Kristin Kahler Jones
Training and OD Manager, Oregon Employment Division
State of Oregon
Kristin has been in the Training &
Development Industry for almost 10 years. She is currently the Training and Organization Development Manager for the Oregon Employment Department. Kristin has experience with the design, development and implementation of a variety of training programs. She is experienced in facilitating organization development interventions, and delivering training in several areas: team and leadership development, conflict resolution, diversity, customer service skills, and communication.
Prior to joining the Employment Department team, Kristin worked for the Department of Corrections (DOC) for 6 years. While ‘doing her time’ with Corrections, Kristin coordinated education activities for the inmate population, counseled inmates and delivered a variety of cognitive skill building programs to DOC staff and the inmate population.
Kristin graduated from Western Illinois University with a degree in Law Enforcement Administration and a double major of Psychology.
Melinda Laubscher, PhD
Director of Benefits University
Standard Insurance Company
Melinda is the Director of Standard Benefits University at The Standard Insurance Company, Portland, Oregon. She began her career as a university professor teaching labor relations, employment law, human resources, compensation, organization behavior, and organization development. Her specialties lie in management and executive development and coaching, organization development and change, transforming training departments to performance consulting, and aligning human resource and training processes and functions to strategic business goals.
Melinda has managed training budgets at National Semiconductor, LSI Logic, Mentor Graphics and The Standard. This experience has involved defending existing budgets, making proposals for new projects during the budget cycle, losing budgets completely, to gaining a budget where none existed before. Furthermore, she has managed state funded education and development grants in Texas and in Oregon as part of her budget responsibilities.
Rand Newby
Senior Consultant
Rand is a senior consultant and corporate training
manager specializing in the areas of employee and management orientation and
development and organizational learning. Rand brings an outstanding
skillset in establishing and building relationships, envisioning possibilities,
assessing needs, designing learning interventions to meet needs, and
developing and implementing quality learning experiences which influence
learners to action. With over 30 years experience in education and training, Rand has developed
programs with a wide variety of groups and disciplines: environmental
education; public school instruction; manufacturing; engineering; sales and
marketing; human resources; healthcare systems; community theatre and
business development. Rand has developed more than 25 different courses and
instructional programs for managers and employees and has instructed and
implemented training in 20 countries. He has managed staffs of 20+ and
training budgets of $2.5M. He has a Masters in Organizational Systems Renewal from
Antioch University in Seattle and a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Brigham Young
University. He is also certified as an instructor by Behavioral
Technologies, American Consulting and Training, the Booth Co., and
Influence Associates. He is certified in MBTI, DISC, LSI and other assessment and
development tools.
Moderator
Kim Kelley
Health Educator, Office of Family Health
kimberly.a.kelly@state.or.us
Kim Kelly has been an educator and worked in Training
and Development for 15 years. Kim is currently a Health
Educator in State Public Health Services in the Office of
Family Health. Kim's background in training design, and
delivery employs a variety of delivery mediums. She
graduated from University of Alaska with a degree in
Geography, Portland State University with a Master Degree
in Education and University of Oregon with a Certificate
in Electronic Design for Print and Web.
