Speaker Bios of the Gen Y Forum Calls
Interviews of Gen Y Facilitators
04/16/07
Topic: Millenials: Newcomers to the Workplace
Tom Floyd of Voice America Business, the host of the Internet radio show "Insight on Coaching", interviews Bea Fields
Technologically savvy, eager – and almost as large as the Baby Boomer population - millenials are graduating from universities and entering the workforce in mass numbers. However, most are also unfamiliar with the requirements and expectations of corporate life. This program will discuss how professional coaching can assist these workers in their transition to the workplace and effectively harness their ambitions and skills.
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Recorded & Upcoming Speakers
Below are the Biographies of the Speakers who have either spoken for, are scheduled to speak, or who have not yet committed to a date to speak on a Gen Y Forum Call. To read more about them, click on the individual's or group's name.
The listing is alphabetical by Last Name.
Peter Sheahan
Peter Sheahan has established a globally recognized brand as a leading expert in workforce trends and generational change. In the space of three years he has built a multi-million dollar consulting practice attracting clients such as Google, Coca-Cola, L’Oreal and Ernst & Young.
Peter’s success is driven by his ability to identify areas of untapped potential within organizations, develop the unique thought processes and skills required to convert that potential into performance, then engage with key individuals at all levels to make it a reality. Peter’s clients describe his entertaining presentations as “thought provoking”, “insightful” and “inspiring”.
Peter is a highly energetic entrepreneur with a respected reputation for transforming traditional business practices - bringing them into the present and launching them into the future. His outstanding achievements were first officially recognized in 2003 when Peter had the honor of being named New South Wales Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
In 2006, Peter was voted by his peers at the National Speakers Association as Keynote Speaker of the Year.
Peter has delivered more than 2,000 presentations to a combined audience of over 300,000 people in six different countries. The author of 4 books, including the bestseller Generation Y: Thriving (and Surviving) with Generation Y at Work, he clearly understands what it takes to be successful in the rapidly changing business world.
His eagerly awaited upcoming title, Flip!, focuses on how the power of creative and lateral thinking can be harnessed to revolutionize innovation in businesses.
Peter is a unique and inspiring speaker whose ideas and experiences are changing the face of the business world.
Date(s): 06/27/07
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Kent Corbell
Kent Corbell causes extraordinary experiences.
He has led teams developing over $70M in groundbreaking experiences including The Fountains at Bellagio, Cirque du Soleil's "O", and fire cannons shooting flames 300 feet into the air at Burning Man. His entrepreneurial creativity is just as outrageous and unconventional.
An 'A/V Kid' his whole life, Kent creates at the intersection of technology, entertainment, and communications. He grows businesses that apply technology and next-generation marketing trends to create interactions that sell. Currently, Kent is writing a book on the elements of creating and marketing with extraordinary experiences.
Having helped to propel both water and fire to new heights, Kent is out to up the level of what's possible in engaging people to believe, to act, and to share ideas that inspire.
On this call learn why live experiences from theme parks to concerts to a trip to the mall have only just begun to change. Learn how Gen Y is affected by, and is affecting this evolution.
Date(s): 06/19/07
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Michael Berger
Michael Berger is an expert in human dynamics, generational issues, and human systems and change.
As a consultant and executive coach, he is passionately committed to helping organizations become more successful and profitable by coaching current and future leaders to improve performance, develop a more positive attitude, and produce better results. With a broad range of experience from communications to human dynamics to organizational development, Michael finds that his biggest strength is in listening carefully to the many layers of each situation and helping clients find the resources -- both internal and external -- to work through their needs with great success and the learn from the process while they’re in it.
While originally from the US, Michael is currently the director of Leadership and Executive Coaching for the New Zealand Department of Conservation. He also works with private clients as an executive coach and is involved in a nation-wide effort to integrate the wisdom and perspectives of young people in New Zealand into a forum with business and government leaders. Additionally, he holds a Masters degree in Organizational Development and is an ICF credentialed coach. You can contact Michael at mberger@doc.govt.nz or track his thinking at www.bergerblog.com.
