2014 Emerging Training Leader Winners

Training magazine Announces the 25 Winners of Its 2014 Emerging Training Leaders Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
Kris Stokes

kris@trainingmag.com

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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Lorri Freifeld
Lorri Freifeld is the editor/publisher of Training magazine. She writes on a number of topics, including talent management, training technology, and leadership development. She spearheads two awards programs: the Training APEX Awards and Emerging Training Leaders. A writer/editor for the last 30 years, she has held editing positions at a variety of publications and holds a Master’s degree in journalism from New York University.