Steve Trautman
Steve Trautman is the author of the Peer Mentoring Workshop, which for 15 years has helped thousands of employees, business leaders, and managers, improve how they communicate, transfer knowledge and deliver on-the-job training.
Steve’s expertise in the issue of knowledge transfer was born from his years at Microsoft in the early 90s where he started out as a project manager on the early versions of Word. He initially developed Peer Mentoring as a solution to the immediate needs of the team he led. Steve later founded one of the earliest training departments at Microsoft (supporting the one-third of the company shipping software) and continued to hone the Peer Mentoring tools there. That work was the foundation for the program that Steve has since delivered for companies like Electronic Arts (EA), Boeing, Nike, Intel, U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force, Southern Company, and Food Services of America.
While with Microsoft and, later as the General Manager for the Advertising Business Unit at Expedia.com, Steve was walking in his clients’ shoes. As a result, he understands first-hand the everyday realities of leading, teaching and learning on the job. His subsequent consulting work, which exposed him to many industries, has allowed Steve to see and understand the challenges faced by employees from the front lines and factory floor, to the sales desk and on up to the chief executive’s office. In addition, Steve wrote Teach What You Know: A Practical Leader’s Guide to Knowledge Transfer and Peer Mentoring to reach organizations at every level.
Sherryl Christie Bierschenk
Sherryl is the co-author of the Practical Leader Management Series and a contributor to the development of the Peer Mentoring course. For 16 years, Sherryl has provided training, as well as individual and team coaching for leaders of all levels in a variety of organizations. In the high tech arena, she has worked with a number of companies, including Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, Apple, Motorola, HP, Xilinx, Oracle and Class Software Solutions. A sample of other client companies with whom she has worked includes Boeing, Hill-Rom, Kodak, and REI. She has owned and operated her own business, Best Practice, Inc. for 20+ years. In that capacity, she has directly managed both employees and contractors.
Stacey Dickinson
Stacey Dickinson is the author of the Cross Group Collaboration workshop and has been in the technology industry for over 20 years specializing in relational databases and training. She began teaching customers to administer and design databases on Microsoft SQL Server version 1.0 in 1989 and continued working on the product in both training and courseware development through version 7.0. As a training manager at Microsoft, Stacey owned all of training for Program Managers and Marketers in the Product Groups. In recent years, she has taught the Peer Mentoring workshop to more than 5000 developers, testers, program managers and others and the Cross Group Collaboration workshop to more than 2000 participants, as well as Precision Questioning to over 350 attendees. Stacey is the president of Solutions View, a training consulting firm.
Todd Hudson
Todd Hudson is founder of the Maverick Institute, a think tank and consulting firm that helps executives create corporate cultures that unleash the passion and creativity of their employees. With more than 25 years’ of management experience he’s seen just about everything the corporate world can throw at you. As an international banker on Wall Street in the go-go 80s, he experienced first-hand the clash of steady traditional values with a market whose velocity demanded screaming change. At international high tech companies, he navigated cross-cultural boundaries in the global marketplace. While managing operations of up to 300 employees, he created organizational structures and performance management systems that delivered whole new levels of business results. Todd holds a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a BA in Chinese and Economics from Connecticut College.