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The candidates for the 2008-2010 Board of Directors, listed in
random order, are as follows.  Candidate statements are below.

For President-Elect (1 will be elected):

• Brian Desautels, CPT
• Darlene Van Tiem, CPT, CPLP, PhD

For Director, Internationally-Based (1 will be elected):

• Steven J. Kelly, CPT
• Belia Nel, CPT

For Director (2 will be elected):

• Paul Cook, CPT
• Cathy Brown
• Fred L. E. Stewart, CPT
• David Hartt, CPT

This year the membership will elect a President-elect (3-year term: President-elect, President, and Immediate Past President), one internationally based Director (2-year term), and two Directors (2-year term). They will join the President, two continuing Board members, and the non-voting Immediate Past President and Executive Director who make up the nine-member Board. All candidates are capable, experienced, and eager to serve you as a member of ISPI's Board of Directors.  

The following Board members retain their seats: Matthew T. Peters, CPT (who becomes President), Jeanne Farrington, CPT, EdD, (who becomes Immediate Past President), Timm J. Esque, CPT, and Mary Norris Thomas, CPT, PhD.

As a reminder, ISPI will hold its annual Board election electronically, and active members will vote for candidates to the Board online. Since your link to the "voting booth" will be sent via email in late January, it is important that ISPI has your most current email address on record. To review your record, click on Login, and then your name after you have logged on. Or, you may call us at 301-587-8570.

Job Description & Criteria:  President-Elect  |  Director

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BRIAN DESAUTELS, CPT
for President-Elect

Goal/Skills and Qualifications

To provide accessibility to the abilities Brian brings to ISPI leadership, he has chosen to demonstrate the alignment of his goals with his skills and qualifications. He sets forth the following four broad goals for his office:

Collaborate and Re-invigorate ISPI at Universities. Strengthen ISPI visibility on campuses to identify local university professors (and affiliated students) to encourage research and build tomorrow's contributors. Brian's experience includes:

• ISPI Board Director/Treasurer
• Contributing author, Handbook of Human Performance Technology
• Academic instructor, graduate level
• Performance consultant (100-person agency to 2-person boutique)

Collaborate and Re-invigorate Research at ISPI. The sharing of empirical data, gained through a scientific approach to research, is our differentiator and we must support the collaborative effort required to accomplish research that will impact businesses globally. Brian's accomplishments include:

• Editor, HPT @ Work series
• Contributing author to books on interventions, OD, and performance
• Pursuing new applications of HPT in broader constituencies

Collaborate and Re-invigorate ISPI at Chapter level. Support the dual role chapters play as ISPI portals. Better than we can, chapters distribute the ISPI message to practitioners in the field through meetings and targeted recruitment. And, chapters help ISPI hear about HPT work occurring in local communities and bring that talent to the visible surface. Brian's accomplishments include:

• Co-founder and two-term president of the Seattle Chapter
• Member of the Year, Michigan Chapter
• North Central Regional Coordinator, NSPI

Collaborate and Re-invigorate our Distribution Channels. Bolster website, journal, chapters, conferences, and others to provide accessibility internationally to our best-kept secret (HPT) and ensure vital and robust participation at the 2010 Global Conference on Workplace Performance. Brian's accomplishments include:

• Conference Chair, ISPI Annual Conference, Cincinnati
• Presenter: Annual, Fall, Europe, and chapter sessions; pre-conference workshops; 2008 Master Series speaker

This is my vision: "Collaborative Re-invigoration." We have hard work ahead of us. HPT is an applied science that grew out of the work of behavioral scientists. If ISPI's core technology is human performance, then we must draw a constituency comprised of those who manage or influence performance, which necessarily broadens our legacy constituency.

We must encourage deeper work on how to apply the science of HPT to those functional areas within an organization responsible for building performance. Collaboratively, we do this by re-invigorating our research efforts, our university relationships, our chapters, and our methods of distributing our great work back into the community.

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DARLENE VAN TIEM, CPT, CPLP, PhD
for President-Elect

Skills and Qualifications

Darlene has been on the ISPI International Board of Directors since 2006. During her tenure, she has:

• Been involved in creating the organization's direction for the next five years as leader of the 2008-2013 strategic planning effort--1,000 Day Transformation
• Helped advance the credibility of the Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) program as Board liaison to Certified Performance Technologist and Awards Committees
• Called upon her real-world experience and MSA in business to ensure sound fiscal and business decisions
• Principal investigator for a positive, appreciative inquiry all-member survey--"Best of ISPI"

Darlene is associate professor emeritus and coordinator of the highly recognized master's program in Performance Improvement and Instructional Design at University of Michigan - Dearborn, doctoral program adjunct faculty at Capella University, and adjunct faculty at Boise State University.

