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Margaret Carney
Director, Instruction and Facilitation for United States Management Education
American Management Association

Margaret Carney directs a team that provides talent for all United States Management Education learning events. In 1991, she began in the Kansas City division as a training manager and also has served as the executive director of program development and delivery and the director of sales and fulfillment. Prior to joining the American Management Association, Carney worked in a service division of H.J. Heinz, where she managed the organization’s business functions for Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois. She holds a bachelor’s degree in arts in communication from Southwest Missouri State University and is a certified trainer for Crosby Quality Education System.

Christina S. Cernuch
Vice President, Training and Operations Development
La Quinta

Christina Cernuch and her LQUniversity team have transformed the way La Quinta educates its employees and business partners. With 10 years of expertise in training, change management and project management and a solid background in consulting, Cernuch brings a diverse background of learning models from multiple industries including hospitality, oil and gas and retail. With degrees in human resources and information systems from Baylor University, her focus is performance improvement and technologies. At La Quinta, Cernuch is responsible for educating a staff at more than 625 hotels nationwide, training 75 new franchise hotel employees annually and supporting 250 outsourced call center employees in Canada. Christina has been recognized for implementing Top 100 and Top 125 training organizations and was a finalist for Thomson NETg’s Illuminati Award for Best Overall Blended Learning Program.

Michael E. Echols, Ph.D.
Vice President of Strategic Initiatives
Bellevue University

Mike Echols 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" in the U.S. Previously, Echols was a corporate executive in three senior executive roles with General Electric Co. He earned his undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University in physics, his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and his Ph.D. from the College of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Norm Kamikow
President & 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.

Bob Lee
WebEx Learning Solutions Strategist
Cisco

With more than 20 years of experience in the training marketplace, Bob Lee has served in a variety of roles, including training manager, practitioner, consultant and marketer. An early adopter of virtual classroom technologies, Lee has designed and taught more than 200 online classes as an e-learning consultant for IBM, director of training with Bank One and as an independent e-learning consultant. Lee manages the marketing of solutions for training organizations at WebEx Communications Inc.

Staff VP, Corporate Learning Solutions (Chief Learning Officer)-31745
03/24/2008
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