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Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, National Geographic photographer Annie Griffiths Belt earned her B.A. in photojournalism from the University of Minnesota. Her professional career began while she was still in school, working as a staff photographer for the Minnesota Daily.
After graduating in 1976, Belt joined the staff of the award-winning Worthington Daily Globe in southern Minnesota. She began assignment work for the National Geographic Society in 1978. Since then, she has worked on dozens of magazine and book projects for National Geographic, including National Geographic magazine stories on Lawrence of Arabia, Baja California, Israel's Galilee, Petra, Vancouver, England's Lake District, and Jerusalem. She has worked on assignments in the Middle East, North America, and the Pacific and creates an annual photographic calendar for Habitat for Humanity.
Belt's work has also appeared in Life, GEO, Smithsonian, Fortune, American Photo, Merian, Stern, and many other publications. Book projects include the A Day in the Life series, Baseball in America, The Power to Heal, Women In the Material World, and One Digital Day.
She has received awards from the National Press Photographers Association, the Associated Press, the National Organization for Women, and the White House News Photographers Association. A grant from National Geographic Society's Expeditions Council enabled her and author Barbara Kingsolver to produce Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands, a book celebrating America's last wild places. Her photographs have been exhibited in New York; Washington, D.C.; Moscow; and Tokyo.
In addition to her photography, Belt has served as photo editor for several book projects. She lectures and teaches workshops regularly, served as visiting professor of photography at Ohio University in 1986-87, and was a featured speaker at the National Press Photographers Association's Flying Short Course in the fall of 1991. She has also been featured in a public television documentary about her work while on assignment in Israel.
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As the world’s largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals, the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) is at the forefront of trends in learning and workforce development. Led by President and CEO, Tony Bingham, ASTD offers programs and services to help members improve individual and organizational performance through learning.
Tony is the co-author of Presenting Learning released in April 2007. Through stories and case studies, he and co-author Tony Jeary offer powerful lessons to help learning professionals articulate the business case for learning more persuasively, position themselves as a strategic partner, and communicate a compelling story about the impact of learning on business results.
Together with the Board of Directors and supported by a staff of more than 100 and wide volunteer network, Tony is focused on helping members lead talent management in their organizations, build their business skills, understand the profession’s role in narrowing skills gaps, and connect their work to the strategic priorities of business.
With broad-based business, financial, operational, and technical management expertise, Tony joined ASTD in 2001 as the Chief Operating Officer / Chief Information Officer. He became President and CEO in February 2004.
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Renée Mauborgne is one of the world’s leading experts on business strategy,
innovation and wealth creation in the knowledge economy. She is the author
of Blue Ocean Strategy, an international bestseller that has been translated
into more than 25 languages, breaking Harvard Business School Press’s record
for foreign licenses. She was selected for Thinkers 50, the global ranking of
business thinkers, and was named along with her colleague Chan Kim as ‘the
number one gurus of the future’ by L’Expansion, France’s leading business
magazine. Professor Mauborgne is the author of five worldwide best-sellingHarvard Business Review articles, two of which were selected as among the
best classic articles ever published by HBR. She received the Eldridge Haynes
Prize for best original paper in international business and is widely published
in the world’s most prestigious business journals and news magazines. She
co-founded the Value Innovation Network and is a board member of the Value
Innovation Action Tank of Singapore, both designed to implement the Value
Innovation family of concepts that she and Chan Kim have created. She is
a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, an Affiliate Professor of Strategy at
INSEAD, Europe’s leading business school, and INSEAD Distinguished Fellow
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