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1. Please spend a few minutes with this website. A LERN Institute will enhance your professional development and career, and will earn your program thousands of dollars in increased registrations, higher income and saved costs.
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Faculty

Fred Bayley has been a popular speaker and presenter at LERN conferences for many years. A senior LERN leader for 15 years, he co-authored with Julie Coates a program analysis that led to our Program Review and Certification.

From Spindale, North Carolina, Bayley has been in the field of lifelong learning for more than two decades. A practitioner who is also an energetic and friendly presenter, he is a highly rated facilitator.

Dan Belhassen is the head of Great BigNews.com and is one of the top eMarketing tech gurus in North America.

He’s an expert in email marketing, customer programming, and online marketing. He was named Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Manitoba, Canada, in 2007. Belhassen co-authored with Suzanne Kart and William A. Draves LERN’s eMarketing Manual.

William A. Draves, CAE, is President of LERN, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on lifelong learning. Draves is author of Teaching Online, Learning OntheNet, Reengineering Continuing Education, Improving Financial Performance, Marketing in the 1990s, Energizing the Learning Environment, and editor of Winning With Central Administration. His latest book, written with Julie Coates, is Nine Shift: Work, Life and Education in the 21st Century.

He has a Master's Degree in adult education from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Draves is a popular speaker in great demand, and has given seminars in most states and in Germany, England, Canada and Australia. He is a past president of the Coalition of Lifelong Learning Organizations.

Rita Conrad is a nationally known expert in online instructional design and co-author of the book The Faculty Guide to Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web.

Les Howles one of the foremost authorities in eTools and online media, has managed online course development at the University of Wisconsin Madison, a worldwide leader in online course development.

Suzanne Kart is a writer, presenter and practitioner on marketing and eMarketing.

Currently Director of Marketing for LERN, she is one of the nation’s leading experts on Twitter, social networks and generational communication for lifelong learning.

She has more than 15 years experience in the marketing and communications fields and has taught in both university and professional settings. Kart co-authored with Dan Belhassen and William A. Draves LERN’s eMarketing Manual.

Julia King Tamang is LERN’s Senior Consultant for Contract Training. She has over 15 years of experience in both selling and presenting contract training.

For 12 years, she worked at the University of Oregon Department of Continuing Education as the Assistant Director of Continuing Education and the Director of Corporate Education.

She was responsible for the department’s contract training program and the management of its Portland continuing education site.

King Tamang managed the contract training division that served many of the state’s biggest businesses - Intel, US West, Port of Portland, ADP, Hewlett Packard and more. Her responsibilities included sales, contract management, hiring, curriculum development and quality control.

Greg Marsello is LERN’s Vice President for Organizational Development and a national authority on reengineering management and running programs. Marsello is a co-founder of LERN and was chair of the board of directors for 12 years. With more than 20 years in the business, he has authored publications, gives frequent seminars and does consulting on marketing, management and program development.

Marsello is also President of Learning Connection, an independent lifelong learning program in Providence, RI.
He started Learning Connection in 1980. With more than 15,000 registrations a year, Learning Connection is one of the largest providers of avocational and leisure learning in North America.