2020 Winter Conference Presenters

Holly Burkett, PhD, SPHR
Principal
Evaluation Works

Session: Building Organizational Resilience: There's A Gap for That!

For over 20 years, Holly has helped diverse organizations improve the impact of strategic culture change, leadership development, & performance improvement initiatives. She is passionate about developing resilient leadership capabilities that enable high engagement & performance.

Formerly with Apple, clients include the: International Union Against Tuberculosis & Lung Disease; State Bar of California; National Park Service; Chevron; California Public Employees Retirement System; UC Davis Talent Management Center; Blue Cross; & the National Security Agency.
An accomplished talent builder, change leader, & recognized measurement expert, she was recognized with the 2017 "Global Training & Development Leadership Award.” As a certified SPHR, certified ROI professional, & certified Prosci practitioner, she is a sought-after speaker, coach, facilitator, and CLO Learning Elite Judge. Publications include the award-winning book “Learning for the Long Run”, along with featured contributions to ATDs TDBoK, ATDs Foundations of Talent Development series, and ASTDs Handbook for Measuring & Evaluating Training. Her doctorate is in Human Capital Development.

Anita Countryman, SPHR, SHRM-SCP,
Vice President of Member Experience
Rock Valley Credit Union

Session: Case Study: Talent Development’s Strategic Role in Building Capacity to Lead through Change and Crisis

Anita Countryman, is Vice President of Member Experience at the Rock Valley Credit Union and has over 25 year’s experience leading teams and change initiatives in finance and healthcare. In her current role, she is responsible for human resources, training and organizational development, and key result areas impacting the success of the vision, mission and strategic plan.  Anita is a highly strategic and influential member of the executive team at RVCU, which is a progressive and growth orientated organization. She works closely with the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. The core of her experience is serving people and helping them adapt in times of uncertainty. These skills have been demonstrated via mergers and acquisitions, organizational upheaval and global pandemics.  At RVCU she is leading the branch operations teams through a time of high tech / high touch strategic initiates. Anita is a highly skilled change agent and trained in the CQ® System for developing Change Intelligence®, which she has leveraged at RVCU to build change leadership capabilities at all levels, and which has guided the institution’s strategic initiatives and crisis response, positively impacting the outcomes.  Anita holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from Judson University.

JD Dillon
Chief Learning Architect
Axonify

Session: Learning Disrupted – Lessons from the Frontline

Tatyana Fertelmeyster
a Founder and Principal
Connecting Differences, LLC

Session: Staying Centered While the World Is Spinning

Tatyana Fertelmeyster is a Founder and Principal of Connecting Differences, LLC. As a
consultant, trainer, and coach Tatyana partners with her clients to save their time and
resources by increasing clarity of communication and decreasing conflict, creating
positive customer experience and minimizing complains. Being a Licensed Clinical
Professional Counselor is instrumental in Tatyana’s From Inside Out and From Insight
to Outcome approach to coaching.

She provides coaching for teams and leaders with the focus on maximizing individual
strengths in the service of collective results, trust building, and intercultural competence
development. She also coaches high potential professionals in personal, cultural, and work-related transitions.

Dr. Esther Jackson

Keynote: Times are Uncertain but your Steps to Resilience and Innovation Shouldn't Be

Dr. Esther Jackson works as a consultant doing project management and instructional design work. She is also a National Advisor for Chapters with the Association for Talent Development (ATD). At the local level of ATD, she currently serves as Past President for the ATD Detroit Chapter. Her background includes presenting webinars, facilitating workshops, and presenting at conferences such as the Training Magazine Conference & Expo and the ATD Chapter Leaders Conference along with writing articles for the TD Magazine. Topics for her presentations have included adaptability, change management, data analytics, emotional intelligence, engagement, leadership development, project management, and many more. She holds a doctorate in education from Walden University and a master’s in instructional technology. Esther is working on her first book dealing with adaptability and it is due to be published in 2021.

