Sylvia Lee, PhD is the Owner/Senior Consultant, Kieran-Patrick Consulting. She is a business professional with a large resume of education and experience, including 20+ years’ experience leading teams and departments – HR and OD, overseeing performance systems, learning systems, leadership development, culture change and improvement, HRIS, Payroll, Labor Relations, and more.

Sylvia has worked for many years as Principal Consultant at Kieran:Patrick Consulting, providing leadership training, leadership coaching, management consulting, adult education, organizational change management, and other training/development courses as requested. Over the years, Sylvia has presented on various leadership, HR, and OD topics at conferences in Canada, USA, Finland, Sweden, Poland, Uganda, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Germany, Georgia, and Turkey.

Sylvia’s focus for the past 12 years has been on strengths-based leadership and strengths-based organizations. She has used various strengths approaches in practices as a mentor, both in the workplace and through the Saskatchewan Human Resources Association. Today, it is core to her consulting and Coaching practice.

Dr. Fritz Lebowsky received his PhD in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He continues investigating astonishing performance in human visual perception and transferring the findings into consumer products. His Master’s degree in executive Management at the Grenoble School of Management opened a path to innovative concepts for creating harmony between human emotional intelligence, artificial intelligence, and ethics in the era of ‘digital transformation’ while envisioning a sustainable human future for ALL.

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Ria Roy, PhD, MBA, MSHFID, M.S. a Clinical Assistant Professor at Boise State University. Her experiences have been in areas of strategy and commercialization, setting up SBUs, KMS, commercial analytics and decision support, new product planning, and consulting. Her research interests lie in the development of the field of PI, organization design, organizational performance, innovation, and future of work. She has presented at AEA, ISPI, and AHRD, and has published for PX, PIJ, and PIQ.

Email: riaroy@boisestate.edu

Roger, CPT, is an internationally respected practitioner of Performance Improvement Technology (PIT) and performance consulting. He is the Chief Performance Officer at Addison Consulting and a Certified Performance Improvement Professional (CPT).He is a past president of ISPI and past Chair of the Board and President of the International Federation of Training and Development Organisations (IFTDO). He received ISPI's highest award, Member for Life, and ISPI’s Rummler, Gilbert and Service Awards.

Email: rogeraddison@earthlink.net

Zach Beaver, PhD Zach Beaver, Ph.D. is an experienced performance improvement and training professional. He holds a doctorate in applied technology and performance improvement, a master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational psychology, and certifications from the International Society of Performance Improvement. He is certified as a Six Boxes Performance Practitioner and Coach through The Performance Thinking Network. He strives to deliver strategic services that drive business results by optimizing the performance of both people and organizations. In addition, Zach is dedicated to developing, and bolstering the performance of businesses and individuals through validated scientific tools and methods. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas and works in Organizational Excellence and Development at Tarrant County College.

Priyanka Dave is a Learning and Performance Improvement Professional She is a dynamic and results-oriented professional with a wealth of experience across the academic, tech, aerospace, and pharmaceutical industries in both the USA and India. Her expertise lies in learning and development, performance improvement, change management, and organizational development. Over the years, Priyanka has successfully led initiatives that strengthen organizational effectiveness and elevate employee performance. With a strong foundation in Management and Behavioral Science, she’s dedicated to tackling complex organizational challenges and driving meaningful, sustainable change. Priyanka’s work has been widely published locally and internationally in both academic and business journals. She is deeply passionate about creating performance improvement solutions that support professional growth and contribute to the overall success of organizations.

Camille Ferond is a culturally aware trilingual (French, Italian and English) Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) with 20+ yrs. experience and 2006 President of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)- EMEA. She’s been hired to accelerate Personal Proficiency and Business Plan Implementations, through Human Performance Technology (HPT) addressing Knowledge, Skills and Abilities, Safety, Quality, and Productivity in private & public sectors, in Europe, the USA, and Haiti, across industries including Educational; Healthcare; Telecommunication; Performing Arts; Transportation; Government; Game Development; Automotive; Pharmaceutical; Financial; Nuclear; Human Resources, etc... For example, she's led the top executive team that enhanced the Roman subway transportation and hospitality for 32 million visitors; led Team Building events for the FIAT-Ford Fiat500 Partnership; Salvaged a USAID Interactive Radio Instruction initiative throughout Haiti; Authored a winning Macedonia Ministry of Justice grant that generated repeat business; Co-founded non-profit organizations to meet professional and community needs in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA); was instrumental in obtaining top rate, five-year, Ministry of Health financing of a 1:1 Applied Behavior Analysis Autism Service Centre, in France; Embedded as Trauma Informed Secondary Educator to Latin American Asylum Seekers, in an underserved Oakland, Ca., school. Raised two mother tongue trilingual speakers earning them employment, right out of high school, despite a 40% unemployment rate for their age group in the area, while opportunistically tackling the above. Now exploring new opportunities to "Do Well While I Doing Good" through organizations as: practice Leader for the Center for International Credentials; Board Member; (ISPI-EMEA); taking courses in Complexity, Culture & Society (OsloMet) & the Diplomatic School of Brussels (CERIS).

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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

Steve Villachica is an emeritus professor of Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning at Boise State University.  He 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.

SteveVillachica@boisestate.edu

Max Cropper, Ph.D. is CEO of Five Star Performance Solutions, PO Box 617, 155 East Center, Orangeville, UT 84537. max@5-Star Performance.com, 435-232-9130.

Max has been involved with instructional design, development, performance improvement, and evaluation for more than 40 years. He has given many presentations and workshops dealing with best practices for instructional design and human performance improvement.  He has master’s and doctorate degrees in Instructional Technology.  His dissertation provided reliability and validity evidence for M. David Merrill’s 5-Star rubric. Dr. Merrill, who was a doctoral advisor for Dr. Cropper, has co-facilitated workshops with him.

Max Cropper, Ph.D. is CEO of Five Star Performance Solutions, PO Box 617, 155 East Center, Orangeville, UT 84537. max@5-Star Performance.com, 435-232-9130.

Max has been involved with instructional design, development, performance improvement, and evaluation for more than 40 years. He has given many presentations and workshops dealing with best practices for instructional design and human performance improvement.  He has master’s and doctorate degrees in Instructional Technology.  His dissertation provided reliability and validity evidence for M. David Merrill’s 5-Star rubric. Dr. Merrill, who was a doctoral advisor for Dr. Cropper, has co-facilitated workshops with him.

Dr. Rose Baker is an Associate 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.

Email: rose.baker@unt.edu

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