Date(s): 06/13/07
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Nathan Rothstein and Molly Reid
Rebuiding New Orleans through YURP (http://www.nolayurp.com/) is a new online resource and community to connect Young Urban Rebuilding Professionals across America with everything they need to make a healthy life and career in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
We recognize the tremendous need for young people in the rebuilding of New Orleans, not only in design and planning professions, but all industries. The website features profiles of current YURPs, job and volunteer postings, interactive maps, and frank information about life in post-Katrina New Orleans.
With this online community, YURP New Orleans hopes to bring Generation Yers together, crossing political, socioeconomic and ethnic boundaries, in a spirit of pragmatic idealism and public service.
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Nathan Rothstein
Molly Reid
Date(s): 06/12/07
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Jason Dorsey
Jason’s highly anticipated fourth book, My Reality Check Bounced!, was released in January by Random House/Broadway Books. My Reality Check Bounced! quickly reached # 1 on the Austin non-fiction bestseller list and received strong endorsements from Stephen Covey, Jack Canfield, Po Bronson, and many more thought leaders. The important message in My Reality Check Bounced! led to Jason’s appearance on numerous media outlets including 20/20, The Wall Street Journal, the Yahoo.com homepage, and The Oprah & Friends Radio Network.
Join us for this call as Jason shares his insights as a Generation Y Leader and Expert
Date(s): 06/07/07
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Alexandre J. Petraglia
Alexandre J. Petraglia was born in Manhattan on May 27, 1988. He grew up on Long Island and upstate New York. He attended Garden City Senior High School where he competed in varsity fencing and was the head of audio/visual, assisting with countless school productions. He was a National Merit Society Qualifier and won the Adelphi University Prize for Leadership Scholarship.
Alex has been a magician since 4th grade, performing numerous private and charity shows. His other interests include writing, art, technology and computing, web design, videogaming, golf, fencing, and equestrian.
When he was 14, he incorporated his first business, Primotech, LLC., a technology, software, and gaming review and news site. With a handful of freelance writers across the country, the site took off tremendously in the technology and gaming communities online. He has published exclusive articles from a variety of sources and topics, scooping outlets like PC Gamer, Wired Magazine, and the New York Times. The site currently averages 80,000 unique visitors a month.
Alex is currently a freshman at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, studying computer science and business. Within the next 12 months, he hopes to create and incorporate an idea factory compromised of a team of web coders, artists, investors, marketers, and business majors, with which to launch several new projects a year.
Alex has an upcoming project (TBA) that will revolutionize how people think about both marketing and charity.
He will be engaging in a lively discussion about what it's like to be a young entrepreneur and the obstacles his generation is facing, including challenges with technology, online social networks and the power of Web 2.0.
Date(s): 06/05/07
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Andy Jennings
Andy Jennings, the winningest men's soccer coach in Vassar history, transformed Vassar into one of the Northeast region's premier teams, capturing two Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference regional championships, appearing in seven ECAC playoff championships, and winning three Suburban Conference titles.
Jennings graduated from Exeter University in England with a Bachelor of Education, received his Masters degree from the College of William and Mary in Virginia and gained his PhD in Sport Psychology from the University of Maryland. Jennings also serves as the women's golf coach.
Jennings philosophy is that being a member of the soccer team at Vassar is not simply about playing the game. The overriding goal is the pursuit of personal growth and development. It is through a player's commitment to his intellectual, emotional, psychological, as well as, physical development along with my commitment to providing an environment in which the positive effects of these traits will be maximized that the players and the team will experience the greatest success. While the end is important therefore, it is the process that will ultimately determine how successful the team will be.
Date(s): 05/29/07
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Eric Green
Learn how you can leverage yourself with two of the hottest web 2.0 companies in the world MySpace and YouTube. Also learn about a little known web-based platform called Helloworld which has a suite of products and services over a billion people are expected to use.
