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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.
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
- Ethics and Attitude in the Workplace
- 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
- Resolving Workplace Conflict
- 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
- 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 ...
- Tax Preparers Gone Bad Volume 2
- Child Tax Credit and Other Dependents Credit
- Dependents: Who Can Claim Whom?
- Earned Income Credit - 2023 Tax Returns
- Community Property Taxation
- A Brief History of Marriage in the Tax Code
- Qualified Business Income Deduction - A Basic Overview
- Schedule C Updates
- Claiming Dependents on a Tax Return
- Common Forms Series: Form 2441 - Updated for 2023
Tina Ding
View Instructor ProfileTina started her career at Ernst & Young’s Houston office. She later joined Hines, a real estate investment firm with $161b of assets under management.
She had the honor to join the Investment Department of Texas Children’s Hospital, the largest children’s hospital in America. Here, she embarked on data ...
Veselina Dinova
View Instructor ProfileAn 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
View Instructor ProfileMary 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
View Instructor ProfileWalter 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