Darlene is a frequent contributor on the knowledge and practice of HPT as:

• Lead author of two ISPI International and Michigan Chapter award-winning books-- Fundamentals of Performance Technology and Performance Improvement Interventions. With her co-authors, she enhanced the HPT Model, which is a graphical model on the ISPI website, www.ISPI.org.
• Section editor and lead author of three chapters in Handbook of Human Performance Technology, third edition--Six Sigma, Appreciative Inquiry, Complexity.
• Contributor of 11 Performance Improvement journal articles, 21 ISPI International Conference presentations, and five Michigan Chapter presentations.

Darlene is an accomplished practitioner:

• 2005 ISPI Michigan Chapter Award of Recognition
• Two ASTD international awards--Technical Trainer of the Year, 1991; and Outstanding Leadership in Automotive Industry, 1992
• Greater Detroit ASTD Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award
• Leader in other international and local professional associations, including American Society of Training and Development, Society of Automotive Engineers, and Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Goals

Focus on the Future: With one foot in today and one foot in tomorrow, ISPI will shepherd change because HPT and CPT are systemic, value-added, collaborative, sustainable, results-oriented, and reproducible. Working in close collaboration with the ISPI Board and staff, I will lead in embracing our changing world.

Promote a World View: As the world becomes more interconnected, ISPI will have a global impact through our international membership. I will make every effort to expand ISPI into a more inclusive organization.

Transform and reinvent ISPI: ISPI Board and staff are collaborating to finalize the 2008-2013 strategic plan. I will strengthen alignment with chapters and encourage increased involvement of academic professionals.

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STEVEN J. KELLY, CPT
for Director, Internationally-Based

Skills and Qualifications

Steven Kelly, involved in performance improvement efforts for 32 years, has applied his craft in both commercial and government arenas (military, national, regional/state, municipal levels). Illustrative clients include GM/Opel, World Bank, KPMG, Shell, Bechtel, USAID, Kimberly-Clark, AIG, and the European Union.

In 1990, relocating his operational focus to Prague, Czechoslovakia, he has applied HPT methods to diverse projects in 19 countries formerly under the Soviet sphere of influence. He has traveled to over 60 countries in both professional and personal pursuits.

Steven, an ISPI member during the 1980s, rejoined the Society actively in the mid-1990s; and under the auspices of his firm, KNO, is currently an ISPI Patron Sponsor. A Board member of ISPI Europe (Treasurer) since 2004, Steven chaired the 2006 European conference in Prague. He has presented at numerous professional conferences over the years and has co-authored several articles in the Performance Improvement journal.

Steven is the founding partner of KNO Worldwide, with offices in Prague and Bratislava. His academic credentials include an AA in business, BS in political science, MA in management/human relations, and completed coursework for a PhD in international relations. He is a CPT since 2002.

Goals

ISPI is at a crossroads of opportunity and risk. PI and HPT concepts have been introduced outside of North America often with so much emphasis on "results" that the systemic approach for valued change has been diluted. In cultures with a strong sense of a "multiple bottom-line" this has often resulted in a resistance to performance improvement as another "checklist" effort, without consideration of local knowledge and approaches. We can change this by broadening the audience for our message, while maintaining our own professional improvement, and maintaining the rigor of our approach.

I will put my primary energies toward:

• the criticality of a timely and successful transition between executive directors, ensuring financial and operational stability
• crafting more active responses to increasing market demands for HPT and ISPI chapter support in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa

My focus will be on working cooperatively with the Board, committee structures, and active task forces to further progress on ISPI's three approved goals and associated objectives. These goals support ISPI's global role as the leading force for organizational health and success through systemic change, building respect and proficiency of HPT practitioners, and maintaining sound operational and valued Society governance.

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BELIA NEL, CPT
for Director, Internationally-Based

Skills and Qualifications

Belia is an active member of ISPI and has made it her ambition to spread the message, vision, and philosophies of ISPI locally in South and Southern Africa. She has spent the last 20 years educating, teaching, and coaching management and HR and training professionals. The latter part of her career specifically focused on teaching the HPT methodology through HPT Institutes to corporations in South Africa and facilitating the vision of ISPI by sharing knowledge and providing assistance from a performance improvement perspective.