Date(s): 05/22/07
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Michelle Di Pilla
Michelle Di Pilla – San Francisco, CA Michelle Di Pilla, current SFO Training and Programs Coordinator for the San Francisco International Airport, implemented several dynamic internship programs addressing diverse needs. Michelle has received special recognition for her work with SFO Career Connect, a program for youths 18 - 25 who have faced personal challenges but demonstrate motivation in finding career and personal focus.
The At-Risk Youth Employment Program run by the City of San Francisco awarded funding to the San Francisco International Airport to implement the SFO Career Connect. The Interns for this program represent diverse neighborhoods and ethnicities. SFO Career Connect meets the unique needs of youth employment programs because it goes beyond providing internships and training. The program provides essential tools for success and for job retention, like; Short and long-term career planning, Interpersonal Skills, Professional Communication and Dress, Balancing Self-Expression and Heritage with Workplace Expectations, Money Management, Health and Stress Management, Balancing young parenthood and family obligations with work, and Educational planning and priorities.
Michelle will be discussing the breakthroughs that she achieved with this unique Intern based opportunity. Additionally, she will discuss why this program is a groundbreaking idea, how Gen Y’ers can become involved and how spread the idea into new areas and markets.
Date(s): 05/15/07
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Nicholas Fitzhugh
In the fall of 2000 around a kitchen table in a dorm room at Brown University, Glimpse Foundation President and Publisher Nick Fitzhugh called a meeting to discuss an idea he had for a “new approach to international journalism”. Those in attendance shared a fundamental concern over the lack of venues through which Americans can contextualize geographic knowledge and gain insight into the daily realities of life abroad, especially during times of unprecedented globalization. How to address this concern? Why not solicit personal stories—not from travelers or reporters—but rather from people confronting these daily realities by living for extended periods of time abroad?
Inaugurated online in spring 2001 as The Global Pulse, Glimpse originally featured five creative nonfiction pieces, written by friends and fellow Brown students who were studying abroad. Over the next years, a team of seven dedicated student volunteers, including current Editor in Chief Kerala Goodkin, worked to expand The Global Pulse, attracting new contributors by making contacts with study abroad offices and international volunteer programs across the country.
In fall 2001, The Global Pulse Corporation was re-incorporated as The Glimpse Foundation and received tax-exempt status the following spring. Before graduation in spring 2002, Glimpse’s founding team launched the premiere print issue of Glimpse and organized its first conference: Behind the News: New Perspectives in International Journalism. A generous planning grant from The National Geographic Society enabled the transition from student project to full-time operation. Nick and Kerala became full-time employees in June 2002 and have since worked tirelessly to make their first kitchen table conversation a reality.
The Glimpse Foundation fosters cross-cultural understanding and exchange, particularly between the United States and the rest of the world, by providing forums for sharing the experiences of young adults living and studying abroad.
As an economic and military superpower, the United States exerts more power internationally than any other nation; however, the American public’s understanding of the rest of the world—its peoples, its cultures and its social and political challenges—is severely limited. The Glimpse Foundation is designed to reconcile this disparity.
During this call, President Nick Fitzhugh will be sharing his insights and beliefs... that if we seek to understand the daily realities of life around the world, we are more likely to identify ourselves as world citizens with a responsibility to global stewardship. Through positive, personal and peaceful cross-cultural communication, we can work toward developing a global community built upon mutual respect and understanding.
