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Bren White

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The importance of fostering employee engagement within the federal sphere has been widely recognized. OPM white paper presents model for igniting engagement in government workforce.

OPM Model for Igniting Engagement in Government Workforce

Linda Hainlen is the director of business development at Sedona Learning Solutions, a Kirkpatrick Certified Facilitator, and an international author. She served as director of learning solutions for IU Health in Indianapolis, IN for 18 years.Linda has over 25 years of proven experience as a training manager--including real world experience applying the Kirkpatrick principles. “Utilizing the Kirkpatrick Business Partnership Model truly transformed my results and elevated my division at IU Health to a strategic business partner in the organization. I am passionate about working with other organizations to help them elevate their results through partnering and obtaining sustainable outcomes.”Linda is an engaging facilitator and presenter, who authentically and successfully connects with audiences by bringing concepts to life through sharing her own experiences from working in a highly regulated industry. Her practical and genuine approach inspires participants not only in thinking but in applying their newfound knowledge and skills.Under Linda’s leadership, her division at IU Health was awarded the highly prestigious ASTD Best award in 2011. Linda has been published several times, including a white paper co-written with Jim Kirkpatrick on the topic of healthcare. Her ATD Infoline on “Designing Informal Learning” made the top 50 best sellers and was translated into 83 languages. Linda has been a speaker at several international conferences and has worked with companies from around the world to improve their effectiveness and achieve measurable outcomes. Industries served include higher education, corporate learning, nuclear, and healthcare. Sedona Learning is currently the only US Kirkpatrick Partners affiliate.

Linda Hainlen

International best-selling author Shawn Achor is one of the world’s leading experts on happiness, success, and potential. His research has graced the cover of Harvard Business Review, and his TED Talk is one of the most popular of all time, with more than 17 million views. Shawn spent twelve years at Harvard before bringing his research to neary half the Fortune 100, as well as places like the Pentagon, impoverished schools in Africa, and the White House. His research has also been published in top psychology journals and featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fortune. His interview with Oprah Winfrey and his PBS program have been seen by millions. He now serves on the World Happiness Council and continues his research.Achor also partners with the nternational Thought Leader Network. For over two decades, ITLN have worked on the forefront of organizational advancement in collaboration with the world’s most distinguished thought leaders to deliver big ideas and best practices to a global workforce. ITLN, in partnership with Shawn Achor, assists organizations around the world in bringing happiness research to life at work and in education . . . through research partnerships, training, and large-scale interventions. The Happiness Advantage │Orange Frog Workshop™ www.OrangeFrogExperience.com and its accompanying parable by Shawn Achor, The Orange Frog, are designed to deliver key lessons from The Happiness Advantage while also serving as a rallying language for teams, organizations, and individuals to provide the foundation for sustained positive behavioral change. This change is linked to core work routines and best culture practices, supporting desired business results and educational outcomes.Today, ITLN and Achor have created the largest and most successful positive psychology training for organizations and educators in the world. Their work impacts every dimension of human potential performance, intelligence, creativity, leadership ability and health – in an increasingly interconnected world where our biggest potential lies in our ability to influence others.

Shawn Achor

Kieran King began her career in the talent field 20 years ago. In 1999, Kieran joined CBT Systems (now Skillsoft) and participated in the evolution of the learning industry by consulting with organizations across a wide variety of sectors and geographies. She has consulted with companies to design enterprise learning programs, implement learning and talent platforms, conduct learning strategy and benchmarking engagements, and advise on measuring learning's impact on business outcomes. Kieran has authored several methodologies and whitepapers; she also blogs regularly, has been published by industry magazines, is a well-respected conference speaker, and was featured on Sirius Radio's  In the Workplace, hosted by Wharton Business School. Today, Kieran serves as the global vice president of loyalty strategy for Skillsoft, where she studies the composition of successful learning programs and partnerships throughout the world.

Kieran King

Felicia White is vice president of global operations training and development for Church’s Chicken and has been with the organization for 12 years. She is responsible for managing training for the Church’s domestic operations.In addition to managing training, White is co-founder and chair of the employee resource Church’s Women’s Forum. Along with her work at Church’s, White is a member and volunteer with the Women’s Foodservice Forum and works closely with the Women of Color and LGBTA Communities of Interest, is the co-lead for the WFF Atlanta Exchange, and serves as the ambassador for Church’s.White also is a member and volunteer with the Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers. She holds an associate degree in culinary arts, a bachelor’s degree in hospitality administration, and a master’s degree in business administration. She is a sought-after subject matter expert in the area of frontline leadership development and offers consulting to various organizations in building leadership development and mentorship programs.

Felicia White

Kathy White, MS, Executive Director of Learning and Performance for Amgen’s worldwide Operations and manufacturing facilities. Kathy has worked at Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical and Bio-pharmaceutical industries for 28 years in manufacturing, quality, strategic planning, and training. Kathy and the Amgen Learning & Performance team have been on a multi-year transition from traditional training to becoming a human performance based group. This was recently recognized when the team received the 2012 ISPI Award of Excellence.

Kathy White

A new UNC Executive Development whitepaper, Making Sense of Workplace Assessments, explores the types of assessments available to employers and what they measure.

How Workplace Assessments Can Help You

Prioritizing everyday acts of kindness in education is critical to support individual well-being, societal impact, and organizational success, and we are all a critical piece of the solution. George Mason University launched the Mason Chooses Kindness initiative in 2020 to inspire its community to engage in intentional kindness by doing caring and generous deeds every day. They are now working tirelessly to encourage others outside our community to do the same. Why? Kindness is always the right thing to do for society, especially in a world that has been termed “on fire,” and research links kindness-centered cultures to positive business outcomes for society, indicating that fostering inclusive, kindness-based cultures is an essential leadership skill. At the Costello College of Business at George Mason University (Costello), they passionately believe leaders educated in environments where kindness reigns are more likely to carry that value into the workplace and navigate a complex and diverse world in ways that benefit society at large. An extensive (and growing) body of research has revealed direct correlations between kindness-centered corporate cultures and positive business outcomes. For example, Mandy O’Neill, professor of management at Costello and senior scientist at George Mason’s Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, has conducted research on this topic. She and her colleagues have found that organizations with cultures of “companionate love” (affectionate bonding between co-workers) can weather higher levels of collective anxiety without incurring increased operational costs or experiencing greater employee burnout, which can have a societal ripple effect. Education can and should happen everywhere — thank you ATD for accentuating this point— therefore our ask for each of you is to intentionally embed kindness into your daily interactions personally and professionally. We challenge you to think when you see less-than-kind behavior, to stop and ask yourself “If not ME, then who?” and act to lead with kindness to affect those around you. The following is excerpted from George Mason University’s 30 Days of Kindness Calendar.An Individual Roadmap to Kindness:Give someone a genuine compliment.Take a break to prevent burnout.Ask someone what they enjoy doing (and consider doing it with them).Practice active listening.Give thanks before a meal.An Organizational Roadmap to Kindness:Identify kindness champions.Align with strategy.Secure commitment from leadership.Foster true engagement.Measure progress. For more details, refer to our article in AACSB Insights. The ripple effect of doing so is proven. And as Adam Grant so nicely stated in his book Think Again, “When we think about how to plan our lives, there are few things that take priority over happiness…it’s one of the three unalienable rights in our Declaration of Independence.” Yet how many of us intentionally create steps to make this happen in our personal and professional lives? If not you, then who? Be the change. 

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