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Robert Todd Joins ASTD Board of Directors

As ?What If! technology director, Robert is passionate about applying the latest innovations in information technology to enable the fundamentally human enterprise of innovation capability—whether in the business, nonprofit, or academic sectors. Robert comes to ?What If! with more than 15 years of experience in e-learning content and technology development—from building McKinsey & Company’s e-learning capabilities as director of technology-enabled learning, to building and defining the go-to-market strategy of Convergys Corporation’s learning outsourcing business as practice lead, to developing e-learning solutions at DigitalThink as director of technology product management and director of course development.

Robert Todd

November 2014 - TD Magazine

The Innovator Chief Learning Officer

Robert Tanner is the founder and principal consultant of Business Consulting Solutions based in Bellevue, Washington. He is a recognized thought leader in the areas of high performance management and effective leadership, and the founder of the popular business blog, "Management is a Journey." Robert’s professional work and his leadership voice reflect his own early struggles in management—as a young man, he was promoted into management for his technical skills with no regard for his then underdeveloped people skills. As a result of his early struggles to become a better leader and manager, Robert is passionate about helping leaders with the people side of business. Today, Robert is an accomplished consultant and a top-rated national leadership seminar facilitator and course developer for a global top 20 training firm. He is a certified change management consultant, a certified administrator of psychological type assessments, and a leadership professional with management experience in the private and public sectors. He’s been an adjunct professor of management at several universities including California State University and Keller Graduate School, where he taught human resources and management courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Nationally, Robert has helped business professionals at all levels in the public and private sectors to enhance their leadership and management effectiveness. Robert holds an MBA in strategic management and a BS in organizational behavior. He was awarded lifetime membership to the International Honor Society Beta Gamma Sigma based on his graduate academic course work. His professional associations include the American Society for Training & Development and the Society for Human Resource Management.

Robert Tanner

Todays Gurus Rethinking the Obsolete

Today's sales climate is more competitive than ever, which makes enabling your sales rep's to be more effective sellers more important than ever. Unfortunately, training, best practice sharing, and content improvement often operate in silos, fighting each other for the sales reps valuable time. This siloed approach is ineffective, creates friction for the rep, and takes too much time away from what sales reps should be doing—selling.
Modern sales organizations have an opportunity to obliterate the silos and provide an integrated approach to training, coaching, improving content, and sharing sales process best practices. As we move into a new year, there are five initiatives you should consider to make 2017 your best sales year yet. Join us to learn how to:

Integrate ongoing training into a sales rep's daily life.
Digitize the sales playbook and turn it into an agile, helpful tool.
Improve training participation by delivering it in context with the sales opportunity.
Provide "just in time" training, content, and best practices, when the rep needs them.
Integrate your sales tech stack to eliminate friction and get end-to-end analysis on what works and what.


5 Must-Tackle Training Initiatives for Modern Sales Organizations in 2017

We have a faltering economy and most organizations need top performance from their workforce to survive. Yet some of the actions needed for a company to remain viable, come at the cost of losing the hard-earned trust of their employees, which greatly reduces productivity. If this is a familiar scenario for you and your organization, you will profoundly benefit from this webinar.
Join Bob Whipple for an enlightening program that shows a clear pathway for enhancing trust and transparency in organizations. This session is interactive and will reveal some wonderful opportunities for turning a corner on the malaise of the economy and the resulting disconnect in communication between companies and their employees.
This webinar will explore:

the crisis of trust facing organizations worldwide
a definition of trust and some dimensions not often considered
a model for how to build higher trust in today’s environment
the ratchet-effect demonstration.

Attend this webinar and benefit from a crystal clear view of the importance of trust. You will recognize how a low-trust situation is not hopeless—there are pragmatic actions, even in the most challenging times, which will place leaders on a path to higher trust and transparency. You will leave with three key action steps you can take immediately that will begin a transformation in your organization, regardless of your current position in that organization.
Please join Bob for a webinar you will long remember as entertaining, highly informative, and critically insightful.

Building Trust and Transparency in Your Organization

In today's resource-strapped government, there exists greater pressure than ever to demonstrate the value of training. Training evaluation does not need to be complex or expensive to be effective; it needs to be strategically focused on organizational goals.
Learn directly from the creator of the New World Kirkpatrick Model and subject matter expert for the OPM Training Evaluation Field Guide the correct way to implement the four levels to ensure that you are maximizing and demonstrating the organizational value of your training. Three key ideas will be shared for shifting emphasis from Levels 1 and 2 to Levels 3 and 4, including action points you can implement immediately in your own work. Government and military examples will punctuate main ideas.

Real World Tactics for Creating and Demonstrating Training Value in Government

Breaking the Glass Ceiling

Dr. Clifford Rossi is an Executive-in-Residence and Professor of the Practice at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Dr. Rossi has nearly 25 years of experience in banking and government, having held senior executive roles in risk management at several of the largest financial services companies. Dr. Rossi held senior risk management positions at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. His research interests include GSE reform, housing finance reform, bank capital issues and implications of Dodd-Frank on banking.

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