Program Instructors
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Mary Sue Jackson is a lecture in the Dept of Communication Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Jeffrey Jaworski joined the Preparatory Arts Program in
2005 and he also maintains a private studio. He is an active solo performer and a tutor of music theory. Jeff is a graduate of UW-Green Bay.
Robert Jeffers brings a passion for helping people make connections between their goals and actions to thousands of participants each year in business, industry, health care, associations, education and government. His programs are packed full of practical advice, participant interaction and fun. Participants in his programs often remark that their time with him is meaningful because he teaches audiences something real about people that can be put into practice immediately.
Robert brings actual global experience to the platform, having lived and traveled in 48 countries. He learned leadership on the job with Pacific Crest Outward Bound School, discovered financial reality as a budget analyst for the Alaska State Legislature and practiced calm in the midst of chaos while dodging tear gas in Algeria. Currently serving as ad hoc business faculty for the University of Wisconsin, Robert is also an independent speaker, coach and consultant who helps people and organizations clarify and meet their objectives.
Karen Jick, LCSW, LMFT is Co-Director of In Their Best Interests, Inc., a nonprofit Milwaukee-based advocacy organization for children in kinship and foster care. She is also director of Milwaukee CASA, a court-appointed special advocate program that trains community volunteers to speak up for abused and neglected children in the court and social services systems.
Karen has extensive experience in outpatient mental health treatment, child welfare services, administration, supervision and program development. For 11 years she taught in the social work graduate program of UW-Milwaukee where she has been a field instructor for 16 years. Karen is presently serving on the NASW-WI board.
Karen has made more than 50 presentations about professional ethics during the last three years. She also develops curriculum and conducts training for the statewide Child Welfare Training Partnership.
Todd Johnson, R.Ph., PharmD., Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota; Director of clinical Pharmacy, Lake Regional Healthcare Corporation, Fergus, MN; and consultant pharmacist to numerous long-term facilities.
Roger Jones, Human Resource Management Services, Rochester, Minnesota, has over 20 years of management and human resource experience with Fortune 500 companies. His areas of expertise include leadership and employee training, organizational development, executive development and coaching, workforce management, employee relations, compensation, succession planning, performance management, consulting, facilitating, and staffing.
Roger formerly was the Midwest Campus HR Director for Celestica Corporation, and prior to that, the Technical Resources Manager for Imation Corporation. He also had a distinguished, long-term career with IBM. Roger is certified as a Facilitative Leadership instructor, Career Transition Associate, and is SHRM certified as a Professional in Human Resources.
Spike Jones was born in Dallas, Texas. Not that you should care, since Spike will never ask you where you’re from, either. After graduating from the “I can’t dance” cult of Baylor University with degrees in Environmental Studies and Journalism (read: tree-hugging hippie writer), he explored these United States and finally settled at a place they call the Brains on Fire back in the Year of the Golden Dragon (2000).
Brains on Fire? It’s the identity company that helps organizations become movements. They’ve won a gold EFFIE. Rebrand 100 awards. Forrester Groundswell awards. WOMMIES even. They’ve been written up in major pubs, blogs and business books galore. But they could care less about those. Because what they really do is change the world.
Spike (Spike to his friends) began there as a storyteller and now handles new business hounding and strategic development of word of mouth movements for companies. Those include BMW, Rawlings Sporting Goods, Dagger Kayaks, Don Pablo’s Mexican Restaurants, Fiskars Brands, Yakima, Perception Kayaks and Rage Against the Haze (South Carolina’s youth-led anti-tobacco movement.
Labeled “one to watch” from an anonymous answerer to our Net Promoter Survey, Spike is also on the Board of Directors for the Word of Mouth Marketing Association. Plus he’s smart, good looking, athletic, persuasive and a rock star inside his own head. He also never passes up a chance to write his own bio.
Virginia Jordan, MS, RD, CD, CDE, Marshfield Clinic, Eau Claire, WI.
