Who We Are

Learning Dynamics creates customized training programs to help organizations meet their objectives more effectively.

The training programs we offer have the potential to dramatically enhance your company's return on investment.

About Learning Dynamics

Learning Dynamics offers a wide range of training programs, employee development workshops, and leadership development services designed to enhance the professional growth of employees and executives alike.

As a result, our clients have enjoyed increased success in the marketplace coupled with heightened levels of employee satisfaction and engagement.  

Learning Dynamics' nationwide team of training professionals focuses on increasing the efficiency of organizations of all sizes across industries. We work in partnership with our client companies to improve individual and group productivity by teaching effective team building and best practices.

 

 

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Learning Dynamics President Jim Demaio

Jim DeMaio
President

Jim DeMaio has more than 25 years of experience in management consulting and training and development. A former Director of Corporate Training in the financial services industry, Jim has personally trained thousands of Fortune 500 managers across industries nationwide.

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Gloria Becker
Senior Learning Consultant

Gloria brings to her consulting work more than 30 years of practical experience as a senior officer, a banker, and a mentor to hundreds of community bankers. She has gained insights through engagement with clients, faculty and bankers involved in the workshops and banking school programs she created.

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Reid C. Bowman, Esq.
Senior Learning Consultant

Reid Bowman, Senior Learning Consultant, has more than 25 years of Human Resources, Employment Law, Compliance, and Ethics experience leading Human Resources, Legal, and Risk Management functions. He has held senior leadership positions with companies such as Bethlehem Steel [...]

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Twanna M. Brown
Learning Consultant

A former client of Learning Dynamics, Twanna Brown had more than forty years of experience working for the Alabama Department of Public Health. Twanna held various roles with increasing responsibilities for the WIC division, including overseeing Learning and Development. Twanna has designed and facilitated virtual and classroom training...

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Alex Castañeda
Senior Learning Consultant

Alex Castañeda, a Senior Learning Consultant, has designed, coordinated, and delivered dozens of professional certificate programs, workshops and seminars for thousands of program participants with leading organizations throughout the Americas. [...]

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Mary Sue Cavanagh

Mary Sue Cavanagh
Senior Vice President

Mary Sue Cavanagh has more than 20 years of experience in human resources, international communications and IT management in a Fortune 50 corporation. She has designed and facilitated software training programs that have been implemented throughout Europe, Asia, and South America  [...]

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Cheryl Chester

Cheryl Chester
SENIOR Learning Consultant

Cheryl has developed her more than 25-year career as a human resources professional, focused in the areas of leadership and organizational development. She has global experience in supporting a US-based Fortune 1,000 company by delivering leadership development sessions in both their UK and Dublin offices. [...]

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Lynn Culotta

Lynn Culotta
Senior Learning Consultant

Lynn is a Training and Organizational Development professional with successes in collaborating with leaders to drive organizational performance and employee engagement. She is a results-focused, dynamic, and engaging HR partner with extensive experience supporting enterprise-wide leadership and employee development initiatives in healthcare and insurance settings. Lynn also has significant [...]

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Bill Florin
Vice President

Bill Florin is a Vice President with Learning Dynamics. He has more than 25 years of diverse experience as a Human Resources Director and Sales Manager, including assignments with Target, Best Buy and Kohl's. Bill is also a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) and Certified Employment Interview [...]

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Patty Franco

Patty Sanchez-Franco
Vice President

Patty Franco is a highly skilled professional trainer, facilitator and executive coach with over 25 years of experience in coaching, training, and talent development. Her uniquely blended background includes 15 years of experience in various Human Resources functions for Fortune 500 organizations, such as [...]

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Charles Frazier, LCSW
Vice President - Faith Dynamics

Charles Frazier brings more than 25 years of experience in management, marketing, sales and social services to his vast array of clients in both the public and non-profit sectors. He has designed and presented training programs on successful conflict resolution in a changing workplace, effective stress management, [...]

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Cheryl Grayson
Senior Learning Consultant

Cheryl brings to her consulting work more than 25 years of practical experience with expertise in organizational change, leadership development, and executive coaching. Over the years she has created change management training strategies and implementation, led  [...] 

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Cheryl Harrison

Cheryl Harrison, Ph.D.
Learning Consultant

Dr. Cheryl Harrison spent more than 25 years in leadership management education and development. Her expertise encompasses career and professional development training and performance and change management. Cheryl's background is uniquely blended in academia, social services and [...]

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Sandy Kusant

Sandy Kusant
Senior Learning Consultant

Sandy has spent her career of over 20 years developing and coaching leaders and their teams toward strategic business outcomes across several Fortune 500 companies. With a strong passion for driving people centric leadership, Sandy has designed and delivered workshops in such areas as psychological safety, effective communication, empathetic leadership...

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Susan Laberge

Susan Laberge
Senior Learning Consultant

Susan Laberge has more than 25 years of Retail Bank management experience. She is a former senior officer of numerous community banks including Eagle Bank, Webster Bank, and most recently Farmington Bank. Susan managed the Retail Bank network of branches and was responsible for driving all sales and service results.

