Computer Science and Psychology.

Eric is a SIG Leader with ASTD Atlanta.

 

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Cory Colton with AutoTrader Group

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Learning InsightsCory Colton/AutoTrader Group

Senior Manager of Learning Technologies at AutoTrader Group, the premier automotive, web-media company, Cory Colton has a keen sense of how to best use technology to support learning. His industry-recognized team has used new technologies to support learning anywhere, any time on any device. The learning technologies team has presented at several conferences on their rollout of the My Learning mobile learning application for iPad and iPhone, and this year supported their Sales Training organization in deploying Fall Product training to 700 field employees. The initiative saved the company over $1 million in training costs.

Previously he was Manager of Learning Technologies for another Cox Enterprises company, Cox Communications. He started his career at Citigroup in Leadership and Executive Development, and eventually was part of the core team that deployed the SumTotal LMS to 400,000 employees in 103 countries, the largest LMS implementation of its kind in the world.

 

 

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