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"We originally partnered with Intrepid because they understood our business and had a solid track record of delivering high quality results with speed and consistency. Intrepid’s performance caught the attention of Sales and Channel Management stakeholders throughout the company. Through their work on sales training programs such as Manufacturing 101 and Boot Camp, Intrepid has raised the bar for training at Autodesk and become our premier training partner." |
Advisory Board
Dr. Allison Rossett
Professor of Educational Technology, San Diego State University
Dr. Allison Rossett, a Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State
University, works most often on workforce development, elearning, and needs
assessment. Allison received ASTD's award for Workplace Learning and Performance
for 2002 and joined their International Board in 2004. She is a member of Training
magazine's HRD Hall of Fame and was honored with the International Society
for Performance Improvement's highest award, Member-for-Life.
Rossett is the editor of the ASTD E-Learning Handbook: Best Practices, Strategies
and Case Studies for an Emerging Field and co-author of Beyond the Podium: Delivering
Training and Performance to a Digital World. Rossett also authored the award-winning
book and web site: First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis, www.jbp.com/rossett.html.
Recent articles are about reducing elearning drop out rates in Training and Development
and Strategies for Blending, in Learning Circuits.
Rossett's clients are a who's who of international organizations, including IBM,
Microsoft, MetLife, the Internal Revenue Service, SQL Star International, BP,
Ford Motor Company, SBC, Motorola, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Fidelity Investments.
Tom Simmons
Global Chief Technology Officer for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Tom Simmons is a globally recognized leader in business process outsourcing. He is currently Global Chief Technology Officer for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Prior to this position, Simmons was Vice President, Managed Services at Hewlett-Packard. He served as Vice President of Compaq's managed services operations, overseeing more than 5,000 employees and growing their outsourcing business to more than $1 billion per year in revenue.
Simmons has also been a vice president managing technology services at Digital Equipment Corporation and was a senior manager at Tenneco, including serving as Chief Information Officer for the $3 billion company.
Michael Obermayer
McKinsey and Company
Michael M. Obermayer spearheaded the development of McKinsey and Company’s world leading corporate learning efforts. Until his recent retirement, Obermayer was a director and senior partner at McKinsey. After serving as head of the McKinsey practices in Norway, Sweden and Eastern Europe, Obermayer set about building a state-of-the-art approach to learning far beyond any existing corporate university, which became the widely acclaimed The McKinsey Institute.
In addition, with his team of specialists in London, New York and Singapore, Obermayer advised clients on learning and people development questions. In particular, he has recently advised clients across a wide range of industries on systematic capability building efforts in support of large-scale corporate transformation programs.
Obermayer holds an MSc degree in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, a PhD summa cum laude in Biochemistry from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and University of Munich, and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau.
Christopher Hedrick
Pat Weger
Former Vice President of Learning & Development, AT&T Broadband
Pat Weger recently retired as Vice President of Learning & Development
at AT&T Broadband. She has extensive training and development experience
spanning work in public education, high technology, telecommunications and
financial services. Prior to working at AT&T, Weger was Vice President
of Learning & Development at Fidelity Investments. Earlier, Weger
held training leadership roles at Digital Equipment Corporation.
Weger has led strategy and implementation for many technology-supported learning
systems, including a global information architecture, video broadcast and videoconference
distance learning, and computer- based multi-media learning. She has expertise
in competency-based development systems; executive and leadership development;
coaching; employee satisfaction systems and processes; organizational design;
and training and development for technical, call center and sales employees.
She holds a Masters in Adult Education and Instructional Technology from the
University of Wyoming, and has pursued additional advanced studies in visual
learning and instructional design at the University of Iowa.
Ernie Kahane
Director of Learning Strategy, EMC Corporation.
Ernie Kahane is recognized as an organizational leader who creates and implements
learning strategy that improves organizational performance and business results.
He has received a national award for his work in aligning business goals with
global training and in implementing development systems. He has focused expertise
in learning theory, e-learning, and learning management systems.
Kahane has been a medical educator and held leading training and management
consulting roles at Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds a Ph.D.
in Educational Policy Studies and Instructional Design from the University
of Illinois. Dr. Kahane has authored a number of books and periodicals including “Certification:
Business and Legal issues” in Evaluating Corporate Training.
He has received ASTD best practice awards and is co-inventor of two patented
consumer products.
Alex Brigham
Co-Founder, President and CEO of PLI-Corpedia Education
Alex Brigham is the Co-Founder, President and CEO of PLI-Corpedia Education, a privately-held leading corporate and institutional compliance and business skills eLearning firm with more than 250 clients.
Prior to helping start PLI-Corpedia in 1998, Alex was a principal with the leveraged buyout firm partnership, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R). While at CD&R, Mr. Brigham played an active directorship role in the purchase, oversight, strategy and risk management of Kinko's, Kraft Food Service, and Westinghouse Distribution, among other companies. Alex is a graduate of Yale University and previously was also a financial analyst at the investment banking firm, Lazard Freres. He is involved in a variety of non-profit endeavors, including serving as Co-Chairman of the nonprofit Open Compliance & Ethics Group which conducts research and benchmarking studies on the compliance and ethics function of corporations.
Kevin Oakes