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Marla Bradley Marla Bradley founded Bradley Lambert (BLI) in 1979, with a vision to improve the performance of organizations by developing skills and knowledge of individuals who work and manage in them. Ms. Bradley leads the organization in developing learning solutions, consulting with clients on their training needs; designing individual training products for clients and helping in their implementation. Ms. Bradley is a much sought after facilitator and public speaker. She has facilitated thousands of meetings from Board of Director planning meetings to rescuing teams that are failing to make progress. She is asked to give key note speeches on organizational improvement issues at corporate off site meetings and planning sessions. She and her team regularly conduct workshops for the clients or facilitate high level presentations by client executives and senior staff to employees. Ms. Bradley has been an adjunct Professor at Loyola Marymount University in their Executive MBA Program. She has been a lead instructor and program designer for the Certificate in Management Effectiveness, an executive program offered through the University of Southern California (USC), Graduate School of Business Administration. She also has conducted seminars for the Instructional Television Network at USC. Ms. Bradley received her Bachelor of Science and a Master in Business Administration from USC. Mike Lambert Mr. Lambert joined the organization in 1988, following years in senior management positions at companies in industrial, aerospace and consumer sectors. He consults with senior management at client companies, leads strategic planning sessions and training development programs that capture critical skills and knowledge and make it accessible to the widest audience. He has developed and delivered finance, technical and engineering workshops and managed large training migration projects which turn instructor led classes into web based content. Prior to becoming a principal of the firm, he held senior line management and executive positions such as International Operations Manager, Director of Marketing, Program Manager and Director of Operations.He has taught "Strategic Management and Policy" at the USC Marshall School of Business and "New Product Development" at the University of California at UCLA.Mr. Lambert received an MBA from USC, a BA from California State University at Northridge and is a graduate of the UCLA Executive Program. Marsha A. Carter Ms. Carter’s achievements as vice president of Bradley Lambert Inc are enhanced by her years experience in the aerospace and industrial industries. Her expertise in creating and implementing strategic initiatives for diverse product lines and multi-plant operations, spearheading new product development, implementing six sigma level quality, ensuring customer satisfaction and strategic planning helps her understand clients needs and requirements. Ms. Carter joined Bradley Lambert in 2001. She is responsible for eLearning and web based applications of all BLI and client classes and workshops. She consults with clients to help them gain the understanding and skills to develop web based applications of their training classes. Prior to joining Bradley Lambert, Ms. Carter worked for Hughes Electronics, a high tech engineering and manufacturing company producing satellite and advanced military equipment for commercial and defense applications. She was marketing director of the company and had the responsibility for high technology business development. As marketing director, she implemented the six sigma initiative where Hughes saw its multi-plant operations become six sigma level quality producers and the supplier of choice by it customer. She was a key player in the sale of Hughes Aircraft Company to General Motors in 1995. Her ability to take 10 years of financial and business performance and project out expectations for the future five years, led to the successful acquisition by GM. At that time, she was the highest-ranking female Hughes executive. In 1983, Ms. Carter was appointed Director of Corporate Financial Planning and Information Systems and given the responsibility: Financial Statement Forecasting, Corporate Budgeting and Economic Forecasting. Ms. Carter completed the Corporate Directors Program from UCLA in 2003, Executive Marketing Program from UCLA in 2000. She holds a M.S. degree in Operations Management from the Graduate School of Management at UCLA and a B.S. degree in Mathematics from California State University at Los Angeles. Marion Martelli Marion has more than twenty years management experience in finance, leadership, marketing, operations and engineering training program development. Ms. Martelli has held senior management positions in the electronics, entertainment and food manufacturing industries and played a key role in several organizational restructurings. For the last 15 years, Marion has been associated with BLI and has developed and delivered large scale training programs to both domestic and international clients including S&IS, PanAmSat, Toyota America, Raytheon; Fox; SHRM and. Genera MotorsMarion has also developed and delivered numerous classes in communication, listening, conflict resolution and customer service. She has also, working with client engineers, developed large numbers of technical classes that capture key client specific engineering processes and put them into both Instructor Led and Web Based formats. As a presenter she is known for providing a highly interactive and productive learning experience that is both rewarding and totally enjoyable for every participant. She receives the highest ratings from participants in her classes. Marion