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September 18th, 2015Sheraton Airport Hotel, Portland, OR

Leadership Practitioners eLearning Mentoring Networking

Welcome to the 2015 Conference!How often do you get to operate at your highest and your best? Do you consider multi-tasking a comfort or a myth? During this year’s lively conference, we will examine strategies for leading and training effectively across distractions and despite the chaos. You’ll walk away with a collection of exercises useful for:

• Drawing on alternate strategies• Teaching curiosity• Creating an atmosphere of tranquility • Drawing on fresh sources of inspiration • Being mindful in your current and future roles

This year’s conference is designed to help you transcend the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity that can sidetrack or overwhelm our better intentions. You will have direct access to respected leaders and highly experienced professionals who will help reignite your creativity and balance. Please join us for what has become an exciting tradition for local talent development professionals looking to expand their network and their capacities.

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To help guide you through the conference, we have arranged all content in the form of five conference tracks. Look through the Schedule of Events and Concurrent Session Speaker information in this packet to see which track(s) interests you.

• Practitioner Track | Turning Learning Upside Down: These sessions will explore those skills needed for classroom/face-to-face training success. We’ve selected some terrific speakers who will help us explore mindfulness, coalition-building, and harnessing spontaneity.

• Mentoring Track | Fostering Reciprocity: How do you make yourself available for mentoring relationships? These sessions will help us understand the shifting nature of mentoring by exploring issues such as reverse-mentoring, working with professional associations, and being prepared to participate.

• E-Learning Track | Inspired and Lightweight Design: These sessions will explore those skills needed for training success in the world of e-learning, webinars, etc. Sample topics could include: Understanding how people retain knowledge, creating elegant interface designs, learning by doing, and minimizing project churn and chaos with solid project management techniques.

• Connections Track | Independence through Service: These sessions will explore those skills needed to build networks and partnerships. This year, our speakers will prepare us to manage upwards and laterally, and they’ll help us appreciate the value of investing in our emotional intelligence and mindful self-preservation.

• Leadership Track | Operating at Our Highest and Best: How do we transcend chaos and devote ourselves to attending to our strategic visions? What would happen if we truly could operate at our highest and best for even 50% of the time? Our expert presenters will help us develop our self-reflection skills, explore exciting insights in talent development, and inspire us to be more innovative.

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Schedule of Events

8 – 9 am Check in and Onsite Registration

8 – 6:30 pm Exhibit Hall, Jumpstart Cyber Café, & Volunteer Booth Open

9 – 9:15 am Welcome & Opening Remarks: Tyson Wooters9:15 – 10:15 am Opening Keynote, Mt. Hood Ballroom: Moving Beyond Our Limits presented by Kaihan Krippendorff10:15 – 10:45 am Morning Break: Exhibit Halls, Jumpstart Cyber Café & Volunteer Booth Open

Leadership TrackOperating at Our Highest & Best

eLearning TrackInspired & Lightweight Design

Practitioner TrackTurning Learning Upside Down

Networking TrackIndependence through Service

Mentoring TrackFostering Reciprocity

10:45 – 11:45 am How Chinese Strategic Narratives Can Unlock Innovative ThinkingKaihan Krippendorff

Are You Destined for Project Management Bliss?Lisa Rebagliati & Heidi Anderson

The Mindful PractitionerAlisa Blum, Judy Sugg,& Terra Soma

Take a Mindful MomentCara Lee

Getting the Most of Your ATD Membership Adriane Jones & Kathleen Bergquist

11:45 – 1:15 pm Lunch1:15 – 2:15 pm Mindful Leadership

Alisa Blum, Judy Sugg, & Terra Soma

The Science of Learning & Behavior ChangeArt Kohn

Increase Capacity with Simplicity – Trust & Your Training PartnerGrant Axtell & Neal Otto

Mindfulness, EIQ, & the Art of ConnectingDoug Lundrigan

Zen & the Art of Win-WinTyson Wooters

2:15 – 2:30 pm 1st Afternoon Break: Exhibit Halls, Jumpstart Cyber Café & Volunteer Booth Open2:30 – 3:30 pm The Map to Wicked

TalentYvette Montero Salvatico

Keep Your Design Methods Visual, Collaborative, and Effective

Mike Beaulieu

Enhancing Mindfulness through ImprovisationKristin Hibler & Line MØrkbak

Managing Up, Managing YourselfWayne Scott & Steve Joiner

Zap the GapMeagan Johnson

3:30 – 3:45 pm 2nd Afternoon Break: Exhibit Halls, Jumpstart Cyber Café & Volunteer Booth Open3:45 – 4:45 pm Closing Keynote, Mt. Hood Ballroom: Zen and the Art of Explanation presented by Lee LeFever5:00 – 6:30 pm Sip of ATD

