Do you think the person with the title "Editor, ASTD Links" is responsible for supplying all this content to you every month? Of course not! It takes a considerable cadre of members of the profession. Not to mention the staff of ASTD. Field editors are a primary source of In Practice articles and In Person interviews. On this page you will find
General Topics Editor
Brownell Landrum
Brownell Landrum is the founder and CEO of DrawSuccess, creator of the DrawSuccess Program, and inventor of the DrawSuccess Game: drawsuccess.com.
Associations & Nonprofit Organizations
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Brain-Based Learning
Lenn Millbower
Lenn Millbower is a Disney speaker, presentation skills trainer, and author. He received his bachelor’s degree from Berklee College of Music and his master’s from Webster University. Millbower was honored by the Walt Disney Company with the prestigious Partner’s In Excellence lifetime achievement award. This internal employee award was granted in recognition of his training and leadership accomplishments as a member of the opening training team for Disney’s Animal Kingdom. He is a national board member of the International Alliance for Learning and the Contract Trainer’s Association, and a member of the National Speaker’s Association and ASTD; lenn@likeamouse.com.
Career Development
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Consultants
Halelly Azulay
Halelly Azulay is a consultant, facilitator, speaker, and author with 20 years of professional experience in the fields of workplace learning and communication in corporate, government, regulatory, not-for-profit, and academic organizations. She is the author of Employee Development on a Shoestring (ASTD Press, 2012), in which she provides managers and supervisors hands-on tools and techniques for developing employees outside the classroom and on a budget. Azulay is the president of TalentGrow, a consulting company focused on developing leaders and teams to improve the human side of work. She is also past president of the board of directors of the award-winning Metro DC chapter of ASTD where she served in various board leadership roles from 2005 to 2010; talentgrow.com/blog.
Healthcare
Pamela Edwards
Pamela B. Edwards is director of education services for Duke University Health System in Durham, North Carolina; edwar024@mc.duke.edu.
Human Performance Improvement (HPI)
Patricia Radakovich
Patricia S. Radakovich, CPLP, CPT is the owner of SHARK Consulting Group, a performance consultancy in Trenton, Michigan. She has an MA in performance improvement and instructional design and an MBA. Her professional interests include work culture and employee morale. She is also the chairman and founder of Basil’s Buddies, a not-for-profit animal welfare organization. She recently was named Trenton’s 2010 Outstanding Young Woman of the Year; radakovp@umich.edu.
International
Neal Goodman
Neal R. Goodman is president of Global Dynamics. GDI provides global/cross-cultural and diversity training and development and coaching to leading global corporations on a worldwide basis, and has been doing so since 1984. Goodman’s interests focus on the impact of globalization and cultural diversity on individuals and organizations; 1.305.682.7883; ngoodman@global-dynamics.com
Leadership
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Manufacturing
Melissa Westmoreland
Melissa Westmoreland is a Training & Development Leader for the Building Products Division of Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Atlanta, GA. Westmoreland has more than 20 years' production, quality, compliance and T &D experience in food, packaging and wood products manufacturing. She has been an active member of ASTD since 1995, and served as the Employee Involvement Forum leader at the 1997 ASTD International Conference and Exposition in Washington, D.C.; MelissaAWestmoreland@gmail.com.
Management Development
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Multicultural/Diversity
Judith Katz & Fred Miller
Judith H. Katz is the executive vice president and Frederick A. Miller is the president and CEO of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, which specializes in building inclusion and leveraging diversity. They are co-authors of The Inclusion Breakthrough: Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity (Berrett-Koehler, 2002) and and Be BIG: Step Up, Step Out, Be Bold (Berrett-Koehler, 2008); kjcg411@kjcg.com.
Organization Development
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Public Sector
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Return-on-Investment (ROI)
Holly Burkett
Holly Burkett, SPHR, CPT is principal of Evaluation Works, in Davis, California, where she manages a consulting practice focused on helping organizations measure the business value of WLP efforts. A certified ROI professional, she is frequent presenter, workshop leader, and author. Most recently she authored the "Action Planning" chapter in the ASTD Handbook for Measuring and Evaluating Training (2010); burketth@earthlink.net.
Sales, Marketing, & Customer Service
Shelley Gaynes
Shelley Gaynes is the president of Gee Wiz, an Atlanta-based executive coaching and training firm. She has extensive experience in working with sales and customer service organizations and teams. Currently, she serves on the board of directors of The Georgia Coach Association, and is an ACC certified coach; sgaynes@GeeWizWow.com.
Technical Skills and Training
Elizabeth Beckham
Elizabeth Beckham is a Safety Training Manager for the corporate training team at Turner Industries Group in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has a master's degree in workforce training and development and a background in software engineering and computer networking technology. Her interests include use of technology in the workplace and home, occupational safety, psychology, cooking, and photography; enbeckham@hotmail.com.
Training Fundamentals
Terrence Gargiulo
Terrence Gargiulo is a consultant and author of Making Stories: A Practical Guide for Organizational Leaders and Human Resource Specialists. If you have ideas or wish to submit an article be sure to contact him; terrence@makingstories.net; 1.781.894.4381.