Welcome

Regardless what business you’re in, it’s a ‘people’ business. People connect with customers and prospects. People innovate products and services. People deliver results. For the past 20+ years, I’ve made your people my business. Through consulting and instructional design, my book, my blog, and speaking/training, I facilitate the learning, development and growth required to achieve extraordinary results.
Writings, Citings and Sightings
- The Fallacy of Focus — TEDx Talk
- Earn a Seat Without Missing a Beat – ATD
- Before-Training Activities Can No Longer Be an Afterthought – Training Industry Magazine
- Four Tips for Using Visibility as Mentorship – The Economist
- If Learning was a Consumer Product – Training Industry Magazine
- Reducing the Risk of Unwanted Resignations: Four Proactive Strategies – The Economist
- 5 Ways to Prime the Learning Pump with Curiosity – Training Mag
- L&D for L&D – Association for Talent Development
- Online, On-Demand, But Not on Their Own – Training Industry Magazine
- Best Leadership Blogs 2017 – Credit Donkey’s Top Business Experts
- Blowing Your Millennial Mindset – Challenging Conventional Generational Wisdom – Training Industry Magazine
- It’s Time to Prioritize Career Development – Talent Management
- Workplace Priorities, Beliefs & Practices Report – Research Report
- About Performance Improvement Through Learning – Expert Interview Series with John Mattone
- Develop Me or I’m History – Podcast for Association for Talent Development
- Earning Acclaim for “Stealth” Development – Talent Management
- Bid Adieu To Performance Appraisals: If not the annual performance review, then what? – Talent Management Excellence Essentials
- Bring Learning Up to Speed – Chief Learning Officer
- Lessons Learned in Making Training Stick – Talent Management Excellence Essentials
- Redeveloping the Individual Development Plan – Talent Management Magazine
- A Case for the Mini Case Study – T&D Magazine
- Growth: It’s No Longer Optional – 3 key qualities that support professional growth – Leadership Excellence
- From Mind-Full to Mindful: The Intention/Instruction Intersection – Training Industry Magazine
- How to Make Time for Career Conversations – Talent Management Magazine
- The Inclusion-Curiosity Connection – Diversity Executive Magazine
- Fiddlesticks to Dangling Carrot Sticks — Chief Learning Officer Magazine
- Fish Tanks and Talent Pools — Talent Management Excellence Essentials
- Career Conversations Employees Want — 33 Voices Interview
- ‘Less is More’ Leadership Development — T&D Magazine
- A Leader’s ‘Crashless’ Course: Helping Employees Drive Career Development — Training Industry Quarterly
- Confessions of a Cheerleader — HRM Asia – Special Leadership Edition
- Help Them Grow — Real Recognition Radio Interview with Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown
- Curiosity: The Gateway Competency — CLO Magazine
- Leadership Lessons from Riding the Paddle Board — Enlightened Leadership
- Career Conversation: It’s Today’s Common Sense Competency — Leadership Excellence
- Help Them Grow… — National Federation of Independent Business
- IDP: Individual Development Plan or Impediment to Dialogue and Progress? — The Professional Journal of HRPS
- How “Helpful” Systems Extinguish Career Development (and What You Can Do to Reignite It) — Change This Manifesto
- Lose the Career Ladder and Hit the Wall — T&D Magazine
- and more…