Sheila Krejci, M.Ed. HRD is a learning and performance consultant influencing managers, leaders, trainers and consultants in multiple industries for over 2 decades. As consultant, instructor and facilitator of adult learners, Sheila designs and delivers training events, learning processes and peer coaching opportunities for individuals and organizations nationally integrating foundational adult learning theory with practical workplace application.

Her energizing workshops capture and engage audiences with innovative solutions while focusing on pragmatic tools and techniques that guide immediate action. Each learning experience culminates with action planning ensuring transfer of new knowledge and skills to the workplace.

As an ASTD-TCC, (American Society of Training and Development -- Twin Cities Chapter) Board Director, Sheila initiated the first regional conference of nearly 400 learning and performance professionals and the Senior Learning Directors’ Network in the Twin Cities region. She is a member of the Minnesota Facilitators’ Network, (MFN), the MN Organization Development Network, (MNODN), the Association of Psychological Type, (APT), and ASTD-VOS, (American Society of Training and Development-Valley of the Sun) in Phoenix, Arizona.

As an Inscape Publishing distributor, Sheila interprets and integrates DiSC™ Profiles and products including the Myers Briggs Type Inventory, (MBTI), the Thomas Kilman Approaches to Conflict, (TKI), Social Styles and other assessments in her work with teams, individuals and organizations.

Author of "Networking is a Lifetime Skill," Sheila is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota, the University of St. Thomas, the Dakota County Business & Professional Center and a customized trainer for several MNSCU Colleges in addition to being President of her own consulting company, SheilaK Training.

Sheila's company: sheilaktraining.com

Sheila's LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/sheilakrejci

Terri Cheney started CONNECT Instructional Design after 10 years as a Workplace Learning and Performance professional. Her work applies current brain research to workplace learning experiences, focusing on the pragmatic impact of training on learners’ performance back on the job. “No one succeeds just by knowing things,” she says. “Success comes from doing the right things at the right time.”

An engaging and energetic facilitator, Terri acquired a taste for applying cutting-edge teaching methods as a program leader for the internationally known Concordia Language Villages, which often serves as a laboratory for developing such techniques. She went on to teach business English at both the School of Business at the University of Rennes, France, and at ESMOD, France’s oldest fashion school.

Terri has developed and managed training for classroom, e-learning and blended-learning environments, and she has frequently led programs teaching non-trainers to deliver and also design effective training. Among her favorite projects are those that involve transforming staggeringly dull, often mandatory training (like many types of new-hire orientation or safety training) into active, pragmatic sessions that elicit a surprised “wow” from participants.

An active member of her professional association since 1996, Terri currently serves as the president of ASTD-Twin Cities Chapter -- the second-largest chapter of the American Society for Training and Development in the country.