Speakers

Handouts from 2005 Conference 

A number of speakers have graciously allowed us to post their workshop materials online. The following speakers have provided material:

• Kevin Oakes, Morning Keynote, A Seat at the Table
• Barbara Schaetti, Afternoon Keynote, Moments of Choice
• Judy Gerrard, Using Cooperative Learning Techniques (A, B, C, D)
• Jennifer Webster, The Web of Training (A, B, C, D)
• Bruce Hazen, Managing Career Self-Reliance
• Barbara Schaetti and Gordon Watanabe, Personal Leadership
• Friedman, Krieger and Presley, Neighbors in Cyberspace

Speaker RFP

To support the theme of "Build Your Community", the Chapter has published an RFP for speakers. Complete details on theme, tracks, and submission requirements are included below. (RFP selection closed June 2005).

• Speaker Overview and Requirements
• Speaker RFP Form

Selected Tracks, Workshops and Speakers

Click here for your complete conference packet, including keynote speakers and presenters for breakout sessions. Tracks for the breakout sessions include eLearning, Performance Improvement, Coaching and Consulting, and Organizational Transformation.

Articles by Conference Speakers 

Articles from the keynote and workshop presenters will be added on a regular basis until the conference. Check back often for cutting edge information!

• Kevin Oakes, Grand Central Training (part one)
  (printed with permission from Kevin Oakes and T&D Magazine, May 2005)
• Kevin Oakes, Grand Central Training (part two)
  (printed with permission from Kevin Oakes and T&D Magazine, July 2005)
• Bruce Hazen, Pack This If You're Going to a Conference
• Valerie Pease, Practical Tools for Developing Emotional Intelligence
• Tom Barron as suggested by Jennifer Webster, It's All About Alignment (printed with permission from T&D Magazine, June 2003)
• Rex Davenport as suggested by Jennifer Webster, Beyond Reactive (printed with permission from T&D Magazine, August 2005)

Keynote Presenters

Opening Keynote A Seat at the Table	Closing Keynote Moments of Choice... The Building Blocks of Community
Kevin Oakes President, Sum Total National ASTD President Elect www.sumtotalsystems.com	Barbara Schaetti, PhD Principal, Transition Dynamics Senior Associate, The Crestone Institute www.transition-dynamics.com
For decades, learning professionals have lamented they don't have "a seat at the table," or the ear of executive management. For the most part, it's because learning professionals have rarely talked with confidence about what executives want to hear: increased revenue, tangible productivity, and improved business performance. Today, technology is a key component in gaining this confidence, helping senior management to view learning more strategically and allowing these organizations to focus on business results with employees and customers.  Join Kevin as he overviews several leading organizations who are using learning to strategically improve their organizations.	We live in a world made rich by cultural variations in values, beliefs, and behaviors. How do we maximize our capacity to see, welcome, and reach across these differences such that we engage them not as walls that separate but as bridges that connect? The opportunities for learning professionals dedicated to performance and engagement are enormously exciting, as each moment becomes a moment of choice. Join Barbara as she shares her expertise on helping people cultivate intercultural capacity and competence to strengthen our “building blocks of community”.
Kevin is in his fourth year on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Training & Development (ASTD).  Kevin is the 2005 Chair Elect of ASTD and will assume the Chairperson role in 2006. He also authors a regular column titled “The Enterprise” in T+D Magazine, ASTD’s flagship publication, and is on the editorial advisory board. Kevin is the President and Director of SumTotal Systems, the business performance and learning technology industry’s largest single provider of technologies, processes and services.  Formed by the merger of industry pioneers Docent and Click2learn, the company is the leading LMS and LCMS provider in the world.  SumTotal has helped accelerate performance and profit for more than 650 of the world’s best-known companies and organizations, including Microsoft, AT&T, Aetna, Accenture, Cendant, Harley-Davidson,  Wachovia and D & B.  SumTotal Systems is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, with offices throughout the US and the world.  Prior to his position as President of SumTotal, Oakes served as Click2learn's Chairman of the Board after 2001, its Chief Executive Officer from 2000-2004 and as President since September 1997. Prior to joining Click2learn, Oakes was president and founder of Oakes Interactive, an award winning technology-based training company which merged with Click2learn in 1997. Oakes is also a member of Elliott Masie's TechLearn Consortium and an advisory board member of Development Dimensions International (DDI). One of the most visible experts on learning technology, Kevin is a frequent author in various publications and speaker at industry events.	Barbara Schaetti, PhD, is principal consultant of Transition Dynamics, a member of the faculty of the Intercultural Communication Institute and one of the three founding partners of Personal Leadership Seminars (PL Seminars).  With experience since 1985 in both the private and public sectors, Barbara has a particular passion for helping people cultivate their core intercultural capacity; her professional philosophy is rooted in the transformative potential inherent in a life lived across cultures. She specializes in multicultural team development, expatriate and leadership coaching, and the development of a personal practice to leverage intercultural competence. Barbara grew up in 10 countries on 5 continents, and moved internationally twelve times by the age of  22. She has dual-nationality (American and Swiss), and speaks and reads French in addition to English. Barbara holds a PhD in Intercultural Communication with a focus on cultural identity development, an MA in Intercultural Conflict Resolution, and a BA in International Political Science. Barbara is Secretary of the Board of Directors and Program Co-Chair for the Families in Global Transition Conference, and a member of such organizations as the International Coach Federation and SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research). A frequent speaker at international conferences, she is a contributing author to several books and professional journals and has been interviewed for such publications as The Washington Post, HR (Human Resource) World Magazine, and The Guardian (London).