Contributors
DAVID JAMES was Director of Talent
Management, Learning & OD for The Walt
Disney Company EMEA, where he worked
for eight years at Disney’s European HQ. He
recently joined Looop.co, and now sees the
opportunity to engage learners in how they
want to be engaged with online learning rather than E-learning.
Before starting her private consulting practice
in Denver, Colorado, USA, in 1994, SANDRA
FORD WALSTON served for seven
years as Vice President, Private Banking in
California, where she developed, to her credit,
over 35 million dollars in aggregate deposits.
Her success as a banker was enhanced by her
previous accomplishments in real estate, selling
residential and income properties. Known as The
Courage Expert and innovator of StuckThinking™,
Sandra is the principal of a 20-year-old learning
and organisational effectiveness consulting firm
and a courage coach.
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RON THOMAS, Chief Executive Officer at Great
Place to Work Gulf, has a global HR background that
spans many industries, cultures and countries. Named
one of the ‘50 Most Talented Global HR Leaders’
in Asia by the World HRD Congress, he is a senior
International Faculty member with the Human Capital
Institute. A regular blogger/columnist with, amongst
others, TLNT, CEO.com , he has also authored Getting
HR Technology Back to HR Reality (eBook), Creative
Onboarding Programs (McGraw-Hill) and Learning
to Lead: Lessons in Leadership (Sky Light Path
Publishing).
CINDY SAUNDERS is
the HR Manager in the Reno,
Nevada corporate office of
Tahoe Resources Inc., a $4
billion publicly traded company
that operates a silver mine in
Guatemala and a gold mine in
Peru. Cindy has expertise within
various industries, developing
HR strategies focused on
managing and retaining talent,
engaging employees, and
building robust leadership.
A Director in Deloitte’s Human
Capital Consulting Practice,
DANIEL RUSSELL is based
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was
most recently a Partner at Aon
Hewitt leading the Selection &
Assessment Service Line for North
America. He h 2v