Julian Stodd
Sea Salt Learning
A self-described “explorer of the Social Age,” Julian is devoted to helping organizations form strategy and shape projects to deliver transformative change. His numerous books, articles, papers and blog posts provide windows into topics like social learning, social leadership, collaborative technology, social justice, and dynamic change. In 2014, Julian founded Sea Salt Learning, a global consultancy that delivers services and solutions around learning, leadership, technology, and change.
Reda Sadki
Geneva Learning Foundation
Reda is an educational innovator with over two decades working in the United Nations, the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, and in Dr. Siemens is an internationally renowned author, researcher, and theorist in the field of learning, systemic change, and technology. Learning is the solution local communities. Reda believes in doing new things in new ways to do more, do better, and reach further – and to do good.
George Siemens
University of Texas, Arlington
Dr. Siemens is an internationally renowned author, researcher, and theorist in the field of learning, systemic change, and technology. Learning is the solution local communities. Reda believes in doing new things in new ways to do more, do better, and reach further – and to do good. In addition to work in learning analytics and massive open online courses, he pioneered the connectivist learning theory with Stephen Downes. He serves as professor and executive director of the LINK Research Lab at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Chris Ernst
Gates Foundation
Uniquely positioned to enable innovation and change in complex environments, Chris’ life’s work is to empower people to learn and collaborate across wide ranging boundaries to tackle their toughest challenges. He’s been able to do just that through executive roles with the globally top ranked Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), Juniper Networks in Silicon Valley, and now as the Director of Learning, Leadership & Organization Development with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Kimo Kippen
Hilton Worldwide
Known as a “Citizen of the World”, Kimo Kippen is a thought leader and soughtout international keynote speaker. His goal is to make a difference in the world by inspiring business and civic leaders, as well as employees, to think outside the box. As the Chief Learning Officer of Hilton Worldwide, Kimo has transformed its learning and development culture, directly improving the company’s guest scores, brand loyalty, and global market foothold. Most recently, he has supported the success of Hilton’s “Travel with Purpose” initiative, which educates and trains company team members on how to help stop child trafficking.
Kimberli Jeter
PYXERA Global
Kimberli’s career has focused on creating linkages and facilitating relationships to ensure that people and organizations have access to the tools, resources, partners and networks they need to be successful. As head of learning and partnerships at PYXERA Global, she now focuses her efforts internally and provides training and technical support to global staff, consultants, volunteers, and partners.
Brain Washburn
SightLife
Brian began experimenting with flipcharts as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay and has spent most of his career leading training initiatives in the nonprofit sector. He holds a master’s degree in organizational psychology and is currently helping end corneal blindness as global learning and development manager for SightLife, the world’s eye bank.
Atish Gonsalves
Humanitarian Leadership Academy
Atish is a social technologist, with a background in technology and human-computer interaction (HCI). Prior to the Academy, Atish was the Executive Director of DisasterReady.org (in Los Angeles, USA) and has worked for many years with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) where he led the learning technology team.
Mike Culligan
LINGOs
Mike has worked in the field for over 20 years. He specializes in innovative learning solutions and leads LINGOs’ work on the DPro certifications and standards.
Michelle Turchin
Wildlife Conservation Society
Michelle has played a key role in the development and implementation of WCS U across WCS globally, and heads a new Learning and Capacity-Building team within Human Resources. With 20 years of experience, Michelle has played roles in training and development, recruitment, communications and change management, performance management, and management and leadership development.
Alan Betts
Ht2
With a background which includes 20 years in Financial Services, Alan has lectured to all levels of University students and has served as an Executive trainer for some of the world’s top companies. Alan founded HT2 back in 2000 and today serves as Chairman of the Board, as well as our Chief Learning Officer.
Kristin Hibler
K Hibler Consulting
After 20 years in Learning & Development, Kristin founded a consulting firm specializing in work that brings her joy: partnering with global clients to enhance communication, collaboration & cultural competence. Ultimately, more engaged people result in more productive organizations.
Heather Snyder
The Nature Conservancy
Heather is an eLearning Designer and Developer with The Nature Conservancy. Prior to joining the Technology Learning Center training team, Heather managed technology and information systems for the Conservancy, The State of Montana, and Zoot Enterprises. She holds certification in ATD Learning Design, CompTIA A+ , SharePoint design, Goodman Institute Storytelling, and is an active Toastmaster.
John Cropper
LINGOs
John has worked in NGOs for over 20 years across Asia, Africa and Latin America at project, program, general management and board levels.
Juan Manuel Palacios
LINGOs
Juan Manuel has worked in NGOs for over 20 years. He works on capacity building for staff of NGOs in Latin America and lusophone Africa, through training, facilitation and consultancy
Steve Cox
Inter-American Foundation
Steve brings 37 years of international community development and environmental management experience to his current role as Managing Director for Networks and Strategic Initiatives at the IAF. He began his career working with a Guatemalan NGO building potable water systems for indigenous communities. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations, the Global Environment Facility, CARE, the Oscar Arias Foundation, the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, and the Pew Charitable Trusts; has been a guest lecturer at Columbia, Duke, the University of Maryland, the University of Minnesota, and Notre Dame; and has served on several non-profit boards.
Amanda Fagerblom
Inter-American Foundation
Amanda works the intersection of #ICT4D and grassroots development in Latin America and the Caribbean, serving @iafgrassroots.
Tosca Bruno-Van Vijfeiken
Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Tosca has worked on international development and civil society issues for almost 30 years, in practice and in academia. She focuses on the governance, leadership and effectiveness of INGOs, and directs the TNGO Leadership Institute and its related customized leadership development work with INGOs. Tosca also works on change leadership and management in INGOs, and on evaluation.
