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.
Christopher Demaline
View Instructor ProfileChristopher Demaline is a professor at Central Arizona College. He has taught accounting for more than 10 years. Chris also provides business start-up and business valuation consulting services. Previously, Chris served as a corporate controller. He has an MBA from Grand Canyon University, a graduate certificate in business ...
Baxter Denney
View Instructor ProfileBaxter Denney, vice president of growth marketing at New Relic, is responsible for all demand and digital marketing strategies and programs. Over the years, he has successfully aligned marketing operations, demand and digital functions and drives an organizational culture that supports and rewards innovation and ...
Michael Dennis
View Instructor ProfileMany 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 ...
Toby DeRoche
View Instructor ProfileToby focuses his career advising governance and assurance professionals on solutions to their audit, risk, and compliance needs. As a credentialed subject matter expert, Toby assists organizations improve their internal audit, risk management, and compliance functions. He is also an experienced author and presenter, ...
Marjorie Derven
View Instructor ProfileWith 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
View Instructor ProfileInnovative 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
View Instructor ProfileSenior 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
View Instructor ProfileArLyne 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
View Instructor ProfileFor 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 ...
Jason Dinesen
View Instructor ProfileJason self-admits to being a bit of a tax nerd. He loves helping people alleviate their fear of - and frustration with - taxes. He started Dinesen Tax Services as a side business with 3 clients while working a day job in a “cubicle farm” in West Des Moines. The “side business” quickly became something much more than ...