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For almost 20 years, David Lange has pursued his curiosity about the world and how people lead in a global environment. He returns to TMC, bringing this curiosity and passion to his work as a global leadership strategist, trainer, and advisor. David’s primary areas of focus are global leadership strategy, global leadership program development, and customized talent development initiatives around the “global workplace of the future.”  With clients in every part of the world, David has served American Express, Novartis, Nestlé, Novo Nordisk, Microsoft, Gap Inc., Campbell Soup Co., MOL Hungarian Oil Co., Corning, Dow Chemical, Pfizer, Honeywell, MasterCard Worldwide, Air Products, Thomson Reuters, Deutsche Telekom, DPDHL, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Consulting Group, Imerys, Bunge, and MetLife, among others. David has specific experience in Europe, with a concentration on Central and Eastern Europe. He has also spent significant time in Africa in recent years, where he focused on helping organizations prepare for the future growth of the region by driving change management initiatives across Francophone and Anglophone countries. In 2012-2013 he was resident in Budapest, Hungary, renewing his ties with and knowledge of the region.  Prior to rejoining TMC, David worked as a Partner with Pivot Leadership and as the Owner/Founder of Aventine Associates. Previous experience also includes McKinsey and Company (Budapest, Hungary); Egon Zehnder International (Budapest, Hungary; Washington, DC; Atlanta, GA); and Russell Reynolds Associates (Atlanta, GA). In his previous roles at TMC he was part of the management team that led the sale of the company to Berlitz, Inc. in April 2008, while also serving as a facilitator, client account manager, and content designer.  David has a degree in international relations from the University of Virginia and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He is fluent in Hungarian, French, and German, in addition to his native English. When not indulging in the occasional gig with his longtime rock and roll cover band, he lives in Pennington, NJ with his wife Zsófia and their three children.

David Lange

Founder and CEO of Langford Learning, David P. Langford is an international educator, consultant, speaker, author, and trainer who focuses on the successful implementation and application of quality improvement theory, processes, and tools in education. He is the only educator to be awarded the Deming Medal for Excellence in the Application of Statistics in Industry Worldwide for outstanding leadership in combining statistical thinking and management to restore joy in the education system.David has developed Langford Learning, a theory of improvement built upon the fundamental teachings of W. Edwards Deming’s SoPK (System of Profound Knowledge). Langford Learning incorporates quality improvement methods that enable people to implement and establish strategies and processes that sustain joy in learning and create joy at work. Langford Learning integrates eight components: a study in psychology, systems thinking, understanding variation, The Theory of Knowledge, neuroscience, intrinsic motivation, use and application of the probletunity PDSA 9-Step Process, and 64 quality improvement tools.For more than three decades, Langford has worked with a diverse range of education organizations, from pre-K to university, and has served as an adjunct faculty member at Montana State University-Billings, University of Alaska, and Central Washington University and is a member of the advisory council for the W. Edwards Deming Institute. He has consulted with businesses including Boeing, General Motors, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the Department of Defense.Worldwide, more than 50,000 people have attended his quality learning seminar, leadership training, and other online training presentations. In addition to leading quality improvement seminars nationally and internationally, David provides professional consulting, customized training, and keynote presentations specific to learning, applying, and studying the continual quality improvement process. He continues to lead colleagues to create dynamic and sustainable systemic improvement in learning organizations.Featured in the PBS documentary Quality or Else, and a highly respected leader in quality improvement in learning organizations, David is the author of Tool Time for Education, Tool Time for Business, Tool Time for Healthcare, and co-author of Tool Time for Lean and Orchestrating Learning With Quality. He has published numerous articles and created innovative quality improvement tools such as the capacity matrix, consensogram, If….Then, morphing, P3T, parking lot, and system’s progress.David graduated from Montana State University-Billings with a BS in education and holds a master’s degree in educational administration and supervision from Arizona State University. His has a teaching background in music, technology, and administration and has also held the position of school superintendent in southern California.

David Langford

The Capacity Matrix A Systems Approach to Upskilling

David Hutchens is a writer and "organizational storyteller" who has helped to create change through innovative learning solutions and products for some of the greatest companies in the world. A former advertising copywriter, David now writes about organizational structures, strategy, learning, and leadership - always with an eye toward creativity and clarity. David has offered instructional design and corporate communications solutions for organizations such as The Coca-Cola Company, IBM, NationsBank and more. As a corporate speechwriter, David counts the CEO of The Coca-Cola Company among his clients, and has reached an international audience with messages about corporate responsibility, business ethics, and more. David is author of the popular Learning Fables books (Pegasus Communications) – an expanding series that introduces concepts of organizational learning theory in a fun, metaphorical format. Titles such as Outlearning the Wolves, Shadows of the Neanderthal and The Lemming Dilemma delightfully illustrate concepts of mental models, systems theory, organizational learning, and more. Learners from many cultures are drawn to David's offbeat and critically-appraised approach; the titles continue to spread across the globe as the books are translated into Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and other languages. David’s first book, PageLand, was written for children and published by Broadman & Holman in July of 2003.

