Training Systems' Designers, Facilitators and Consultants

Cathy Hammer is an experienced planning and organizational effectiveness consultant and coach. She helps organizations set up and implement plans with strategic leadership to focus on the right priorities, talent strategy to ensure the best ROI in people, and communication strategy to support best practices. A process-oriented strategic thinker with strong organizational, communication, project leadership and problem-solving skills, she has helped organizations in media, construction, biotechnology, finance, utilities, sales and marketing and non-profits.

Andy Kaufman

Andy Kaufman is an experienced facilitator and consultant with over 20 years of experience in Information Technology executive management, team leadership, project management, and risk management. Since 1994, Andy has been a regular facilitator at conferences such as COMDEX, Microsoft TECH*ED, Software Development Conference, Software Management Conference, ProjectWorld, Gospelcom, Microsoft Developer Days, and the Data Warehouse Institute. In addition to I.T. organizations, his experience includes work with executive senior Management, sales, customer service, and non-profit organizations such as churches and para-church ministries.

Rita Rizzo is an experienced management consultant, performance facilitator, training designer, and learning facilitator. Known for her wit, warmth, and wisdom, Rita’s common sense approaches assure that people benefit from her interventions in practical, immediate, and applicable ways. Rita is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), a Certified Conflict Mediator, and a certificated retention specialist whose expertise lies in the areas of performance management, diversity and inclusion, human talent development, and customer-driven culture. Rita believes that people learn best when they are laughing - said one learner “I will attend all future sessions that Ms. Rizzo presents, even if she is facilitating a session on underwater basket weaving!”

David Kazel is an experienced productivity improvement specialist. He has an innate ability to analyze organizations and improve flow, throughput and productivity thru redesign of processes and elimination of non-value added activity that increases profitability. Whether training with a group, coaching individuals for a specific project or helping people in group or self study develop specific job expertise, he has a unique blend of detailed knowledge, super organizational skills that beat deadlines and a casual manner that makes him enjoyable to work with! David specializes in Lean, supply chain, sales, procurement, logistics, and project management.

Pete DiSantis is an incredibly dynamic, engaging process improvement specialist. While helping organizations run smoothly he identifies and improves their fundamental processes, paving the way for higher productivity, less waste and greater customer and employee satisfaction. Pete has worked with organizations of all sizes including some who have not had the luxury of any engineering or training support. Key to Pete's 30 years of success is his spirit as a team builder, innovator, communicator, planner, trainer, transformational agent, motivator and personal producer.

Catherine Fyock is an experienced HR consultant, performance improvement consultant and facilitator who helps learners adopt new strategies for recruiting and retaining employees, and is a leading expert in providing insights and solutions for an aging and changing work force. Certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), Cathy has facilitated over 50 national seminars for the Society for Human Resource Management, and has been a keynote speaker at each of their annual conferences for more than a decade. She is also a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP).

Kevin Hudson - if there's photography or video in your training, you're likely to meet Kevin. His ability to capture just the right angle on a work process or any type of photo makes it easy for people to learn - cliche but "a picture is worth a thousands words"!. He has over 10 years experience as a training photographer and video producer for large and small companies alike in a wide variety of industries. Kevin's photography supports printed training manuals or electronic media applications and his video script writing, editing and other work supports both stand-alone video web based/DVD based training.

Lynn Hauser is an experienced training designer and facilitator, and has over 10 years experience in curriculum design and development. Lynn is noted for her dynamic and energetic style of training design and facilitation. Her training is designed so that learners leave not just with new knowledge, but with a plan of action to help incorporate that knowledge into their daily lives. Lynn's passion is helping managers become more effective leaders. From the soft skills of assertive communication and delegation to the hard skills of writing employee evaluations and managing supplies and equipment, her training design and facilitation has assisted over a thousand managers get the most from themselves and their staff.

