Training Directors’ Special Interest Group - November

Member to Member Workplace Challenges:
Running Learning Operations as a Business

Our member to member series will be an opportunity to discuss and share work issues. You will hear information on the monthly topic as well as advice on developing your skill set in this area. What learning and development initiatives are working and how? What are the challenges? Come here some of the latest findings from your peers and share some of your own with the group.

This month there will be presentations to provide key insights on being a better business learning partner as well as increase your business acumen.

This meeting will cover the following:

• What do we need to know to run our learning operations as a business? We will discuss key terminology and the questions you need to solve to become an effective business partner and add value.
• How can we run a learning function as a business or a business operation? We will discuss the key things learning professionals need to understand to run an L&D function, including the environment in which L&D operates.

Your member presenters are:
Paul J. Maccaro who recently joined Adecco Group North America as Vice-President, Performance Development & Support
Pei-Cen Lin , a training specialist and business strategic partner in the human resources field.

About our speakers:
Paul J. Maccaro recently joined Adecco Group North America as Vice-President, Performance Development & Support. Paul’s expertise has been developed over the past 25 years, most recently, as the Principal Consultant for A3Enterprises committed to helping clients build smarter organizations. Previously, Paul was the Corporate Director, Talent Management & Organizational Development at Hess Corporation.
Pei-Cen Lin is a training specialist and business strategic partner in the human resources field and a certified public accountant, who has worked at Fortune 100 firms including Deloitte & Touche LLP, as a professional development program manager, as well as with Goldman Sachs & Co and PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP. She is the currently appointed chair of the HR Committee of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA), and the Board of Directors of the NYSSCPA Manhattan/Bronx Chapter. She also serves on the Foundation for Accounting Education (FAE) Curriculum Committee.

Chair: Sanford Gold  sanford.gold@astdny.org

Please register by 1 p.m., Friday, April, 9th. Bring picture ID