Date(s): 05/08/07
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Mari Moss
Mari Moss is the founder of Present Your Talents for Peace, an organization which was started in 2002 in response to issues affecting youth such as violence, drugs, teen pregnancy, and other negative life choices that young people make. The orgazniation started through a peace rally that attracted hundreds of interested citizens to stop violence and encourage youth to make positive decisions in their lives. Present Your Talents for Peace encourages vulnerable at-risk young people to lead positive and productive lives through expression in arts, culture, education and the media. Present Your Talents for Peace currently has over 300 youth members and is in seek of resources and funding which will help develop young role models for the 21st century. The organization accomplishes its mission through a variety of offerings and by providing a bi-weekly television show, P.E.A.C.E. TV, a unique and youth-oriented television show that uses media to reach at-risk young people in positive ways. To view a clip of a recent episode, visit this url: www.youtube.com/PEACETV.
During this presentation, Mari will be speaking with us about how to use Hip Hop to make a positive impact on Generation Y. This is going to be a very compelling presentation, so please make every effort to attend!
Date(s): 05/01/07
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Carolyn A. Martin, Ph.D.
Dr. Martin is a world-class keynote speaker, seminar leader, and master trainer. She has been a RainmakerThinking principal since 2000. Carolyn is an expert on generational diversity and performance management. With Bruce Tulgan, Carolyn is the co-author of Managing Generation Y, Managing the Generation Mix, and The Customer Service Intervention. Carolyn has wowed audiences across North America, the UK, and Japan for the past 20 years and consistently receives rave reviews for her humor, practicality, and passion. Carolyn's work has been featured in US News and World Report, The LA Times, Global HR, and Nursing Management.
Carolyn will be speaking on developing the next generation and talking specifically about whose job is it really to take this next great generation into the future.
Date(s): 04/24/07
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Jean M. Twenge, Ph.D
Jean M. Twenge, Ph.D. is a widely published associate professor of psychology at San Diego State University. Her research has appeared in Time, USA Today, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and she has been featured on Today and Dateline and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. She holds degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan.
GenMe has created a profound shift in the American character, changing what it means to truly be an individual in today’s society. Engaging, controversial, prescriptive and funny, Dr. Twenge’s presentation provides Boomers new insight into their offspring while giving adults in their 20s and 30s the opportunity to make sense of themselves, their goals and to find their road to happiness.
Date(s): 04/17/07
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Rebecca Ryan
Rebecca Ryan, Founder / CEO – Next Generation Consulting, Inc. and author of Live First, Work Second
Fasten your seatbelts! Rebecca Ryan is progress in motion. Rebecca's keen eye for trends and irreverence in presenting them make her one of America's most in-demand consultants for clients who want to engage the next generation. Rebecca was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and is currently writing her new book, Live First Work Second. Rebecca's passion is teaching today's leaders how to engage tomorrow's.
Next Generation Consulting focuses its work on developing NextGen companies, communities and arts organizations as well as developing conversations with young people about what their thinking through its YPCommons area. NGC is a collective of smart, balanced people committed to building better places to live and work. As Jim Armstrong, their communication guru says, “A business isn’t a brand to be built, but a cause to be believed in.”® Listen to the passion as Rebecca discusses investing in community, building creative work environments, and examining engaging young people, as they choose what’s cool.
Date(s): 04/10/07
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Michael Simmons
Michael Simmons, Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour Founder and Author, The Student Success Manifesto
Michael Simmons co-founded his first business, Princeton WebSolutions (PWS), when he was sixteen years old. PWS was later rated the #1 youth-run web development company in the nation by Youngbiz Magazine. In addition, Michael has been the winner of three “entrepreneurs of the year” awards from the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Fleet, and the National Coalition for Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship.
Michael and his wife, Sheena Lindahl, are the co-founders of Extreme Entrepreneurship Education and authors of The Student Success Manifesto and All or Nothing, Now or Never. They have been keynote speakers on the topics of student success and youth entrepreneurship at events and conferences from Washington state to Washington D.C. As 2005 graduates of New York University, authors, teachers, speakers, and award-winning entrepreneurs, they are able to deliver a unique perspective that connects with audiences. Recently, Michael and Sheena were named by Business Week as one of the country's top 25 entrepreneurs under 25.