Belia has published various articles and chapters in academic textbooks on the benefits and impact of HPT and uses this communication vehicle to continuously promote ISPI as an international body of performance improvement professionals. She has also established a presence for ISPI in South Africa and has organized two ISPI conferences, including speakers from ISPI and performance improvement stable. She is a recent recipient of a Leadership award from ISPI and has served on various committees over the past few years. She is also the founding member of ISPI SA. Her forte is mentoring and coaching of HPT professionals at various levels. Her biggest contribution is the voice of ISPI she provides on the African continent.

Goals

I support ISPI's strategy to continuously expand its message, vision, and professionalism vigorously, and it is my goal to ensure that ISPI's strategy gets communicated and activated across all continents and countries, both in the developed and developing world.

My goals are particularly aimed at the following:

• To continuously attract new members to the Society through creating a value proposition that would move people to action
• To promote the generosity of the Society as it relates to sharing of knowledge, experience, and expertise
• To ensure a body of new-thinking members is sustained by providing activities that remain current and reflect the changing world of work
• To ensure developing countries benefit from the impact and results that the HPT methodology can have
• To continuously transfer HPT skills and impart knowledge to increase the body of performance improvement professionals

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PAUL COOK, CPT

• Twenty years of experience leading, consulting, and managing profit and nonprofit entities. Led non-profit organizations, counseled small business owners, taught business courses in higher education, and served as a performance consultant for a medical products company and a municipal government. Holds a BA in psychology and an MBA. Earned Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications.
• Helped engineer a large metropolitan city's shift to a performance-consulting model. Led effort to use organizational change management for large reengineering/reorganization projects. Led project team that created and institutionalized city's leadership development program. Currently in IT project management.
• Co-chaired ISPI's 2007 Annual Conference Committee, a multi-national team of ISPI members that developed all aspects of the program. Was part of the 2004 Annual Conference Committee and chair of the Chapter Partnership Committee in 2004. In 2003, partnered with Boston Area United Way to develop Chapter Leadership Workshop, including sessions on chapter board development and volunteer recruiting and retention. Served local ISPI chapter as president and Board member, during which time chapter membership grew 36%.

Goals

• One Society: We should strengthen the natural synergy between our chapters and our Society. Healthy chapters provide for professional knowledge and skill transfer, relationship building, and leadership development for our Society. In alignment with the current Board's initiative to have a strong, consistent ISPI brand, the Society should offer chapters program enhancement, leadership development, and marketing support materials, as well as full-time professional support. Chapters must contribute by providing HPT development programming consistent with the best thinking available, encouraging active membership in the "international" Society, and promoting HPT and the CPT program locally.
   
• Membership growth: Membership is a key business indicator of ISPI's health and success. We must actively encourage growth in the number of chapters and in our membership. We must promote the natural progression of membership from chapters to the Society. We should consider new forms of membership to reduce barriers to participation and better meet the needs of the marketplace. We must improve member retention by applying well-established best practices. We must develop partnerships with new organizations in varied fields and places in the world where the successes of people and organizations are important. We must do all this while staying true to one of the core values and strengths of this Society: this is our "professional family--our professional home."

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CATHY BROWN
for Director

Skills and Qualifications

Cathy became involved with ISPI at the chapter level in 1996 when she joined the Dallas-Ft. Worth chapter. In addition to ISPI, Cathy has volunteered with many other educational and charitable organizations for more than 20 years.

Cathy is a senior instructional designer in the Home Depot's Retail Learning Institute, where she applies HPT to improve workplace performance in over 2,000 stores. Before joining the Home Depot, Cathy worked as an internal performance consultant for Sabre Inc.

Cathy has a MS in instructional and performance technology from Boise State University and a BA in English.

A summary of Cathy's contributions to local and international ISPI activities is provided below:

• Served the DFW chapter in many capacities, including director, membership chair, presenter, program coordinator, and president from 1997-2004
• Served on the ISPI Nominations Committee for several years, including committee chair in 2006
• Earned an ISPI Award of Excellence for outstanding instructional intervention in 2006
• Chaired the Honorary Life Member Committee in 2007
• Served on the Chapter Partnership Committee in 1999 and co-developed the Chapter Leaders' Workshop
• Served on the Award of Excellence Review Committee for instructional intervention and communication intervention in 2005 and 2003
• Served on the Proposal Review Committee for the ISPI conference in 2000

Goals

As an ISPI director, I would work to bring my perspective and innovative thinking to help the Society achieve its strategic goals.

ISPI goal--ISPI is recognized as the champion and leading resource for HPT.

• I would work to refine ISPI's value proposition so that our members can more clearly communicate it to our business partners.

