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

Dr. Jim ( ജിം കണിച്ചിറയിൽ ) Kanichirayil

Cascading Leadership

Podcast booking and production agency helping B2B SaaS HRTech, TATech, EdTech, and K12Tech organizations remove friction from their sales and marketing process. 

Developed and produced close to 1K audio and video podcast/live episodes. 

Created/Hosted/Produced - The Cascading Leadership Show, Talent Strategy 60 Show, Building Elite Sales Teams, and the Engaging Leadership Show. 

Hosted and produced two top 10% global B2B podcasts (Cascading Leadership Show and Engaging Leadership Show).

Founder

EngageRocket

EngageRocket is an employee engagement and performance management platform that helps businesses build engaged teams, empowered managers, and elite organizations. 

Trusted by the top companies in 14 countries and spanning 20 diverse industries—including Sephora, Toyota, Nikon, CGS-CIMB, and Epson—EngageRocket provides continuous listening and real-time analytics to support impactful management action. 

Helped establish the US footprint for EngageRocket. 
Leveraged content-led sales approach to gain traction in the marketplace. 
Defined and executed outbound sales motion. 
Owned the end-to-end sales and marketing process. 
Owned the partnership function and built referral partner network. 
Hosted and produced over 300 episodes of the Engaging Leadership Show. 
Interviewed over 200 senior and executive leaders in HR, TA, L&D, IT, Sales, and K12.

VP of Growth, Product Evangelist 

Thinkers360

Thinkers360 takes a holistic view of thought leaders and experts, beyond their social media activity, and looks across all their personas – such as academic, advisor, analyst, author, consultant, entrepreneur, executive, influencer and speaker – and all the types of thought leadership content they produce.

Top 10 Thought Leader in DEI and Sales, Top 25 Thought Leader in Human Resources 

Mattingly Solutions

I am a GTM advisor for Mattingly. 

About Mattingly Solutions: 

We partner with our clients to build a data-driven strategies that result in more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations.

Our DEI solutions include measurement consulting, 1-on-1 advisory coaching with DEI leaders responsible for building and executing DEI strategy, DEI capacity building (e.g., DEI task force and ERG/BRG support), and behavior change interventions that give employees and leaders the tools to make others feel valued, respected, seen, and heard.

Mattingly Solutions takes a user experience approach to co-creating and implementing DEI strategies with our clients. Our DEIx™ Framework combines human/employee experience methodology with your company’s data, organizational science, peer-reviewed research, DEI best practices, your organization’s values and goals, and PhD-level subject matter expertise to help you measure, build, implement, and assess impact of your DEI strategy and interventions.

Using our framework, we partner with our clients to build upon foundational DEI strategy work that results in a data-driven, prioritized, agile, actionable, and sustainable DEI culture change movement.

GTM Advisor and Board Member 

Yardstick

18 months.

That's the typical shelf-life for a sales leader in B2B Tech.

The reason?

There are several actually.

Win rates at 10-15% or lower.

Quota attainment at 30% on average.

Sales rep turnover tremendously high.

All of those costs add up and that's BEFORE you factor in the economic landscape.

Can sales leaders continue to have this failure rate and expect to survive?

No.

So what's the fix?

There are several but for accelerating growth organizations, you should be looking at your sales interviewing and onboarding processes.

And that's where Yardstick can help.

I've partnered with the Yardstick team as their Product Ambassador because sales hiring and onboarding is broken.

What better way to start the process of solving the problem than teaming up with a CEO who's got a track-record for successful startup launches and exits?

I'm looking forward to helping sales organizations stop their revolving door of reps.

Let's talk.

Product Ambassador 

RevGenius

RevGenius is a community of revenue generating sales and marketing professionals brought together to learn, share, support, and grow with each other.

Community Member 

Salescast

Salescast is the operating system for the B2B podcasting community of sales, marketing, and revenue professionals. We have an inclusive online community, courses, tutorials, events, guest matching, and even world class managed production services. Our mission is to connect 100 million sellers to the power of story.

TrainYo 🏳️‍🌈

TrainYo 🏳️‍🌈 is creating fair opportunities for all in the technology sector 😎

We’re on a mission to help companies scale their sales orgs quicker, with more predictable revenue by providing them with pre-ramped, ready to go SDR’s who have gone through our Free TrainYo SDR program. 👩🏽‍💻 🧑🏼‍💻

We’re passionate about fair representation & creating fair opportunities for everyone!🏳️‍🌈 🎉 🥳

Instructor

Strively.org

Strively’s mission is to create more diverse and inclusive workplaces in the tech sector. Through partnership with technology companies, we aspire to change how people are perceived and impacted by society’s most complex problems: mass incarceration; human trafficking; young adults at risk of incarceration; and housing shortages. We succeed together by supporting and serving a population of talented, motivated, and capable individuals who are ready for their opportunity to disrupt the cycles of inequities.

Volunteer Instructor 

Circa

What type of organization are you building? 

How are you building a bold, audacious, and innovative organization that harnesses all of the brilliance that's locked within? 

Are you building  the type of organization that candidates dream about working for and competitors envy? 

Where do you find yourself on the journey to becoming an elite leader in an elite organization? 

These are the critical questions we help our clients answer. 

The answers to all of these questions are rooted in your talent strategy. 

Unfortunately, many organizations take a piecemeal approach to their talent strategy which results in most of their talent getting left behind. 

Don't risk losing the engine that drives your business by ignoring what's most important. 

As a leader, you need to convince them to stay every. single. day. 

We deliver an end-to-end talent solution that helps you attract more talent, attract more diverse talent, retain that talent, and develop them for the long term. 

Our competition wants to keep you on the talent attraction hamster wheel. 

We partner with you and help stabilize your talent ecosystem so you can focus on realizing your organizational potential. 

The new talent landscape requires transformative talent solutions. 

We are the industry leaders in delivering scalable, innovative talent solutions that expands your reach, enhances your profile, and keeps you compliant. 

We are the straight line that connects your mission, vision, values, and purpose to your shoot the moon results. 

Partner with us and let us help you realize your organizational potential.

Growth - Commercial Partnerships Team 

Helping Busy HR Teams Build Elite Organizations | Highlighting Innovation and DEIB in HRTech | Talent Strategy Nerd | Professional Megaphone | Researcher | Writer | Podcaster |

One of the biggest challenges that B2B SaaS teams face is being able to cut through the noise their customers are dealing with. 

No amount of emailing, calling, or pitch slaps in the DMs is going to overcome that challenge. 

Today's buyer is in self-service mode and if sales and marketing teams want to meet them where they are, they will need to operate with a collaboration mindset. 

Sales and marketing teams need to seek to understand before trying to be understood. 

And it needs to be done in a way that's authentic. 

That's what I help teams accomplish. 

I've helped organizations build markets and segments from the ground up. 

I've done this in IT staffing and recruiting, HRTech, TATech, and in the K12 tech space. 

If you're not getting traction in your target markets and need help, we should have a conversation.

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