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    Breakfast Club

    The Business Impact of Learning

    Thursday October 18, 2007 7:30am Eastern at the Marriott New York Marquis Times Square

    Thursday October 18, 2007 7:30am Eastern at the Marriott New York Marquis Times Square

    In 2007, Chief Learning Officer magazine’s Breakfast Club series offers an opportunity for executives in your area to discuss the issues that drive the business impact of enterprise education. Moderated by local learning leaders, these interactive forums focus on sharing best practices, analyzing the strategic alignment of business goals and workforce education.

    Lively discussion topics will focus on:

    • The vocabulary of influence – convincing senior management to invest in learning.
    • The need for speed - accelerating content creation and delivery without sacrificing quality. -
    • Measurement - why is it so critical to learning gaining the coveted “seat at the table”?

    Registration is limited and will fill quickly. Advanced registration is $39.95 and on-site registration is $44.95.

    Marriott New York Marquis Times Square

    Schedule:
    7:30 am Registration & Breakfast
    8:15 am Session Starts
    10 am Q & A
    11 am Refreshments & Networking

    New York, NY on Thursday October 18, 2007 7:30am
    Marriott New York Marquis Times Square
    1535 Broadway
    New York, NY10036


    Mike Barger

    Mike Barger
    Vice President, Chief Learning Officer
    JetBlue University

    Mike Barger, JetBlue University vice president and chief learning officer, attended the University of Michigan, where he received his undergraduate degree in economics and psychology in 1986. He then received his commission as an officer in the Navy and served three deployments, flying the F/A-18 Hornet aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Dwight David Eisenhower. While in the Navy, Barger spent three years as an instructor at the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN). He also wrote numerous articles on strategy, training techniques and complex weapons systems employment. Barger was part of the JetBlue start-up team in early 1999. He founded JetBlue University, the corporate learning organization, which is now supported by more than 180 faculty members at five campuses across the United States. Barger flies for JetBlue as a captain and check airman (instructor pilot).

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    Dennis Brown

    Dennis Brown
    Senior Director, Market Development, Co-Founder
    SkillSoft

    Dennis Brown is a co-founder of SkillSoft, where he began by establishing and managing strategic partnerships with worldwide course development companies and putting more than 200 SkillSoft courses into production. During the past 16 years, he has been published in trade publications and presented at hundreds of conventions and seminars on topics such as blended learning, e-learning for the knowledge economy, organizational effectiveness and the ROI of learning. Brown now focuses on establishing SkillSoft’s worldwide presence in the business and professional management computer-based training industry, offering more than 25 years of expertise in the sales and international marketing arenas. Prior to SkillSoft, he worked with NETg as the senior director of product development running the video studio until it closed. Brown has held positions as international product marketing manager for Sterling Software and international marketing manager for Pansophic Systems. He also has owned and run his own video production company.

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    Michael E. Echols, Ph.D.

    Michael E. Echols, Ph.D.
    Executive Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for Bellevue University
    and Director of Bellevue University's Human Capital Lab

    Michael Echols is a significant force in corporate learning and an internationally known thought leader on evaluating and improving the ROI on human capital. He is the author of three books on human capital: ROI on Human Capital Investment, Competitive Advantage from Human Capital Investment and Creating Value With Human Capital Investment. Training Industry Inc. named him one of the “Top 20 Most Influential Training Professionals.” Previously, Echols was a corporate executive with General Electric Co. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from Carnegie Mellon University, his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and his doctorate from the College of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

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    Bob Lee

    Bob Lee
    WebEx Learning Solutions Strategist
    Cisco

    With more than 20 years of experience in the training marketplace, Bob Lee has served in a variety of roles, including training manager, practitioner, consultant and marketer. An early adopter of virtual classroom technologies, Lee has designed and taught more than 200 online classes as an e-learning consultant for IBM, director of training with Bank One and as an independent e-learning consultant. Lee manages the marketing of solutions for training organizations at WebEx Communications Inc.

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    Speakers Bureau

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    Columnists:

    November 2008
    Small Changes, Big Results
    by Harold D. Stolovitch, Ph.D.

    Small behavioral changes produce remarkable performance differences.

    November 2008
    See You at the Talent Review
    by Kevin Wilde

    The real value in talent reviews is the discussion and collaboration, not the ritualistic review of data.

    October 2008
    What to Do About Performance Troublemakers
    by Harold D. Stolovitch, Ph.D.

    Individually, novelty, complexity and abstractness are performance killers. Together, they are even more troublesome.

    September 2008
    Stop Wasting Money on Training
    by Harold D. Stolovitch, Ph.D.

    The cost of inadequate workplace performance is staggering, but training, while a logical solution, is not always the answer.

    Dashboard

    October 2008
    The Employee Survey: What's in It For Me?
    by Dean Wiltse

    Having an established Respondent Bill of Rights that can be communicated during the recruitment process can help set the proper expectations.

    October 2008
    Why Most Managers Are Stuck
    by John L. Davis

    Successfully transitioning into the manager role is not dependent on improving management expertise, but rather on changing one’s focus.

    Application

    October 2008
    Team Effort Pays in Talent at London Business School
    by Louise Weir

    At London Business School, a third of all staff positions are filled by internal candidates, which is an indication the school has had success in developing and retaining its staff.

    Insight

    October 2008
    Hewlett-Packard: Simple Talent Management in a Technical World
    by Agatha Gilmore

    When it comes to talent management, Hewlett-Packard is all about business — business strategy, that is.