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 Laura Ford is the principle partner in New Avenues, Inc. a management consulting firm specializing in corporate transformations – taking an organization from today to where they need to be in the future. New Avenues services include: customized management and employee development programs, keynote and conference presentations, organizational development consultation & facilitation, design of performance management systems, development of company culture, as well as third party investigations and expert witness work. The business is located in Moline, Illinois.
Within New Avenues, Laura specializes in designing and delivering training and development programs on a wide variety of topics as well as facilitating strategic planning and other group interventions. Laura’s training curriculums are customized and varied and focus on ready-to-go & easy to implement ideas. Her interactive and highly entertaining style makes her training sessions fun-filled and effective, leaving participants with strategies that they can implement immediately. It’s a light hearted approach to subjects that can make a serious difference in the business world!
Laura’s training and facilitation clients vary from the Fortune 100 to entrepreneurial start-ups. She is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and association meetings and is a 8-time speaker at the SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) National Conference.
Prior to opening New Avenues in 1994, Laura had a varied base of human resources experience in the publishing, customer service industries, as well as experience in state government.
An active volunteer, Laura currently has served on the Consultants Forum National Board of Governors for the Society of Human Resource Management, and has also served on the SHRM National Human Resource Development Committee. She received her PHR certification in June of 1994 and her SPHR certification in December of 1995. She has held additional volunteer positions on the state and local level with a variety of organizations. Laura lives in Moline, Illinois with her husband and her two proudest accomplishments, sons Aaron and Jake.
At New Avenues we work with other affiliated partners to meet our clients' needs. While Laura will likely be your main contact, we welcome the opportunity to work with other experts to solve the issues facing your organization.
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