ISPI goal--Expand the community of HPT practitioners and promote ISPI by supporting local chapters.

• I would continue to explore tools that chapter leaders could use to help them navigate critical stages of chapter development.
• Through professional communities and other channels, I would reach out to new practitioners.
• I would continue to advocate HPT in my organization and elsewhere.

ISPI goal--ISPI practitioners are valued, respected, and proficient.

• I would work to raise awareness (especially with our business partners) regarding the return on investment that could be gained from ISPI membership and ISPI conferences and educational programs.
• I would explore ways to ensure that our Society adds value to all HPT practitioners, regardless of geographic location or experience.

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FRED L. E. STEWART, CPT
for Director

Skills and Qualifications

• Fred has over 26 years' experience in performance improvement, training, and education. He is a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) and a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
• Fred serves on the ISPI 2008 Conference Committee; was a member of the ISPI 2007 Conference Committee; and is a member of the Local Tidewater ISPI Chapter.
• Currently Fred is a principal management consultant at Alpha Solutions Corporation where he works for the Navy at U.S. Fleet Forces Command. Specifically, he is an advocate for fleet training and education initiatives. His responsibilities include the development of business case analyses and consensus building to accomplish the brokerage of Navy, Joint Coalition, and interagency training and performance improvement. His team develops metrics and key performance indicators to drive HPT recommendations for operational forces.
• Fred started his enlisted Navy career as a boiler technician. In 1990, he was selected as the Atlantic Fleet Sailor of the Year and in 1993, after being designated Master Training Specialist, was selected as "Instructor of the Year." Fred was then commissioned as a naval officer specializing in naval propulsion systems and engineering technical management.
• Most recently, Fred worked at the Pentagon budgeting for Navy training and education and in the Navy's Human Performance Center (HPC). He was the first naval officer at the HPC to earn designation as CPT.

Goals

• As we build a future together, I would like to demonstrate value added by moving people and organizations from training to performance improvement utilizing cooperative tools and ISPI's professional communities of practice as a means of propelling us forward.
• ISPI's mission is about sustainment and growing the right membership by advocating the use of HPT as the vehicle of choice. I am committed to empowering potential new members to adopt our principles for the benefit of their organizations and will do so cooperatively with energy. We must also reconnect with our roots of research-based practice.
• My professional reputation is a vital part of who I am and my performance is continuously rewarded by the projects I chose to pursue, the value my company places on my skill set, how I shape policy, and the power of my ideas. My goal is to bring the right resources together to successfully attain desired results and to provide ISPI with the rightful recognition it deserves!

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DAVID HARTT, CPT
for Director

Skills and Qualifications

• David has 15 years' experience in HPT. He is a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT), holds an MEd in educational technology, and will complete his doctorate in organizational leadership in June 2008.
• A commander in the U.S. Coast Guard, David serves as director of the Coast Guard's Performance Technology Center (PTC) where he is responsible for the application of HPT to solve problems and realize opportunities in support of Coast Guard missions including homeland security, search and rescue, maritime law enforcement, environmental protection, and defense operations. Under David's leadership, PTC projects delivered an average ROI of over 400:1 back to the tax-paying public.
• David has served as the commanding and executive officer aboard Coast Guard ships and in strategic staff positions. His experiences provided him with an indomitable "can do" spirit and the strategic savvy to focus energy in areas that produce the greatest results.
• David brings to ISPI experience in volunteer leadership roles. He has served as both president and Board member for the Federal Government Distance Learning Association (FGDLA) and on the Board of Advisors for Questex Media Group Conferences. An ISPI member since 1999, David served as a conference volunteer, presenter, proposal selection committee member, and member of the Armed Forces and Tidewater Chapters.

Goals

To advance ISPI by:

• Marketing the Value: The more people understand the real power of HPT the more they know ISPI as the premier professional society focused on individual and organizational performance. We must market our value in ways that resonate with both practitioners and top-tier organizational decision makers.
• Connecting to Our Future: True or not, ISPI is largely perceived as a group of highly educated, aging baby boomers. To remain relevant as a professional society, we must find new and unique ways to attract the next generation of professionals who will lead the Society into the future. ISPI is not the only game in town, and we must take proactive steps to ensure we are the most valued.
• Sharing the Passion: Passion is a critical ingredient in the secret sauce of any high-performing organization. ISPI is passionate about performance and must continue to carry the torch of passion and promise for HPT. ISPI understands the power of HPT and must continuously spread the word about how this profession can change lives and organizations.

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