20th ISPI EMEA Annual Conference

John has been a performance consultant and coach since 1983, including 23 years as an executive coach to executives and senior managers through his company John B. Lazar & Associates. He works with individual leaders and their teams, altering their perspectives, skill sets, and performance to produce socially and emotionally intelligent leadership and management, breakthrough execution and business results.
John has been a member of ISPI since 1981 and now serves on its board of directors

Email: john@jblacoaching.com
Website: www.jblacoaching.com

Vuyisile Mathiti is currently a Talent Manager at Parliament of Republic of South Africa, where he is responsible for developing the institution's needs, in order to compete in the Future of Work landscape. This entails, inter alia, developing future-focused managers and leaders, developing a pipeline for critical positions. He brings a strong performance improvement orientation to the development of talent having being appointed the Manager for Performance Improvement for over 10 years. Prior to joining Parliament, he was in academia where he also did consulting work for numerous companies and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO).

Niklas Nillroth holds the position of Vice President, Sustainability & Public Affairs of Volvo Construction Equipment. Born in Sweden in 1964, Mr. Nillroth has mostly worked within the international automotive industry prior to joining Volvo in 1998. Within Volvo, Mr. Nillroth has since then gained broad experience from management positions within several different areas, such as Purchasing & Supply Management, Product Development, Change & Project Management and General Management.
Mr Nillroth has a master degree in Industrial Engineering & Management from the Institute of Technology at Linköping University.
Mr Nillroth is also chairman of Swedish Association for Construction Equipment and member of the World Green Building Council’s Corporate Advisory Board.

Lisa Giacumo Lisa is an associate professor of Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning at Boise State University. Her research interests focus on the use of instructional design and digital tools for global training initiatives and PI. She has worked internationally as an instructional designer, trainer, and manager for businesses, universities, non-profits, NGOs, and the US Department of Defense. Lisa has presented at AECT, Humentum/LINGOs Global Learning Forum, ISPI, and ISPI EMEA.

lisagiacumo@boisestate.edu

Sylvia inspires leaders to let go of standard leadership approaches, transforming how they lead to become confident, credible and trusted leaders whose teams deliver consistent high performance. Working with leaders at the intersection of leadership, team culture, and high performance, she emboldens leaders to create a greater vision of what is possible, for themselves and their teams.

Email: sylvia@powerup-leadership.com
Website: www.kieranpatrick.com

Nancy Crain Burns, CPT, PhD, PMP, president of Crain Burns Associates, LLC and past president of ISPI, has helped social service agencies and corporations develop strategies and identify opportunities to achieve effective solutions.  Burns has taught Applied Management Entrepreneurship at the university level, led small business workshops, and mentored leaders through the business planning process.  Nancy’s passion for small business began when working in her grandmother’s New Orleans perfume shop.

Vicki is an associate professor in Boise State’s OPWL program. She teaches introductory courses to students in HPT, adult learning principles, and research methods. Vicki’s research interests include design-based research to improve educational outcomes for minoritized students in STEM and developmental evaluation research to improve interventions in higher education. She is a frequent author a has recently presented at AECT, ASEE, and ISPI.

Steve is currently co-writing an instructional design textbook with Lisa Giacumo and Don Stepich, scouting projects for OPWL students and research lab, and acting as a co-principal investigator of the Process Management Lab.  A member of ISPI, AECT, and ATD, he is a frequent author and conference presenter..

Dr. Rose Baker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Learning Technologies, College of Information, University of North Texas. Her research includes open learning, management techniques and statistical applications for operations and performance improvement, survey and evaluation design, theory development, and game design. Rose holds a PhD in Instructional Systems and an M.Ed. in Adult Education Theory and Practice from The Pennsylvania State University and is certified as a PMP® by the Project Management Institute.

Nelumdini worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for fifteen years, managing Information Technology in the Sri Lankan operations. After joining the education environment, she learned how the new technology of instructions could take teaching and learning to populations who do not have access to education. Education is a key to a brighter future and a basic right according to the Universal Declaration of Human rights, adapted in 1948, Article 26, “Everyone has the right to education,” Nelumdini is inspired to research ways to fulfill this need to these population.

Steve is currently co-writing an instructional design textbook with Lisa Giacumo and Don Stepich, scouting projects for OPWL students and research lab, and acting as a co-principal investigator of the Process Management Lab.  A member of ISPI, AECT, and ATD, he is a frequent author and conference presenter..