Date(s): 04/03/07
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Arel Moodie and Bert Gervais
Arel Moodie and Bert Gervais – The Placefinder.com
As students at SUNY-Binghampton University, Bert and Arel founded a small company to help students find off-campus housing, roommates and sublets at their college. These entrepreneurs were recently highlighted in USA Today. Bert, who hails from Haiti says that through his studies and support from a student free enterprise group he was able to change the “employee” mindset that he’d learned from his parents and his environment into an “employer” mindset. Arel is using his experience as an entrepreneur to expand into public speaking. ThePlacefinder.com is in the process of expanding its services to a number of new campuses so our guests will discuss the impetus for becoming entrepreneurs, what they’re discovering about expanding a business, and using technology and social connections to fulfill their dreams.
Date(s): 03/27/07
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James Sun
He's smart, he's worldly, and he's still hanging in there on The Apprentice! The show is now down to eight leaders who areTrump empire, and James Sun is still in the running vying for a top position in the ! Born in Seoul, Korea, James Sun and his family immigrated to the United States when he was age 4 with less than $1000. As a kid, his friend's parents kept his friends from playing with him, because his family was from a poor neighborhood. This experience created a fiery passion in James' heart to succeed at all costs. In elementary school, he started selling window cleaning services that taught him to handle sales rejection early in life. Now the CEO of Zoodango, an online professional networking site that arranges in-person meetings at local venues, James is building a successful life around his personal mission, "Success is having peace with yourself every day." As a contestant in the current season of the hit TV Series, The Apprentice, James will be using all his business and life skills to win a coveted spot working for Donald Trump.
James will talk about the topic of social networking for young professionals, success mindset, and what he learned being an Apprentice contestant with The Donald!
Date(s): 03/20/07
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Mayor David Kleis and Austin Lee
At 14 years old, Austin Lee is one of the youngest public officials serving in the country. Appointed by Mayor David Kleis, Austin serves on the Park Board of the City of St. Cloud, Minnesota after he caught the attention of the Mayor for his remarkable work on plans for a skate park. When Austin approached Mayor Kleis on July 4th to ask for a meeting on the skate park, Mayor Kleis had no idea what to expect. After the meeting, he was so impressed with the details and efforts that Austin had completed, he made Austin a member of the park board permanently. Austin's story was recently highlighted on ABC News' 'Person of the Week' segment. Austin and Mayor Kleis will share insights about community, generational differences, and using your networks to achieve your mission.
Date(s): 03/13/07
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Misti Burmeister
As the CEO of Inspirion Inc., Misti Burmeister is committed to helping organizations and individuals reach their potential across the generations. Ms. Burmeister is a recognized expert on coaching and empowering generations X and Y in their professional careers through individual and corporate coaching, speaking and emerging leadership seminars. She offers a practical blueprint for developing young leaders and for building strong, diverse teams. Her intergenerational coaching within corporations has proven to be effective in reducing turnover among younger workers. Her facilitation of communication between younger staff and more seasoned management results in more productive and effective work environments.
Ms. Burmeister was recently awarded the eWomen Network's prestigious International Femtor Award for Emerging Leaders. She has also been named a 2005 Community Fellow of the Foundation for Community Leadership as an acknowledgement for her commitment and vision to empowering young people.
Date(s): 03/06/07
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David Cohen
Documentary Film Producer on the life of rapper Biggie Smalls
In the hip-hop industry, the lifespan of a "star" is about that of a gallon of milk. But, some stars live on... even after they've passed on. David Charles Cohen is a film producer who is working with an Academy/Emmy Award-nominated director on a documentary about the life and music of Biggie Smalls, a hip-hop/rap star who died in 1996. Biggie's influence in the music industry is still sizable, and his albums continue to sell extremely well in Europe and Asia .
As a film producer, it is Mr. Cohen's job to market his film to the difficult to reach 18 - 30 year old urban male hip-hop viewer. Working in a new, high-risk film format (High Definition), identifying investors for a small budget film, and managing the business of "terabytes" of digital information received from around the world have been just a few of the challenges David has overcome on the verge of his film's release.
