Training Certificate

Facilitators

Mimi Banta

Mimi Banta, a skilled facilitator and organization development consultant, has over 25 years of experience helping private, public sector, and not-for-profit organizations implement training and development initiatives that produce results. Clients rely on her ability to diagnose training needs, engage executives in development efforts, design and conduct training, and equip in-house staff to be effective trainers. 

In addition to an educational background in Psychology and Adult Education, Mimi is certified to use a variety of tools such as the Career Architect, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, “I Speak Your Language”, and Change Style Indicator. She is also affiliated with Netspeed Leadership, Learning Tree International, and is master certified in Achieve Global products and services.

Elaine Biech

ASTD lead facilitator, Elaine Biech, has 23 year of experience with government, corporate, and nonprofit clients, including the U.S. Navy, NASA, Newport News Shipbuilding, American Red Cross, Lands’ End, and numerous other public and private sector organizations. She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, including Training for Dummies, The Consultant’s Quick Start Guide and Interpersonal Skills: Understanding Your Impact on Others.

Sharon Bowman

Sharon Bowman has been a professional speaker, author, teacher, and trainer for more than thirty years. She works with people who want to fine-tune their information-giving skills, and businesses that want to offer exceptional in-house training programs.

Sharon turns passive listeners into active learners with her high-energy, hands-on approach to presenting and training. Her classes and seminars are practical, useful, memorable, and fun. Over 40,000 of her popular training and motivation books are now in print.

Sharon delivers interactive keynotes and conference sessions, and customized, public and in-house training programs.

Kathleen M. Edwards, CAE

A 25-year career as an executive in five distinctly different trade and professional associations serves Kathi Edwards well in her current roles as consultant, writer, and facilitator. Today, she is president and chief navigator of CompassPoints, the firm she launched in 2003 with a mission to create more effective learning environments regardless of the setting. Kathi is passionate about learning – and it shows in her work with clients seeking to enhance their training and professional development offerings. Her unique expertise in transforming the effectiveness of subject-matter experts who lead learning opportunities is frequently sought by national and international organizations in a variety of fields. She has great fun working with clients to develop engaging and relevant learning conversations and workshops.

A prolific writer on topics ranging from marketing and communications to learning practice and strategies, Kathi co-edited and wrote two chapters for the book Core Competencies in Association Professional Development (ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership, 2005). A Certified Association Executive since 1989, Kathi is a past chair (2003-2004) of the ASAE Professional Development Section Council.

Lorimer Fauntleroy

Lorimer Fauntleroy is the owner of Pinnacle Performance Partners (P3), a Knoxville, Tennessee-based performance improvement company. P3 specializes in human performance improvement interventions involving motivational systems; organizational communications; and training design, development, and delivery. The company primarily services small to mid-size organizations.

P3 was instrumental in the redesign and development of three of the five ASTD HPI Certificate courses: Selecting and Managing Interventions, Evaluating Performance Improvement Interventions and Transitioning to Human Performance Improvement. Lorimer is also one of the facilitators in the HPI program and Training Certificate Program. 

Prior to P3, Lorimer worked for more than 15 years as a human resource manager for several large manufacturing companies. Lorimer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Richmond and a Master of Science degree in Human Resource Development from the University of Tennessee.

Marcia Jackson

Marcia Jackson has been a trainer, facilitator, speaker, and management consulting for 14 years working with large and small organizations. She increases productivity with training that sticks. Her programs energize audiences to retain and apply new skills with interactive, high-energy, hands-on, and practical tools. Her clients invite her back again and again because she wows them with her energy, excitement, and insights while solving their business problems.

She is a certified trainer and facilitator with special training in the Five Factor Model of Personality, Skilled Facilitation, Organizational Development, Training and Development and Interactive Instructional Design. She has a B.A. in Sociology.  Ms. Jackson has served on numerous boards, including the Charlotte Area Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) for 5 years. She was the NAWBO Team Builder of the Year and recently was named the Member of the Year for National Speakers Association/Carolinas.

Deborah Laurel

Deborah Laurel, training facilitator, has been a trainer and a consultant in the areas of workplace learning and performance improvement for over 30 years. She was adjunct faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 20 years. Deborah is the principal of Laurel and Associates Ltd., an international training and consulting firm. She has provided train-the-trainer programs on a national basis for over ten years and on an international basis since 1998. Deborah is also a Certified Professional Consultant to Management. Twice published in the Pfeiffer Annuals, she earned her Masters Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Donna Steffey, CPLP

Donna Steffey is an international trainer, author, adjunct faculty at both Lake Forest Graduate School and DeVry University, and sought after speaker who helps organizations achieve their desired business results. Donna incorporates her 20 years of management experience to educate, inspire, and coach. It takes the right blend of information, introspection and humor to cause people to look at themselves and change.

Global organizations such as Marriott International, Barclaycard-UK, XIBI-China, Tumine Center-Africa and the Royal Australian Air Force, have found that after Donna’s workshops people were more self directed, customer service driven and mindful of their team participation. Donna combines learning with fun and applies her MBA and life experiences to professional and “real world” situations. Your participants will be motivated to hit their performance improvement targets and your training will be a success!