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Herrmann International CEO Ann Hermann-Nehdi will present two sessions at Elliott Masie’s Learning 2010 Conference this fall, including a Thought Leader session that will explore themes and research from her forthcoming book, The Era of And.

Herrmann International CEO Ann Herrmann-Nehdi has been selected to present two sessions at the Training 2011 Conference & Expo, including an industry thought leader Headliner session.

On September 21, Herrmann International CEO Ann Herrmann-Nehdi will be a guest lecturer for students in the University of Maine’s Innovation Engineering® program. With Whole Brain^® Thinking fundamental to the program’s curriculum, Ann will be debriefing students on their Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument^® (HBDI^®) profile results and delivering foundational classes in Whole Brain^® methodology.

Participants at this year’s Executive Diversity Education Session learned that maximizing diverse thinking styles and building cognitively “diverse by design” teams can contribute to faster, more effective problem solving and better overall organizational results.

Active learning is a necessary component of any leadership development initiative in the 21st century. In The Leadership Challenge: Activities Book, Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO of Herrmann International, joins other world-class contributors including Jean Barbazette, Geoff Bellman, Daryl Conner, Beverly Kaye, Lou Russell and Cal Wick, in sharing innovative activities that will engage leaders and help them reach their development goals faster and more successfully.

In the June 2010 issue of Chief Learning Officer Magazine, Ann Herrmann-Nehdi discusses the role learning style models play in improving learning effectiveness and outcomes. The article highlights IBM’s success in accelerating leadership development by integrating the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument^® (HBDI^®) and Whole Brain^® Model into its global new leader development program.

Herrmann International was recently honored by the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), which recognized the blended learning and online simulation program, The Thinking Accelerator™ featuring HBDIinteractive™, for excellence in distance learning programming.

In the May 2010 issue of ASTD’s Training+Development (T+D) Magazine, Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO of Herrmann International, discusses what we’ve learned about Whole Brain® Thinking and Learning since the magazine originally published a series of articles by Herrmann International’s founder Ned Herrmann in the early 1980s.

Join Ann Herrmann-Nehdi and her special guest, Charles E. Dwyer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Educational Leadership Division at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, for a lively conversation about his experience helping managers and leaders redesign their thinking to revitalize the relationships that affect the quality of their lives and the profitability of their businesses.

On June 17th, Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO of Herrmann International, and Fred Keeton, Vice President External Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer for Harrah’s Entertainment, will discuss
The Inclusion Equation: Thinking Inclusively as the focus of The Executive Diversity Education Session of TRI Partners’ 2010 Northwest Diversity Learning Series.

If you aren’t able to make it to this year’s ASTD International Conference & Exposition in Chicago, you still have the opportunity to experience Ann Herrmann-Nehdi’s session, Four Secrets of the Learning Brain, as part of the 2010 Virtual Conference.

This year marks the 15th anniversary of Brain Awareness Week (BAW), the annual campaign to increase public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research.

Beyond just the networking and connections they make with fellow students in business school, Queen's University MBA students are learning how different perspectives and thinking preferences can help them reach better results, both in school and in their work endeavors. The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument^® (HBDI^®) plays a key role in that process.

How do you get more done with less? You can start by joining a new online group on the Training Magazine Network moderated by Herrmann International’s CEO, Ann Herrmann-Nehdi.

Attendees at the Training 2010 Conference in San Diego, February 1-3, will have three opportunities to participate in sessions by Herrmann International’s CEO, Ann Herrmann-Nehdi.

Herrmann International’s CEO, Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, has been selected to present two sessions, Four Secrets of the Learning Brain and Building a Practice, at the ASTD 2010 International Conference & Exposition, to be held May 16-19, 2010, in Chicago.

Focusing on the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument^® (HBDI^®) and the theme, "Better Results Through Better Thinking," Poise Nigeria, a personality development and image consulting firm in Lagos, hosted a one-day seminar in December 2009 addressing strategic and management issues, team building and staff interaction. The seminar emphasized the importance of understanding thinking preferences and the vista of possibilities the HBDI^® offers organizations especially in these challenging times.