Minneapolis (March 28, 2013) –Training magazine named the winners of its 2013 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 will be profiled in the May/June 2013 issue of Training magazine and online at www.trainingmag.com, and they will be honored at an awards ceremony in February 2014 at the Training 2014 Conference & Expo, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA.
The Emerging Training Leaders awards program replaced the five-year-old Top Young Trainerawards program. 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:
- Must be 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, Senior Director, Global Talent & Development, KLA-Tencor Corporation; Cyndi Bruce, Executive Director, KPMG Business School – U.S.; Jim Federico, Sr. Director in SMSG Readiness, Microsoft Corporation; Daniel J. Goepp, Managing Director, Learning & Development, PwC; Craig Gill, Director, Development Center of Expertise, Deloitte Services LP; Vicente Gonzalez, Learning and Development, Booz Allen Hamilton; Raymond D. Green, CEO, Paradigm Learning, Inc.; Michael S. Hamilton, Chief Learning & Development Officer, and Alison Hooker, Chief Talent Development Officer, Ernst & Young; Bruce I. Jones, Programming Director, Disney Institute; Donald Keller, Chief Learning Officer and Vice President, Global Education & Development, SCC Soft Computer; Diana Oreck, VP, Global Learning & Leadership Center, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company; Ann Schulte, Director/Global Practice Leader, Procter & Gamble; Ross Tartell, Manager, Learning & Development – North America, GE Capital Real Estate; Kevin Wilde, VP, Organization Effectiveness and Chief Learning Officer, General Mills, Inc.; and Lorri Freifeld, Editor-in-Chief, Training magazine.
“We received a strong crop of nominees for this first-time awards program,” says Lorri Freifeld, editor-in-chief, Training magazine. “It was a challenge to choose only 25 winners. We appreciate all the time and effort the nominators put into their nominations and salute the 2013 Emerging Training Leaders for their stellar results and impressive leadership skills, including communication, collaboration, coaching, empowerment, innovation, and strategic thinking.”
About Training magazine
Training is a 49-year-old professional development magazine written for training, human resources and business management professionals in all industries that advocate training and workforce development as a business tool. Training also produces world-class conferences, expositions, and digital products that focus on job-related, employer-sponsored training and education in the working world. Training is published by Lakewood Media Group.
Trainingmagazine 2013 Emerging Training Leaders
Amy K. Alexy
Director, Learning and Talent Development, North American Tire
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Abdallah Aljurf
Training and Development Senior Specialist
National Water Company- Saudi Arabia
Lindsay Donaire
Associate Director, Learning & Development
Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.
Jamie Goodman
Director, Learning
Marriott International
Heather Greenberg
Senior Manager, Partner & Leadership Development
PwC
Elizabeth Hannon
IT Training Manager
Accretive Health, Inc.
Charles L.C. Ho
Manager, Quality & Staff Wellness Training
MTR Corporation Limited
Amber Israelsen
Manager, Global Learning and Development
Avanade Inc.
Marita Jones
Senior Training and Instructional Design
Paychex, Inc.
Elizabeth Lynn Kinder
Senior Training Specialist
Bankers Life and Casualty Company
Wendy Kayser Kirkpatrick
President
Kirkpatrick Partners, LLC
Rachel Gober-Klemens
Manager, Training & Development
CHG Healthcare Services
Joe Knytych
Director, Leadership & Professional Development
Health Care Service Corporation
Kara Lachance
Director of Learning
Wequassett Resort and Golf Club
Christine Marciano
Commercial Lines Training Consultant
Allied Insurance
Julia Mayer
Associate Director, Learning Services
PPD
Pratap Mishra
Group Manager – Learning & Development
HCL Technologies Ltd
Jacob Pantoja
Instructional Designer
Vanguard
Dave Rubenstein
Senior Director, Learning
Coldwell Banker Real Estate
Cheryl Dillon Swann
Vice President of Clinical Services
Care2Learn
Matthew G. Valencius
Instructional Design Manager, Center for Advanced Learning
IBM
Grant Velie
Learning and Development Manager
Farmers Insurance
Mark Wilson
Senior Manager – Human Resource Development
Cincinnati Bell Telephone
Annie Yukish
Consultant
Think Up Consulting
Borys Zhalilo
Business Trainer/Consultant
Solutions2b LLC
