Our Instructors
Our instructors are leading practitioners and subject matter experts. On average, each has 20 years of experience in his or her selected field. This experience enables them to go beyond the curriculum to provide context, tips, and practical real-world examples to help you better understand and apply the course content right away. We vet each instructor thoroughly, to ensure they meet our high standards of quality for content and presentation. And we enable our users to peer-test and review all of their courses.

Michael Dennis

Many time Credit Manager for both private and public companies including several Fortune 500 companies. Expertise in credit, collection, negotiations, bankruptcy, use of security and collateral, and letters of credit. Provides consulting services to creditor companies. Publisher of the Encyclopedia of Credit (online). 2014 Credit Manager of ...

Marjorie Derven

With 20+ years of expertise consulting with top tier companies across industries that include consumer products, energy, financial services, food and beverages, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and technology, Marjorie Derven is dedicated to helping organizations align talent with business strategy. She brings an organizational effectiveness ...

Shyam Desigan

Innovative Finance & Information technology executive with 13+ years of strong leadership experience of successful financial management, Turnaround/ Restructuring and oversight of mid-sized organizations and projects that expand business capabilities and increase company profitability. Trusted team leader recognized for leadership in ...

Carlos DI Brico

Senior professional executive with broad experience in General Management, Shared Services and Finance, gained in diverse industries such as consumer products, industrial products, OTC, energy, telecom solutions and professional services.
I have been focused on serving, as a hands-on business partner, the operational areas with proven ...

ArLyne Diamond

ArLyne Diamond, Ph.D. Professional Biography – May, 2015
ArLyne Diamond, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized Leadership, Management, Professional Development and O-D consultant specializing in people and processes in the workplace. Multifaceted, Dr. Diamond has extensive experience in a wide range of disciplines (business, ...
- Company Culture: Creating and Maintaining the Best
- Part I: Cultural and Behavioral Information for Business in an International – Global Environment
- Change Management: The People Side
- Effective Workplace Negotiation and Persuasion
- Preventing Harassment, Discrimination, Abuse And Bullying, Management's Responsibility In 2020 And Beyond
- Preventing Harassment, Abusive Behavior, Bullying, And Discrimination In The Workplace 2020 Update – 2 hour training
- The Art and Science of Interviewing
- Investigating a Complaint of Inappropriate Behavior in The Workplace
- Creating Rewards and Recognitions that Get You What You Want to Achieve
- Onboarding: From Entry-Level to Senior Executive
- Marrying Career Development with Succession Planning
- Group Decision Making and Problem Solving
- Effective Meeting Management for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators
- Part II: Country Specific, Cultural, and Behavioral Information - Doing Business in a Global Environment
- Maintaining a Culture of Innovation and Creativity
- Visibility Enhances Promotability
- How to Manage Different Personalities - Every day Struggles And Proven Solutions
- Delegating Skills for Managers
- Understanding Our Unconscious Biases
- Managing Passive People
- Resolving Workplace Conflict and Dealing with Different/Difficult People in 2020 and Beyond
- Assertiveness Skills for Executives, Managers and HR Professionals
- Say No and Have it Honored (Don’t be a Victim)
- How EQ Helps Motivate Your Staff
- Don’t Get In Trouble Avoid Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, Bullying and Abuse
- Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Management’s Role
- Management Providing Safety and Better Ergonomics
- Cognitive Styles (Styles of Thinking, Talking, Giving and Receiving Information)
- Effective Time Management and Goal Setting/Delegation
- Culture: Inside the Company and Outside the Country
- Finding Success with Teams Working Far Apart
- Communication: A Two-Way Process
- Types of Boards and Expected Level of Participation in Each
- Integrating and Training Your Board Member
- Board Participation
- Preparing to Be on a Board
- Volunteers Working Together
- Management of Meetings, Committees and Boards
- Raising Funds: Investments – Donations – Events – Grants
- CEO Coaching
- Awesome Customer Service Inside and Outside the Company
- Grant Writing The Art And Science : Grant Applications That Are Focused and Effective.
- Getting The Job You Want and Deserve
- Concerns about Coronavirus in the Workplace
- Back to Work: The New Normal
- The Art and Science of Grant Writing
- Performance Appraisals that Get Positive Results
- Management’s Role in Dealing with Toxic People
- Helping People Work Remotely and Optimizing Business Operations due to Layoffs
- Onboarding Those Working from Home

Ron Dimon

For over thirty years Ron has been involved in Finance Systems and Processes, from his first job at Deloitte, Haskins + Sells as a 19-year-old programmer writing the Journal Entry subsystem for a trial balance program, through Lotus 1-2-3, Accpac (now Sage), and custom-developed systems (like BOX, the Broker of Obligations and ...

Veselina Dinova

An energetic finance professional with experience in multiple areas of corporate treasury combined with knowledge in other corporate finance functions and broad-based global financial markets expertise, Veselina Dinova is an effective educator and mentor. She was part of the team that developed multinational corporate finance simulation - a ...

Mary Driscoll

Mary Driscoll leads the financial management research practice at APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center), a non-profit business benchmarking and research organization. In this role, she is responsible for identifying and disseminating best practices and metrics used to improve the effectiveness of the office of the CFO. Driscoll ...


Walter Edgar

Walter is the Managing Principal of 4S Advisors who work with Boards and Leadership teams of Charities, Not for Profit Organisations and Associations to ensure that the organisation has a sustained future.
The work involves strategy development, strategic planning and execution plus establishing secure ...
- How to move a Not for Profit (NFP) from a “hands on Board” to a Governance Board?
- How Strategic Finance Planning Can Influence Not-for-Profit Decision Makers
- How to Report to a Not-for-Profit Board
- 8 Tips For Becoming a New Non-Profit, 'Third Sector' Director or Trustee
- Why the Third Sector Must Adopt The IR Principles