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Chris Browning is president of River, a Denver-based SaaS talent development software company focused on mentoring, coaching, and social learning. He has more than 20 years of management, business consulting, and organization development experience, and has also worked in the nonprofit sector in development, counseling, and life-coaching capacities.Chris holds MBA and BS degrees from the University of Notre Dame. He can be reached through LinkedIn, Twitter (@cbrowningco), or www.riversoftware.com.

Chris Browning

Spring 2019 - CTDO Magazine

Whether you have an office, cubicle, or just a desk, you can make your workspace conducive for productivity.

Workspace Oasis

Winter 2018 - CTDO Magazine

Mentoring relationships don’t only help and benefit mentees.

Reaping Rewards as a Mentor

Chris Browning explains that to take advantage of social learning, we need to do more than enable employees to share information, we need to push for collaboration.

Don’t Be Lazy With Social Learning

Mentoring, Coaching, or Sponsorship: Do You Really Have to Choose?

Even given the positive results that can be achieved through mentoring, not all mentoring programs are successful. Here are five mistakes you want to avoid.

Avoid These 5 Mentoring Program Mistakes

Chris Ronzio is the founder and CEO of Trainual. Trusted by thousands of growing small businesses, Trainual is the #1 training and onboarding platform that organizes everything your team needs to know in one simple software. Previously, Chris ran an operations consulting firm that helped businesses systematize and scale.

Chris Ronzio

Cris Wildermuth, a native of Brazil, has had a varied career spanning more than 15 years in management, training, and education. Early in her career, she adapted Xerox's sales training programs to the Brazilian culture and facilitated marketing and management programs for Brazilian and multinational corporations. After immigrating to the United States in 1992, she completed a master's degree in training and development at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and is working on a doctorate there now.

Cris Wildermuth

The ATD Talent Development and Training in Healthcare Handbook (ATD Press, November 2021) addresses the many opportunities and challenges TD professionals face in the growing and rapidly changing healthcare space. Effective talent development is the thread that weaves through an entire healthcare organization to ensure it is up to standard with the latest practices in treating patients while providing a safe and engaging environment for staff. TD professionals have the unique role of tying together organizational and employee advancement in healthcare systems—and likewise, this handbook dives into areas for both business and professional evolution.Written by 25 fellow healthcare practitioners with extensive experience in the field—from nurses, physicians, and administrators to instructional designers, chief learning officers, technology experts, and leaders across the industry, it covers six key themes across 26 chapters:Learning and Development BasicsOrganization DevelopmentEmployee DevelopmentBusiness Acumen for the Health SystemDigital Transformation and LiteracyPatient-Centric CareChristine (Chris) Reyes, director of Dimensions Acute Training with Novant Health, is the author of a chapter focused on electronic health records in the ATD Talent Development and Training in Healthcare Handbook. In this spotlight Q&A, learn more about Reyes and her contribution to the book.How have your experiences in healthcare technology shaped the best practices you shared?With more than 25 years of healthcare experience, I’ve had the opportunity to serve in various roles that depend on strong collaboration and communication across the organization. Understanding how each department affects another and how seemingly simple system or process changes can impact others is vital to sound solutions and transformational change.At a previous job of mine, we often hosted other organizations on site visits to share our best practices and learning experiences. I found so much value and growth in sharing knowledge and learning from others. In the Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) chapter, I tried to share topics that have been instrumental to the success of our training program as well as those questions that are the most often asked by other organizations and learning healthcare professionals related to EHR training.How do you foresee the advancement of talent development for EHR implementation and usage within healthcare? For example, in an ideal world, how do you see this area flourishing for employee or organization development?With the pace of change in both technology and healthcare, I think it is essential for learning to take place at the moment of need. It is important for learning experiences to provide the tools and knowledge that the clinicians need, when and where they need it. It is also imperative for L&D professionals to collaborate with operational areas to ensure the impact of learning is measured and learning can be aimed to close skill gaps.What is something unexpected you learned while working on this book?As I was doing research for the chapter, I found many interesting success stories of an EHR transforming the access to and quality of patient care in many areas of the country.Is there something professional or personal you are proud of accomplishing in the past year?I’m proud to be a co-author of the ATD Talent Development and Training in Healthcare Handbook that was recently published! It was an exciting project, and it was an honor to participate in a project with so many talented professionals. I wish this handbook had been available when I’d started my career in the healthcare learning arena!What is a fun fact about yourself or one sentence of advice you’d like to share?“It’s not what you know that matters; it’s using what you know to help others do greater things than you’ve ever done.” —Giancarlo Brotto

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