As our guest he'll discuss the changes brought by the independent film industry, the search for the next great communication medium, and the impact that treating employees well has had on productivity.
Date(s): 02/27/07
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Ben Casnocha
At 18, Ben Casnocha has already lived a life many only dream of. Ben started his first company when he was 12 years-old and is currently on the board of Comcate, Inc ., an e-government software company he founded at age 14. Ben's work has been featured in dozens of international media including CNN and USA Today . At a conference in Paris PoliticsOnline named him one of the "25 most influential people in the world of internet and politics". He recently graduated from high school where he was two-year captain of the varsity basketball team, editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, and founder of a failed campus radio station.
Ben is the author of the forthcoming book My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley (Jossey-Bass, May '07) and writes prolifically on his blog which the San Jose Business Journal recently called one of the "Top 25 Blogs in Silicon Valley." BusinessWeek recently named Ben "one of America's top young entrepreneurs." For two years Ben served on the California Advisory Board of BizWorld Foundation , a non-profit deploying entrepreneurship curriculum into 5th grade classrooms around the world. He also co-runs the Silicon Valley Junto , an intellectual discussion society for business and technology ex ecutives. In his free time Ben enjoys playing chess, ping-pong, reading, and writing.
Date(s): 02/23/07
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Josh Kowitt and Scott Neuberger
Josh Kowitt and Scott Neuberger of CollegeBoxes.com (voted one of the top 30 Businesses in 2006 by Inc. Magazine)
As college students at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Scott and Josh owned separate, but complimentary, businesses which focused on the needs college students have for storage and appliance-rental.
Following college these two entrepreuneurs merged their businesses to form Collegeboxes, a one stop shop for shipping "your stuff" to over thirty colleges and overseas for study abroad.
Through their commitment to technology and comprehensive recruitment of talented on and off campus managers, Collegeboxes has developed an efficient system to provide shipping and storage services, appliance rentals and more to students across the United States. Service highlights include online registration and account management, toll-free customer support and door-to-door pickup and delivery.
Listed in Inc. Magazine as one of the "Top 30 Entreprenuers under 30" in 2006, these Gen Y leaders will give us an insight into why entreprenuersism is on the rise today - and why traditional businesses should beware.
Date(s): 02/19/07
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Dan Balzer and Susan Manning
Dan Balzer and Susan Manning from the LearningTimes Green Room
Are you communicating effectively with our next Generation of Leaders...Gen Y? If not, you may find yourself short on clients by the year 2010. In order to lead and do business with Generation Y, the first step is to learn how to best communicate with them.
Our next generation of leaders are communicating in their own way...because they can! This tech-savvy, worldly group of 20 something young adults are living in 'fast forward' mode, and if you are a Gen X or Baby Boomer leader, you had better keep up with your communication (which by the way does not involve hitting Gen Y over the head or breathing down their necks or communicating with a lot of hype)! This class will provide you with real life insights into how to communicate with Gen Y from a panel of experts who have been there and done it.
Representing what it's like to parent Generation Y young adults, Bea Fields will share with you the 9 key strategies for getting the best out of your 20-something connected leaders. Dan Balzer, of The LearningTimes Green Room, will discuss what it's like to communicate with this generation in the corporate workplace. And Susan Manning, also from The LearningTimes Green Room, will highlight what the research in academia tells us about this generation as learners.
Dan Balzer and Susan Manning join us from The LearningTimes Green Room, a podcast where the hosts think out loud about learning in many different contexts. Individually, Dan and Susan have worked in K12, higher education and the corporate side of learning and have a combined
40+ years of looking at learning and technology. Currently, Dan works for a global energy company designing corporate-wide online training. Susan teaches online in a program that prepares faculty for moving their curriculum online. You can learn more details about them at http://www.ltgreenroom.org.
Date(s): 01/09/07
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