HPT Practitioner Video

At the ISPI Conference last month I was able to schedule some time with Jeanne Farrington for this quick 8 minute video interview.

Jeanne Farrington, CPT, Ed.D.

Dr. Jeanne Farrington, CPT, is President of J. Farrington Consulting. She works with companies to help them define their strategic approach to education, learning, career development, and performance improvement. She also designs and implements training and performance improvement projects for all types of audiences in a variety of companies. She has taught university courses and corporate workshops on many aspects of instructional design, performance technology, and web-based training. She has worked internally as a training professional and manager at Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, and Hewlett-Packard.

Jeanne works with training and performance improvement organizations to assist them in developing strategies for internal as well as customer training. She has written business plans for Corporate Universities and training organizations in the high-tech arena. At Hewlett-Packard, Jeanne was responsible for creating and implementing the strategy for the development of their worldwide education community.

Jeanne has over 20 years of experience in developing training programs and creating performance improvement initiatives. During that time, she has contributed to the development of hundreds of projects, either as the lead designer, as part of a team, or as a consultant to others. Over the years she has worked with companies of various sizes, including Cadence Design Systems, California State Automobile Association, Cisco, Clarify, Fireman’s Fund Insurance, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Levi Straus, Oracle, PG&E, PeopleSoft, Proctor & Gamble, Saba Software, Sun Microsystems, Taco Bell, and VERITAS Software.

Jeanne has not only created a wide variety of programs for a variety of audiences, she has also taught instructional design and performance technology to others. Jeanne has an M.A. in Instructional Technology from San Jose State and an Ed.D. in Educational Psychology and Technology from the University of Southern California. As an adjunct professor at USC she served as Local Advisor for their Human Performance at Work Doctor of Education program.

Jeanne is a published author on various topics related to performance improvement. She is co-author of From Training to Performance Improvement: Navigating the Transition, and she has contributed to a number of publications. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), and she is current President of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), where she has also been a Director and a frequent speaker.

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