Deb Ford is an experienced HR & Training Consultant specializing in assessing organizational design, structure, and employee needs. Whether helping recruit, designing training, or assessing an organization's capabilities, she provides strategic organization development and thinking to meet organization objectives. Building on over 25 years of management and executive experience in healthcare, financial services, social services and electronics/electrical equipment, Deb understands the diverse needs of profit-oriented and not-for-profit organizations. She is described as a delight to work with while getting right to the point!

Anita Schamber is an experienced career coach involved in life/work planning and career coaching for more than 25 years. Whether one-on-one or with a large group of people (the largest was 250 staff in transition after a downsizing) making career changes she is well known for her ability to work with a wide range of people in corporate, non-profit, educational, media, hospital, and governmental settings. Anita's work has taken her all over the US and into many countries including championing the cause of third world women and provided coaching for breakthrough results.

Stephen L. Ingram is an experienced board development and planning facilitator and an association executive with Sightline Solutions, an association management company. He has over 20 years of experience in team building, personal productivity, association and project management, counseling, strategic planning and marketing development. An outstanding writer, his articles are often published in Association Management Magazine.

Jackie Martin

Jackie Martin is an experienced facilitator with specialty areas including coaching, change, team work, interviewing, training and communicating effectively. Jackie’s enthusiastic facilitation style, as well as her use of learner participation make any learning fun! She believes that technical training is all about translating the complex into simple, straightforward methods that anyone can understand. Jackie’s corporate, communications and media backgrounds offer a wide range of skills and experience.

Jerry LoJacono

Jerry LoJacono is an experienced facilitator using a wide variety of learning methods including experiential and simulation based learning. He brings passion and credibility to his training and his facilitation style creates an engaging, fun and challenging work environment. He has a passion for working with people who want to take their game to the next level and has inspired many to take action on improving their performance. Jerry's knowledge in leadership, sales and customer service are highly requested.

Robin Pelfrey's background in professional acting and owning the largest professional acting school in Chicago has caused her to be Training Systems' specialist in working with individuals to improve their facilitation skills through TRAINING SYSTEMS' High Voltage Presentations training program. Whether coaching individuals for a specific presentation, interview, or media appearance or helping managers inspire their own staff to excellence, Robin brings her unique blend of acting performance techniques and business savvy.

Amy Riley is a highly energetic trainer who helps clients meet specific performance goals. She has worked with a variety of organizational types including retail, manufacturing, software, technical services, non-for-profit, and sales. Amy’s successful because she is pragmatic, action-oriented, and listens intently to provide customized learning methods that fit the people and the situation, and are therefore, extremely effective. Her training and development experience is broad and includes developing competencies for supervisors, identifying technical skills required for application end-users, designing learning events needed to successfully launch new processes, and mapping out individual development plans.

Gary Shoup is a designer and facilitator whose training career of more than 15 years has been driven by four tenets: make it clear, make it applicable, make it fun, make it profitable. Gary specializes in increasing efficiency and effectiveness through job-skills and management training. Noted for his engaging style and highly interactive training, Gary has brought his expertise to a wide variety of industries including sales, hospitality, healthcare, finance, and energy as well as non-profit organizations such as churches and para-church ministries.

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Steven R. Sligar, Ph.D., is an experienced trainer with over 25 years in management, vocational assessment, and job readiness training and placement. Steve's experience as a front-line service provider and manager gives him a special insight into the day-to-day challenges employees face in the provision of excellent services to their customers.

Betsy Sobiech is an experienced training designer, facilitator, and organization development consultant. She is an exceptional strategic planning facilitator, process analyst, and process designer who loves to make organization changes running smoothly. No matter the topic, from computer software training to association board planning, her participative approach creates achievement of goals, strengthened relationships throughout the organization and increased energy, productivity, and fun.

Carolyn B. Thompson is an experienced facilitator, designer and Human Resources consultant who is known throughout the country for her high energy and enthusiasm, facilitating refreshing and dynamic training. As a consultant, Carolyn helps organizations improve their ability to recruit, inspire and retain quality employees through recruitment planning, helping companies develop their Human Resource functions, designing performance appraisal systems, and evaluating and developing an organization's entire training process.

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