John Oppy Email & Phone Number

State College, Pa, Us

Reston, Virginia, Us

ICF works with hundreds of companies and governments globally to plan, design, and implement transformative projects. With +9,000 experts across +70 countries, they solve complex problems in unique ways. John led a talented team of Learning Business Partners, Practice Leaders, Program Owners and Operations Specialists that also solve things using unique approaches.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

John was responsible for the development of learning strategies, design, development and delivery for the Global Document Outsourcing and Managed Document Solutions organizations ($5 billion in revenue, +10,000 employees, 60 countries, 7 languages) to align with key strategic business initiatives and workforce objectives. He expertly guided a team of +20 people supporting this growth area of Xerox business.

John developed Xerox Global Services Document Advisor Program from clean sheet. Document Advisors consult with Xerox’ client Marketing teams to drive the most efficient methods to communicate. This blended his prior experiences in strategy development, P&L management, HR practices, recruiting, salary benchmarking, continuous learning, strategic pricing, sales and marketing and program management. In addition John developed his change management skills having to partner with Clients to co-develop and impliment their plans.Once the Program was established he hired and line managed the initial Document Advisors handing that responsibility to his senior staff as the Program grew. He stayed close to the Program by leading a close knit community of practice and conducted continuous meetings with clients to capture and develop solutions to new requirements.During this time John published his first white paper on Xerox.com that focused on the value of onsite communications expertise driving improvements in business results.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

John was selected by the corporate senior leadership team to play a key role in the launch of the iGen3, a groundbreaking color digital press the future of the company hinged upon, handling the strategic direction for preparing the sales and technical populations to work in the construct of a new customer enviroment. He crafted the worldwide learning strategy and comprehensive compentency-based sales and analyst continuums. He then led the instructional design, development, deployment and continuous improvment of sales and analyst learning. This involved the management of 4 curriculm development teams concurrently. This work fully prepped the sales and technical support teams for the critical shift from analog to digital techology in the graphic communications industry and quickly established Xerox as credible in the space and increased Xerox market share by developing core graphic communications industry skills and knowledge training programs as the front end of each continuum. John prepped the C-suite with critical background knowledge to ensure the successful positioning of Xerox across the Commercial Printing industry. He also collaborated with the Rochester Institute of Technology to develop senior executive color competency programs, exposing the top 250 US executives to the business considerations required to successfully penetrate the commercial print marketplace.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

John was responsible for the development of marketing initiative’s, sales incentives, training deployment and a portion of the Companies initial participation the world’s largest trade fair for Printing, Drupa, held every four years in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

John was selected to lead the development of sales training for this start-up portion of Xerox's business. Prior to his appointment sales training was a one time event - part of a year-start sales kick-off. John designed and developed learning continuums based on the entry experience of the Learner. All of the training deliverables were translated in French, Italian, Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese and he cross-trained the trainers prior to each product launch. During this period revenue from the Xerox color business grew over 1000% year on year. In 1994 Xerox had 27 dedicated color sales specialists. At the end of 1999 all of the 7000 strong sales force was color trained in hands-on environments. At this point in time Xerox had the second largest direct sales force in the world only bested by General Electric. In 1999 Xerox color training was the topic of a feature article in Selling Power magazine.From 1985-1994 John had multiple US-based Learning and Development roles of increasing responsibility.

Behavioral Sciences And Instructional Design

Media Sciences

Xerox High Potential Program, Organizational Leadership