Breakfast Club

Michael E. Echols, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for Bellevue University
and Director of Bellevue University's Human Capital Lab

Michael Echols is a significant force in corporate learning and an internationally known thought leader on evaluating and improving the ROI on human capital. He is the author of three books on human capital: ROI on Human Capital Investment, Competitive Advantage from Human Capital Investment and Creating Value With Human Capital Investment. Training Industry Inc. named him one of the “Top 20 Most Influential Training Professionals.” Previously, Echols was a corporate executive with General Electric Co. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from Carnegie Mellon University, his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and his doctorate from the College of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Stori Hybbeneth
Project Manager
WebEx Communications Inc.

Stori Hybbeneth, WebEx Communications Inc. project manger, is bilingual (English and Spanish) and has more than 10 years’ experience in the education arena. She also has a strong background in developing educational programs, mapping learning and business objectives and measuring learning to identify successes and opportunities for improvement. Before joining the WebEx team, Hybbeneth chartered a training and development department at Jones International University, the first fully accredited online university, where she was responsible for the delivering training to sales and service employees. She has a master’s degree in education in e-learning.

Norm Kamikow
President and Editor in Chief
MediaTec Publishing Inc.

Norm Kamikow is president and editor in chief of MediaTec Publishing Inc., which publishes Chief Learning Officer magazine,Talent Management magazine and Certification Magazine, along with targeted supplements, special reports and electronic newsletters for each publication. Chief Learning Officer was named "Best New Publication" by the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). Norm also received the 2005 Innovation Award from Media Business Magazine, which honored him as Top Publisher of the Year.

Norm has more than 30 years of magazine and direct marketing publishing experience. Since beginning his career with Seventeen magazine, Norm has worked either directly or as a consultant to many consumer and business-to-business magazines. With a specialty in new magazine development, he has played a key role in the launch of OMNI magazine, SPIN magazine, Game Players magazine, CD-ROM Today, Internet World and Web Week. He contributed to the redesign of such magazines as Financial World and CD-ROM World. As president/CEO of Decks Inc., he worked with several major publishing companies to develop revenue resources from alternative media. This client base included BusinessWeek, Fortune, Money Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, The Journal of the American Dental Association and Dun & Bradstreet reports. Norm is a recipient of the Tempo Award from the Direct Marketing Association and is a biographee of Marquis Who's Who in the Midwest and Who's Who in Advertising and the Media.

Patricia Leonard
Executive Vice President
American Management Association

Pat Leonard is executive vice president of the U.S. Management Education Group of the American Management Association. USME is comprised of the seminar businesses, as well as AMA’s membership operation, and represents the largest group within the AMA international family. Leonard brings extensive business, publishing and editorial experience in the educational and learning market place to AMA. With more 20 years in these respective industries, she has held senior management positions in sales, editorial, alliances, mergers and acquisition, media-based learning and new business development at McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Thomson Corporation, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and Pearson Education. A graduate of Hope College in Holland, Mich., Pat has received YWCA’s Tribute to Women in Industry Award, serves on various charitable and commercial boards and was voted one of the top 10 people to watch in the corporate training industry by SIMBA.

Justin Lombardo
Chief Learning Executive
Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Justin Lombardo is Chief Learning Executive for Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a Chicago-based academic medical center. In this position, he created Northwestern Memorial Academy, a training and development organization that assists the medical center in developing its 7,000-person staff to achieve its strategic goals. The Academy is responsible for all clinical and non-clinical education in the medical center. Before his time at Northwestern, Justin worked at Motorola for 15 years, where his job titles included director of strategic planning for Motorola University, a global corporate university serving 150,000 employees, director of executive development, director of worldwide education services, and director of emerging market development, where he and his team promoted Motorola’s presence in emerging economies in the EMEA and Southeast Asia markets.

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