Rob is Emeritus Professor of Information Systems at Boise State University, and currently owner of Hot Rocks Consulting. He has over 30 years consulting experience facilitating meetings and Business Process Re-Engineering workshops,implementing enterprise systems, and certifying electronic voting systems for the state of Idaho. Rob taught for thirty years in the areas of Business Intelligence, Systems Analysis and Design, Project Management, and Database Management.  He also taught courses for the Executive MBA program in Strategic Information Systems and Design Thinking. Currently, Rob has a product called PeerAssessment.Com used in a number of universities to support student team peer assessment and team skills development.

Jodi is a lifelong learner who enjoys exploring and playing with ideas. Using questions, she invites others to create innovative ways to improve performance at work and in life. She has worked for national non-profits, hospitals, universities, and financial services organizations with a focus on developing people, resources, and processes. Her goal is to leave an organization in better standing by nurturing a people-focused culture of assessment and process improvement. While pursuing her Master's in Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning (OPWL) at Boise State University, she is partnering Dr. Villachica and Dr. Anson as a consultant with Hot Rocks Consulting. In her free time, Jodi enjoys spending time with her partner, Steve, playing cribbage, hiking, and exploring new places.

Ryan draws on over 15 years of learning and development experience in financial services, nonprofits, and higher education to help organizations clarify and then resolve gaps in human performance. In addition, he has facilitated strategic planning, guided process improvement initiatives, and served as a nonprofit board member. Along with earning his Certified Credit Union Executive credential from the National Credit Union Association, he completed an MS from Boise State University in Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning with a focus on workplace performance improvement. Outside of work, he enjoys basketball and hiking with his family in the hills of eastern Kentucky.

Belia Nel CPT, is a member and an internationally Certified Performance Technologist and Performance Coach with the International Society for Performance Improvement, USA since 2003. She has published widely academically and in business journals both locally and internationally. She is a regular speak at conferences and seminars. Her publications include Performance Improvement – Essential Tools for Performance Consulting and Performance Improvement – Essential Guide to Performance Consulting.

email: belia@improvid.co.za

website: https://improvid.co.za/

Su Kahumbu regularly makes online presentations in international forums related to her field of work including FAO, WFP, World Bank, International Livestock Research Institution, GIZ, and UN Food Systems Summit.

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John has a 31-year career in Banking, the last nineteen of which have been spent in a Risk related discipline. Joining Standard Bank in in 1990, he completed both his Licentiate diploma and then his BCom Degree, after being selected to join Standard Bank’s Fulltime Varsity Programme in 1994. 

After a stint in Commercial Banking, John then moved into Group Finance in the Regulatory area where he gained a deep understanding of how the various silos fitted together and how the interplay of various risks must be managed. He also got his first exposure to large scale projects with the Y2K virus upgrade, SARB Regulatory reform of 2001 and Standard Bank SAP general ledger upgrade in 2002.

In 2002, he moved into Group Compliance as a Banks Act subject matter expert and project manager and in 2004 he had an 8-month sabbatical where he facilitated ABN Amro and Standard Bank Graduate and Leadership training sessions to Bankers on how Banks operate and how they manage their risks.

John then re-joined Standard Bank Group Compliance as Head of Monitoring and Risk Assurance. At the end of 2009, he joined Corporate and Investment Banking to head up the Operations Control Function for the South African business. In 2016, he was appointed to head up Standard Bank’s global CIB Operations Control function.

He attributes his successful career to his unwavering commitment to Standard Bank Group’s overarching purpose – “Africa is our home, we drive her growth” – coupled with his passion for education and excellence

Elaine has more than 40 years of knowledge and experience gained across various disciplines in the Financial Industry, ranging from Retail Banking: Business Operations, Change Management, Leadership, Human Capital Business Partnering and Learning and Development. Her qualifications relate to Human Resources Management, Organisational Development and Learning and Development. Elaine’s passion is to make a difference in the lives of everyone she interacts with, and she would describe her strengths as resilience, agility, drive and the ability to work well under pressure.

Her Learning and Development experience spans everything from implementing a learnership programme, to partnering in the design and development of Leadership and Emerging Accelerated Talent Development Programmes as well as Reward and Recognition initiatives.