Over his 30-year career, Tony has held instructional design, project management and people leadership positions. He has extensive experience in business transformation initiatives, including building and restructuring learning organizations, learning system selection and procurement, and rollout of large corporate initiatives.
Tony has a clear mission - helping others improve their performance at work. He has spent his career designing, delivering, organizing, and implementing learning solutions aligned to his clients’ business objectives. He is a strategic, collaborative, and innovative business partner who works with Senior Business Leaders to help them achieve their goals.
Tony is a founding member and was recently co-chair of the NNJ ATD Executive Advisory council. He is a long-time member of the NNJ ATD chapter and served as President Elect in 2018. Tony earned a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A. in Linguistics from New York University. He has completed graduate work in Adult Education and Workplace Learning at Teacher’s College, Columbia University.

As an Enterprise Partner at WJM Associates, Scott combine an uncompromising commitment to customer service with a sweeping knowledge of coaching theory, research and practice. A continuous learner, Scott’s clients appreciate his contagious enthusiasm as a thinking partner. Scott partners with internal and external teams to deliver customized solutions to meet client’s strategic objectives, which has resulted in building and maintaining long-term client relationships. During his 20 years in the industry, Scott has been fortunate to work with national and global organizations across many industries. Since joining NNJ ATD approximately 15 years ago, it has been a major force in his career development. As talent development was a second career for him, Scott found the relationships he formed within the chapter extremely valuable to his personal and professional development. Early on, some of the more seasoned members were informal mentors to him, and he greatly appreciated their guidance. Scott wants to ensure that this support is available to the next generation of talent development professionals. Scott’s first role was a volunteer on the Finance team. Then, he served on the Marketing team, eventually becoming VP, Marketing. Credentials: B.A., History, Cornell University; M.A., Organizational Behavior, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Executive Coaching Certification, Columbia University; TypeCoach Certified Professional

Maurice Ford, an L&D professional has held the position of Instructional Designer for several global pharmaceutical companies in the tri-state area. He has held the position of Lead eLearning Developer for the City of New York on an L&D - Change Management project involving 83 NYC government agencies, encompassing over 90,000 users (employees).  He has also held the position of Senior Instructional Designer for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. \ MOL-IT (America). Mr. Ford currently holds the position of Senior eLearning Developer / Instructional Designer at Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., a national law firm with a primary focus on health care and life sciences; employment, labor, workforce management, litigation and business disputes. At EBG Mr. Ford develops eLearning products designed to help employers in jurisdictions with mandatory training requirements, as well as those in locations without them, encourage behaviors that foster a work environment free from discrimination and harassment.   Mr. Ford has a Master’s degree in Information Technology from Mercy College(NY), and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Baruch College. Mr. Ford has also worked as a Part-Time Adjunct Professor for the City University of New York teaching web design and development. He also served as a Communications and Logistics Officer for the US Army. Website: www.mauriceford.com

Pam earned her M.S. degree in Applied Psychology - HR Management, Stevens Institute of Technology and B.A. focus - Industrial/Organizational Psychology, math and statistics minor, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Chi Psychology National Honor Society, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Marc’s expertise has advanced leadership culture within such varied industries as Commercial and Retail Banking, Finance, Legal, Academia, Fine Retail, Construction, Consumer Electronics, and Global Shipping and Logistics. Designer, developer, and facilitator, Marc has created and led both conventional and innovative programs for organizations ranging in size from a handful of local employees to global matrixed conglomerates. Marc’s consulting practice, SHIFT Leadership Development LLC, provides Leadership Development and Employee Growth are the ultimate competitive advantage in the marketplace. Marc delivers transformational development experiences with an aim to improve participants’ self-awareness and understanding of interpersonal dynamics and make every workplace stimulating and rewarding. Marc has achieved a Master of International Management – Finance and Trade (Thunderbird School of Global Management); Bachelor of Arts – Linguistics (University of Rochester).

David’s professional back ground is in Learning and Training Development Operations. David has successfully led teams in the creation of strategic learning solutions that help business develop the necessary skills to achieve their goals and improve performance.  He has provided leadership in problem-solving, financial forecasting, operational streamlining, and program management and has led numerous transformation and change initiatives.  Formerly with Alcatel-Lucent where he has held a variety of leadership positions including, Senior Director - Americas Region- Alcatel-Lucent University, Director Customer Business Strategy, Director Alcatel-Lucent University, currently supporting businesses consulting. I am honored to have the opportunity to serve in leadership capacity for an organization dedicated to the performance of workplace learning professionals. ATD provides an opportunity to be involved with an organization that helps further my development in learning and provides an opportunity to network and learn with likeminded professionals.  Board volunteerism history :  Regional Treasurer - Alliance/ABLE Greater North East Region.  Credentials and Degree(s): Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Science.

