Breakfast Club

Sharon Daniels
President and Chief Executive Officer
AchieveGlobal

Sharon Daniels has overall responsibility for managing AchieveGlobal. She recently was absent for four years, during which she served as COO and CEO of two other training companies. She joined Kaset International in 1991, and in 1997-98, she held a leadership role in the integration of Learning International, Kaset International and Zenger Miller. Earlier in her career, Daniels’ worked in banking. At Southeast Bank, she held numerous roles in operations, mergers and acquisitions, branch management and training and consulting. She holds a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Florida and a master’s in training and organizational development from the University of South Florida.

Robert H. Dean
Vice President, Learning and Talent Development
Heidrick & Struggles

Robert H. Dean is vice president of learning and talent development for Heidrick & Struggles. Dean and the global learning and talent development team are responsible for designing, developing and delivering learning solutions to Heidrick & Struggles’ consultants and staff around the world. Dean combines business experience with a passion for learning and career development. As a senior learning executive, he has been a catalyst for learning innovation that drives business impact in two major professional services firms. Additionally, Dean has implemented blended learning solutions through a variety of delivery channels. Before Heidrick & Struggles, Dean served as Grant Thornton’s chief learning officer. He was responsible for the firm’s learning vision and strategy, as well as management of Grant Thornton University and the strategic learning team. At Ernst & Young, he served in the firm’s audit practice, was national director of audit professional development and director of industry learning. He led the firm’s learning and technology innovation initiatives in the 1990s.

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.

Dan Heffernan
Head, Learning Products
Element K

Dan Heffernan has more than 20 years of experience leading internal learning organizations and business units for companies in HR outsourcing, insurance and business services. Prior to joining Element K, he was responsible for the leadership development and e-learning teams at Paychex, a payroll and HR outsourcing company. In his last role at Paychex, Heffernan left the learning organization to help launch a health insurance and employee benefits product for the small and medium business market as director of sales. Heffernan has published articles on leadership development and e-learning in the Journal of Organizational Excellence and ASTD's Learning Circuits. He is a graduate of Colgate University.

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.

Director, Learning & Development
06/23/2009
BAI, the premier provider of breakthrough intelligence, innovation and information for the financial services industry, seeks a Director to lead our Learning & Development business. BAI provides a comprehensive range of learning and development services to over 1,500 banks and credit unions. We are seeking a leader capable of leveraging this strong foundation to grow the business in BAI's St. Louis, MO office.

The World Bank Knowledge and Learning Coordinator Washington, DC
12/22/2008
The Latin America & Caribbean Region (LCR) of the World Bank serves over 30 countries, mostly middle-income which, despite having middle-income economies, still struggle with pockets of poverty and high level of inequalities.

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