Webinars

Jennifer Thomas is a successful and well-known Voice Coach in the Denver Metropolitan Area. She maintains a private clientele catering to professional voice-users in all professions, such as business executives, lawyers, actors, voice-over artists, teachers, ministers, storytellers, and presenters. In addition, Ms. Thomas teaches Voice classes at the Denver Center Theatre Academy.

Ms. Thomas presents her work to corporations and businesses to further their understanding of using the voice to communicate effectively. She has worked with Teletech, First Data, JD Edwards, Charles Schwab, Pell Rudman, Tribune Broadcasting and many others.

Ms. Thomas has a Master's degree in Voice Performance from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. She also has a Master of Fine Arts in Vocal Coaching and Training for the Theatre from the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, Colorado.

Hal Adler is the President of the Great Place to Work Institute. In this role, Hal provides leadership and strategic direction for the Institute. He brings a creative, dynamic approach to his work with expertise in instructional design, leadership training and consulting.

Hal came to the Institute in 2004 with a background in consulting, training and leadership development, and has distinguished himself in service to clients, through his public speaking and in the customized design and delivery of workshops and training programs. He is a regular keynote speaker and presenter at professional association conferences such as SHRM, ASTD and the Human Capital Institute. Hal continues to work with clients on matters such as building and sustaining trust, management training and development, executive coaching and change management.

Prior to joining the Institute, Hal was the founder of the Training Arts Institute, and his professional career also includes leadership positions with the Center for Talent Retention, a management training and development firm, and Manpower, a global HR Consulting and staffing business.

After 3 decades of specialization in lead acquisition and sales development, Dave Williams has become a recognized leader in web seminar marketing. He has a passion for helping his clients combine innovative marketing concepts with new media applications to create better communication, generate more sales leads and increase corporate revenue.

Dave is President of Conference Village and is the chief architect of the "Webinars That Work" coaching system. Educated at the Universities of Guelph and Western Ontario, he earned the Master of Arts degree in Psychology, has completed doctoral work in the field of Organizational Behaviour and is a past faculty member of the Wilfrid Laurier University School of Business.

Dave is the author of numerous research papers and journal articles, broadcasts the "Webinar Wisdom" podcast, frequently lectures to university and professional groups and has been both a columnist and member of various editorial advisory boards.

Erica Olsen is the founder and Vice President of M3 Planning, Inc, a strategic planning firm that works with growth-oriented organizations to develop and execute their strategies. She holds a BA in Communications and an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird. Her clients include Miller Heiman, EDAWN, Hallelujah Acres, Austin Radiological Association, Northern Nevada Business Weekly, Washoe County and University of Phoenix. M3 Planning is the fourth business Erica has helped found.

Under her guidance, M3 launched a web-based strategic planning system called MyStrategicPlan.com. MyStrategicPlan is just one of several online strategic planning systems developed by M3 Planning. Erica has developed and reviewed hundreds of strategic plans for organizations across the country.

Most recently, she authored Strategic Planning For Dummies as part of the For Dummies series. She has also co-authored Strategic Planning Made Easy: A Practical Guide to Growth and Profitability, and contributes regular columns to local, regional and national business publications.