Learning Strategies - Ruth Kustoff
- 1. Preferred Job Titles: Director, Senior Director, Senior Consultant, Vice President Preferred Functions: Corporate Learning Strategies, Client Services Delivery, Innovative Solutions, Emerging Technologies, Planning and Development - Learning, Integrated Client Strategies. Positioning Statement: Business / learning strategist with analytical problem solving skills focused on achieving organizational goals through planned processes and identified tactical steps. Summary of Qualifications: Strong business leader of successful consultancy. Provide expertise in custom elearning development and management, individual learning needs, and market research / analysis of industry needs and trends. Solid blend of marketing, client relationship building, project and vendor management; able to focus on the big picture with a keen ability to drill down to identify operational needs and follow through with hands-on implementation. Competencies: Project Account Analysis / Research / Management Management Strategic Writing and Planning Marketing Project Business Organizational Online market requirements development needs analysis research definition Task and Client Cohesion Comprehensive schedule relationship building with report writing management building focus to identify and analysis common goals Client / Solutions sales / SWOT Analysis Innovative stakeholder Project /creative thinker communication pricing/Contract negotiation Budget RFP/Proposal Action planning Online PR / oversight/ Development marketing Resource allocation ruth@knowledgeadvantage.biz 860.256.7879 http://www.ruthkustoff.com
- 2. History: Years 1989-1997 1997-2000 2000 – 2005 2005- Present Industry Not-for-Profit Telecommunications Elearning and Learning and /consulting content development development consulting Role Strategic, Business/ Biz dev / CRM/ Biz dev / PM / program and functional analysis and Marketing / PM market research/ event planning/ testing Account organizational project Management planning / management thought leadership Target Market Service Providers: Talent Management, Content Development, Research Think Tanks, Outsource Providers. Target Market Verticals: Corporate University, Higher Education, Publishing, Telecommunications, Media. Client Feedback: Ruth is a knowledgeable learning professional. She understands the challenges in meeting the business needs of time, cost, and quality, when creating and delivering a learning product. Ruth’s project leadership, experience, and skills led us to a successful completion and program implementation. Carol Woodard, Manager, FedEx I have worked with Ruth on several large custom elearning initiatives. She is conscientious, and easy to work with. Ruth directs her attention to her clients’ needs and interests in managing projects, and providing insight and support. Ruth is creative in identifying learning solutions, while considering business issues, the end learner, and content requirements. Beverly Winkler, Senior Director, Medco Ruth was extremely responsive to our requests. She fully understood the client’s point of view and worked with the technical team to come up with creative solutions to satisfy our needs. At the end, we were very pleased with the elearning program, and we engaged her service again to project manage two additional enhancements to the original product. Stacy Eng, Vice President, Goldman Sachs ruth@knowledgeadvantage.biz 860.256.7879 http://www.ruthkustoff.com