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Barb He

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Vice president of Interaction Research Institute (IRI) since 1975, Barb Affourtit is the designer of the STATMAN: Statistical Management software and the marine advisor rapport assessment program.A specialist in performance improvement, she assists organizations in developing performance measures that align with strategic objectives and conducts customized on-location training and facilitation in survey development/analyses, customer service excellence, and intercultural adaptation.Barb develops the sampling, administration, validation, and analytical methodologies for all the surveys conducted by IRI, including onboarding and exit surveys to isolate factors with the greatest impact on employee retention. She has experience with all types of surveys. She creates online questionnaire instruments and reporting systems to dynamically display findings.Barb worked with numerous healthcare organizations to compare key administrative and clinical indicators to discover critical contributors to patient recovery. She conducted pre-deployment training and post-deployment evaluation of marine corps advisors working with Afghan and Iraqi security forces.Barb enjoys guiding teams within client organizations to enhance existing surveys and derive new customer and employee surveys.

Barb B. Affourtit 

Barb Lesniak is the executive director of social sciences at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). Her background includes 15 years of corporate training and development experience and 12 years as an instructor and administrator in higher education. She teaches classes on emotional intelligence to SNHU leadership and external partners. Lesniak’s background also includes five years as a professional counselor, which enhances her passion for helping people develop their interpersonal skills on a personal and professional level.

Barb Lesniak

As training organizations grow in size, it can be challenging to maintain content and ensure that the right materials get to the right place at the right time. Given the speed of change in today’s markets across all industry segments, printing only what’s required is key to minimizing obsolete inventory.
Training organizations need the business processes and tools to maintain brand integrity, provide version control, and enforce an appropriate approval processes. Systems also need to be structured to affordably deliver not just the documentation, but the supporting classroom supplies for instructors.
During this webinar, you will hear from firms that have taken on the challenge of implementing more effective management for training materials. They will share techniques that they have deployed to:

effectively manage version control
eliminate inventory
reduce overall costs.


The Right Content, The Right Place, The Right Time

A digital printing and publishing pioneer and marketing expert, Barbara Pellow helps companies develop multimedia strategies that ride the information wave, whether it's developing a strategy to launch a new product, building a strategic marketing plan, or educating your sales force on how to deliver an effective value proposition. She brings the knowledge and skills to help companies expand and grow business opportunity. Pellow has had a number of high-profile marketing and sales positions. She served as the Chief Marketing Officer of Kodak's Graphic Communications Group, where she was responsible for all marketing activities for the division, including business strategy, marketing communications, public relations, marketing intelligence, and advertising strategy. Prior to joining Kodak, Pellow was the Gannett chair in integrated publishing sciences in Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) School of Printing Management and Sciences (SPMS). As chair, Barb focused on the relationship between traditional paper-based media and emerging electronic new media. Previously, she served as Corporate Vice President of Marketing for IKON Office Solutions; Corporate Vice President of Marketing for Indigo; Vice President and General Manager for the Xerox Document Production Systems Group; and Director of the On Demand Printing and Publishing Service at CAP Ventures, an internationally known firm specializing in the digital document and print on demand industry. She is a frequent speaker at industry events and a recognized author. She is on the Board of Directors of Ft. Lauderdale-based Spherion.

Barbara Pellow

Before co-founding Teams of Distinction, Mr. Gerschel was the COO of a $17 million multi-media learning company in Europe and the Director of global leadership development and e-learning for Sanofi-Aventis Pharmacuetical. Mr. Gerschel speaks globally on a regular basis and is fluent in five languages. Fusing his diverse corporate career and international knowledge, Mr. Gerschel offers clients a unique expert’s take on raising the bar on their productivity. Since 2008 he has educated and inspired more than 30,000 leaders on five continents through his speeches, coaching, training, and books;  www.teamsofdistinction.com

Antoine Gerschel

Kira Pollard-Lipkis leads global sales readiness across the talent, learning, and Glint businesses at LinkedIn. She is passionate about accelerating sales performance by creating corporate learning cultures that foster continuous skills development to drive employee engagement. Because many of her customers are sales professionals who sell LinkedIn Learning, her team holds a high bar for creating, delivering, and sustaining high-quality modern learning experiences not unlike the ones LinkedIn provides its own customers.Pollard-Lipkis is a firm believer that coaching plays a critical role in fostering cultures of learning and sustaining meaningful behavior change. In addition to her work at LinkedIn, she has her own coaching practice, Kira Adrienne Coaching + Consulting, where she works with emerging and experienced leaders to help them create meaningful success. She also is currently completing her certification through the Co-Active Training Institute.

Kira Pollard-Lipkis

Bard Williams is vice president of training at Alain Pinel Realtors, a privately owned residential real estate company in Northern California, where he oversees all technical and sales training throughout the company. He has held senior management roles with Apple, and worked with a variety of leading Silicon Valley companies in the fields of education and technology. Williams earned his doctorate from the University of Georgia.

Bard Williams

Bart Tkaczyk, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, is the chief executive officer of Energizers, LLC, a strategic advisory firm. Working across industries worldwide, his executive coaching and management consulting assignments have included projects with AstraZeneca, Cisco Systems, The Estée Lauder Companies, Fluor, HP, Moody’s Analytics, and Oracle. He has published his award-winning research and thought leadership in leading business and strategic management journals in Canada, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States, including Arab Investor, Design Management Review, Development and Learning in Organizations, European Business Review, European Financial Review, Global Business and Organizational Excellence, Ivey Business Journal, Leadership Excellence Essentials, Rutgers Business Review, Strategic Change, Strategic HR Review, Talent Development, and the World Financial Review. Contact him at: drtkaczyk.com or follow him on Twitter: @DrBTkaczykMBA.

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