Lisa Edmondson

Made in Doraville - The Movie

Flexing all my creative muscles on this passion project to create a movie about my hometown of Doraville, Georgia. I created our website (www.madeindoraville.com), as well as all the SWAG located via our shop. I'm writing the script and will be co-directing the motive.  Check out my page on IMDb.com!

Doraville. She's made legendary cars. She's made legendary music. Soon, she'll be known for making legendary movies. But it's her diversity that she wants as her legacy.

Producer/Co-Director/Writer

Leadership Reno

Established company and business strategy to deliver on a “passion project” that addresses gaps in leadership development programs, expectations, metrics, and succession planning. Established LLC, to provide consulting services for training content development, script writing, storyboarding, certification development, and leadership development. 

- 2024: Writer/Director: Made in Doraville Documentary (in pre-production)

- Author of the book, "The Ethology of Leaders."

- Awarded a Silver Telly Award in 2023 in recognition for my eLearning course titled, "Dissolving Bullying in the Workplace." 

- Recognized in 2023 by GreatCompanies Business Magazine with one of their Women Entrepreneur awards.

Founder & Owner

GP Strategies Corporation

Designed comprehensive role-based end-user training (EUT) curriculum development and deployment plan for CloudSuite Healthcare SaaS implementation at client's site.

Principal Training Lead

ISG (Information Services Group)

Led a team of Consulting Managers, Senior Learning Consultants and Learning Designers to deliver training design, development and implementation expertise (Training as a Service - TaaS) to organizations who needed support with their ever-evolving learning and capability development needs. 

Our specialties included custom ILT/VILT, eLN, AR/VR and micro-learning training development for onboarding, customer service skills/reinforcement, and systems training needs (e.g., ERP software) for clients such as Delta, Bank of America and Fiserv.

North America Training as a Service (TaaS) Delivery Lead

Infor

Owned the program management, development, and delivery of end-to-end global training solutions for a fast-paced, SaaS / software development organization. Responsible for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Capital Management (HCM), Workforce Management (WFM) and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) technology training solutions for Healthcare, Public Sector and Corporate verticals. 

Specialized in organization development, people leadership, cross-functional collaboration, business program management, portfolio management and certification. Built the team and infrastructure that supported high-stakes certification exams for partners, employees and customers.

Led the team that pioneered a new delivery medium that enabled autonomous, structured learning with access to virtual training environments, resulting in a new revenue stream that offered learner flexibility.

As "employee #1" in the Curriculum Development workstream, built the department infrastructure and team from the ground up, resulting in a department of over 50 instructional designers producing thousands of hours of eLearning, self-directed learning, ILT and VILT software product training annually, achieving an annual revenue of ~$40 million at the time of my departure.

Director (Sr. Director), Curriculum Development & Certification

Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.

Maintained role as an individual contributor throughout tenure to maintain work-from-home status. 

Led learning and development projects as program manager and project manager, from consultation and project scoping through program design and development (ADDIE) to deliver instructor-led training and digital learning solutions aligned with corporate strategy, and core competencies. 

Created curricula across diverse topics and functions, including: Lean/Six Sigma for supply chain professionals; frontline leadership development program of 13 interactive eLearning courses; HR onboarding; global train-the-trainer program to roll-out a new compensation structure to 70K+ employees; 2-year career rotation program for finance interns; company-wide software implementations and change management.

Principal Curriculum Designer

National Vision Associates

As Head of Learning and Development, provided leadership for the development of learning strategies, growth initiatives, change management and talent sustainability of the retail segment of this complex part health care, part retail organization; developed relationships with business stakeholders to align training with key business performance indicators.

Led an organization of six regional managers and 60 field trainers to implement the companies’ first comprehensive management certification program; used video production and instructor-led training content to accommodate “pre-internet” learning organization; administered annual operating budget for learning organization.

Manager (Director), Training & Development

With over 25 years of experience in the learning and development industry, I am passionate about delivering training solutions that meet the needs of diverse and dynamic organizations. My background in instructional design, certification development, and organizational leadership has enabled me to establish, grow, and strengthen learning organizations for large global SaaS, retail, and manufacturing organizations. 

I thrive at developing and leading others because I find true joy watching others achieve their professional goals. The reward is always a high-performing team of motivated, innovative employees who are engaged and determined to exceed expectations.

In 2023, I won a Silver Telly Award in recognition for a course I developed in collaboration with www.flowcess.com to address bullying in the workplace. I've been recognized by Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Professional Women for my contributions in the Learning & Development space and enjoy consulting others and offering helpful content free of charge.

Check out my first book on Amazon: The Ethology of Leaders, published in December of 2023.

Established company and business strategy to deliver on a “passion project” that addresses gaps in leadership development programs, expectations, metrics, and succession planning. Established LLC, financial infrastructure operating software to manage business.

Content Creation, Curriculum Design and Development: Designed a strategic Leadership Development program with a proven track record, promising an increase in employee engagement and revenue and a decrease in employee turnover and turnover costs.  

Courseware: Becoming a GREAT Leader Master Class Series

Marketing and Advertising: Responsible for all digital content, marketing assets, website creation, blogs, social media presence and TEDx Talk, including Leadership Reform podcast series of 6 episodes with a team of book authors, executive consultants, and college professors / industry experts, to bring awareness to eradicating workplace bullying and the importance of effective people leaders, Close-Up Radio Podcast With Doug Llewelyn - guest appearance, Leadership Reno With the DIY Leader: YouTube Channel, hosting podcast recordings and eLearning courses

Health eCareers

Health eCareers matches health care professionals with employers.