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Keynote Speakers: Kaihan KrippendorffOpening Keynote, Mt. Hood Ballroom, 9:15 am - 10:15 am

Moving Beyond Our Limit

Contrary to commonly held beliefs, strength and resources play minor roles in a company’s success. Instead, the ability to conceive of innovative possibilities that others will choose not to emulate is the key to gaining a competitive edge. Unfortunately, our leaders, colleagues, and employees are overlooking many attractive opportunities. We overlook these because our language - the concepts and metaphors we apply - impose hidden barriers that prevent us from seeing the totality of what is possible.

Kaihan Krippendorff, author of four business strategy books, consultant with Wharton Executive Education, and CEO of Outthinker, will show us that we necessarily limit ourselves by following rules that don’t exist. These rules are so deeply ingrained in us, rooted in centuries of cultural development, that we have stopped questioning their truth. Indeed, like

just as a fish cannot conceive of water, we often are not even aware of these rules we are following because we are surrounded by them.

But there is a way out. By contrasting core Western concepts to Eastern ones, we can begin distinguishing the differences. Kaihan will show that there are four key differences we should become aware of and will offer practical tools to help you apply these differences to business:

• Ying Yang/ Polarity• Wu Wei/ Go with the Flow• Wu Change/ Continuous Change• Shang Bing Wu Bing/ Indirect Action

During the session, participants will have the opportunity to:• Recognize that they are often trapped in a perspective and mind-set without knowing it• Apply four concepts (or strategic narratives) to help them step out of pre-existing perspectives• Apply these concepts to a problem• Identify a new idea that they believe could have great potential

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Keynote Speakers: Kaihan Krippendorff (cont.)

Kaihan Krippendorff is a business strategist, keynote speaker, consultant, and best-selling author of four books, most recently Outthink the Competition (John Wiley, 2012). A former consultant with McKinsey & Company, he now writes one of the most popular blogs on Fast-Company.com, “Outthinkers”, and is recognized expert on innovation,business strategy, and creativity, appearing in key business media outlets including Fox Business, National Public Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Radio, and more. He has trained over 6,000 executives and entrepreneurs in his unique business strategy ap-proach, The Outthinker Process ®, and works with the leadership teams of a growing number of leading corporations including Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Citibank, L’Oreal, United Technologies, Kraft, and Experian to design innovative business strategies that disrupt mar-kets and unlock new growth.

A sought after keynote speaker, he is also a regular lecturer for Wharton Executive Education and Harvard Business School Press as well as a guest faculty member for select business schools through the US and Latin America. Kaihan earned an MBA from Columbia Business School and London Business School, a BSE in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and a BSE in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering. He lives in Greenwich, CT (just outside of New York City) with his wife and three children. He is fluent in English and Spanish with conversational command of German.

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Keynote Speakers: Lee LeFeverClosing Keynote, Mt. Hood Ballroom, 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm

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Zen and the Art of Explanation

Professionals explain ideas every day, but we rarely take a step back and consider our own explanatory style or how we can become more understandable. Lee LeFever will challenge you to think differently about explanation and learn to see it as a skill that can be learned and improved. He will discuss what makes explanations work (or not), how to solve explanation problems and put better explanations to work in your professional life.

During the session, participants will have the opportunity to:• Recognize the unique role explanations play in communication• Identify the major factors that influence their own explanatory style • Recognize the symptoms of a failed explanations• Refine their approach by "repackaging" ideas into better explanations using strategies

that involve context, storytelling, and connections

Lee LeFever is the founder of Common Craft and author of The Art of Explanation - Making Your Ideas, Products and Services Easier to Understand. Lee is known around the world for Common Craft’s work in explaining complex ideas using short animated videos. Lee’s videos have been viewed over 50 million times online and he has worked with the most respected brands in the world, including LEGO, Ford, Microsoft, Google and Intel. Lee and Common Craft are also credited with inspiring a new genre of online video: the “explainer” video.

His career in explanation began in 2003 when he saw a unique opportunity to explain emerging technology. What started as a fun idea quickly grew into viral video success. He and his wife Sachi became known to many thanks to the unique style and intent of Common Craft videos, which feature stop-motion animation of paper cut-outs on a whiteboard. Years of producing explainer videos taught Lee valuable lessons in how to make ideas easy to understand. He wrote The Art of Explanation (Wiley, 2012) to share this knowledge and help professionals of all types become better explainers. The Art of Explanation has been translated into 8 languages.

