Deborah Spring Laurel has been a trainer and a consultant in the areas of workplace learning and performance improvement for over thirty years. She has twenty years of experience as the President of Laurel and Associates, Ltd,, an international human resource development training and consulting firm that specializes in enhancing interpersonal dynamics within organizations. She has designed and presented hundreds of different skill-building participant-based and accelerated learning workshops on various topics, all of which have been tailored to meet the specific needs of her clients. Since studying with Dr. Madeline Hunter of UCLA to become proficient in the Mastery Teaching Model, Deborah has provided train-the-trainer seminars and certification programs on a national basis for over ten years and on an international basis since 1998. In 1992, she was selected the Wisconsin Trainer of the Year by the Small Business Development Center. Since 2004, she has facilitated the three-day national Trainer Certificate Program for the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).
She taught management and supervisory topics for the Executive Management Institute and the Small Business Development Center in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin- Madison for over thirty years. From 1998-2002, she consulted with the University of Osijek in Croatia to design the first Eastern European participant-based Masters Degree program in Entrepreneurship.
Deborah is also a Certified Professional Consultant to Management, with over twenty-five years of experience in human resource management, organizational development, executive coaching, and performance consulting. She has her Masters Degree from the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
Deborah has been published eight times. “User Friendly Performance Evaluation” is a chapter in a monograph published by the University of Minnesota and National ASTD. She is also published in both the Training and the Consulting issues of the 2004, 2005, 2007 and the upcoming 2008 Pfeiffer Annuals. She was the 2004 President-Elect and 2005 President of the South Central Wisconsin Chapter of ASTD.
Her clients have included the: Open Society Institute-Croatia; states of Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Texas; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; U.S. Department of Energy; National Compressed Air Challenge; SourceOne Solutions LLC; National Rural Electric Cooperative Association; University of Wisconsin; University of Alabama; University of Wisconsin Credit Union; Johnson Controls, Inc.; Delaware Park; Citizens Bank; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cuna Mutual; Bruno; SSM Health Care System; Meriter Hospital; WEA Insurance Group; Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation; University of Wisconsin Small Business Development Center; Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc.; Energy Center of Wisconsin; U.S. Internal Revenue Service; National Guardian Life; Highsmith Corporation; U.S. Forest Products Laboratory; Madison Gas & Electric Company; SSI Technologies, Inc.; and AT&T.
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