David Hutchens

David Farris is an organizational effectiveness consultant manager with Slalom Consulting. He has more than 20 years of experience working on large, complex projects. David has worked with people strategy and programs as a consultant, military officer, and senior corporate leader. He specializes in strategic organizational effectiveness efforts such as culture, organizational design, and learning.    He earned a master of international management degree from the University of Denver and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. David is a Certified Professional in Learning and Performance and Project Management Professional. He is currently serving in the U.S. Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer.

David Farris

As organizations continue to evaluate virtual training options, always consider the following questions.

Train Quickly or Lose Big: Virtual Platforms Are No Longer Optional

As organizations grow, it becomes more difficult to maintain a personalized learning and growth path for every employee. At the same time, it is becoming more critical to personalize learning for employee engagement and to achieve personal and organizational success.
With disparate learning technologies and widely dispersed audiences, providing a personalized and learner-centric experience can be a challenge. Join us as we discuss these challenges and recommend six key steps for overcoming them.
Attendees will learn how to:

Break down learning boundaries and encourage meaningful integration.
Extend and enhance learning management system capabilities for large enterprises.
Create a single learner experience with multiple technologies.
 


6 Steps to Personalized Learning for Midsize and Large Enterprises

A change maker steeped in valuable experience, David Dhevarajulu leads Singapore’s healthcare transformation as the executive director of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, a co-learning network with a mission to build thought leadership, drive workforce transformation and enable healthcare training through new andragogy. In this role, David helms a team that encourages co-learning and collaborations across borders and industries, facilitate job redesign, drive innovative initiatives and projects, as well as oversee the operations of the Ng Teng Fong Centre for Healthcare Innovation, the largest purpose-built innovation centre with MICE facilities.Prior to this, David was the Director of various departments including Kaizen, Management Development, Organisational Development (OD) and Operations respectively. With his extensive experience and an acute understanding of both the healthcare industry and human resource transformation, David sits on numerous hospital and cluster committees and workgroups, to provide expert advice and insights. He has successfully driven many organization-wide transformation, staff engagement and change initiatives and has been instrumental in helping the hospital acquire numerous awards and accolades.For his dedicated and significant contributions to the National Healthcare Group and public service, David was awarded the TTSH Staff Excellence Award (Gold), the NHG Outstanding Citizenship Award and National Day Commendation Medal (2019).David is an Engineer by training with a Masters of Science in Human Resource Management from the Leicester University. He also holds certification in Strategic Planning from the Michigan University, Training and Development from IPD(UK), and Lean Healthcare from the Belmont University Graduate School.David is a certified Erickson Coach with ICF credentials.

David Dhevarajulu

Dr. David Rock coined the term ‘Neuroleadership’ and is the Director of the NeuroLeadership Institute, a global initiative bringing neuroscientists and leadership experts together to build a new science for leadership development. With operations in 24 countries, the Institute also helps large organizations operationalize brain research in order to develop better leaders and managers.David co-edits the NeuroLeadership Journal and heads up an annual global summit. He has written many of the central academic and discussion papers that have defined the Neuroleadership field. He is the author of the business best-seller Your Brain at Work (Harper Business, 2009), as well as Quiet Leadership (Harper Collins, 2006) and the textbook C_oaching with the Brain in Mind (_Wiley & Sons, 2009). He blogs for the Harvard Business Review, Fortune Magazine, Psychology Today, and the Huffington Post, and is quoted widely in the media about leadership, organizational effectiveness, and the brain.Academically, David is on the faculty and advisory board of CIMBA, an international business school based in Europe. He has been a guest lecturer at many universities including Oxford University’s Said Business School. He is on the board of the BlueSchool, an initiative in New York City building a new approach to education. He received his professional doctorate in the Neuroscience of Leadership from Middlesex University in 2010.

David Rock

David Maxfield is a New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, and leading social scientist for business performance. He is the vice president of research at VitalSmarts, a Top 20 Leadership Training company. His work has been translated into 28 languages, is available in 36 countries, and has generated results for 300 of the Fortune 500.

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