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Morteza Zohrabi, MD, MBB, PMP, CRP, is the lead director in the implementation of countless mega-projects in both public and private sectors for large hospitals, government offices, manufacturers, and universities, to name a few. He is also a Certified Return on Investment Professional, publishing numerous articles and presentations on guaranteed value for money.
With over 20 years of expertise and hundreds of millions of dollars in savings, Morteza has done it all. He has delivered innovative solutions to old-time problems, with a track record of outstanding results, enhancing throughput, capacity, staff/client satisfaction, and shrinking turnaround times.
Through a combination of conventional and modern management techniques, Morteza and his team have revolutionized the management consulting industry by providing state-of-the-art business transformations and distinctively conforming as growth partners, encompassing guaranteed client satisfaction with each endeavor.
Morteza can be reached at morteza.zohrabi@yahoo.com.
Tom has a strong track record of enhancing business and individual performance through learning. He has conducted research and led teams to achieve award-winning results for more than 50 Fortune 500 companies. His strengths include assessing training needs, designing and facilitating learning solutions, and measuring results, including ROI.
At Atkinson Analytics, Tom helps clients achieve better results throughout the learning process, from defining needs to measuring the learning experience, on-job application, and business results. Tom enables individuals to demonstrate value to executives, sustain and enhance performance gains, and target opportunities for increasing return (ROI) on learning investments.
Tom previously worked as a learning director at Fresenius Medical Care and led a team of professionals in delivering an ambitious curriculum of programs and projects, including more than 1,000 sessions of the company’s keystone leadership development initiative. At Deloitte Consulting, Tom was a specialist master, designing award-winning training and measurement systems for some of Deloitte’s largest clients.
Tom also helps parents of children on the Autism spectrum build meaningful relationships and a foundation for growth and development.
Tom can be reached at tatkinson@atkinsonanalytics.com .
Suzanne Schell, CRP, is the CEO of ROI Institute Canada. Suzanne teaches, consults, and conducts ROI studies primarily focussed on the Healthcare industry.
Suzanne acquired her Certified ROI Professional designation in 2010. She has brought the ROI Methodology to healthcare organizations, hospitals, and healthcare ministries and authorities across Canada, through workshops, consulting, and ROI Certification.
Her workshops and consulting give healthcare professionals, HR professionals, and executives the knowledge and skills to measure impact, value and ROI of initiatives, programs, and projects. Key learnings include developing data collection and analysis strategies to identifying change in behavior and impact, ROI. Answering the questions – did the investment make a difference, did it deliver the impact expected, and is this the solution moving forward?
Suzanne can be reached at suzanne@roiinstitutecanada.com.
Rana Imran is an HR and OD professional and strategist with 15+ years of experience with multinational corporations in Pakistan and the Middle East region in diverse multicultural and international environments. Rana has worked with telecom, e-commerce, FMCG, education, healthcare, and hospitality industries.
Rana’s expertise is in organization design and development, business transformation strategy, organizational culture, employee engagement, performance management, talent management and development, capability building, leadership development, and measuring program impact.
Rana has delivered more than 36,000 hours of training on behavioral and business skills.
Rana is certified in Hogan Assessment, Global Diversity & Inclusion standards, is an IFC World Bank Certified Trainer, and has received a Measuring Return on Investment Certificate from ATD and ROI Institute. He is Certified Practitioner of Global Leadership Assessment 360 and Working Group Leader for the Global ISO HR Standard development committee TC260.
Rana can be reached at ranaimran.hr@gmail.com.
Burdette (Pete) Fullerton PhD is the founder of Dr. Pete’s Leadership Accelerator, Inc., an Executive Coaching and Return on Investment (ROI) assistance firm. In order to assist community economic development professionals, Pete started up Dr. Pete’s Leadership Accelerator. Pete is a passionate advocate for passing it on and leaving the campsite better than he found it. He values character, trust, and integrity and looks to assist like-minded economic development and chamber of commerce professionals in achieving personal and professional excellence. Pete has been a community economic development professional for over 30 years. In his career, Pete has participated in the completion of projects that have directly invested over $3.5 billion, which currently employ more than 17,000 in Kansas City.
In 2017, Pete earned his Doctorate at the University of Southern Mississippi in Human Capital Development. Pete attended Texas A&M University and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Missouri. Pete holds certifications as a Certified Economic Developer (CEcD), Certified Return on Investment Professional (CRP), Certified Professional Coach (CPC), and Certified Executive Coach (CEC).
Pete can be reached at pf@drpeteleads.com.
Nader Bechini is passionate about assisting people and organizations improve and maximize their performance and bottom-line results. His life mission is to support others in strengthening their abilities to inspire, influence, and create an impact.
Nader is the director of ROI Institute in the MENA region. He is also a global facilitator with the Association of Talent Development (ATD).For more than 20 years, he led human performance improvement projects, programs, and initiatives, in more than 30 countries in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia.
Nader has received several awards for his achievements. On three occasions, ROI Institute awarded him for the best international implementation of the ROI Methodology (2015, 2019, and 2020). The Moroccan Society for Human Resource presented him with an award for the best African HR expert in 2019. His articles in learning and development have been translated to Korean, Russian, Chinese, French, Arabic, and Spanish.
Nader facilitates workshops, consults with organizations, and speaks at conferences worldwide. He has been interviewed by several radio and TV programs in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, France, and Algeria.
Nader holds a master’s degree in marketing from the University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia.
Nader can be reached at nader@roiinstitute.net.