Today, Lee’s goal is to help people see that explanation is a skill that can be developed and put to work in the real world. His speaks internationally on the topic of explanation and inspires audiences to think differently about how they explain ideas.

Mindful Leadership (1:15 – 2:15 pm) Alisa Blum, Judy Sugg, & Terra Soma

Companies such as Google, Facebook and Intel have imple-mented mindfulness programs to increase productivity, collab-oration and innovation. Recent research demonstrates why these programs work so well.

This session is developed and facilitated by AIM for Organiza-tional Health, a collaboration be-tween Judith Sugg, Terra Soma

and Alisa Blum, to provide awareness, integration and mastery for organizations that want to use mindfulness techniques to promote a culture of engagement.

During the session, participants will have the opportunity to:• Understand the research that links mindful-

ness to improved business success • Develop strategies for incorporating mindful-

ness into a leadership development program• Experience mindfulness techniques so you

have first-hand knowledge of the power of simple tools

How Chinese “Strategic Narra-tives” Can Unlock Innovative Thinking (10:45 – 11:45 am)

Kaihan Krippendorff

For the past ten years Kaihan Krippendorff has been applying a set of ancient Chinese strategic narratives to help leaders and their teams con-ceive of innovative business ideas. What started off as an experiment has grown into a well struc-tured, tested methodology called “The Outthink-er Process.”

In this session, Kaihan will walk through the pro-cess and show you how you can apply a set of 36 Chinese narratives, as part of a formal or informal strategy discussion, to coach an individual or team toward discovering their own breakthrough busi-ness idea. He has successfully applied this meth-odology with many of the largest companies in the world including Microsoft, GE, Wal-Mart, J&J, L’Oreal, Estee Lauder, Pfizer, VMWare, Red Bull, etc.

During the session, participants will have the opportunity to:

• Feel confident in their ability to apply a set of Chinese strategic narratives to coach people in a formal or informal strategy conversation

• Apply key tools from the “Outthinker Pro-cess” to develop a strategy for a business challenge

• Generate or help someone else generate a business idea

The Map to Wicked Talent (2:30 – 3:30 pm)

Yvette Montero Salvatico Are you ready for the wicked

talent landscape of the 21st century? We live in an age where accelerating complexity and ex-ponential change is the norm; an unpredictable world that requires a completely different ap-proach to business, economics, technology, and social development. The growing fluidity of the global economy, the dramatic disruptions of the digital revolution, and the radical empowerment of individuals through mobile computing and micro-manufacturing have combined to create a wicked future landscape. In the 21st century, we have to reframe complexity as the natural order of growth, an empowering tool to be embraced for greater opportunity. Our wicked landscape will only intensify moving forward. Thriving in it requires a new breed of thinker. Yvette chronicles the stories of five indi-viduals who embody the characteristics of talent of the future. She also identifies three wicked rules to demonstrate how everyone can become wicked talent.

During the session, participants will have the opportunity to:• Understand the new environment of com-

plexity, collaborative meshing, and innova-tion

• Learn three rules needed to leverage com-plexity to create Wicked Opportunities

• See how foresight helps develop solutions to grand challenges

Concurrent Sessions: Leadership Track

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The Science of Learning & Behavior Change (1:15 – 2:15 pm)

Art Kohn

In this engaging session, neu-roscientist and business school professor Dr. Art Kohn examines the scientific research demon-strating how you can use technology to maximize learning, retention and positive behavior change. During the first section of the presentation, he reveals the 3 myths of learning that have inhibited our success as trainers. Recognizing and over-coming these myths is the first step in improving learning transfer. In the second section, profes-sor Kohn discusses how technology can help you can dramatically boost retention using gamifica-tion, social learning, coaching, and incentives.

During the session, participants will have the opportunity to:• Create positive outcomes of learning and

behavior change• Boost retention• Improve learning transfer

Concurrent Sessions: eLearning Track

Keep Your Design Methods Visu-al, Collaborative, and Effective (2:30 – 3:30 pm)

Mike Beaulieu

When it comes to designing new solutions and working with members of your creative team, do you find it challenging to navigate between the visual concepts and the verbal/spoken ideas?

The brain is far superior at image processing than it is at word processing. In this highly interac-tive session, you will explore how to use design sketching, visual models, and building on the ideas of other people to guide your teams to sen-sible and engaging design solutions.

