Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council: Banner Health - Engaging Leaders in Action Learning Programs

Ed Betof is the Executive Director of CorpU’s new Leaders As Teachers Institute. Ed is Aresty Center Fellow, Wharton Executive Education University of Pennsylvania.

After ten years, Ed retired at the end of 2007 as Vice President, Talent Management and Chief Learning Officer at BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a 110-year-old global medical technology company. Ed had WW responsibility for Talent Management Processes including BD University, HR Planning/Leadership Development, Strategic Staffing, Performance and Development Process and for integrating the worldwide processes of Associate Engagement and Inclusion/Diversity.

Ed has previously held senior functional leadership roles at BD, Hoffmann-LaRoche and the Reliance Insurance Companies. He was Senior Vice President of Manchester Consulting where he created the “Newly Appointed Leader Coaching” process and co-led the leadership development practice.

Janice is the Senior Director of Executive Talent with Banner Health in Phoenix, Arizona. In this role, she is responsible for building the executive leadership pipeline (top 300 leaders) within the organization to ensure leadership capacity, capabilities, competence and continuity needed to successfully execute key business strategies in a rapidly changing environment. This includes the Talent Management process as well as recruitment, selection, assessment, development, retention and monitoring outcomes and impact on the business in alignment with Banner’s mission, vision, values, culture and strategic objectives.

She has 14 years experience in health care leadership, organizational development, physician services, strategic planning, marketing and communications.

She holds a bachelors degree in communications and minors in political science and journalism from The University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa and a master’s degree in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Robin is the Senior Director for Learning and Development with Banner Health headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Banner Health is a 7 state non-profit healthcare system. Robin is responsible for developing and delivering system-wide learning strategies and technologies including: leaders as teachers, academic partnerships, tuition assistance, online learning, knowledge management and career development. In addition, she is responsible for developing the strategy for and implementation of Banner University. Through the team’s learning relationship managers, her department partners with those in corporate and more than 40,000 employees and students in order to deliver on Banner’s mission of providing excellent patient care.

Joining Banner in 2008, Robin’s experience spans various global industries including banking, information technology and high tech distribution. She has an extensive background in operations, systems and project management, organizational development, human resources, executive development and training. She is the author of “Leader-As-Teacher: A Model for Executive Development Success” published in the Organizational Development Journal (Vol. 25, Summer 2007). She has also contributed articles in trade publications and online magazines focused on learning and organizational development initiatives. In the learning role, Robin has been recognized for ASTD’s Best Award and the Training Top 125.

Robin is currently a doctoral candidate in the Wharton/Graduate School of Education, Executive Education Chief Learning Officer Program in Work-based Learning at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

In addition, Robin is a George F. Baker Trust Scholar, with a bachelor’s degree in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Southern California.

Sue Todd is President of Corporate University Xchange. She works as an advisor to Global 2000 organizations on all aspects of designing learning strategies, monitoring the impact of learning and development on business performance, and implementing enterprise-wide learning technology infrastructures. Sue also administers the development of CorpU research.

Sue has more than 20 years of experience consulting with corporate universities and learning and development groups on performance management, eLearning, learning content, program measurement and other HR and training-related topics. She has taken the lead on corporate university design projects with companies like Air Products, M&M Mars, Rio Tinto and others, and has presented at ASTD and Training events and other industry conferences.