Instructional Design

KEYGroup® is a management consulting and training firm in Pittsburgh, PA. It’s group of professionals include Fortune 500 executives, health care administrators, manufacturing managers, government/military supervisors, and community leaders who consult and train in the areas of performance management, employee development, and leadership. Jan has been designing and delivering customized management training programs for the firm since 1984 and serves as KEYGroup’s President.
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Geraldine Q. Ruthchild, PH.D. President of Exemplar, Ltd. creates and delivers innovative training curricula, training programs, procedures manuals, and other technical documentation. In addition to developing traditional manual-based training, her experience includes distance learning and various formats of computer-delivered training including CBT, and training via internet/intranet/extranet. Dr. Ruthchild’s background combines academia, instructional design, and investor relations to produce training materials that are pedagogically sound, instructionally creative, and informed by a deep understanding of business issues. Clients include Citibank, Merrill Lynch, Koch Industries, J.P. Morgan, American Arbitration Association, and Knight Ridder Financial.
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Frank W. Sarr , President of Training Implementation Services, designs customized training programs. He built his company on the premise that “real genius is not in the building of the training programs, but in getting them used.” His powerful Accountability Performancesm system energizes employees to approach their learning seriously and demonstrate that they can use what they have learned. As importantly, it incorporates accountability which speeds new employee productivity. Frank’s programs have been responsible for extraordinary performance improvements for dozens of client companies in such industries as Insurance, Banking, Mananged Care, and Pharmaceuticals. Prior to founding Training Implementation Services, Frank served as Vice President of all Field Training for CIGNA and as Director of Financial Services Marketing with Wilson Learning Corporation where he marketed training products to the financial industry throughout the United States, Australia, and Canada.
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Margaret (Peg) Skarrow founded Skarrow Associates in 1989. Her consulting firm develops custom training programs for large businesses as well as start-ups. She is an expert in instructional design, project management, human resource consulting and competency analysis. Prior to forming her company, she was a consultant for Arthur D. Little, a curriculum design project director for Westinghouse Health Systems, a senior project manager at Learning International, and director of human resource planning and development with a Pathmark supermarket chain.
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