Dan Johnson, CNTC, CPC
Performance Mastery

Session: Building Resilience Within a Remote Workforce

Dan Johnson, Founder of Performance Mastery, is a Certified NeuroTransformational Coach and a Performance Consultant specializing in leadership development, culture change, executive and team coaching, training, and talent development.  Dan has been coaching and consulting with organizational leaders on performance improvement issues for over 25 years. Among his clients have been large financial institutions, insurance companies, manufacturers, universities, and associations with leaders throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.  

Erich Kurschat
Harmony Insights LLC

Session: Convening a Mastermind: The Power of Collaboration

Erich Kurschat is the owner of Harmony Insights LLC  a company that helps organizations and consultants leverage the DiSC personality assessment.  He is also the founder of HRHotSeat (HRHotSeat.com), an inclusive mastermind community of real HR pros solving real HR problems.  Erich draws from a broad range of experiences as a corporate HR professional, a public speaker, a career coach, a classical musician, and a proud introvert to inspire others toward meaningful work and productive workplace relationships.

Krista Skidmore
cofounder and partner
FlashPoint

Session: From Uncertainty to Opportunity: Transforming to a Virtual Leadership Summit on the Fly

Krista Skidmore is cofounder and partner of FlashPoint, a leadership development consulting firm with a 18-year track record of achieving client outcomes and company growth. Early in her career, Krista worked in human resources, talent acquisition, compensation, and training and development roles, so she’s had more than 20 years of experience with a front-row seat to the powerful ways leadership and talent transform organizations. Krista earned a juris doctor degree from Indiana University and a bachelor’s degree in human resource management and psychology from Anderson University. She is certified as an SPHR and SHRM-SCP.

Adrienne D. Sims
Vice President, Talent Management
OneAmerica

Session: From Uncertainty to Opportunity: Transforming to a Virtual Leadership Summit on the Fly

Adrienne D. Sims is Vice President, Talent Management at OneAmerica.  Her responsibilities include providing strategic oversight for performance management, succession management, leadership/associate development, role-based training, onboarding, and associate engagement.   She is committed to delivering business value through driving strategic focus, accountability and execution at all levels of the organization.

Barbara A. Trautlein, PhD

Session: Case Study: Talent Development’s Strategic Role in Building Capacity to Lead through Change and Crisis

Barbara A. Trautlein, PhD is author of the best-selling book Change Intelligence:  Use the Power of CQ to Lead Change that Sticks, principal and founder of Change Catalysts, and originator of the CQ® System for Developing Change Intelligence®. For over 30 years, Barbara has coached executives, trained leaders at all levels, certified change agents, and facilitated mission-critical change management initiatives - achieving bottom-line business and powerful leadership results for clients.  In 2015 she had the honor of being awarded Change Management Consultant of the Year by the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) Midwest Chapter.  She is gifted at sharing strategies and tactics that are accessible, actionable, and immediately applicable.  Her blend of research and real-world expertise makes her an in-demand speaker at conferences in around the globe.  Barbara has a unique ability to connect with her audiences, from C-level executives in Fortune 500 organizations to front line employees, and across industries, from steel mills to sales teams, refineries to retail outlets, and healthcare to high tech.  Clients served include Abbott Laboratories, BP, Cisco, Deloitte, Northwestern University, and Rush Medical Center.  Barbara holds a doctorate in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.  

Eddie Turner

Keynote: How to Emerge as a Leader

Eddie is an International Certified Coach, an affiliate with the Institute of Coaching, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) coach with the International Coach Federation, and an official ICF Mentor Coach. Of the more than 37,000 ICF members in 143 countries, Eddie Turner was recognized as an ICF Coach of the Week in 2020.  Eddie is one of Marshall Goldsmith's 100 Coaches and is the host of the Keep Leading!® podcast, which earned Apple Podcasts coveted New & Noteworthy designation.

Eddie is an official ATD Facilitator.  He is the Past President of ATD Houston—one of ATD’s largest chapters.  Eddie is also one of 60 contributing subject matter experts to the newly released Talent Development Body of Knowledge—The Definitive Resource for the Talent Development Profession by the Association for Talent Development.