Any team member who creates and designs inter-active courses, information graphics, corporate universities, social learning, gamified interactions, videos, PowerPoint presentations, client com-munications designed to sell an idea, or strategy workshops will find this session useful and re-warding.


• See examples and receive tips for how to keep the design conversation visual

• Understand why idea sharing is more valu-able than an idea owning

• Represent literal and abstract concepts with nothing but pictures


Are You Destined for Project Management Bliss? (10:45 – 11:45 am)

Lisa Rebagliati & Heidi Anderson

Companies such as Google, Facebook and Intel have imple-mented mindfulness programs to increase productivity, collab-oration and innovation. Recent

research demonstrates why these programs work so well.

This session is developed and facilitated by AIM for Organizational Health, a collaboration be-tween Judith Sugg, Terra Soma and Alisa Blum, to provide awareness, integration and mastery for organizations that want to use mindfulness tech-niques to promote a culture of engagement. We can be reached at [email protected].


• Understand the research that links mindful-ness to improved business success

• Develop strategies for incorporating mindful-ness into a leadership development program

• Experience mindfulness techniques so you have first-hand knowledge of the power of simple tools

Concurrent Sessions: Practitioner Track

Increase Capacity with Simplicity – Trust & Your Training Partner (1:15 – 2:15 pm)

Grant Axtell & Neal Otto

In 2013, the Oregon Employ-ment Department (OED) made the bold decision to switch email software, and to NOT deliver the training on the new software in their traditional

classroom settings. OED decided to partner with Jumpstart Computer Training to design and de-liver live virtual instructor-led training sessions to their state-wide workforce.

Grant Axtell and Neal Otto will describe the journey both organizations experienced as they developed procedures and templates that al-lowed them to work more efficiently and provide a higher quality training experience to partici-pants. Grant and Neal will share their insights, templates, and tools used by their respective organizations to build trust, improve and simplify processes, and create goodwill between training partners.

During the session, participants will have the opportunity to:• Define three ways to improve training part-

nerships within an organization. • Participate in a case study and discuss chal-

lenges and opportunities in building training partnerships.

• Identify two barriers to seamless training delivery provided by a vendor and multiple ways to overcome them.

Enhancing Mindfulness through Improvisation (2:30 – 3:30 pm)

Kristin Hibler & Line MØrkbak Today’s leaders are faced with increasingly complex environments. Mindfulness has proven to be essential for leading successfully in such complexity--the ability to remain calm and focused in the

moment better enables leaders to pivot from task to task, quickly frame-shift, and nurture innovation. The skills required for successful improvisation mimic many of those required to lead through complexity (e.g., building trust, listening, taking risks, commitment to the idea, radical collaboration). In this session, we will explore how improv concepts and activities can be used to enhance mindfulness and other factors critical for leading through complexity. After participating in a series of improv exercises, you will have a chance to reflect on using these techniques to simplify your professional challenges and energize your team collaboration.


• Describe how the philosophy and technique of improv can support developing mindfulness and leading through complexity.

• Leadership development and team collaboration.


The Mindful Practitioner (10:45 – 11:45 am)

Alisa Blum, Judy Sugg,& Terra Soma In this interactive and experien-tial session, we explore how the mindfulness can be a valuable ally in helping you stay healthy, alert, and clear about what you want. You will walk away with tools you can use immediately to reduce reactivity, decrease stress, increase focus, improve communication and discover ways to integrate mindful ap-proaches in your role as a talent

development professional.

This session is developed and facilitated by AIM for Organizational Health, a collaboration be-tween Judith Sugg, Terra Soma and Alisa Blum, to provide awareness, integration and mastery for organizations that want to use mindfulness techniques to promote a culture of engagement.


• Understand current research on how mind-fulness improves business skills

• Experience techniques that can improve mindfulness

• Explore various ways mindfulness can be incorporated into everyday practice

Concurrent Sessions: Networking Track

Take a Mindful Moment (10:45 – 11:45 am)

Cara Lee

Don’t wait for the weekend or the end of the workday to revive yourself. Learn how to take brief moments throughout the day to stay balanced and tranquil. You will learn how to increase your energy flow and connect to your inspiration on the fly. Take the time to reflect on your biggest drains at work and come back to your center. You will practice mindfulness skills in guided meditations and with movement and activity.


• Increase your energy flow• Connect to your sources of inspiration• Practice these skills while simulating daily

work activities

Mindfulness, EIQ, & the Art of Connecting (1:15 – 2:15 pm)

Doug Lundrigan

Mindfulness can give us great-er awareness and connection with people. It is closely related to emotional Intelligence (EIQ). What we do with mindfulness is what creates the connection with others, especially those we in-struct. In this interactive session participants will learn the relationship between mindfulness and social management, and come away with practi-cal strategies to put mindfulness to work.

