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Karen Lawson is a noted international consultant, speaker, and author. As founder and president of Lawson Consulting Group, she has built a successful consulting firm specializing in organization and management development as well as executive coaching. Her extensive consulting and seminar experience includes team development, communication, leadership, and quality service across a wide range of industries. Clients include a variety of prominent organizations from financial services, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, government, and education. In her consulting work with Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses, she uses her experience and knowledge of human interaction to help leaders at all levels make a difference in their organizations. Karen is the author of 13 books, including the ATD Press titles Leadership Development Basics and Improving On-the-Job Training and Coaching. She has also written chapters for scores of professional collections and numerous articles in professional journals. In addition, she has created several assessment instruments and developed new, cutting-edge learning tools and delivery methods, including a 12-session professional development audio series for managers, web-based training programs, and teletraining courses. Karen is one of only 400 people worldwide to have earned the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the 4,000-member National Speakers Association. She has received numerous awards for her outstanding contribution to the training and speaking professions. Karen was named one of Pennsylvania’s “Best 50 Women in Business” and among the Philadelphia Business Journal’s “Women of Distinction.” She has been actively involved in professional organizations, such as the National Speakers Association and the Association for Talent Development, holding leadership positions at both the local and national levels. She is also an active member of the Union League of Philadelphia.

Karen Lawson

Few organizations manage the different pieces of onboarding well, and most new hires fail to receive clear messages about what their manager and organization expects from them.

Why Onboarding Fails

Move Onboarding Beyond One and Done

In New Employee Orientation Training, Karen Lawson outlines the key elements of designing a well-planned, comprehensive orientation program that benefits both organizations and employees.

How to Craft Onboarding That Has Staying Power

In New Employee Orientation Training, Karen Lawson outlines why onboarding needs to be interactive and engaging.

Your Mission: Design Effective Onboarding

In New Employee Orientation Training, Karen Lawson offers some advice for designing an onboarding program that is effective and fun.

Make Employee Orientation Effective, Interactive, and Fun

Leadership Development BasicsAn examination of desirable traits and competencies of leaders for the creation of effective leadership development programs.

Leadership Development Basics

Karen Lawson has created comprehensive new employee orientation workshops to ensure organizational onboarding is done right for the benefit of all employees, regardless of job level or function.

New Employee Orientation Training

The Workshop Series book bundle offers all thirteen books in the series at a 15% savings off of the full list* price.
The ATD Workshop Series is written for trainers by trainers. And each book includes all the activities, handouts, tools, and assessments you need to create and deliver powerful, effective training. Take on your next training workshop with guidance from renowned experts Maureen Orey, Lou Russell, Lisa Haneberg, Elaine Biech, Kimberly Devlin, Karen Lawson, Karl Mulle, Lisa J. Downs, Wes Balakian, Christee Gabour Atwood and Erica Nelson. Ready-to-use resources associated with each book can be downloaded from individual book pages.Read sample content from Communication Skills Training, Coaching Training, Leadership Training, New Supervisor Training, Customer Service Training, New Employee Orientation Training, Change Management Training, Emotional Intelligence Training, Time Management Training, Project Management Training, Presentation Skills Training, Facilitation Skills Training and Management Development Training.*Refers to ATD list price.

ATD Workshop Series Collection

The ATD Workshop series is written for trainers by trainers, because no one knows workshops as well as the practitioners who have done it all. This bundle includes all the customizable workshop program materials referenced in the ATD Workshop series, including MS Office PowerPoint presentations and MS Word handouts. With this bundle, you’ll be able to customize these materials to best suit the needs for your clientele training program. (Note: ATD Workshop series books are not included with the license bundle and must be purchased separately.)
Take on your next training workshop with guidance from renowned experts Maureen Orey, Lou Russell, Lisa Haneberg, Elaine Biech, Kimberly Devlin, Karen Lawson, Karl Mulle, Lisa J. Downs, Wes Balakian and Erica Nelson.
This bundle offers all 13 licenses in the series at 15% off. Save more than $850 off retail price!*
Read sample content from Communication Skills Training, Coaching Training, Leadership Training, New Supervisor Training, Customer Service Training, New Employee Orientation Training, Change Management Training, Emotional Intelligence Training, Time Management Training, Project Management Training, Facilitation Skills Training. and Management Development Training.*Refers to ATD list price.
Will you be charging customizing workshop content to deliver training at no cost to employee within your own department or company only?If so, purchase our License Bundle (Internal Use).

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