Time Management Training

About Lisa J. Downs

Lisa Downs MS Ed ACC CPLP is a leadership development coach facilitator and consultant specializing in helping technical professionals and executives work at their best and achieve their desired business results. As president and owner of her company DevelopmentWise Consulting Lisa focuses on using assessment tools in her work with leaders and their teams to gain greater self-awareness of their behaviors recognize the impact of those behaviors and work toward who they want to be as leaders and as people to accomplish their goals. Lisa began her career in education in 1996 and has worked in workplace learning and talent development since 2003. Lisas previous corporate roles include working in learning and leadership development with the technology company EMC² The Boeing Company PEMCO Mutual Insurance and T-Mobile USA. She also has six years of experience working in the accounting industry supporting CPAs with their learning and executive leadership development. Lisa served as chair of the ATD National Advisors for Chapters Committee in 2013-2014 a volunteer committee she began serving on in 2010. She is also a past chair of the ATD Chapter Recognition Committee and a past president of the ATD Puget Sound Chapter. She now facilitates a number of education programs for ATD including the Coaching Certificate the online and in-person versions of the Creating Leadership Development Programs Certificate and Essentials of Identifying and Developing High-Potential Employees an online program she developed for ATD. Currently she is leading the project to design and develop ATDs latest program in its Master Series Master Coach that she will also facilitate.In addition to Time Management Training Lisa is the author of Listening Skills Training and Negotiation Skills Training in the ASTD Trainers WorkShop series. She is also the author of Managing Learning Programs a recent TD at Work publication has been published in TD magazine and has written blog posts for ATDs Communities of Practice. As a member of the Forbes Coaches Council she has also been featured as a contributor on Forbes.com.