During the session, participants will have the opportunity to:• Learn what mindfulness really is, and how it

relates to emotional Intelligence (EIQ.)• Discover the research behind principles of

mindfulness and EIQ, and how they help • us succeed at work.• Understand what the enemies of mindful-

ness are, and how to overcome them.• Explore methods to apply these principles in

your role as talent development leader.

Managing Up, Managing Yourself (2:30 – 3:30 pm)

Wayne Scott & Steve Joiner People who do training and or-ganizational development, more than many other professionals, must become adept at manag-ing the expectations of their bosses and other senior leaders in their organization. Partici-

pants will explore the fine art of “managing up,” navigating organizational hierarchy while remain-ing true to their purpose and function.

In this workshop, participants will be able to iden-tify underlying assumptions in their relationship with their boss, revise their internal model for the boss/employee relationship, reflect on their boss’s role and context and, most critically, build trust with their boss and other executive stake-holders.


• Identify underlying assumptions in their relationship with their boss and how boss/employee relationships operate

• Revise their internal model for the boss/em-ployee relationship (from “top-down” and unidirectional to transactional and mutual)

• Reflect on their boss’s role and context as a way of thinking how they can modify or adapt their own approach or communication style

• Explore some terrific techniques for building trust with their boss 11For speaker biographies, turn to page 13

Concurrent Sessions Speakers: Mentoring Track

Zen & the Art of Win-Win (1:15 – 2:15 pm)

Tyson Wooters It’s tough to get much done

in this world without a little help. From forming collaborative partnerships, to getting your boss on-board with a new plan, enrolling others in your success is an essential skill in today’s connected workplace. Come learn how to build strong, long-term relationships by creating win-win and no-lose situations, and actively contributing to your partners’ successes.


• Conceptualize the type of strategic part-ner(s) that are likely and able to engage in a symbiotic relationship as demonstrated in written brain-storm.

• Identify at least two behaviors that foster stronger, longer, relationships through inten-tional mutual benefit.

• Articulate his/her own relationship bound-aries by type (coworker, supervisor, friend, family, etc.) as demonstrated in small group discussion.

Zap the Gap (2:30 – 3:30 pm)

Meagan Johnson The potential for collision, con-flict and between the genera-tions has never been greater.

Your challenge is NOT just figuring out how to put up with each other, but how to uncover and incorporate what motivates each generation to do what’s best for the organization to achieve financial success, personal growth, and increased morale.

Because generations are in a constant state of flux, what worked last year does not work today. What seemed like a perfect solution yesterday is the source of tomorrow’s problem. During the session, participants will have the opportunity to:

• Who the generations are - their wants, needs and expectations

• How to capture Baby Boomers “loyal make a difference” attitude before it evaporates

• Important Generation X career building tech-niques so they don’t leave you for

• another employer• New Millennials want their efforts to have

meaning and what to do about it• Top 10 recruiting tricks to capture Gen Y’s

attention• A social media policy at work that works• How to take advantage of generation gaps –

not simply manage or endure them• What needs to happen to weave generation-

al respect into your organizational culture


Getting the Most of Your ATD Membership (10:45 – 11:45 am)

Adriane Jones & Kathleen Bergquist

In this highly interactive session, Adriane Jones, Director of Member Services, and Kathleen Bergquist, Execuative Director, will lead participants through a discussion around maximizing

membership benefits, allowing participants to select their top three action items for engaging with the chapter.Participants will be engaged in small group work, personal reflection, and collaborate through the use of technology.Participants will leave with an opportunity to use a passport-style process for engaging exhibitors, conference participants, and the board in a journey to discover more about the chapter.

Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop or mobile device to participate fully in the session.


• Identify the the top 10 benefits of membership.

• Identify three action items for engaging with the chapter

• Act as ambassadors for the benefits of membership

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Speaker Biographies

Joining the Learning and Development Team in 2004, Grant Axtell began his career at Oregon Employment Department coordinating, developing, and delivering

training for the launch of multiple call centers. Grant holds degrees in public policy and administration and speech communication from Western Oregon University. His areas of expertise include facilitation, leadership development, customer service, and generational diversity. He is an active member of two professional organizations: International Association of Workforce Professionals (IAWP) and the Association of Talent Development (ATD). Grant currently serves as International Secretary/Treasurer on the IAWP Board of Directors and is the Director of Programs of the ATD-Cascadia Chapter serving Oregon and SW Washington. In his spare time, you will find Grant at Portland Trailblazer basketball games, in the gym, enjoying a good beer, and spending time with his family and friends.

