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

Are you a jobseeker looking to transition to a new role and not sure what to pick? Or maybe you already have decided what you want to do and looking to put that to a test.As someone who has changed many jobs and after being a stay at home mum for 10 years, I took to linkedin and started offering value upfront and not only did I have offer of many jobs but also partnerships. At the time I was working 17 hours a day during covid. Now my husband and I have successfully set up a a pilot of a group of men supporting men Who some are now working on a mini project whilst supporting each other (we are not talking money yet)This was 5 people who did not even know of each other prior to this and all in the period of 8 weeks.Now we are looking to do a similar pilot for the ladies and potentially married couples next. So if this is something that sounds up your street and you would like to get involved in please reach out and leave me a comment and we can take it from there. There will be plenty of roles you can try out from being a coordinator, to hosting the group or even training and documentation, or even story telling. I am also happy to pass on my knowledge I have accumulated throughout my working ife to include methodology I was trained on in the corporate days. (Mainly ITIL and Prince 2) and how to become more resilient whilst we work together on this. 

Zahra K.

Hi, Where do you live?

A random WhatsApp text I received over the Christmas holidays. 

The sender did not appear to have a name.  I thought they may have been one of the 14K people who had previously had access to my mobile number over COVID.

After a few to and froms, He told me his name was Jamal from India who had lived in Dubai for a few years. He liked my DP and was killing time.

The DP was none other than my husband and I and our son appearing in an 1980s end-of-school Party, linked to Home ed.

He wanted to know my nationality and proceeded to tell me he was a muslim. To which I responded, I grew up all over the place so I cannot put a nationality on myself. That did not seem to satisfy his curiosity, and he insisted he knew which country that DP was taken.

He then sent me a disappearing Pic and I replied, I do not open disappearing pics. This behaviour is not helping me feel safe.

I tried to steer the conversation to what he does for living. It turns out he was a relationship expert. 


Which brings me on to say, what kind of a relationship expert thinks it is okay to proposition a married women via WhatsApp and ask for her picture?

Are values completely out of the window nowadays?

Why is it that things like looks, scents have replaced the real human touch?

What if he had picked up the phone and spoken to a member of his family, checked up on them? Is this person likely to meet some other foreign national who happened to send him her pic?

What if he had gone for a walk in nature and thought about what he wants out of life? 

Why is it that superficial sharing has replaced real human interaction?

So what happened next, I hear you say, I offered to set up a meeting with my husband being present or alternatively, I could appear off camera. He said yes to the latter, but first insisted on that pic.

Oh no, not back to that again. So I proceeded to share a video I had put together for my UBS, and I suggested he watch it to get an idea of the kind of things I am interested in talking about. Followed by asking him some rather deep questions, and with that, he disappeared.

Are you a lady being propositioned by random blokes on Linkedin?

Let's connect and have a conversation about how the mind and brains of males works differently when it comes to sharing about themselves.

I will put a link to my Calendly link in the comments section if you are unsure what to say to someone at the point of receiving a connect or resulting to say let's keep it professional or blocking them.

This video is dedicated to my father, who all his whole life was misunderstood and I would like to thank John Lenhart for helping me finally understand him and make my peace with him.

Credit for the music goes to Cyrus Kaffash (Whisperboy Podcast), who originally composed this song and my son who is only 14, remixed it in less than 3 minutes.


#iandyoumatter
#adaptibility
#choices
#digitaltransformation

Zahra Kabiri-Hendi

Were you aware there are 5 levels of intimacy when it comes to communicating verbally and when as women we mismanage this it gets translated in the male brain as inappropriate levels/mismatch physical levels of intimacy? 

Eg: sharing deeply in one area = Closed mouth kissing! 


I welcome you to read this article where it directs you to  take a deep dive by tuning in to a podcast between John Lenhart and Joel Swokowski on the subject and dating/Marriage.



#iandyoumatter

"My Mum doesn't talk to men like this". Back then I didn't know what he meant. As I scrolled through our latest thread, I noticed there was a lot of o

Open article: Would you rather use your words or your wrist? by Zahra Kabiri-Hendi • 2 min read

Would you rather use your words or your wrist?

Are you ok?

Alternatively you can write yourself a note and see what actions you may need to take? That is if we are still not at that point that you want to share. 


Ps: I respect your wishes either way. Have a Nice day! 


#iandyoumatter
#selfcompassion
#trust

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