Meet Our Bloggers
Jonena Relth: Jonena leads our solutions design consulting and business operations efforts in driving towards our strategic vision and mission. Recipient of the Joyce Parker Award for outstanding contribution to the field of training and development, Jonena Relth specializes in performance improvement and brings to our clients nearly 30 years experience as a business owner of three companies. Her expertise with enterprise-wide systems has been instrumental in helping organizations bridge the connection between system implementation and the associated learning required for successful transition from paper to paperless environments.
Esther Groves: She brings to the TBD team her expertise in management, organizational assessment, training and employee development, group/meeting facilitation, focus groups, team building, leadership development and Six Sigma. She prides herself in being able to help organizations articulate goals, and improve capability, productivity and customer satisfaction. Esther’s experience also includes quality assurance, operational management, virtual management, and human resources. Esther writes to our Leadership Trends and Today’s Realities blog.
Hal Alpiar: Hal is a national, award-winning author and marketer. As one of America’s leading sales results writers, he hosts a daily blog on entrepreneurial leadership and creative sales at www.halalpiar.com. Hal writes to our Leadership Trends and Today’s Realities blog.
Bob Craig has been coaching and instructing supervisors and managers for 15 years. He writes instructor-led programs, creates e-Learning courses and travels throughout his company working to improve the skill sets necessary to be a successful leader in today’s ever-changing marketplace. Being able to manage change and understand the root causes behind performance issues are two of the critical skills. Bob concentrates on with leaders striving for excellence and working to get better results with less people and fewer resources. Bob writes to our Leadership Trends and Today’s Realities blog.
Kel Mohror: Kel Mohror is a Healthcare IT concierge providing answers to HIT questions and solutions to problems. He is completing the final session of three of the Office of the National Coordinator HIT Workforce Training program (Implementation & Support Specialist track). EHR and other HIT implementation and adoption are best achieved by defining the IT requirements of a practice, facility, or care system and matching those needs to HIT that has been rigorously evaluated according to usability principles. He makes knowledge “ensnared” in the web visible, understandable, and immediately useful. Kel writes to our Healthcare Talent Transformation blog.
Kelly Rietow: Kelly specializes in creating practical systems and tools that fit the culture, engage the workforce and develop organizational capabilities. With broad-based expertise in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Facilitation and Leadership, Kelly guides and challenges her clients to strategically align people, process and culture with the execution of business objectives. Kelly brings over 15 years of diverse experience working with both global, public organizations and small, privately held organizations and has a particular passion for optimizing the performance of non-profits and organizations experiencing growing pains. Learn more about Kelly at www.roosolutions.net. Kelly writes for our Leadership Trends and Today’s Realities blog.
Peggy Salvatore: Peggy has been developing managed care and healthcare reimbursement web-based training programs for the healthcare industry for 10 years. Recently, Peggy has written an eLearning program to help healthcare professionals understand the “meaningful use” of the new electronic patient record system (www.healthsystemed.com). She also writes eLearning programs on general business topics such as time management, project management and leadership. Prior to that, her background includes extensive research, analysis and writing for professional journal articles, white papers and executive background briefings on a broad range of health policy issues. Peggy writes to our Healthcare Talent Transformation blog.
David Scher: Dr. David Scher was a practicing cardiac electrophysiologist for 20 years with extensive experience as a clinical investigator, reimbursement committee member, and institutional review board chair. He is currently director at DLS Healthcare Consulting, LLC with a focus on medical device and mobile health companies. David writes to our Healthcare Talent Transformation blog.
Dana Theus: As a leadership consultant, facilitator and coach, Dana helps her clients access their power to step boldly into the future, to master the dynamics of change and transformation and to direct their energies towards changing the world for the better. She works with individual leaders, corporate clients and high-performance teams to help them access both their individual power and their power in group. When people and teams access their full power to affect change, amazing things can happen and reality can transform. Learn more about Dana at www.MagusConsulting.com. Dana writes for our Leadership Trends and Today’s Realities blog.
Robert Whipple: Not only is Robert known internationally as “The Trust Ambassador,” he has written three books on the topic of building and maintaining trust in organizations from which he will be sharing insights with us in the coming months. He has been named by Leadership Excellence Magazine as one of the top 100 thought leaders in the country on the subject of Leadership Development. We hope you will enjoy reading Robert’s insights and feel free to comment. Learn more about Robert at www.leadergrow.com. Robert writes to our Leadership Trends and Today’s Realities blog.