Heidi Anderson, Learning Consultant, brings people together. Passionate about creating learning experiences that mater and a fan of “putting everyone in one room,” she

believes in creating a deep partnership with the project team and the learners. When Heidi is not working you might see her exploring all Portland has to offer, heading out on adventures with her many nieces and nephew, or sipping her chocolate milk.

Mike Beaulieu, Interactive Art Director, attended California Polytechnic State University and completed a B.S. in Graphic Communications with concentrations in Design and

Printing Management. He attended graduate school at the Rochester Institute of Technology and completed his M.S. in Graphic Arts Publishing with a concentration in Electronic Publishing. He began his early career in the commercial printing industry and pursuing freelance design work in Portland, OR. He helped design the curriculum for entry-level graphic design and publishing classes at Art Institute International as well as serving as an instructor.

Mike has been with the Portland design team at GP Strategies since 2003. The work he finds most interesting and rewarding is designing engaging experiences that foster brand advocacy and helping to make people better at what they do.

He enjoys leading client and team discovery sessions and visual thinking workshops. His day to day highlights include collaborating with account managers and clients to establish the strategy and creative direction for programs and projects, establishing style guides, user experience conventions, methods and prototypes, collaborating with information architects, instructional designers, interaction and print designers, developers, media specialists, photographers and illustrators to ensure project quality and visual integrity.

Alisa Blum, MSW, brings to her clients an in-depth understanding of human behavior and innovative learning strategies shaped by her experiences as a

psychotherapist, supervisor, training director, and consultant. Alisa’s areas of specialty include attracting & keeping top talent, management development, performance optimization, team building, and cross-generational communications.

Kathleen Berquist has been involved in the training and business management field since 1972 when she began working for the federal government. During her federal

career, she was a Training Manager, Assistant Regional Director for Civil Rights and Executive Director of the Federal Executive Board.

In 1987, she formed The Connor Group (named after her mother) to design training programs for the federal sector. In 1996, she shifted her focus to provide business and management for nonprofit associations and small businesses.

ATD-Cascadia has been one of Kathleen's clients since 1997.

Kristin Hibler is passionate about the power of improv. In her role as head of Global Leadership Development for Mercy Corps, she has used improv to build trust,

Speaker Biographies

Meagan Johnson graduated from Arizona State University Business School with a BS in Marketing. After working several years in a sales environment Meagan became discouraged to

hear all the negative comments about Generation X. (Generation X is the 50 million people born between 1965 and 1980.) As a Gen Xer herself, she felt these comments were of course unfounded. She was further frustrated by the blinders her

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own managers seemed to have. “There was this perception of only one way to get ahead and be successful at work. The career path my managers expected me to take was very traditional. They seemed to be unable to look at a different way of training and career management that was rele-vant to younger employees.” Meagan began to research everything from small to large corpora-tions in order to find successful ways to work with the younger generation. From that ZAP THE GAP Solving the Multi-Generational Puzzle was born.

Since 1997 Meagan Johnson has entertained and educated hundreds of audience members from all over the globe. She has written a variety of articles about the multiple generations and has been interviewed for many publications and audio programs. She wrote the Generational chapter in the book Success is A Team Effort. In 2000, she was the only female speaker on the main platform at the Harley Davidson University conference in New Orleans Louisiana. After her ZAP THE GAP presentation, a Harley Dealer told her “You have changed the way I treat and train my younger employees.”

In 2003, she received her CSP, Certified Speaking Professional designation. Currently, only ten per-cent of professional speakers hold this designa-tion. As a Gen Xer, Meagan was extremely proud to be one of the youngest recipients of the CSP designation.

Meagan and her Baby Boomer father, Larry John-son are the authors of Generations, Inc - From Boomers to Linksters, Managing the Friction Between Generations at Work.

