Breakfast Club

Caroline C. Avey
Learning Strategist and Director, Innovative Learning Solutions
ACS Learning Services, a Xerox company

Caroline Avey is a learning strategist with ACS Learning Services, a Xerox company. She has over 15 years experience in instructional strategy, design and development, working on custom and generic projects for Fortune 500 clients and public agencies. In her current role, she is the Director of Innovative Learning Solutions and is known in the industry for her work on developing distance learning strategies that include practical applications of learning in 3D-virtual worlds. Her team’s work includes utilizing social networking tools for learning application and more recently mLearning. In a more traditional learning strategist role, she has assisted clients with development of learning governance councils, curriculum design requirements to include blended learning, and consulting on web 2.0 strategies to use technology as learning enablers.  She holds a BA in Journalism, a BS in Marketing from the University of Arizona and an MBA with a finance specialty, from the University of Denver.

Paul A. Bejgrowicz, MBA
Principal Performance Consultant
RWD Technologies

Paul Bejgrowicz provides strategic consulting services to clients on learning strategies, learning platforms and the development of multiple delivery modalities. This includes the evaluation and implementation of learning management systems and Web 2.0 learning and collaboration technologies. Bejgrowicz provides thought leadership, bridging the organizational enterprise in the areas of performance solutions to improve human capital. Previously, Bejgrowicz was director of Johnson & Johnson’s eUniversity and served as the global process owner for learning. Bejgrowicz is also a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Reserves with more than 22 years of active and reserve duty in both enlisted and commissioned ranks, and he recently served on active duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Bejgrowicz is a Certified e-Learning Specialist and a Certified Training Manager. He holds an MBA with honors from Our Lady of the Lake University and a B.S. from LeTourneau University.

Thomas J. Evans
Chief Learning Officer
PricewaterhouseCoopers

In his current role, Thomas J. Evans is responsible for all of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ technical expertise, professional development, management and leadership development, industry and functional skills, diversity, and ethics, as well as technology required learning for the firm’s U.S. partners and employees. Evans leads the firm's learning and education (L&E) function and provides training for more than 200,000 participants per year, totaling over 2.3 million hours of formal education annually. He oversees a national team of 235 L&E professionals and an annual budget that exceeds $170 million. Evans joined the firm in 1977 and is a Certified Public Accountant. As part of his career progression, he joined the L&E team to launch its industry-specific training efforts. From there, he became COO for the firm’s financial advisory services global L&E segment and has had continually progressive career positions with the firm. Evans was admitted to the firm’s partnership in 1998, and in 2003 he was appointed to his current position of chief learning officer.

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, Diversity Executive 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.

Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti
Vice President, University Strategic Relations
University of Phoenix

Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti is a nationally recognized researcher on the future of higher education; has authored numerous books and papers on the subject; and speaks globally at universities, corporations and political forums on this topic. She is the author of .edu: Technology and Learning Environments in Higher Education. As vice president of research and strategic innovation for the Apollo Group, Wilen-Daugenti develops research programs and initiatives to advance knowledge and global progress in higher education. She also serves as president of the University of Phoenix Institute, a think tank that researches key questions about the working learner, workforce advancement, and higher education and advanced technologies. Previously, Wilen-Daugenti was the higher education practice lead for Cisco Systems’ strategy organization. Prior to Cisco, she held executive posts at Hewlett-Packard and Apple. She holds an MBA and a doctorate in international business, served as a visiting scholar at Stanford University and is an adjunct professor for graduate studies in the Bay Area.

Senior Manager, Global Learning & Talent Development
11/19/2009
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) is an organization of member firms devoted to excellence in providing professional services and advice. We are focused on client service through a global strategy executed locally in nearly 150 countries.

Director, Leadership & Organizational Development Parkland Health & Hospital System
10/26/2009
Parkland Health & Hospital System (www.parklandhospital.com) located in Dallas, Texas has been voted one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report for 16 consecutive years and recently named one of the "Top 100 Hospitals to Work For" by Nursing Professionals Magazine.

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.