Chapter Dinner Meeting: Leaders-As-Teachers -- Getting Started, Growing, and Succeeding

Leaders-as-Teachers is today's imperative for success among leading companies. At this event, you will take a short quiz to assess the readiness levels in your organization for a Leaders-as-Teachers approach. Then explore ways to help your leader-teachers succeed with active teaching frames and other proven approaches.

Learning Objectives:

1. Using research as a basis, identify the top reasons for you to propose a leaders-as-teachers approach.
2. Assess the organizational readiness level for starting or expanding a leaders-as-teachers approach.
3. Select one or more active-teaching methods that will bring success for your leader teachers.

LISA M. D. OWENS
Lisa M. D. Owens is a learning expert who applies learning sciences and instructional design methodology to training programs that move businesses forward. During Lisa’s 30+ year career at Procter & Gamble (P&G), she served as P&G’s leading training professional (1994 – 2011), and dean of P&G’s R&D University (2003-2011).

At P&G, she was a sought-after internal consultant for training design. She was well known for her skill as a coach for executive
trainers, a skill she developed in response to P&G’s culture of leaders-as-teachers. Lisa designed a wide range of training at P&G which used a leaders-as-teachers approach, including General Manager College for two CEOs, and several corporate universities across organizations as diverse as public affairs and research & development. Lisa holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (’77 Georgia Tech), and Masters in Education (’96 University of Cincinnati). She joined P&G as a process engineer in 1977 and shifting to a training role in 1992.

Lisa was the instructional designer for Boy Scouts of America’s youth leadership training (NYLT (2005), NAYLE, and Trainer’s EDGE). She continues her passion for developing youth
leadership skills through China Capable Teens.

Lisa founded Training Design Strategies LLC in 2012 and consults with large and midsize firms on developing training strategies that advance the business. Her publications include an article "Leader Trainers" in Leadership Excellence (2005) and several articles on forming corporate universities. She is on the advisory board for Ohio University’s instructional design certificate program, on the executive advisory board for the Greater Cincinnati chapter of ASTD, and she has served as a CorpU awards judge since 2010.

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