Responsibilities:
• Working with sales, marketing and the partnerships team to formulate a product strategy to scale our job board 20x.
• Automating of manual processes for stakeholders, after needs assessments, using automations and AI, which has alleviated the need to hire, even with the 20x increase in the jobs.
• Onboarding of six medical association partners, involving building their white-labeled job boards, resulting in more revenue.
• Rebuilding the legacy recruiter self-service portal, after external customer feedback and competitive research, to create more efficient processes for creating and managing job postings and applicants, including the use of AI to generate postings, thus cutting in half the amount of time it takes to create a posting.
• Continually looking to grow the business by looking for areas of growth; for example, exploring new areas of product to gain us $597k more in revenue annually, where I have already written the requirements.
• Acting as the product lead on a project called to develop, Vital Signs, the only national career magazine exclusively for nurses, reaching 3M+ nurses (70 percent of the nurse population in 50 states).  
• Instating the companies first use of the agile methodology by creating new processes for sprint planning, story pointing, demos to the business and training materials. This resulted in the ticket count doubling from 1,300 to 2,600 tickets per year being resolved.
• Constructing the yearly product roadmap and receiving sign-off from all key stakeholders, and then taking that roadmap and break down into features and user stories, all while working with development to build.
• Utilizing a variety of analytic tools such as Google Analytics, FullStory, Tableau, to gather metrics regarding our web sites, allowing me to view trends such as rage clicks on new screens I deliver or monitor revenue, cart abandonment for our eCommerce store, for example.

Product Management Leader

• An extra volunteer role, in addition to my day job, within Infor’s first BRG that focuses on all dimensions of an employee’s wellbeing from mental to social to physical, financial, or social. Grew the group from zero to 600 members.

Infor People Wellbeing Business Resource Group Co-Chair

• Promoted within one year, due to strong performance as a business analyst in the product group helping to boost sales by 10 percent.
• Coordinated directly with product marketing to create content (battle cards, presentations, user guides, webinars) for Infor HR Talent, which was then provided to stakeholders such as Sales, Training, Consulting Services, and Partners, resulting in a 20 percent cost reduction, by eliminating the need to create additional training or other miscellaneous materials.
• Created the product vision and go-to market strategy for a brand new employment contracts application. Launched the product through an enablement plan that resulted in 100 percent of the public sector customers migrating to the new Infor payroll application.
• Worked with product marketing to gather information requested by industry analysts such as Fosway and Gartner, thus helping position Infor to obtain status on both of those analyst reports.
• Conducted competitive analysis and market research, based on product needs. For example, when more 13 customers asked for advanced interview scheduling, executed a partnership in the HR Tech space. This resulted in retention of at least 77 customers and revenue of 15k from new customers within the first.
Business Analyst, Development May 2009 – August 2017
• Acted as the Lead Analyst within development for the Business Vault, an application that s

Product Manager, Infor People Solutions (HR Talent)

Completed all the required training and became a certified Infor mentor. I have mentored many over the years from early talent to employees in other parts of the organization, or even my own group.

Certified Infor Mentor

Additional responsibilities as a mentor and coach to help others as a consultant for the Inspire peer-to-peer program.

Women's Infor Network (WIN) Inspire Peer-To-Peer Coach

• Acted as the Lead Analyst within development for the Business Vault, an application that stores enterprise data, making it a robust platform for reporting, business intelligence and analytics.

Development Business Analyst, Infor Business Vault

• Served as the Lead Analyst on Infor ERP Storefront, an e-commerce solution (B2B and B2C) that provides an easy to integrate and quick to brand shopping platform for Infor’s ERP customers.

Development Business Analyst, ERP Storefront

Acted simultaneously as a Project Manager and the Lead Analyst for Infor’s eProcurement, Catalog and Digital Asset Management applications, managing the design schedules and tasks in tandem Solution Management.

Development Business Analyst, eProcurement

PrimePay, Inc.

•	Delivered several new products, including an online pay statements portal for employees to view their pay statements and W-2s online.
• Initiated the organization’s first marketing product demonstrations, using Camtasia Studio, that were employed by the Sales and Marketing Department to promote product offerings.

Development Technical Business Analyst and Technical Writer

Product Management and Business Analysis Skills: requirements analysis, writing business specifications, user stories (personas), product management, roadmaps, product strategies, project management, validating requirements, data flow diagrams, customer engagement sessions

Quality Assurance: Writing and executing test plans, acceptance criteria

Marketing: Designing product demos, competitive intelligence, market research, podcasts, blog articles.

Training: Demonstrating software functionality, focus groups; training documentation, recording demos using TechSmith Camtasia or any other tool.

Technical Documentation Skills: Help content, user guides, how-to documents, customer presentations

Software Skills: Balsamiq Wireframe Prototyping tool; Confluence Wiki Markup; JIRA Project Tracking Tool and Bugzilla; Microsoft Office (Project, Word, Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook); TechSmith Camtasia Studio; Adobe InDesign and Photoshop; iMovie.

Specialties: including but not limited to Enterprise Software; Human Capital Management (Talent Acquisition/Recruiting; Payroll; Tax, Occupational Health/Employee Safety; Human Resources; Onboarding); Employee Experience/Listening, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging; eCommerce and Catalog (B2B and B2C); Indirect/Direct Procurement; Business Intelligence; Master Data Management; Transportation; Manufacturing.

Certifications: Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO). Pragmatic Marketing Certified.

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