Adriane Jones works as a Learning Consultant alongside the innovative team at Idea Learning Group. Outside of work, Adriane has been actively involved with the Cascadia

Chapter for a majority of her professional career. Currently, Adriane serves as the Director of Member Services for the Chapter. By getting involved with the Chapter, Adriane has found her career has grown by leaps and bounds. She has learned new skills to apply to her job and created a network of meaningful relationships with Chapter members. Adriane enjoys serving for the Chapter because it gives her the opportunity to give back to an organization she feels has played such a major role in the development of her career.

enhance flexibility, and heighten empathy with multinational leaders and teams around the world. She is a seasoned educator with 17 years’ of global experience in adult learning, team dynamics, diversity and inclusion, cultural competency, and organizational development. Past roles include designing and running leadership programs to teach Saudi Arabian women social entrepreneurship, and to support senior leaders at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in managing change; overseeing consulting and content for a diversity eLearning start-up; and directing Staff Development for the U.S. non-profit, Head Start. Throughout her career, Kristin has maintained close connections to the academic community—she has taught college-level communication and business courses for 18 years, most recently for American University’s School of International Service. She has a Bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies, and a Master’s and Ph.D. in Intercultural Communication. For the past 10 years, Kristin has studied improv with Washington, DC’s Washington Improv Theater and Portland, Oregon’s Brainwaves.

Steven Joiner is a trainer, facilitator, mediator, career-development specialist, and coach with Multnomah County. His works centers around effective communication skills;

intentional, incremental career management; and creating efficient and engaging workplaces. He is the author of "The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for Sector Switchers" and a featured purpose-driven workplace expert on NPR's Marketplace and The NY Times.

Efficiency and the need to make a difference drive Neal Otto and his company Jumpstart Computer Training. Neal and Jumpstart believe that technology should reduce

waste and help us all get more of the right things done. Neal, a former high school teacher, loves efficiency, sometimes to a fault. He is known for his broad knowledge of an extensive array of software and his ability to connect with students of all abilities and styles. Given his background, he is able to keep audiences engaged and entertained.

Neal lives in the Greater Portland Oregon area with his wife Paige (also an educator), daughter Brynne, and Linus the Wonder Dog. His son Nathan is a sophomore at University of Puget Sound. Neal is a long distance bicyclist and loves to spend any spare time not pedaling down the road in his shop making sawdust or in the kitchen making bread.

Line MØrkbak is constantly exploring new methods to engage learners. Dynamic participation, interactivity, and engagement are keywords for her learning designs and

what lead her to utilize improv techniques when working with groups, intact teams, and leaders.

As the principal of Global LEAP Consulting, Line is using her 10+ years experience as a global facilitator and intercultural consultant to develop innovative learning solutions to build the global mindset and skills needed in today’s international business environment. In close collaboration with global clients she has developed strategic cross-cultural programs for managers, teams, individual contributors, and expat families. With a Master’s in Modern Culture and Cultural Communications from University of Copenhagen and a global career which include locations such as Spain, Denmark, UK and the NW of the USA, she brings keen diversity awareness to her work. Line has past speaking experiences at the Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research Conference, the Nordic Business Council, the Danish Cultural Conference in Oregon, and at seminars at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Lisa Rebagliati, Learning Engagement Manager, develops client relationships, manages client projects, creates instructional design, and measures results. Lisa’s passion

is measurement metrics, she enjoys measuring success with hard data in addition to behavioral feedback. She is fascinated by both the intended and unintended business impact learning can have on an organization. When she’s not working, you’ll find Lisa spending time with her husband and kids, beading utensils, or experimenting with a new recipe in the kitchen.

Speaker Biographies

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Doug Lundrigan is Director of Talent Development at Lighthouse Business Solutions, a Portland based company that helps left-brained leaders and employees gain a balanced

brain. Health care, engineering, technology, manufacturing, and other organizations that employ analytical people are benefiting from Doug’s services. Mr. Lundrigan has spoken to groups of up to 1100 people in three countries and 14 states, and he prefers to work with smaller

Dr. Art Kohn earned his PhD in cognitive science at Duke University and he is a professor of Business at Portland State University. His research explores how online training can produce

learning and learning transfer. He was awarded the National Professor of the Year award from the American Psychological Association and he won a Fulbright Fellowship in cognitive psychology and a second Fulbright Fellowship in distance education. He consults with the Centers for Disease Control on using social messaging for addressing HIV in the developing world. He is the author of Communicating with Psychology and he develops interactive media products for higher education and for corporate training.

Dr. Kohn’s research explores how online training can produce learning and learning transfer. He consults with the Centers for Disease Control on using social messaging for addressing HIV in the developing world and develops interactive media products.

work teams. With his lifetime of formal and informal education, having had gifted mentors, and as both corporate training employee and entrepreneurial training employer, Doug’s background provides him with deep practical wisdom that he loves to share for the benefit of others.

