• Over 15 years of optimizing performance and productivity expertise across four generations in companies committed to developing their most valuable asset; people. Among the industries she has served well are biotech, government, financial, high-tech, insurance, healthcare, and academia.
• Key expertise: Combining the newest brain research with proven performance best practices for executives, managers and their teams. Designing and delivering brain-based interactive programs integrated with peer-learning and team consultations. Facilitating performance enhancement while reducing stress at all levels for better business results.
• Published: “A Brain New Way to Work”™ and “How to Do Space Age Work with a Stone Age Brain”™.
• Specialties: Practical and humorous speaking programs, specialized onsite training applied the same day, interactive productive webinars, enjoyable peer-learning, extensive follow-through resources and team building.
  

• Over 12 years of training and facilitation experience. Clients include energy companies, high tech firms, utilities and non-profits.
• Skill set includes: strategic planning, team building, leadership development, project management, situational assessment, and program development.
• Holds a Masters in Business Administration and is currently involved in Coaching Certification.

• 23 years of experience as a training manager and human resources professional.
• Accomplishments include managing a learning and development department, designing and developing online learning programs in business financials and planning, providing comprehensive strategic human resources consulting for executive management.
• Key skills include: training design, development, and facilitation, project management, performance management, leadership and management development.
• Holds a Master of Human Resources Management from the Keller Graduate School of Management.

• Highly successful professional with over 21 years of Fortune 500 corporate and training experience in diverse industries including consumer goods, retail, healthcare, professional seminar development, and financial services.
• Key skills include: curriculum design, program development/instructional design, training and presentation delivery, and project management.
• Holds an MBA in Marketing from Ohio State University.

• Extensive consulting and training experience in coaching, sales and service, and sales management.  Manages client engagements from assessment and customization to implementation and maintenance.
• Key skills include: group facilitation, management coaching, change management, andprogram implementation.
• Holds a certificate of completion for the Performance Improvement and Instructional Design Program at the University of Michigan.
• Is a certified life insurance agent and has held Securities Series 7, 8, and 63 licenses.
• Completed the Executive Leadership program through the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and Center for Creative Leadership.

• A coach and facilitator with over 15 years of Human Resources experience in diverse industries including high-tech, financial services, healthcare, and non-profits.
• Key skills include: executive coaching, team facilitation, leadership development, leadership for women.
• Specialties include leadership skills for corporate women, team-building and coaching for managers.
• Recently appeared in a Wall Street Journal article “Grooming Women for the Top.” 
• Holds an MBA from the University of Michigan (Ross) and a BS in Industrial Psychology from the University of Illinois.

• A retired United States Navy Nurse Corps Officer with a passion for increasing organizational effectiveness through a wide range of performance improvement solutions, all customized to meet the specific needs of the client.
• Key skills include: training design, development, and facilitation, project management, performance management, leadership and management development.
• Since retiring from the Navy, has continued in her quest to help organizations succeed through increasing the effectiveness of their biggest asset…their employees.

• Over 15 years combined experience in employee and leadership program development, line through executive level facilitation, and organization development.
• Specializes in project management, strategic planning, employee recognition and culture management.
• Has directed employee recognition, culture management, training, instructional design and computer-based training departments in several fast-paced organizations, including two Fortune 500 companies.
• Industries she has served include: finance, manufacturing, and education.
• Holds a Bachelor Degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Background in executive and career coaching with an emphasis on intergenerational issues, recruiting, and onboarding.
• Focused on helping organizations develop a more effective onboarding process, placed high-level executives for Yahoo! and other technology companies.
• Experience includes the development of learning curriculum for emerging technology firms, sales and marketing for enterprise software companies, and ownership of a publishing company.
• Graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Davis with a B.A. in International Relations.
• Received his coaching certification from New Ventures West.
• Published a book called "The Book of Goals: Achievements, Plans, and Dreams of a Lifetime.”
• Currently involved with Springboard Forward as a trainer and coach.

• Over 20 years experience helping organizations improve their bottom-line through leadership training and organization development initiatives.
• Partnered with companies in the fields of energy, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, military, mining, telecommunications, and transportation.
• Strengths include: leadership and professional development facilitation, organizational development, career development, program design.
• Holds a Masters degree in Human Resources and Organization Development from the University of San Francisco and certification as Master Facilitator with Development Dimensions International (DDI).

• 14 years of human resources and sales and marketing training and development and management experience in the healthcare industry.
• Proven success and results as an internal consultant and project manager in the areas of competency modeling, operations, onboarding, facilitation in sales and marketing, human resources, and product development.
• Key skills include: training design, facilitation and project management, strategy development, teambuilding, and operations management.

• 17 years experience in leading training programs in depth with various Fortune 500 companies, specializing in leadership development, communication and team performance. 
• Experience includes: training and coaching all levels of employees, from executive leadership to frontline employees, across a variety of professional development topic areas.
• Key skills include: consulting, facilitation, writing, teambuilding, leadership development.
• Extensive corporate experience linking team and individual performance skills to business. Provides practical tools for growing leadership and improving communications, to produce a higher impact organization.

• 20 years of employee, management and leadership development experience.  She has served such industries as telecommunications, high-tech, financial institutions, non-profit, academia, and government. 
• Key skills include: group facilitation, management coaching, performance consulting, instructional design.
• Specialties include classroom training, interactive webinars, action learning, 360 assessments, mentoring and coaching. 
• Holds a Masters of Arts degree in Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Communication.
• Faculty member at Chapman University, JFK University, American Management Association (AMA), Las Positas Community College and University of California Extension, Davis

• 25 years of experience in the biopharma arena, including pharmaceuticals and diagnostics.
• Has held executive positions in brand marketing, customer marketing, contracting and pricing, and training.
• Deep therapeutic experience in Oncology, Nephrology, Rheumatology, Anesthesia and Infectious disease. Broad customer segment experience in all managed markets, including hospital, managed care and government.
• Responsible for the development and delivery of marketing curriculum for new marketers; leading contracting training for account managers, developing reimbursement training for multiple functions and leading an MBA leadership program.
• Key skills include development and delivery of marketing and sales force training; development of managed markets product launch strategies; performance management and coaching, and facilitation.

Rae Tanner

• 16 years of experience in training, curriculum design, and technical writing in a variety of industries including biopharmaceutical, labor-management partnership, workplace safety, mortgage and retail banking, and healthcare.
• Responsible for developing and implementing national training programs to support corporate goals and initiatives for the largest labor-management partnership in the United States.
• Developed scripts and screens for a biopharmaceutical company’s web-based Records and Retention Management Compliance on-line training program.
• Training officer and Board Member of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Search and Rescue Team.
• Emergency Medical Technician for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.