About the Consulting Expert

Elaine Biech is President and managing principal of ebb associates, an organizational development firm that helps organizations work through large-scale change. She has been in the consulting field for more than a quarter of a century. Known as the trainer's trainer, Elaine has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Management Update, and Fortune Magazine. She has worked with business, government and non-profit organizations and specializes in helping people work as teams to maximize their effectiveness. As a management and executive consultant, trainer and designer she has provided services to Land O' Lakes, McDonald's, Lands' End, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Marathon Oil, Hershey Chocolate, Johnson Wax, Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Navy, NASA, American Red Cross, ASTD, the University of Wisconsin, The College of William and Mary, just to name a few of her clients.

Elaine has authored and edited over two dozen books and articles, including Training for Dummies, The Business of Consulting, The Consultant's Quick Start Guide, Marketing Your Consulting Services, and The Consultant's Legal Guide. In addition, she is the consulting editor for the prestigious Annuals published by Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer. Known as the trainers' trainer, she custom designs training programs for managers, leaders, trainers and consultants.

Elaine has her BS from the University of Wisconsin-Superior in Business and Education Consulting, and her MS in Human Resource Development. She served as the 1986 President of the South Central Wisconsin ASTD Chapter.

At the national level she has been a member of the Chapter Services Committee, the HRD Consulting Network Board and the 1990 National Conference Design Committee. Elaine was a member of the National ASTD Board of Directors and the Society's Secretary from 1991-1994. She was the Conference Design Chair for the 2000 ASTD International Conference. She initiated and has continued to coordinate Consultant's Day for the past seven years at ASTD's International Conference and she writes ASTD's "Ask a Consulting Expert" column. Elaine is the winner of the 2004 ASTD Volunteer-Staff Partnership Award. In addition to her work with ASTD, she was selected for the 1995 Wisconsin Women Entrepreneur's Mentor Award and in 2001 received the Instructional Systems Association's highest award, The ISA Spirit Award.