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David Hofstetter with New England Organ Bank

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David Hofstetter / New England Organ Bank

David is the Founder of The Hofstetter Group Manager as well as the Manager, Learning and Development for New England Organ Bank. David was hired to build the learning and development and grow the performance management function. Prior to these two organizations he owned another performance consulting company. David has completed projects for some Fortune 1000 and 500 companies, such as Monster.com, Gillette, Citizens Bank, Fleet Bank, State Street Bank and many others. Some of the projects David has completed included designing and facilitating sales courses, customer service programs and training engineers and machine operators on a major consumer goods product launch. I also designed and delivered many system implementations.

Prior to that, David worked for Tufts Health Plans, a health care company in the Boston area where he built a training department for one of the health care products when they were a start up.

David completed his Masters at Capella University in Organizational Psychology. His undergrad was completed at Northeastern University in Boston with a BS in Business Administration. David also a certificate from Boston University in Training and Development and is certified in MBTI (Myers Briggs). David is the current President of the Central Massachusetts ATD, formally ASTD, and a member of ATD National. He is also completing his Coaching Certification through IPEC Coaching. David can be reached at david@learninganddvelopmentpro.com and on twitter at @davidhofstetter.

 

 

Sheila Basile and Vicki Foley with Lee Hecht Harrison

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Sheila Basile, Senior Vice President, Northeast Region USA, Lee Hecht Harrison, is an expert in career management and leadership management. Sheila works with companies to develop talent mobility solutions including coaching executives, certifying internal corporate coaches, helping leaders and employees manage change, and transitioning people to internal and external jobs. She manages large Fortune client accounts globally across practice areas taking care to create global alignment with local flexibility. She is skillful in managing large accounts and in assisting Human Resource Leaders design solutions to develop, engage, retain, and offboard employees at all levels including senior executives. Sheila is a certified Lee Hecht Harrison Career Transition Coach and also an Executive Leadership Development Coach. She holds an M.A. in Organizational Psychology and a B.A. in English Language and Literature.

Vicki Foley, Senior Vice President, Global Leadership Development Practice Leader for Lee Hecht Harrison, provides inspiring leadership on multiple dimensions – senior client leadership, thought leadership, and collaborative leadership within the leadership development practice, the industry verticals, and throughout the organization. Vicki is passionate about providing Lee Hecht Harrison clients with winning strategies to develop their talent. As the firm-wide expert with over 20 years experience, Vicki has designed and delivered leadership development and executive coaching solutions at the enterprise level for a wide range of industries. Vicki holds an M.A. in Organizational Psychology and B.S. in Business Administration. She holds an A.C.C. credential from the International Coach Federation.

 

 

 

Hal Christensen with Christensen Roberts Solutions

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Hal Christensen has been a pioneer and leader in the fields of eLearning and Performance Support for over 30 years. He and his firm, Christensen/Roberts Solutions, have designed and delivered performance-enabling solutions for many of the major organizations in the financial services, telecommunications and health care industries. Hal has been honored for his work with several industry awards, and he has been asked to share his ideas and experience at over 40 national professional conferences.

 

 

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.

 

 

Mary Coons with Equifax

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Mary Coons / Equifax 

Mary is an experienced Organizational Development leader with a proven track record of success in supporting C- suite business leaders in Corporate, Finance & Human Resource functions. Recognized as a results-driven contributor and trusted advisor in aligning business priorities and human resources initiatives which require transformational change to fuel business growth.