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Join us for our free virtual Career Cafe: Emerging Trends in Instructional Design

April 2, 2024, 6 pm Central/7 pm Eastern

The Gulf Coast ISPI VCOP chapter is hosting its next Career Cafe event featuring Chris Skees, Learning Product Director at Cisco, Career Coach, and host of the OfficeHours Podcast. Chris will focus on the emerging trends in ID, share tips on updating your resume to meet changing needs and share insights on future learning design.

As a new year dawns, the Gulf Coast ISPI Virtual Community of Practice Chapter embarks on an exciting journey with the transition of its leadership team. While we welcome our incoming officers' fresh perspectives and energy, we also pause to celebrate the extraordinary foundation laid by those who came before.

Forever Grateful: A Legacy of Vision and Commitment

We express our deepest gratitude to the individuals who made this chapter possible: Dr. Holley Handley and Dr. Nancy B. Hastings.

Our founding president, Dr. Hastings, envisioned this community from the start. Her unwavering commitment and infectious passion for performance improvement have inspired us and laid the foundation for our continued growth. We are forever grateful for her dream and leadership.

Dr. Handley, a founding team member, has been a constant source of support and guidance. Her collaborative spirit and organizational skills have ensured the smooth running of our chapter's activities, making her an invaluable contributor to our success.

A Dream Realized: Welcoming Dr. Lynne MacBain and Nicole Endsley

We're thrilled to announce Dr. Lynne MacBain as our new President and Dr. Nicole Endsley as Vice President. Their dedication to performance improvement and passion for our chapter's mission inspires us. We know they'll guide us towards continued growth and success with innovative ideas and collaborative spirit.

Dr. MacBain brings a wealth of experience in instructional and performance technology, instructional design, and organizational development. Her strategic vision and expertise will be invaluable assets as we navigate the ever-evolving landscape of our field.

Dr. Endsley, a passionate performance improvement expert with 20+ years across education and government, joins Dr. MacBain as Vice President. Her analytical skills and optimistic spirit promise smooth operations and successful program execution.

Let's Celebrate Together!

The Gulf Coast ISPI Virtual Chapter owes tremendous gratitude to all our past leaders. Their legacies inspire us as we step into this new year. Join us in welcoming Dr. MacBain and Dr. Endsley and in celebrating the achievements of Dr. Hastings and Dr. Handley.

Stay tuned for exciting updates on upcoming events and initiatives from our new leadership team!

Join us for an evening with Dr. Carl Binder

November 15 from 6 pm -7 pm Central

Open Discussion from 7 pm - 8 pm Central

ISPI's Gulf Coast Virtual Community of Practice is proud to welcome Dr. Carl Binder!

Please join us for this free virtual event to hear about Dr. Binder's early experiences in academia, his transition into the field, and his approach to and experiences with professional networking.

Carl Binder is a long-time participant and thought leader in ISPI, having started his ISPI leadership as President of the Massachusetts Chapter of ISPI in 1984, continuing to serve on international ISPI committees and delivering presentations and workshops at every conference since the 1980s.  He has received ISPI’s Lifetime Member (2009) and Thomas F. Gilbert (2012) Awards and continues to speak and deliver workshops at ISPI’s annual conference and for chapters around the globe.  Carl’s career began as a doctoral student with B.F. Skinner in Behavior Science at Harvard during the 1970s and shifted to educational research and application for a decade as Associate Director of the Behavior Prosthesis Lab. Starting in 1982, following Ogden Lindsley’s encouragement to create products and services and find commercial markets for them, he founded and led four consulting firms that have contributed to different application areas. He’s published articles over the years in both Performance Improvement and Performance Improvement Quarterly and has been an Encore Presenter at ISPI conferences a half dozen times. Carl also publishes in behavior science, education, structured documentation, sales performance, and educational policy, including Behavioral Fluency: Evolution of a New Paradigm, the 12th most cited article published in 40 years of The Behavior Analyst journal.  He is now CEO of The Performance Thinking Network, LLC (www.PerformanceThinking.com ), based on Bainbridge Island near Seattle. He delivers performance consulting certification programs, coaching programs and services, and specialized services for sales enablement and HR Business Partners.  At 74, Carl has been involved with behavior science and performance engineering for nearly 50 years, so he has much to discuss!

In this session, Carl will talk about how his career evolved from the basic research laboratory to application, first in education by applying Skinner’s variable (rate of response) in Precision Teaching with the mentorship of B.H. Barrett, Ogden Lindsley, and Eric Haughton; then doing fluency-based instructional design and implementation sales, marketing, and customer service organizations in global corporations; and over nearly four decades developing and refining the plain English Performance Thinking® models and methodology packaged and taught in programs from The Performance Thinking Network. His current work is refining and certifying others to apply Performance Thinking to drive organizational results through the performance of people across all functions and levels.  Performance Thinking includes the Six Boxes® Model, voted “the best performance model in the world” by attendees at ISPI’s international conference in 2022.

After joining ISPI in the early 1980s, Carl reached out and was mentored by some of the founding thought leaders in Human Performance Technology, including Tom Gilbert, Geary Rummler, Joe Harless, Don Tosti, Robert Horn, Robert Mager, and Roger Kaufman. If there’s a single recommendation that Carl offers his younger colleagues, it’s that one should never hesitate to reach out to people whose work you admire. It turns out that they are almost always interested in helping those who are interested in their work and who have the gumption to ask. He says flat out that he learned far more from such brilliant and generous mentors by sticking to them like glue with whatever forms of communication were possible than in formal academic programs at Harvard or anywhere else.

You can learn more about Carl’s work on YouTube at www.PerformanceThinking.tv and his not-for-profit website, www.Fluency.org.  For more details about Carl’s professional career from the beginning, download his 2014 biographical chapter, written for the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies at: https://bit.ly/Binder_2014_CCBSBio

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Register today for our next event, Grow Your Network: Nourish Your Network featuring Jaime Torchiana and Evan Pressman!

September 13, 2023, CT, 6 pm - 7 pm.

The online event is free, but registration is required.

Use the link or scan the QR code in the event flyer. https://lnkd.in/gUvyqqY4