Project Manager Training
Resume:
Brian W. Remer
Guilford, Vermont 05301
802-***-**** *****@**********.***
To The Search Committee:
I am a performance improvement specialist with experience in meeting facilitation, employee
engagement, and leadership development programming. My particular skill is the creation of an
environment rich in collaboration and creativity whether for training, strategic planning, or process
improvement. By listening to organizational challenges and identifying bright spots of performance, I
design customized, just-in-time solutions that ensure enthusiastic motivation from all stakeholders.
Right now you are looking for someone to fill the role of Director of Training and Development that you
are advertising through Talent Retriever. As a nationally recognized speaker, presenter, facilitator, and
author, I can draw upon my experience with organizations from around the world to help you meet the
human resource and organizational challenges you currently face.
Because I am passionate about what I do, I have included below a simple but effective activity that you
are free to use at the end of your next meeting or training event. Confucius Says is just one example of
the many activities I have designed and refined to maximize participant engagement in learning.
In addition, you are welcome to subscribe to either of my two free monthly newsletters. The Firefly News
Flash features a discovery, idea, and activity related to leadership, creativity, or learning. 99’s on the 9th is
a self-contained activity with a 99-Word Story, discussion questions, and interpretation suitable for team
learning. See samples here:
Firefly News Flash:
http://www.thefirefly.org/Firefly/html/News%20Flash/Newsletter%20Archives.htm
99’s on the 9th:
http://www.99-words.com/html/Subscribe.htm
I hope you will add me to your short list of go-to partners and give me a call when you need expert
support in performance improvement, training design, meeting facilitation, or organizational
development. In the meantime, I hope you have great success with the following activity!
Confucius Says
At the end of your next meeting or training, instead of summarizing the main points for the participants, invite
people to review the topic and relate it to their job responsibilities. Begin by distributing a 3x5 card to each person.
Ask them to write down two or three important learning points or insights they received during the training. Have
people work silently and independently for a couple minutes. Next, distribute a fortune cookie to each person and
ask them to find a way in which their fortune somehow relates to one of the items on their card. Invite them to
consult a partner for ideas or to switch fortunes if they are stuck. Ask a few people to share their fortune and how it
relates to what they learned. Follow each with a round of applause and record them on a flip chart so you can Tweet
them to all participants over the next two weeks as a follow up.
Brian W. Remer
339 Bullock Drive
Guilford, Vermont 05301
*****@**********.***
Capabilities: Inventive performance improvement specialist and group facilitator able to translate any
content material into engaging learning activities that inspire and equip participants to
achieve organizational goals.
SKILL AREAS
Training Design and Delivery
• Consulted with managers and conducted needs assessments to design and facilitate highly
imaginative, participatory, experientially-based workshops for new employee orientation.
• Produced in-service workshop series on leadership development, mentoring, supervision, and
change management for mid-level managers.
• Authored and implemented training modules and participant guides on communication,
negotiation, employee empowerment, mentoring, and change management.
• Planned, organized, facilitated, and evaluated numerous events of one to five days in
leadership development, teambuilding, strategic planning, and organizational mission.
Human Resource Development
• Conducted on-going needs analysis and research to determine performance gaps and
recommend improvements.
• Designed and delivered curriculum to implement major organization-wide change
management processes.
• Facilitated meetings of diverse constituent groups during high-stakes negotiations,
teambuilding, and problem solving sessions.
• Developed and managed a cadre of training specialists to conduct in-service workshops.
• Wrote and facilitated state-wide Training of Trainers courses for mid-level managers.
Program Management
• Created strategy and managed goals for $1,500,000 statewide mental health initiative
including training, public information, evaluation, and coalition functions.
• Wrote and compiled regular evaluation reports and continuation funding requests for grant
sponsors.
• Planned, scheduled, coordinated, publicized and provided logistical support for training
events serving over 500 employees region-wide.
• Created annual catalogs of in-service training and publicized them through print and
electronic media.
• Maintained training records and provided backstopping for other trainers and subcontractors
annually.
Development of Training Resources
• Say It Quick! 99-Word Stories About Leadership, Learning, and Life, The Thiagi Group, ©
2011.
• Shifting Power and Control: Tools for the Self-Determination Journey, © 2000.
• PowerShift: A Game About the Process of Empowerment, © 1999.
• Cosmic Questions: The Meaning of Life, Universal Precautions, and Everything, © 1999.
• DreamQuest: The Dynamic Process of Person-Centered Planning, © 1999.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Regular presenter at national conferences since 1997)
Recent Presentations:
• Performance Improvement in Exactly 99 Words, ISPI Conference, Toronto, 2012.
• Say It Quick! 99 Words for Performance Improvement, Training 2012 Conference, Atlanta,
GA.
• Game Design Certificate and What’s Your Takeaway? NASAGA Conference, 2011.
• Leadership Driven Performance in 99 Words, Training 2011 Conference, San Diego, CA,
2011.
• Pirates and Parrots, North American Simulation and Gaming Conference, Vancouver, BC,
2010.
• Confucius Says and Lessons for Leadership in 99 Words or Less, ISPI Conference, San
Francisco, CA, April 2010.
WORK HISTORY
• Creative Learning Director: The Firefly Group, Brattleboro, VT, 2004 – Present
• Project Manager and Trainer: Center for Health and Learning, Brattleboro, VT, 2008 – 2011.
• Director of Training: Monadnock Developmental Services, Keene, NH, 1992 - 2008.
• Instructor of English as a Second Language: Fulbright Commission and Colegio Americano,
Quito, Ecuador, 2000 - 2002.
• Director of In-Country Training for Africa, Asia, and The Pacific: Habitat for Humanity
International, Americus, GA, 1990 - 1991.
• Instructor of English, Egypt: Ramses College for Girls and Salaam Language School, Cairo
and Assiut, Egypt, 1983 - 1986.
CONSULTANCIES
• Strategic Planning and Staff Leadership Development, Valley Cares Assisted Living,
Townshend, VT, 2011 – 2012.
• Leadership Training Series, University of New Hampshire (IOD), 2005 thru 2008.
• HealthTeacher Training of Trainers, Center for Health and Learning, Brattleboro, VT.
• E-Learning Curriculum Design Consultation, ChoicePoint, Trenton, NJ.
• The Manager as a Systems Thinker, Salt River Project, Phoenix, AZ.
• Webmaster, Monadnock Developmental Services, Keene, NH.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
• President and Chairman, Board of Directors, North American Simulation and Gaming
Association, 2004 - 2005.
• Member, International Society for Performance Improvement.
• Board Member, Center for Health and Learning, 2000 to 2006, Treasurer since 2003 .
EDUCATION
• M.A. in Intercultural Management & Administration, Concentration in Training & Organization
Development, 1992, SIT Graduate Institute, Brattleboro, VT.
• B.A. Psychology, 1981, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA.
• Fluency in Macintosh, Windows, and web page design.
• Spanish, intermediate level, two years in-country experience.
• Arabic (Egyptian Colloquial), FSI spoken level of 2.
AWARDS
Ifill-Raynolds Lifetime Achievement, North American Simulation and Gaming Association.
Rising Star, North American Simulation and Gaming Association.
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