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Minneapolis (May 5, 2014) –Training magazine named the winners of its 2014 Emerging Training Leaders awards, recognizing 25 training professionals who have been in the industry for two to 10 years and have demonstrated exceptional leadership skills, business savvy, and training instincts. These executives are profiled in the May/June 2014 issue of Training magazine and online at www.trainingmag.com, and they will be honored at an awards ceremony in February 2015 at the Training 2014 Conference & Expo, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA.
All Emerging Training Leader candidates had to be nominated by co-workers or industry peers. Training Editorial Advisory Board members and the editor-in-chief judged the nearly 80 nominations and chose the 25 winners based on the following factors:
- Have been in the training industry for a minimum of two years but no more than 10 years
- Took on at least one new responsibility in the last year
- Successfully led a large-scale training/learning and development initiative within the last year that required management/leadership of a group of people and resulted in the achievement of a corporate strategic goal (with results provided for Kirkpatrick Levels 1-4)
- Demonstrates specific leadership qualities
- Has the potential to lead the Training or Learning & Development function at an organization in the next one to 10 years
The judges included:
- Brent Bloom, VP, Learning & Development and Organizational Effectiveness, Applied Materials
- Cyndi Bruce, Executive Director, KPMG Business School – U.S.
- Daniel J. Goepp, Managing Director, Learning & Development, PwC
- Vicente Gonzalez, Employee Development Manager, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Raymond D. Green, CEO, Paradigm Learning, Inc.
- Michael S. Hamilton, former Chief Learning & Development Officer, Ernst & Young LLP
- Alison Hooker, Chief Talent Development Officer, Ernst & Young LLP
- Glenn Hughes, Senior Director, Learning & Development, KLA-Tencor
- Bruce I. Jones, Programming Director, Disney Institute
- Donald Keller, CLO and VP, Global Education & Development, SCC Soft Computer
- Nancy J. Lewis, former CLO and VP, ITT Corporation, and former VP, Learning, IBM
- Diana Oreck, VP, Global Learning & Leadership Center, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
- Ann Schulte, Director/Global Practice Leader, Procter & Gamble
- Ross Tartell, Ph.D., former Manager, Learning & Development – North America, GE Capital Real Estate
- Lou Tedrick, Staff VP, Workforce Development, Verizon
- Annette Thompson, CLO, Farmers Insurance
- Matthew Valencius, Manager, Instructional Design & Development, IBM Center for Advanced Learning
- Kevin Wilde, VP, Organization Effectiveness and CLO, General Mills, Inc.
- Lorri Freifeld, Editor-in-Chief, Training magazine
“We appreciate all the time and effort the nominators put into their nominations,” says Lorri Freifeld, editor-in-chief, Training magazine, “and we salute the 2014 Emerging Training Leaders for their stellar results and impressive leadership skills, including communication, collaboration, coaching, empowerment, innovation, and strategic thinking. These leaders would be an asset to any business.”
Training magazine 2014 Emerging Training Leaders
2014 TOP 5 WINNERS
Aimie Aronica
Senior Director, Technology Engagement, and General Manager, Austin eBay Inc. Site
PayPal – an eBay company
Kristin Hall
Training Manager
PPD
Jennifer Hentz
Talent Development Manager
Booz Allen Hamilton
Rebecca Lockard
Director, Learning & Development
Advance Financial
Christine Nilsen Marciano, CIC, ITP, CLCS
Commercial Lines Training Consultant
Nationwide
2014 20 WINNERS
Jobert E. Abueva
VP, Global Sales and Marketing
The Oxford Princeton Programme, Inc.
Steve Boucher
Senior Global Learning and Development Consultant/Training Manager
CenturyLink Technology Solutions
Greg Cole
Director, Learning & Development
BKD, LLP
Theda Riggins-Crawford
Manager, Learning and Development
Fiserv, Investment Services
Heather Cushing
Senior Manager, Leadership and Talent Development
Afni
Sandra E. Donati
Chief, Employee Development
Department of Defense, Pentagon Force Protection Agency
Robert Filipkowski
Lead Principal HSE Trainer Framingham Biologics
Genzyme, a Sanofi Company
Joshua D. Galle
Recruiting Leader, Humana Government Business
Humana Inc.
Jesse Ryan Harward
Curriculum Developer
Netflix
Atif Mahmud
Change Enablement Consultant
Avanade Inc.
Heidi Mankoff
Training & Development Manager
Xceed Financial Credit Union
Eileen Marie Miller, SPHR
Senior Learning Consultant
Vanguard
Naznine Mubarak
VP, Talent Development
State Street
Ming Ng
Field Operations Trainer
Paychex, Inc.
Krishnan Nilakantan
Associate Director, Learning & Development
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Subadhra Parthasarathy
Associate Director, Learning & Development
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Stephen Sangston
Training Supervisor, OptumRx Learning Services
OptumRx, a UnitedHealthcare Company
Fina Shipley
Manager, Deltek University
Deltek, Inc.
Michael J. Yeager, TSgt, USAF
Instructor Supervisor
Pacific Air Forces Transportation Training Center
Tonya Zellner, RDLD
Customer Experience Manager
Morrison Healthcare
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