Terra Soma, MBA, brings two decades of rigorous mindfulness training to her work as an executive coach and collaboration facilitator for innovative companies. Terra

has an MBA, a Masters of Science in Information Management and is one of 18 Certified Integral Facilitators in the world. She is also a certified yoga teacher. Her mindfulness studies range from Zen to the emerging field of somatics. Born and raised in Mexico, Terra is fluent in Spanish.

Judith Sugg, Ph.D. is an author, trainer, and consultant who helps people and organizations clarify their vision, improve their interactions, manage conflict, and thrive in their surroundings.

Judy successfully navigates both professional and personal worlds with an MBA and a doctorate in psychology. At a US Bancorp subsidiary, she led strategy, development, and company acquisi-tions. As a licensed counselor, she serves individ-uals, families, and groups. Judy has served on the boards of for-profit and non-profit corporations. She has taught yoga and meditation for over 20 years.

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Wayne Scott manages learning and organizational development initiatives for Multnomah County, Oregon, including their leadership development program. He also teaches clinical

practice in the School of Social Work at Portland State University. His professional and creative writings have appeared in numerous publications including The Oregonian, Salon.com, The Millions, Governing, The Psychotherapy Networker, among

Tyson Wooters believes in the strength of humble leaders, the awesome power of servanthood, and your organization's ability to harness those forces. He also

believes in his life's mission: to educate people through humor and shared experience about the phenomenal power of taking real accountability and ownership in every aspect of life.

Tyson learned to lead while wearing white pants and standing on a ladder in front of his bands. But he admits that those elements aren't necessarily required in the cultivation of every good leader. His formative leadership experience was as drum major of his high school marching band, a position that launched him not only into the glamorous, high-stakes world of college marching band, but taught him the value of putting service to an organization above personal glory. Along with earning his teaching degree in music education from the University of Oregon (as well as unofficial minors in "trampoline performance" and "mascot studies"), Tyson has spent the last decade working with groups in the US and around the world. He considers himself a teacher first and foremost, though his definition of what it really means to "teach" often doesn't require a blackboard or a textbook.

Tyson began speaking and presenting in 1998, and has apprenticed with the nationally-recognized Challenge Day organization, Mike Robbins, The Ovation Company, and other highly sought-after motivational speakers. He has worked with professional, scholastic, and civic groups ranging

Yvette Montero Salvatico is a Principal and the Managing Director at Kedge - a global foresight, innovation, creativity, and strategic design consultancy. She is also a Co-

founding Instructor at The Futures School (TFS), a three-day, project-based foresight program. Holding a bachelor’s degree in Finance and an MBA from the University of Florida, Yvette has over 15 years of corporate experience with large, multi-national firms such as Kimberly-Clark and The Walt Disney Company. Before joining Kedgein early 2012, she led the effort to establish the Future Workforce Insights division at the Walt Disney Company, identifying future workforce trends and leveraging foresight models and techniques to assess potential threats and impacts, emerging ideas, and exciting opportunities for the organization. Yvette holds membership in organizations such as Society ForHuman Resource Management (SHRM), Association for Talent Development (ATD), Association for Professional Futurists (APF), and World Futures Society (WFS).

others, and diverse forums such as the National Institute of Corrections and Portland Ignite.Scott holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from The University of Chicago and a Master of Fine Arts from The American University.

in size from dozens to thousands of people, including university and public school groups around the country, Merit Contractors' Alliance, and Rotary International. He also serves on the board of directors of the Rotary Ethics Initiative.Tyson lives in Portland, Oregon, where he curates an impressive Hawaiian shirt collection and rides his moped on sunny days. He enjoys travel, scuba diving, and quality time spent with Amy, the love of his life.

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Conference Information

Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)CEUs and college credit available.

• CPLP – Self certify for 5 recertification hours.• PSU – One hour elective credit for 10 contact hours, includes full conference attendance, research paper, other

activities. $60 fee plus registration fee.• HRCI – Approved for 6 general recertification hours. Program number available at the conference.• ISPI – Self certify for 5 recertification hours.

Mobile AppThe conference schedule and materials will be available through the mobile event app called Guidebook. To download the app and access our conference information, visit Guidebook and use the redeem code of ATDCascadia2015. New features this year include attendees lists and email notifications. Information will be updated right up through the conference so check back often.

Conference SiteSheraton Airport is the location for the conference. We have the entire facility for meeting space.

JumpStart CyberCafeVisit the JumpStart CyberCafe for all your internet needs while at the conference. Charging station available.

Evening NetworkingSponsored by Ferguson Leadership, join your fellow conference goers after the conference for good food and great conversation with hors d’oeuvres and a no-host bar provided.

RegistrationRegister online before the conference or register at the door the day of the event.

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