For over 15 years, Melody has worked in the learning & organizational development field, leadership development, across public, private and government entities. She has extensive experience creating, managing, evaluating, and supporting teams at leading institutions like Anthem Health, Morgan Stanley and Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Her take has always been that employee development is the ultimate competitive advantage in the marketplace. Melody deeply understands how to harness talent as both an in-house leader and external consultant. She has overseen strategy, delivery and implementation of L&D solutions, managed departmental budgets, delivered OD interventions that reduced employee attrition, created leadership and career progression courses, and administered psychometric personality profiles. She joined ATD (both National and NNJATD) to be part of a community that “speaks” her language. It presented a chance for her to continue to grow and learn, meet new people in the industry, network, and give back by volunteering. She is pleased to be part of a strong and active association.

Board Volunteerism History: 2019 - NNJATD Volunteer: Programs, Finance, Administration
Credentials and Degree(s): MBA, Finance. Certifications in PeopleMaps Personality Profiling Psychology and Personal Career Coaching

Mary Anne is the Managing Director of Champions for Success, LLC. She is an author, motivational speaker, coach, trainer, organization/management development professional and professor who is skilled in group dynamics, consultation and facilitation. In addition to managing her own company, she is a member of the adjunct faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Essex County College, Hudson County College, Brookdale Community College, Passaic County Community College, Hudson County Community College and Mercer County College. As someone who has always had a keen and sincere interest in the development of human resources, my personal motto is “committed to the extraordinary.” As a result, I do my best to remain "in touch" with the most current and provocative issues in American business today. I am a determined individual who is committed to giving any project I’m involved with one hundred percent of my talents and energies and will to applying these talents and energies towards growing and supporting the ATD Community.

Employer: Champions for Success, LLC, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Essex County College, Hudson County College, Brookdale Community College, Passaic County Community College, Hudson County Community College and Mercer County College

Board Volunteerism History: NNJATD Social media volunteer since - 2015
Credentials and Degree: Masters of Science Degree in Organization Development from the American University/National Training Laboratories program in Washington, DC. ,
National Training Laboratories Certificate for Organization Development
Myers-Briggs Qualified.

Carrie is a Learning & Development Professional with broad experience in Financial Services, Franchising, Education, and Non-profit. Passionate about learning & fostering professional growth. Carrie currently holds a dual role as a Training Leader with Lakeland Bank and Founder & Principal of the Leadership Distillery Consulting Practice. She is looking forward to supporting the continued growth and reach of NNJ ATD to equip learning professionals within our community. Carrie is a Non-profit Trustee and volunteer with organizations that care for and assist families in transition and individuals to combat addiction. She holds the following credentials: AAS – Recreation and Leisure Service Management, BS – Sociology, MS – Management, Concentration on Org. Change. Minor in Human Resources, Executive Coaching Certification from Kaplan University, DISC Certification, Driving Forces Certification, HD Certification, EI Certification.

Christine Troianello
Member at Large
Christine leads the Talent Development and Learning function for Prudential’s Law, Compliance, Business Ethics and External Affairs division. In this role she is responsible for leadership, executive and professional development, diversity and inclusion education, pipeline programs, development planning, learning, organizational effectiveness and driving the organization’s talent mindset and culture.

Prior to joining Prudential Christine held global managerial and leadership roles in learning and organizational development at AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya and Research In Motion where she was responsible for major restructuring and learning transformation, global strategy, organizational development, managing global training development, delivery and technical writing operations, and outsourcing and off-shoring learning, translations and other operations.

Christine holds her MA in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, her BA in French and German and completed an executive program in Marketing and Business at the Wharton School. She is as an adjunct faculty member and mentor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey, has worked as an executive coach and consultant at the Lead Life Institute and has been a facilitator in their women’s leadership program, WELL (Women’s Effectiveness in Leadership and Life). She is a contributing author of the leadership book, “How Women are Transforming Leadership” by Mary Lou Dècosterd. She is also a member and Past President of the Board of Directors and Executive Advisory Committee of the Northern New Jersey ATD (Association for Talent Development).

Tim Tyler
Member at Large
I pursued and achieved the Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) after ten years in the field because I came to see learning as more than just a corporate function. I believe learning is a profession, even a calling. Since then I have relentlessly developed my own skills and applied them to provide engaging and effective training for technicians, sales professionals, managers and entrepreneurs in manufacturing and real estate. 
I delight in learning challenges that involve organizational and transformational market changes, engaging a learner network that is either directly employed or independent and entrepreneurial.
As a corporate learning professional, I engage in conversations to both learn and share with like-minded learning professionals, sales and marketing professionals. As a mentor I have assisted younger colleagues to clarify their career  goals and take concrete steps to pursue them. As a local learning leader, I have guided NNJ ATD chapter to identify learning audiences and develop programming to attract a wide variety of learning professionals to the chapter, maintaining a focus on member value.