Matic Kadliček is an organizational psychologist and CEO of Video Center, Ltd. He is a sought-after people development consultant to more than 100 companies, building and implementing internal learning centers, e-learning content and platforms, and tools for successful leadership development and skill building, with psychological testing, coaching, succession planning, work environment diagnostics, mentoring, on-boarding, and providing frameworks for credibly measuring the impact of people development programs using the ROI Methodology (ROI Institute, USA). He is one of the first EuroPSY certificate holders for Work & Organizational Psychology in Slovenia. Matic is a dedicated mentor to young psychologists and takes humor seriously.
Matic can be reached at matic.kadlicek@videocenter.si.
Hormazd Mistry, ATD Master Trainer™, is the founder and CEO of Sarosh Consulting and ROI Institute India. He is the India partner for ROI Institute.
Hormazd is a learning & development professional who has twice received the Most Fabulous Training & Development Leaders (2020 & 2021) award by the World HRD Congress. He has been a part of the L&D community for over 18 years and has worked for multinational organizations like Wipro Ltd., HERE Technologies, IKS Health, leading various L&D teams across geographies.
With a passion for L&D, Hormazd has experience in different roles in various L&D verticals. Over the years, he has delivered over 25,000 hours of training on various topics including but not limited to technical, TTT, leadership, soft skills, customer service, behavioral training, etc., with high business impact.
Hormazd now works with L&D/HR professionals and teams to enable them to deliver high business impact with their solutions. He also helps them in measuring and showcasing the impact & ROI of their programs.
Hormazd can be reached at hormazd@roiinstitute-india.com.
Hashem Othman Hashem is a top-notch ROI specialist, trainer, and consultant with 13 years of experience in measuring the ROI of a wide variety of projects, including HR practices, training, health care, and KPIs. His expertise covers isolation techniques, forecasting ROI studies, training best practices, and designing and implementing training solutions based on their ROI. Hashem also has experience in overseeing career development, setting performance metrics, evaluating project productivity, and helping to create successful long-term initiatives within organizations. He serves as a point person for CEOs, CFOs, and project managers to ensure proper investing of project budgets. Hashem maintains excellent communication, change management, and leadership skills. He is distinguished for his problem resolution abilities and high level of confidentiality. Hashem is equally effective at conducting ROI studies, measuring project impact, and training supervision and delivery.
Hashem earned his Master of Strategic Human Resource Management (MSHR) degree at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and a Bachelor of Applied Physics degree at Mu’tah University, Jordan. He achieved the designation of Certified ROI Professional with ROI Institute in July 2017.
Hashem can be reached at h.othman@criticalinnovation.ae.
Beryl Oldham has 30 years’ experience in organizational learning and development. Before moving fulltime into consulting in 2013, she held senior generalist HR, organizational development, and learning and development roles in a range of government, local body, and corporate organizations. Her experience spans workforce planning, technical/professional and leadership/management competency frameworks design, performance management systems design and implementation, learning design, training systems management and evaluation, and measuring ROI for human resources, training, and other organizational initiatives.
In addition to being a Certified ROI Professional®, Beryl also holds AQF certificates in Training Systems Management and Training Evaluation, and the NZQA Certificate in Adult Education and Training (Level Five). She was the 2014 recipient of the NZATD Education Trust’s Learning and Development Practitioner of the Year Award and the ROI Institute’s 2014 Award of Excellence for Most Innovative Approach to ROI.
Beryl is passionate about measuring results and her company, Complete Learning Solutions, provides learning solutions that cover every aspect of L&D and make a difference by proving the value of capability development in people and organizations. Beryl has been a partner with ROI Institute for nearly 14 years.
Beryl can be reached at beryl.oldham@completelearning.co.nz.
Farzaneh Majed is an ROI Institute Partner and Balanced Scorecard Institute Strategic Partner and Advisory Board Member with over 20 years of successful business development, change management, and innovation experience who has a passion for excellence and thrives on driving change. Her extensive career at the global level has resulted in many successful initiatives being adopted lucratively. She believes in simplifying processes and delivering results through strategic planning and effective execution.
As CEO and Managing Partner of Transform Alliance, Farzaneh is committed to assisting organizations to achieve transformation through the engagement of their people with TA’s alliance partners. Farzaneh is an advocate of Inclusion and Collaboration and owes her success to putting herself in the other person’s shoes, seeing the world from their perspective, and seeking a win-win solution.
Farzaneh is a Key Performance Indicator Professional (KPIP), Balanced Scorecard Master Professional (BSMP), has a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University, and an Honours degree in Combined Sciences from the University of Brighton, UK. She established the L&D Division of Informa, was selected as Centre of Excellence for Training among Informa Group, and achieved an innovation award for continuous improvement. Farzaneh is the author of Generation Inclusion.
Farzaneh can be reached at farzaneh-majed@transform-alliance.com.
Colin’s career spans more than 35 years, and he’s still smiling. He began as an information technology (IT) mainframe programmer, growing to run complex international IT projects for corporations in many business areas requiring advanced leadership, cross-cultural stakeholder management skills, and the delivery of quantifiable business value.
Originating from the United Kingdom, he has lived in the United States, the Netherlands, and Singapore at various times and operated in many other countries.
Since 2007, Colin has concentrated on consulting and training, developing several thousand project managers and leaders for corporate clients and educational institutions. In 2014, he completed his ROI impact study to become a Certified ROI Professional (CRP) and partnered his company with ROI Institute through various locations in South-East Asia.
Supported by his dedicated team, Colin conducts ROI consulting projects and courses as well as project management and related subjects. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master, Certified Product Owner, and holds a master’s degree from Arcadia University, PA. Colin also specializes in dispute resolution and sits on the Principle Panel of the Singapore Mediation Centre where he mediates large quantum business disputes. And, when he has five minutes, Colin organizes the Singapore Filmmakers Network.
Colin can be reached at enquiries@knightgriffin.com.