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Benae Lambright
Senior Learning Consultant

Benae Lambright offers her combined experiences in elementary education, teaching at the college level, and business leadership in the education and private sectors to Learning Dynamics clients. With her broad range of experiences and success, she has a unique perspective that allows her to understand training and development challenges and opportunities [...]

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Laura Mayer
Vice President

Laura Mayer is a Vice President with Learning Dynamics. Over the years Laura has had an extensive amount of experience in training and change management. As Director of Training and Development Strategy at Warner-Lambert Company, she developed, implemented, and conducted training [...]

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Janice Mazzallo
Senior Learning Consultant

Janice Mazzallo has over 25 years as a Human Resources Executive in the public and private sector, Fortune 100 companies and small local organizations, and union and non-union workplaces. She is featured as one of fourteen leaders in the book “Catalyst of Culture: How Visionary Leaders Activate the Employee Experience.” [...]

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Bob McGuinness

Bob McGuinness
Senior Learning Consultant

Bob has more than 25 years of experience in employee and industrial relations, working in manufacturing, construction, and service for Pratt and Whitney and the Otis Elevator Company. He has a broad negotiations background [...]

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Dr. Rosa Mo

Rosa Mo, Ph.D.
Learning Consultant

Dr. Rosa Mo is a registered dietician with more than 25 years of experience in administering corporate and community health programs, nutrition management programs, and health consulting in corporate, non-profit, and educational organizations. She is multi-lingual [...]

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Calvin Morgan

Calvin Morgan
Vice President

Calvin Morgan has more than 30 years of experience in employee relations and training. Known as "The Dean of Consultants" at Learning Dynamics, Calvin has designed and presented training programs in diversity, effective presentation skills, business ethics, [...]

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Gina Ohanesian
Senior Learning Consultant

Gina has been a leadership and business partner to organizations since 1986. With a broadbackground in organizational and leadership development, Gina has served a variety of clientsdomestically and internationally. [...] 

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Quintina Palmer-Woods
Senior Learning Consultant

Quintina (Tiny) Palmer-Woods brings more than 25 years of senior-level human resources, training and development experience to Learning Dynamics. In officer and management positions with Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), Reebok and other companies, she developed expert knowledge of [...]

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Barbara Phillips
Senior Vice President

Barbara Phillips has more than 30 years of successful management and consulting experience in financial services, sales, marketing and human resources. Her background as an entrepreneur and human resources executive provides her clients with a savvy business partner [...]

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Wilbur Pike
Vice President

Wilbur Pike's professional history
includes more than 30 years in corporate management, training and development, combined with entrepreneurial acumen
in transition issues in Industrial and organizational development. Wilbur has authored numerous articles on effective transitioning to team-based [...]

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Mark Ricca
Vice President

Mark Ricca's distinguished career includes that of Bank President, General Counsel, and Professor. Throughout his career Mark has also dedicated time to teaching, including his recent professorship at the Business, Finance and Management School of New York teaching courses on the US Financial System and Cross-Cultural Management. Prior to joining Learning Dynamics, Mark was the President and CEO [...]

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Barbara Rutkowski
Vice President

Barbara Rutkowski offers a broad portfolio of knowledge and practical experience built on her successful career in human resources and operational leadership assignments. Her background incorporates organization effectiveness, human resources management, consulting to internal business partners...

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Wendi Shook

Wendi Shook, CPA
Vice President of Finance

Wendi Shook is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 25 years of experience in general accounting and financial reporting. She has held managerial positions in Fortune 500 organizations, including KPMG and Stanley Works, where she served as a Corporate Accounting Executive for over a decade.

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Kristin Sterling
Senior Learning Consultant

Kristin Sterling is a Senior Learning Consultant with Learning Dynamics who has more than 25 years of experience designing and delivering global executive leadership solutions, group and team facilitation, board development, succession planning and executive coaching.

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Sonia Ellis-Taylor

Sonia Ellis-Taylor
Senior Learning Consultant

Sonia Ellis-Taylor has more than 25 years of experience as a Human Resources solution professional, having served as a strategic partner with her client base to develop the diverse employee talents that propel the success of the organization. She has professionally coached more than 5,000 individuals, ranging from senior executives to college students.

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Karen Tracy

Karen Tracy
Learning Consultant

Karen Tracy combines decades of operational leadership, coaching and team development experience in her consulting work at Learning Dynamics. She worked her way up through the retail banking industry, reaching a divisional management assignment prior to transitioning to Personal Development Officer and Coach with Newtown Savings Bank.

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JeanJulia Van Der Maelen

JeanJulia Van Der Maelen
Vice President

JeanJulia Van Der Maelen has more than 30 years of experience in marketing, training and management consulting.
Her accomplishments include design and delivery of workshops on a variety of topics, including sexual harassment, strategic planning, and diversity. Her clients include Fortune 500 corporations as well [...]

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