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Jennifer Hale with Assurant

March 6, 2013 by rhondachale

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Jennifer Hale with Assurant

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Jennifer Hale is Vice President, Talent Development & Performance at Assurant, a Fortune 300 insurance company. In her role, she is driving transformative change in the Assurant Specialty Property business by developing the strategy, infrastructure and tools to foster a culture of engagement, learning and performance. Ms. Hale focuses on driving a talent strategy that changes the way people interact with their teams, empowering employees to create grassroots culture change in support of business strategy and enhancing business results. She is also responsible for Talent and Organizational Development initiatives that align employees with key business initiatives, helps ready them for the right job at the right time and enables them to succeed and thrive in their roles.

Prior to joining Assurant in 2009, Ms. Hale founded her own management and organization development consulting practice, Organizational Impact in 1998. She provided executive coaching and senior leadership development support to industry leaders including AT&T, The Coca-Cola Company, ING Financial Services International, Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Yum Brands.

Ms. Hale began her career with Arthur Andersen, where she consulted with mid-size and Fortune 500 client organizations undergoing significant change. Following her tenure with Arthur Andersen, she joined ING Financial Services International as the Director of Management Development, where she was responsible for the design, development and deployment of all regional and global management and organization development initiatives. Ms. Hale holds a Master of Science degree in Organizational Development and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication. She is a certified facilitator in over 15 renowned leadership programs and continues to deliver speaking engagements on executive coaching and leadership development internationally. Ms. Hale is a member of Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) and the Human Resources Planning Society (HRPS). She also sits on the Advisory Board of the Alliance Theater and provides advisory services to several educational institutions throughout greater Atlanta.

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Barry Jenkins with AGCO Corporation and Tabetha Taylor with Manheim

February 20, 2013 by rhondachale

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Barry Jenkins with AGCO Corporation and Tabetha Taylor with Manheim

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Barry Jenkins/AGCO Corporation

Barry Jenkins, Global Talent Management Specialist, delivers strategic global learning and development solutions for AGCO Corporation in Duluth, Georgia.

As the world’s largest manufacturer focused purely on agricultural equipment, AGCO strengthens farm productivity through high-tech solutions for professional farmers feeding the world. AGCO offers a comprehensive line of tractors, combines, sprayers, hay tools and grain storage in over 150 countries with over 20,000 employees. Core brands include Challenger, Fendt, GSI, Massey Ferguson and Valtra.

Tabetha Taylor/Manheim

Tabetha Taylor,CPC has an immense passion to help others succeed. With an infectious personality and a joy for learning she uses her leadership experience in learning and change leadership to positively impact the world.

Tabetha’s passion for learning, ability to align training to business impact and ability to lead large scale change has given her leadership opportunities in many successful organizations from Boeing Employees Credit Union to Starbucks Coffee Company. Today, Tabetha is the Senior Director over training and organizational development for Manheim, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprise, where she and her team provide learning opportunities to over 20,000 leaders and employees.

Tabetha holds credentials in Training and Development from the University of Washington, Professional Coaching from the Academy for Coach Training, and Evaluation & Return on Investment from the Phillips ROI Institute.

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Wayne Zitsch with SunTrust Bank

February 13, 2013 by rhondachale

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Wayne Zitsch with SunTrust Bank

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Wayne Zitsch/SunTrust Bank

Wayne Zitsch, Manager of Enterprise Learning Development, Group Vice President with SunTrust Bank, is a Talent Development Executive with expert experience in building learning teams, selection/deployment/management of learning management systems, outsourcing of training development, and project management/program management operations and funding systems. Wayne has led of teams of over 50 people and vendor engagements of over $15 million. Other interests include Human Capital Management Systems and onboarding experience. Preferred role is that of a change agent and leader.

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Jeffrey Conway with Huddle House

February 6, 2013 by rhondachale

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Jeffrey Conway with Huddle House

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Jeffrey Conway/Huddle House

Jeffrey Conway is the Director of People Services with Huddle House. He has 28 years experience in the retail sector dealing with consumers including 12+ years experience in the area of Training and Development including instructional design, implementation, tracking and results measurement. Jeff also has 12+ years experience in restaurant opening process including scheduling, pre/post opening support, sales and product forecasting, hiring, orientation and on-site operations training. He has 5 years experience with multiple brands / co-brand training experience, one year experience with wholesaling and brand licensing (Cinnabon, Inc.), and one year experience with regulated (FDA/EU) environments in the blood plasma industry.

Jeff’s specialties include: Certified Hospitality Trainer (CHT), Certified Food Safety Manager (CFSM), Discernment Certification (DISC), Advanced Alcohol Service Certificate (NRAEDF), Successful Training Manager Certificate – Langevin Learning Time Management Certification – Franklin Covey, Essentials in Human Resources Certificate (SHRM), Notary Public State of Georgia, and ServeSafe Proctor.

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Douglas Dell with Crawford and Company

January 30, 2013 by rhondachale

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Douglas Dell with Crawford and Company

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Douglas Dell/Crawford and Company

Douglas Dell is senior vice president of eLearning Services for Crawford and Company, managing the KMC on DemandSM learning platform and Crawford’s continuing education (CE) business serving the insurance industry. His responsibilities include technical development of CE compliance software and management of the Property Technical Certification (PTC) program. Douglas is a board advisor to the Atlanta chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and a member of the business and management faculty of the University of Phoenix.

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Jamie Cornelius with InterContinental Hotels Group

October 17, 2012 by rhondachale

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Jamie Cornelius with InterContinental Hotels Group

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Jamie Cornelius/InterContinental Hotels Group

Jamie Cornelius is a Manager of a design team for Global Learning at InterContinental Hotels Group, or IHG. She and her team create training solutions for their client group, WorldWide Sales. For the past two years, Jamie has been working with the sales team to drive a learning culture to support the new sales culture IHG is implementing around the world to include over 4,500 hotels worldwide.

Previously, Jamie worked for AT&T Mobility for almost 12 years, focusing on Instructional Design for Retail Sales Associates and Leadership. Her focus on sales training over the last 10 years has revealed that sales people need engaging, interesting, and just in time training solutions that answer the question “So What?” on why they would be spending valuable selling time in training. How people learn skills for their jobs is evolving and Jamie is passionate about evolving along with it and understanding how to take learning to the next level. Furthermore, her passion for measuring the impact of that learning is driving her team to think outside the box.

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Jenna Kay with ADP and Leigh Anne Lankford with TrainingPros

October 10, 2012 by rhondachale

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Jenna Kay with ADP and Leigh Anne Lankford with TrainingPros

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Jenna Kay/ADP

Jenna Kay is a Senior Instructional Designer for the Sales Learning & Performance Group at ADP. In the past ten years of designing learning for financial services and medical audiences, she has come to understand that for training to achieve results, it should always encourage to people to embrace change and never be boring

Leigh Anne Lankford/TrainingPros

Leigh Anne Lankford is an Instructional Designer and a Relationship Manager for TrainingPros where she specializes in working closely with training and development departments of large organizations to identify, attract, and on-board contract professionals for very specific and specialized training and development needs.