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Mary Myers is a Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP) currently enrolled in her last year of the Strategic Foresight and Innovation (MDes) program at OCAD University. Her focus is on human-centered design, systems thinking, and foresight work and how they fuels innovation in organizations. Much of her work has been strategic in nature and has consisted of developing overall strategies for her clients informed by expertise in customer experience, service design, and instructional design. Highlights include experience mapping, learning system design, process mapping, learning asset development and implementation, establishing overall instructional design approach, to helping build a custom learning management system (LMS) based on the principle of reusable learning objects. Mary fuels innovation and enables performance. Her aim is to be blissfully productive and bring an urgent optimism to everything she does, while focusing on connecting the dots.

Mary Myers

ATD 2015 International Conference Offers Healthcare-Specific Guidance to Talent Challenges

Healthcare Talent Development and Performance: Unique Challenges, Unique Solutions

How one hospital developed a new program to enable those who support learning—especially those who teach at the "bedside."

Learning Where it Matters: Enabling the Enablers for Bedside and Beyond

Jennifer Myers is currently a PhD Graduand at Penn State and will be graduating in May 2015. Her degree focus is Workforce Education and Development, specializing in Human Resource Development and Organization Development. She received her Masters degree from Boston University and is also a graduate of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). Jennifer is a practitioner in the field of Human Resource Development for the Federal Government. Prior to transitioning to her current position, Jennifer served as an Instructor for the Professional Personnel Development Center (PPDC) at Penn State. Jennifer is also an Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) veteran and is a recipient of numerous service awards, some of which include the Air Force Expeditionary Service Ribbon with Gold Bolder, Meritorious Unit Award, and multiple Commendation Medals. She served in the United States Air Force and was a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI).   Her current research interests are employee engagement and career development. She is also an author and co-author of multiple publications and presentations focused on engagement, diversity, healthcare, and career development.

Jennifer Myers

Despite soft skills’ importance, many still struggle with them. Daniel White outlines the five most common soft skills gaps and how you can overcome them.

Top 5 Soft Skills Gaps and How to Overcome Them

May 2012 - TD Magazine

Quiet Time

Jeff has coached negotiation teams within organizations and has delivered high impact presentations from forty-five minutes to three days in length. His audience size has ranged from five executives around a boardroom table to one thousand people in an auditorium. In addition to his role as an educator and an entertainer, Jeff has also played a significant role in selling and designing negotiation training programs for SNI.Jeff has delivered customized programs for clients across many diverse sectors: Financial Services (Barclays, PricewaterhouseCoopers, J.P.Morgan Chase); Pharmaceutical (Novo Nordisk, Sanofi-aventis, Bristol Myers Squibb); Insurance (GeneralReinsurance, Nationwide); Telecommunications (Verizon, Comcast); Medical Devices (Toshiba Medical Systems, Siemens Medical); Sports (Chicago Bears, Baltimore Ravens, Madison Square Garden); Media (ESPN, Hearst Corporation) and a host of others. Jeff also works closely with the Anthony Robbins Platinum Partnership, an exclusive membership-only group personally coached by Tony Robbins. Jeff Cochran is a master facilitator and partner of Shapiro Negotiations Institute.

Jeff Cochran

Steve Sitek is head of learning for Novartis Pharmaceuticals Ethics and Compliance. He leads Novartis’s learning, education, and communications to support all integrity and compliance activity at the company. Recently, he has led efforts to transform learning and communications processes and programs, resulting in highly favorable impact on associate confidence and knowledge. Prior to his current role, Sitek was the director of talent management and organizational development in Novartis Pharmaceuticals North America. Prior to Novartis, he was the executive director of enterprise learning and leadership development at Wyeth, and the director of global learning and organizational development at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Sitek is a recognized leader in the field of learning and organization development who has facilitated global transformational change at world-renowned corporations, and has consulted on talent and leader development strategies with many Fortune 200 organizations. He possesses comprehensive expertise in developing and executing strategies to produce high-impact learning programs, align global organizations, drive change, and optimize talent management programs and functions. Sitek is an adjunct professor at Rutgers Business School, teaching MBA classes in organizational behavior, group dynamics, negotiations, and business ethics. He earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Vermont, and a bachelor of arts from Gettysburg College.

Steve Sitek

Cathleen Szebrat, President of The O’Toole Firm, is a certified coach and trainer.  Ms. Szebrat has designed and facilitated trainings on topics including career development, leadership development, team leadership and dynamics, multigenerational workforces, effective communication, and strategic planning.  Her training and coaching philosophy is based on four core principles - (1) becoming more self-observant and reflective by identifying patterns that may block development; (2) action learning and its emphasis on enhancing knowledge through experimentation and application to real-life challenges; (3) a multi-level approach that recognizes how individuals are influenced by their team and organizational context; and (4) appreciative awareness to help her clients identify what works as well as what needs to improve. Ms. Szebrat received her BA in psychology at George Mason University and her coaching certification from Mentor Coach, LLC an International Coach Federation accredited institute.  Ms. Szebrat maintains her coaching certification through mandatory continuing education.  Ms. Szebrat is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Management: Human Resource Management Specialization from the University of Maryland.   Ms. Szebrat is qualified to administer the following assessments: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Thomas Kilman Conflict Mode Indicator, and the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation (FIRO).

Cathleen Szebrat

Lisa Nabors is a partner with Strategic Performance Group and is recognized by the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC). Ms. Nabors is a talented speaker and often makes presentations on the topic of coaching to industry and professional groups. She began coaching during her 16 years of experience as a successful, senior-level HR and training and development professional in private industry. Her passion is in optimizing individual, team, and organization performance, and her coaching clients include managers, executives, and teams in organizations such as AOL, AARP, U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Ms. Nabors' coaching expertise includes gathering and feeding back data, helping clients to generate alternatives, identifying key metrics and creating action plans designed to achieve specific, measurable results.Ms. Nabors is a certified user of all Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) 360-degree feedback instruments, the EQi-2.0 and EQ 360, LEI, APT 360 Instruments, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment, and many customized instruments. She is an adjunct faculty member for Marymount University and the George Washington University, and she is the co-author of The Dialogue Deck, Leading From the Inside Out: A Coaching Model (Sage, 2002), and Organizational Coaching (ATD Press, 2008).

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