has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Financial Accounting and holds a Masters in Business Administration. She has also received the designation of Certified Management Accountant from the Institute of Management Accountants. Deborah Biondo Ms. Biondo has over 15 years of training/HR experience to consult with clients and provide cost-effective, performance improvement solutions. She has an outstanding commitment to quality and exceeding customer expectations. Her expertise includes training or workshop design and development (web-based, CBT, instructor-led, self-study), experiential learning, project management, presentation development, and training delivery. Ms. Biondo's experience has included consulting with General Motors’ executives (Strategy Board Members and Officers) and management from GM University, Product Training, Brand Management, Finance, Human Resources, Engineering, Information Systems & Services, and Health Administration Services to develop and deliver integrated training solutions or performance improvement initiatives. Ms. Biondo's account management responsibilities have included needs analyses/assessments, proposal writing, pricing, budgeting, project planning (video production, interactive distance learning, web-based training, instructor-led, etc.), project management, program design and development, training deployment, presentation development for executives, team meeting facilitation, training delivery, train-the-trainer programs, program evaluation and developing innovative ideas/creative solutions for training. Ms. Biondo has a Master of Education degree from Wayne State University and a Bachelor of General Studies in Education from the University of Michigan. Hugh Harrington Dr. Harrington specializes in test and measurement, surveys, and statistics. As an expert in this area, he helps clients design meaningful questionnaires for a variety of applications. He reduces survey results into easily understandable data and assures statistically reliable conclusions.Dr. Harrington also specializes in designing and analyzing test questions. Dr. Harrington was President for nine years at Assessment Resources, Inc., a consulting company. He was also Director of Employee and Organization Research at Hughes Aircraft Company, where he worked for eight years identifying initiatives to improve customer and employee satisfaction. Dr. Harrington currently teaches graduate students in Research Methods and Statistics forChapmanUniversity, which he also taught at the California School of Professional Psychology. He also taught Human Social Behavior at the University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Harrington received his undergraduate degree from the University of San Francisco in Psychology and Philosophy and his doctorate in Psychology from the USC. Diana Ho Ms. Ho has over twenty years experience working as a consultant to companies of all sizes, from family-owned entrepreneurships to Fortune 500 firms in a wide range of industries, including the not-for-profit sector. She specializes in assisting organizations design and implement strategic planning processes. She has helped dozens of companies align management around sound business strategy, and "cascade" the process through divisions and functional departments to the level of the individual performance management. Diana has been an instructor and guest lecturer in the Executive Education Programs at the University of Southern California, The University of California at Los Angeles, and Loyola Marymoun tUniversity. She has been a presenter at numerous national and international conferences. In addition, Diana served as emcee for five national and one international conference of the Society for Human Resource Management, an event that draws over 7,000 participants annually. Diana is certified to administer the Myers Briggs Temperament Indicator, and has been trained in Appreciative Inquiry. Known for her lively and effective style, Diana delivers management training on numerous topics, including delegation, time management, performance appraisal and meeting effectiveness. In addition, she is in-demand as a facilitator for tough group and organizational processes. Diana received her Masters in Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles. Nancy Lorsch Ms. Lorsch has 20 years of experience in client-focused executive level consulting with proven success in executive coaching and development, facilitation and execution of key HR and business initiatives. She has provided strategic planning, succession planning, organizational and culture change, merger & acquisition support, team development, turnover reduction and retention programs for key employees, competency modeling, and training design and implementation. Ms. Lorsch experience includes individual, team, and organizational consultation to small, medium and large companies in a variety of industries including biotechnology, high tech, telecommunications, health care, entertainment, and start-ups. She is an adjunct to the Center for Creative Leadership, provides feedback and coaching to executives attending Leadership Development and Women’s Leadership Programs. Ms. Lorsch previous positions include Director, Organizational Development for Wellpoint Health Networks where she led the executive team through a culture transformation process including administering culture inventories, facilitating discussion of results and formulating plans for change. She also was a Senior HR Consultant for Hughes Electronics where she deployed company initiatives related to organization, management, and employee development. She implemented major organizational change initiatives throughout Hughes, and designed and conducted wide range of supervisory and management training. |