Thomas Speer Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

As the Learning and Organizational Development Director, I am responsible for overseeing a wide range of organizational training programs and talent development initiatives that include employee onboarding, cultural alignment, performance coaching, competency modeling, performance management, high potential development, leadership and management training, succession planning, career path development, employee engagement, strategic alignment and more.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) provides free programs and services to address the needs of wounded warriors and fill gaps in government care. We serve, injured veterans, their families, and caregivers by providing free mental health and wellness, physical health and wellness, career and benefits counseling, and support for the most severely injured.Our mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors. Our vision is to foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded service members in our nation's history. As the Learning & Organizational Development Manager, I am responsible for overseeing the design, delivery, and evaluation of all assessment, development, and learning programs with the goal of enabling a high performing, mission and values focused organization. Learn more at http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org or call 877.TEAM.WWP

While in between opportunities, I served in a consulting role for local professional groups and non-profit veteran's service organizations (VSO), providing assistance in organizational development, training design and delivery, and learning management system implementation.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

One Call Care Management (One Call) is the nation’s leading provider of specialized solutions to the workers’ compensation industry. With approximately 2800 employees, One Call's solutions enable faster, more efficient and more cost-effective claims resolution. One Call provides reliable, consistent connections to care with expertise in high end diagnostics, physical therapy and transportation services, post-discharge home care and durable medical equipment, dental and doctor specialty services, complex care management, and the language services required for today’s multicultural workforce. As One Call's Director of Organizational Development, I was responsible for a wide range of organizational improvement programs and initiatives that include employee relations, cultural alignment, core values and competency modeling, performance management systems, leadership and management training, employee development, succession planning, career path development, employee engagement, enterprise change management and more.

Alexandria, Va, Us

I was a member of the board of directors for the Northeast Florida Chapter of ATD from 2012-2016. I served as VP of Programs 2012-2013, President Elect in 2014, and Chapter President in 2015. As the Chapter President role requires a three year commitment, I also served as Past President in 2016 (an advisor to the chapter president and board for that year).I have also been a member in good standing with the ATD National organization for over 8 years. During this time, I presented at a number of monthly and year end professional seminars. I also attended several ATD International and National Chapter Leadership conferences.

Chicago , Il , Us

Kemper Corporation, with $8 billion in assets, is one of the nation's leading insurers. The Kemper family of companies employ 6000 associates who specialize in property and casualty insurance and life and health insurance products for individuals, families and small businesses.As Director of Training, I oversaw the training and professional development activities for four Kemper Corporation property and casualty insurance companies with offices across the continental United States. I led a department responsible for maintaining a multi-company corporate university system and for managing all leadership development and compliance training programs. In addition to my core responsibilities, I provided executive facilitation and training support throughout the organization. Some examples include co-facilitation of a 3 day leadership conference for over 300 executives and senior leaders from six Kemper companies. I also facilitated a 2 day finance summit for 18 senior accounting and finance executives from the same organizations. Each engagement included detailed facilitation plans, executive summary reports and post event action plans.

Chicago , Il , Us

Directed the training and professional development activities for three Kemper Corporation property and casualty insurance companies (and a combined services group) with offices across the continental United States.As one of the first departments to stand up under a multi-company shared services model, I developed a detailed 6 month strategic plan to establish a new training department to serve four organizations. I then conducted a comprehensive needs analysis for over 3000 managers and employees, developed an integrated learning management system, and authored new training, budgetary and administrative processes. The consolidation project was a huge success and resulted in annual savings of more than $295,000.00.Also created an extensive “Corporate University” to host classroom instruction, virtual and self-paced learning, and multimedia job aids and resources. This included establishing RFP’s to consolidate multiple e-learning contracts. The resulting combined contract extended learning access to 760 new users, increased utilization by 41%, and saved over $25,000.00 in additional licensing costs.Upon completion, the university and e-learning portal offered 2200 instructor led training and self paced learning courses to choose from and averaged more than 4200 hours of professional development and e-learning hours annually.

Chicago , Il , Us

Managed training and development department for Kemper Insurance, a holding of Unitrin Inc.Established a new training department to serve over 1200 Property and Casualty Insurance employees. Conducted early needs analysis and onsite training evaluations at eight offices across the country. In response to these early training evaluations, I personally designed and delivered a 4-part high performance management training program. As part of the overall project plan, I developed a (proficiency based) leadership competency model, comprehensive performance management model that included development planning templates, and change management and accountability processes.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries based in Jacksonville, Fla., is one of the nation's leading transportation suppliers. The company’s rail and intermodal businesses provide rail-based transportation services including traditional rail service and the transport of intermodal containers and trailers in 23 states, the District of Columbia and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.Served as Technology Training Manager, Curriculum Designer, Corporate Trainer and Meeting Facilitator. Managed an annual technology training budget of $800,000.00. Negotiated and managed multiple vendor agreements, providing over 11,000 training hours per year at an average annual savings of 38% in training design and delivery costs. Established a multi-level training analysis (ROI) program and reporting dashboard to document and measure key training metrics, corporate compliance, skills retention, and workplace application. Tied to over a dozen key measures and statistics.

Directed a team of six technicians in the maintenance and installation of computer networks, hardware, software applications, and operating systems for Jacksonville area businesses, universities, and non profit organizations. As Senior Project Manager, supervised the installation of over 100 Ethernet, wireless, and fiber optic networks for a large regional university. Coordinated a major network installation of over 600 computers at five college campuses, bringing the project in under budget, and 2 ½ days ahead of schedule with 1/3 fewer technicians than planned.

Master Of Arts In Business Management, Business Management

Master Of Arts, Computer Resources And Information Management

Bachelor Of Science, Vocational Education And Curriculum Development