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
FIELD EDITOR NEEDED!
Brain-Based Learning
Robert W. Lucas
Robert W. (Bob) Lucas, CPLP, is the brain-based learning field editor for ASTD Links and a managing partner in Global Performance Strategies, a human resources consulting and training firm in Lake Mary, Florida. Lucas has written and contributed to 29 books on training and workplace issues. His most recent book, Training Workshop Essentials: Designing, Developing, and Delivering Learning Events That Get Results, was published in May 2009; blucas@globalperformancestrategies.com.
Career Development
Donna Grossman
Donna Grossman, Grossman & Company, has been a consultant in Birmingham, Michigan, since 1994, in the areas of business management, organizational design, and human resources management; donnagrossman2003@yahoo.com or 1.248.203.0680.
Consultants
Kathryn Gaines
Kathryn Gaines is president of Leading Pace, a consulting firm that strengthens the growth and performance of leaders, teams, and organizations. Gaines is a past president of the Metro DC Chapter of ASTD and an active ASTD member and volunteer; kgaines@leadingpace.com.
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
FIELD EDITOR NEEDED!
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
George Hall
George Hall teaches in the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida and the University of Phoenix; georgechall@comcast.net.
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
Maudie Holm
Maudie Holm is a professor in the School of Business & Technology PhD program in organization and management at Capella University and owns her own firm, the Holm Group. She has HRD experience in manufacturing, academe, publishing, and government; maudie.holm@capell.edu.
Public Sector
FIELD EDITOR NEEDED!
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 owner of Gee Wiz, a provider of management training, coaching, and assessment services. She is on the lookout for great articles, especially in the areas of sales, customer service, or marketing; 1.678.441.9449; 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.
It’s hard to keep up with learning and performance issues that are specific to individual economic sectors, so we’re hunting for field editors who can help us do that for
- Educational institutions
- Financial services
- Pharmaceuticals
- Technical Skills & Training
If you don't see your industry listed and you think there is a need to share good practices with other members, please nominate yourself as a field editor! The job is not terribly time-consuming, and you have a good reason to introduce yourself to people you’ve always wanted to include in your network…to learn from their experiences…and to know that you are contributing value to your profession.
Here's how the In Practice section of ASTD Links works: There are numerous field editors (practitioners or academics) who use their professional networks to help us get articles in their areas of practice (HPI, ROI, OD/leadership, etc.) or in specific industries where there is a significant amount of interest among members.
We ask field editors to provide four articles a year in their area. Newly recruited field editors are encouraged to contribute the first article from their own experience to introduce themselves to readers.
The ideal article focuses on the practical application of training, learning and performance theories: how you tackled a problem, what worked, lessons learned. The author's guidelines provide more detail on how to prepare and submit an article.
As field editor, your main job is to use your contacts to help us find people who are doing things that would be of interest to other ASTD members, and to read the articles to be sure their approach is sound.
The rewards of the job are professional, not monetary: a wider network, some recognition, and a stronger connection to ASTD. We put the field editor's name and contact information at the end of each article they solicit as a way of giving credit for otherwise unpaid work, and to encourage submissions of articles or ideas directly to the editors.
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Contact the editor for details. Email: LinksEditor@astd.org