April ATD Fort Worth / Mid-Cities
Chapter Meeting and Presentation
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
5:30 - 7:30 pm
Jump Start Your Micro Learning Program
Adam Costakes and Dan Hirt
Achieve success launching a micro-learning video strategy across your organization.
Hear real-life examples of setbacks and failures along the road to implementation. This session will look at how one small/medium-sized organization went from zero micro-learning to making it a main training medium for employees.
Explore topics that include the impetus to change, metrics, stakeholder socialization, and partnerships needed.
Application on the Job:
Discover what works and what doesn't when implementing a micro-learning strategy from the ground up. Learn from a case study on how a 7,000-person organization created and changed the culture to embrace micro-learning.
About our Speakers:
Adam Costakes has been in the Learning and Development space for the last 15 years. He currently leads the Origination's training department consisting of 12 trainers / instructional designers for Caliber Home Loans. He is responsible for roughly 4000 employees training needs across four main business verticals. Training consists of systems training, on-boarding, compliance, new products, soft skills and includes external client training's. Adam’s background is centered in the banking and the financial sector with a large component focused on mortgage origination.
Dan Hirt grew up surrounded by Canadian farmland and stumbled around in Human Resources and Retail roles until he finally found his way to Learning and Development. Hosting an L & D podcast for more than two years, Dan had the chance to explore ideas out loud and at the same time implementing many of them through several L&D roles in the finance sector. Finding engaging inspiration from unexpected places, Dan has designed multi-day orientation sessions, highly engaging webinar series', technology demos, infographics and microlearning videos. Dan currently designs instruction for Morguard in Mississauga, Ontario.
Diamond Oaks Country Club
5821 Diamond Oaks Dr. N, Fort Worth, TX 76117
Meeting Agenda:
Registration opens at 5:30 pm
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm - Chapter announcements
6:15 pm - 7:15 pm - Program (1 hour)
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm - Q&A and prizes, Meeting Concludes
Dinner Menu
Salad: House
Entrée: Jack Daniel's Sweet Bourbon Chicken Breast
Sides: Roasted New Potatoes and Steamed Broccoli
Dessert: Italian Cream Cake
Vegan option available (Chef's Choice)
All online reservations are due the Monday before the meeting by 5pm. ANY Attendees (member or non-member) not registered online will be considered Walk-In registrations and will be charged the Guest rate of $35.00.
