Robert Thrall Email & Phone Number

Florham Park, Nj

- Primary focus is Whole Leadership, including One Firm Leadership Skills (OFLS).- Identify client’s learning needs based on learning objectives and strategy discussions.- Curate a variety of assets to meet the learning needs of employees at all levels in the firm.- create Learner Pathways, write asset descriptions, curate images, and other information for assets to be added to the LMS.- Work with vendors and employees to provide access to required training.- Obtain permissions from third parties to use their intellectual property for internal L&D.- Manage Appreciation at Work program, which includes: * Point of contact for license distribution, resources, and questions * Provide metrics on participation and cost savings * Vendor communication for the contract and licenses * This voluntary training has 5,000+ participants to date

West Caldwell, Nj

• Responsible for all aspects of the global Learning Management System with over 40,000 users.• Added all forms of training content and other items to the LMS.• Guided internal clients from roll out to completion of various training programs & assessments.• Added users and managed their access to the LMS and content within the LMS.• Created reports for company-wide trainings, assessments, and ad hoc reports.• Trained employees on LMS and Individual Development Plan (IDP) functionality.• Conducted Quality Assurance (QA) of trainings and the impact of LMS release updates.• Resolved LMS/vendor related issues and assisted users on a variety of LMS related topics.

Lyndhurst, Nj

• Planned and coordinated several components of a fall series of webinars (about 70) for a large pharmaceutical company.• Crafted communications and Outlook calendar invites for participants and presenters.• Maintained Excel spreadsheets to track tasks and organize data.• Utilized Adobe Connect to create webinar rooms, urls, participant access, and add resources to the webinar room.

Parsippany, Nj

• Managed all aspects of the global Learning Management System (LMS)o Managed access to the LMS and specific content for over 100,000 global users.o Added thousands of content to the LMS which included documents, self-paced trainings, webinar and in-person training sessions and recordings.o Designed the layout and look of all content and curriculum.o Trained approximately 1,000 corporate employees and licensees in administration (adding/removing users, uploading content, scheduling and reporting, etc.) of the LMS via recorded webinars, 1 on 1 sessions, classroom sessions and webinars.o Responsible for managing the cost for upgrades and enhancements to the LMS.o Generated a variety of reports for Management and Legal such as compliance reports, participation levels for training curricula and other ad hoc reports (skill development).• Managed the webinar platform in which over 100 webinars were conducted each month.o Created webinar rooms and urls for hundreds of classes.o Managed facilitator and user access globally to webinar rooms and webinar recordings.o Primary liaison between the product vendor and facilitators regarding new features and updates, as well as purchasing and renewal of licenses.o Trained approximately 100 facilitators on the webinar features and how to best utilize them.• Responsible for controlling North American employee’s level of access to the Human Resources Time and Attendance system, as well as input of Paid Time-Off (PTO).* Conducted a variety of trainings as needed.

Mahwah, New Jersey, United States

Freshman Seminar Instructor during Fall semester of 2005, 2006, and 2007.Created and taught Freshman Seminar titled "Issues in the Workplace".

Convent Station, Nj

• Facilitated trainings which included Supervisory, soft skills and mandatory (ex: CPR/First Aid)• Organized and promoted trainings to increase the participation level of trainings.• Created a method to accurately track training data to verify compliance of mandatory trainings.• Established first supervisory training series in the company’s history, consisting of 6 sessions on 6 topics in which approximately 30 supervisors were trained.• Supervised 6 trainers within the organization who facilitated mandatory trainings.• Coordinated all internal and external trainings (calendar, facilitator schedules, location reservations, etc.).• Worked with management to assess and develop training curricula for the approximately 400 employees at all levels within the company.

San Bernardino, Ca

• Conducted needs assessments with county departments by meeting with managers to discuss and identify if training would met the need, if so, recommended and developed training to meet the need.• Designed curriculum, objectives and course content.• Facilitated group discussions, planning sessions and in-person trainings for all levels of employees on management (ex: managing people, conflict resolution, supervisory responsibilities) and soft skills (ex: time management, communication, stress management) topics for 10 – 125 participants per session.• Facilitated approximately 15 trainings per month.• Evaluated and made recommendations for changes (ex: curriculum redesign, course content) to existing courses based on formal and informal feedback.• Assisted in recruitment for programs by promoting courses internally and to other government agencies and by participating in the selection of candidates for management program.• Scheduled the delivery of training programs by internal and external facilitators, in addition to local resources (local colleges, offsite training locations, etc.).

M.S., Industrial/Organizational Psychology

B.A., Psychology