Guy W. Wallace

Guy W. Wallace is a retired Performance Analyst and Instructional Architect. He has been designing and developing performance-based Instruction/ Training/ Learning and Performance Support content for the critical target audiences of his clients since 1979. Guy has been an ISD consultant since 1982 and has served 80+ clients, primarily in the Fortune 500.

In 2010 Guy was the recipient of the Honorary Life Member Award from ISPI – the International Society for Performance Improvement – its highest award requiring unanimous approval by two successive boards - for his contributions to both the technology of Performance Improvement and his contributions of the Society.

Guy's ISD work has won internal awards at General Motors, and Siemens Building Technologies, and external awards from ISPI, and at ATD for work done with AT&T, Chamberlin Edmonds – Emdeon, HP, and Imperial Oil.

Guy started as a Training Developer at Wickes Lumber in 1979 and then became a Training Project Supervisor at Motorola's Training & Education Center in 1981.

Since 1982 he has specialized in Curriculum Architecture Design via a Facilitated Group Process. In 1984 he co-authored two articles on these approaches, a Training Magazine article on Curriculum Architecture Design via a Group Process - and another on Creating Models and Matrices using a Group Process - for NSPI's Performance & Instruction Journal.

Guy completed his 76th Curriculum Architecture Design consulting project - since 1982 - in the fall of 2018.

Guy typically facilitates Project Steering Teams in detailed Planning efforts, and then he facilitates their selected Master Performers to quickly conduct Analysis and Design for hand-off to Development teams for quick, parallel development/acquisition.

In 2010 he was recruited as an inaugural member of ASQ's Influential Voices initiative to Raise the Voice of Quality, and served until late 2015. Guy has authored over 90 articles, 35 books, and 3500+ Blog posts. He has presented professionally over 125 times.

See his websites for lists of clients, descriptions of 250+ projects, publications, presentations, and over 400 free ISD and Performance Improvement PDFs, audio & video resources.