Aina G. Irbe
ACDI/VOCA
Aina is fluent in technologies and techniques for eLearning development in large training initiatives. She is also experienced in managing and applying instructional design and principles of adult learning. She established and managed the first training department at SSB BART Group and EYT, Inc., served as Adjunct Faculty at George Washington University, and developed the first web-based Latvian language training course for the FSI School of Language Studies.
Jacqueline Deelstra
Creative Associates
Jacqui supports Creative’s divisions with the integration of technology solutions to improve program outcomes. She is particularly interested in mobile money, mobile data collection solutions, education technology and technology solutions that allow women and youth to better participate and voice their concerns in their communities.
Terry Lewis
Mango
Terry has led Mango’s Learning and Development program since it was founded in 2000. She pioneered Mango’s highly participative and fun style of engaging non-finance managers which truly does “take the fear out of finance.” In 2014 she started translating that participative culture into online learning through e-workshops, and is developing other trainers to do the same.
Ennie Chipembere Chikwema
ActionAid
Ennie is a life coach, a Learning and Development expert, a feminist leader and women’s rights champion. At ActionAid and through Facebook pages & WhatsApp groups devoted to self-coaching, Ennie works to help people to fulfil their potential and helps organizations be equipped to fulfil their mission.
Paige Winn
FHI 360
Paige is a Raleigh native, enthusiastic gardener, Bluegrass lover, Wolfpack fan, and a Senior Learning Officer at FHI 360 headquarters in North Carolina. When she’s not managing instructional design and eLearning initiatives, she enjoys her favorite work role: facilitating meaningful and lively workshops to make learning more impactful.
Shannon Dowd
PATH
Shannon has ten years of experience creating and managing training processes and practices. As part of the Learning, Talent and Organization Development Team, she leads the strategy for the delivery of PATH’s core role trainings and manages the global eLearning portfolio providing quality and cost-efficient training to over 1400 PATH employees in 40+ countries.
Lisa Giacumo
Boise State University
Lisa A. Giacumo is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning at Boise State University. Her professional consulting and research interests focus on blended learning and the use of digital tools, including big data and analytics, for training and performance improvement. In previous roles, she worked in the humanitarian sector as an instructional designer and trainer. In addition, she has trained, managed, and led teams in various non-profits, businesses, and universities. Lisa is a frequent presenter at AECT, presented at LINGO’s Global Learning Forum in 2015, and is excited to be back at LINGOs GLF again this year.
Pascal Debordes
Cegos
Pascal oversees all relations with Distribution Partners globally, including Selection Process, definition and implementation of the Go-to-Market Strategy, Performance and Contract Management. He has led several Business Units including e-Learning Solutions and Large Scale Deployments. Prior to joining Cegos, he was Associate Partner at Andersen Consulting, and led Intellinex France, an Ernst&Young spin-off specialized in e-Learning.
Sarah Ford
Catholic Relief Services
Sarah provides strategic leadership and direction for CRS’s partnership and capacity strengthening efforts, collaborating across CRS to further develop the capacity of local organizations serving people living in poverty. As part of this work, she develops standardized approaches and best practices in capacity development and leads CRS’s efforts to communicate its capacity approach to partners, peer agencies, and donors.
Anne Signe Hørstad
Transparency International
Anne is a project coordinator for “Building capacity to address corruption risk in humanitarian operations.” She’s worked for Yme Foundation as a project manager and later at the Norwegian Red Cross HQ as a water sanitation (WASH) adviser. She has also been a facilitator for WASH trainings and several Emergency Response trainings arranged by the Norwegian Red Cross.
Parvati Patil
CGAP
Parvati has experience working both on financial inclusion and technology-related issues. Prior to her work with CGAP, Parvati worked with a social enterprise startup called Vittana as its South Asia Regional Program Manager. At Vittana, Parvati spearheaded the pilot launch of a higher education student loan product in partnership with microfinance institutions in India. She holds a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and a Bachelors in Engineering.
Thom Sinclair
CGAP
Thom leads the Gateway Academy, a MasterCard Foundation initiative aimed at building capacity for inclusive financial service providers in sub-Saharan Africa. Before joining CGAP, Thom was a Senior Knowledge Management and Learning Advisor and the Program Cycle Capacity Building Team Lead with USAID’s Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) Bureau.
Kim Hagan
Cornerstone on Demand
As Director of Learning Strategy and Engagement, Kim is responsible for leading the content development efforts associated with the Cornerstone Foundation’s signature programs and overseeing the Foundation’s other learning initiatives by engaging key stakeholders in designing, developing, and deploying comprehensive solutions for nonprofits globally by leveraging the Cornerstone OnDemand platform.
Ross Coxon
LINGOs
Ross has been working in learning and development within the sector for over 12 years. Ross oversees membership and member collaboration initiatives.
Gretchen Regehr
Conservation International
Gretchen leads the L & D function and career development and leadership approaches at CI that lead to a ready pipeline of highly skilled talent across critical roles and leadership. Prior to joining CI, she worked for many years with Catholic Relief Services as the Director for Talent Development, and has been part of LINGOs since the very beginning.
Nick Martin
TechChange
Nick is an educator, technologist, and social entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of TechChange, a Washington DC-based social enterprise that provides online training for social change. He’s also a PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, an Ariane de Rothschild Fellow, an International Youth Foundation Global Fellow, and an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown and George Washington Universities.