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At AchieveForum, Dave Brazel serves as the chief revenue officer, responsible for driving commercial success globally. A sales leader with more than 20 years’ experience in the leadership development field, Dave has worked with sales professionals at every stage of career development with an emphasis on mentoring and coaching new account executives. Many great leaders have helped to shape Dave’s understanding of leadership—particularly D. J. DePree (founder of Herman Miller). Dave earned a Master’s degree in Theology from Western Theological Seminary in Michigan and a B.A. in Humanities (with a minor in Philosophy) from Hope College (also in Michigan).

Dave Brazel

Three key leadership practices that empower organizations to build resilient workplaces, thereby reducing employee stress and increasing organizational performance.

Fostering Resilience in the Digital Age

ATD Research and ATD International have completed their first study on talent development in Brazil. Brazil: Talent Development Snapshot, 2015 allows organizations with operations in Brazil to benchmark their talent development activities against tho

ATD Releases New Bilingual Research on Talent Development in Brazil

In ATD’s Handbook for Training and Talent Development, 3rd ed., Lorrie Lykins ends Chapter 1, “The Evolution of Talent Development,” by calling out that employers recognize how important training is to their business growth and to strengthening company culture. She notes that talent development professionals are essential. She writes, “New history is created constantly by this profession, and the easiest prediction to be made for the future is that it will continue to change and evolve in areas we can’t imagine. You are more capable than most of not only imagining that future, but also bravely leading into it, inspiring others to accomplish what may have seemed unachievable not that long ago.”As talent development professionals from around the world come together this week for ATD22, they are making history. They will learn about the latest trends in the industry and business, network, acquire new skills, and explore real solutions and techniques for their top organizational and team challenges. Together, they will generate new ideas.Apryl Alexander-Savino, senior director of ATD Conferences, highlights, “This year’s conference focus is ‘people. perspective. potential.’ So much has changed and is continuing to change in the way we work and learn. In developing the programming for ATD22, we wanted to be a catalyst for the entire talent development community to connect with each other, grow and develop, so they can return to work with fresh ideas and practical insights to make an even greater impact in their organizations and with their clients.”Those are reasons industry professionals have been gathering together at ATD’s International Conference and EXPO for decades. In 1945 when ATD was the American Society of Training Directors, 56 people attended the first annual conference in Chicago, Illinois. Now thousands of attendees are gathering in person and virtually for ATD22. In the ATD blog post “Welcome Back to the Future,” John Coné, catalyst for ATD’s CTDO Next group, writes, “This is an amazing time for our profession. From now on, the future will be much closer and approaching even faster than before. But this is great. This is home.”Home, sweet homeBetween 1945 and 2022, ATD has experienced many milestones with the International Conference and EXPO. For example, in 1980, 259 exhibitors joined the national conference in Anaheim, California. That was also the year ATD (as ASTD) relocated its headquarters to Washington, DC. In 1994, ATD renamed the conference as the International Conference and EXPO. In 2004, ATD welcomed attendees from 79 different countries.More recently, more than 9,000 talent development professionals met in Denver, Colorado, in 2012—a new attendee record at the time. The 2019 conference achieved the highest attendance at 13,500. And while the past two years have brought disruption and uncertainty, ATD21 brought a hybrid model to enable talent development professionals to gather and learn and grow in spite of the ongoing pandemic.Alexander-Savino noted, “It’s been amazing to look back and see and hear what we’ve done together in the talent industry. It’s even more amazing to look ahead—immediately to ATD22 and beyond to imagine the potential in how we continue to create a world that works better.” This week will be filled with ample opportunities for you to learn, engage, connect, and make history.

ATD22: Another One for the History Books

Doug Stone is a founder and partner of Triad Consulting Group and a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, where he has taught negotiation for almost 30 years.Through Triad, he does consulting for a wide range of organizations, including Fidelity, Honda, HP, Merck, and Turner Broadcasting, and has lectured at Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Pixar. Stone has worked with journalists in South Africa; diplomats at the former Organization of African Unity; police and community leaders in Springfield, Massachusetts; and doctors at UN/AIDS and W.H.O. He has also done consulting for Teach for America, the Ford Foundation, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the US State Department, the US Department of Justice, and the White House. Stone has taught difficult conversations for the justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court as well as for 80 federal district court judges.Stone is co-author of two New York Times bestsellers: Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, which has been translated into more than 25 languages, and Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well. His articles on negotiation and conflict resolution have appeared in Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, Educational Leadership, Rotman Management Journal, and IT Metrics. He has appeared on many TV and radio shows, including Oprah, and was a keynote speaker at the 2006 World Negotiation Forum in Brazil.From 1988 to 1998, Stones was an associate and then associate director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, where he worked with Roger Fisher and other colleagues on the development of negotiation theory.Stone graduated from Brown University in 1980 and Harvard Law School in 1984. Prior to returning to Harvard, he practiced transactional and regulatory banking law at firms in Boston and New York.

Douglas Stone

Surya Prakash Mohapatra is currently the India Leader- Knowledge and Capability Management at Hewlett Packard Global Business Services. Surya was recently recognized by World HRD Congress as one of the 25 MOST 25 most talented global training and development leaders. Surya has over 18+ years of experience in various leadership roles in several leading IT and ITES organizations. Prior to Hewlett Packard, he worked in Wipro, Microland, FirstRing and Computer Garage. Surya has extensive experience in setting up and running learning and development functions for organizations in India and international locations. Surya set up the Global training function for Wipro BPO CBS which spanned across 10 locations in Brazil, Mexico, Romania, Poland, China, and India. He has led leadership development, capability building and talent management efforts in various organizations. He was instrumental in setting up the Management Academy and Domain Gurukul in Wipro BPO. Surya brings with him vast experience in setting up Knowledge Centers of Excellence in various domains, defining and implementing training models for Rural BPO, Tier-III BPO etc. In his current role at HP GBS, he is engaged in evolving strategies for career development, talent management and knowledge management for the organization in India. He supports the training and development needs of over 9000 employees in India which is the largest region of GBS world-wide. In the past, he played a key role in setting up the training function in HP GBS. He was one of the key contributors to HP’s Charisma Program as the Global Lead for the training tower. Some of the best-in-class initiatives led by him, has received industry recognition as well. Surya speaks regularly in various international forums on topics related to HR, Learning and Development, Corporate Culture and Spirituality. His articles have been published in various journals and magazines published from India and abroad. He moderates a global network of L&D professionals with over 18000 members. He is also the editor of EKAKSHAARA, a quarterly e-magazine for HR professionals.

Surya Prakash Mohapatra

Ashley Munday, director of Thrive by SweetRush, is a strategic advisor, change facilitator, and executive coach with more than 20 years of professional experience. She has facilitated organizational transformation initiatives around the world, using a systems approach and the power of values. Forbes interviewed her about her work, and Deepak Chopra interviewed her on his radio program after she served as a values advisor for the Icelandic national values assessment. Additionally, Munday co-authored a paper on “Transforming Culture in Larger Organizations.”She has worked around the world—with clients ranging from the board of a multinational corporation to a population from the untouchable caste in India—and has learned that when given the opportunity to create positive change, most rise to the occasion. Munday’s clients have included Aon Hewitt, Boehringer Ingelheim, CHANEL, Ericsson, Nedbank, Optiver, Sasol, Unilever Brazil, and Wells Fargo.

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