Program
Join us for a night of awards and recognition as we celebrate this year's chapter successes. We will hear from our chapter leaders, a dynamic speaker and will recognize chapter volunteers, local BEST Award winners and companies that participate in Employee Learning Week! Dinner will be served and is included in the cost of the event.
EBSCO Publishing, our sponsor for this event, will also be hosting and sponsoring a Wine Bar from 4:30pm - 5:30pm so come early to meet our sponsor and toast to a successful year with fellow chapter volunteers!
Bonus: Professional photographers from Andrew Wilson Studios will be available to take your photo free of charge! Arrive at 4:30 PM if you'd like to have your professional photo. http://www.andrewwilsonstudios.com/headshots/
All Power of 2 members (Greater Atlanta Chapter and ASTD National joint members) may enter to win a new iPad Mini, a one
year subscription to the eLearning Brothers Template Library, a free ad in our weekly eNewsletter, or an Atlanta Workplace Learning Radio interview! Contact
info@astdatlanta.org to verify that you are a Power of 2 member!
REGISTER EARLY!! Space is limited to the first 150 people and seats will go fast.
Topic
Trends in Learning & Development:
Simulation & Virtual Technology
Advancements in technology increasingly allow us to close the gap between the classroom experience and real-world application of new skills and knowledge. Healthcare is a primary example where high-fidelity training simulations allow learning professionals to measure more than just recall. The same is true for gauging learning and development needs. Assessing skills and capabilities should closely tie to ways in which the individual would use them in the real world. Travis Barton, a Leadership and Organization Performance Consultant with Mercer, will share insights on how a variety of technologies are changing the landscape of learning and development.
Presenter:
Travis Barton is a Senior Associate with Mercer. She helps organizations manage their workforce talent and Human Resources function to optimize value and performance. Travis has more than 10 years of Human Capital experience with a wide range of issues including leadership assessment and development, workforce planning, succession planning, performance management, and organization design. In addition, she serves as Mercer’s Global Product Manager for two of its leadership assessment tools – 360 Degree Feedback and TalentSim.
Travis works with both global and domestic clients. Those with multi-national reach include Agbar, CNH, Global Payments, ITT-Koni, Lyondell-Basell, Orica, and Samsung Telecommunication. Other clients in North America include AT&T, Education Management Corporation, Kforce, Scripps, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and Supervalu.
Before joining Mercer, Travis held a variety of internal HR positions in Talent Development, Compensation and Employee Communications & Change Management. Travis holds a BA from Davidson College and an MBA from Georgia Institute of Technology. She has a Senior Professional Human Resources certification and is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management.
Agenda:
4:30 PM Professional Photographs and Wine Bar
5:00 PM Registration Opens, Networking
5:15 PM New Member Orientation
6:00 PM Welcome, Introductions, Announcements
6:15 PM Employee Learning Week Recognition
6:35 PM Speaker Presentation - Trends in L&D
7:15 PM Volunteer Recognition
7:45 PM 2013 Vision - President-Elect, Richard Fletcher
8:00 PM ASTD BEST Winners 2012 & Scholarship Announcement
8:15 PM Closing Remarks
Don't Forget the Food Drive!
Remember to bring a canned good or two with you to the chapter meeting. Donations benefit the Atlanta Community Food Bank. We've met our goal for the year, but like so many things that the Greater Atlanta Chapter does, we want to over-achieve in this important effort. Thank you for all your generosity!
Location and Directions
DoubleTree by Hilton Atlanta-Marietta
2055 South Park Place
Atlanta, GA 30339
From the south: I-75N to Windy Hill Rd. exit; turn left on Windy Hill (heading west). Turn right onto South Park Place
*complimentary parking
Thank You To Our Meeting Sponsor:
EBSCO Publishing serves the learning information needs of more than 100,000 institutions around the globe. By bringing together a combination of proprietary book summaries, content from top magazines and journals, learning videos, eBooks, and the technology to faciliate access and integration, EBSCO Publishing provides a unique, proven solution designed to support any formal and informal learning initiative.
REGISTER EARLY!! Space is limited to the first 150 people and seats will go fast.
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