Lee S Johnsen

Professional Expertise

 Hybrid work is here to stay! How prepared are organizations to meet this major shift in the workforce? How prepared are you to assist them? Since 2009, Lee has honed his knowledge and expertise of the differences between organizations and leadership structured primarily with face-to-face teams and organizations whose team members are separated by time, technology, geography, and culture. His research and expertise have been shared with leaders nationally and internationally and contributed to more effective leadership and membership of national and global virtual teams.

 Lee specializes in leadership and management development training, performance improvement, change management, group facilitation, and coaching. His experience encompasses executive coaching, strategic planning, and managing training and development departments. He has coached senior executives in a variety of organizations including financial services, hospitality, higher education, and marketing. He has developed and conducted extensive organizational and performance assessments for government and financial services organizations.

 He has presented at regional and international conferences on topics including e-learning, training evaluation, and leadership of global virtual teams and has served as an adjunct instructor at Drake University in Des Moines, IA, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University, and Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Chicago and the University of Wisconsin. He has published several articles and co-authored the book Real World Teambuilding Strategies That Work, (Insight Publishing). He is author of the book, Literally Virtually: Making Virtual Teams Work, released in 2018, 2nd edition 2019 and co-authored the book We Wish We Had Known (www.amazon.com).

Professional Background

 Lee Johnsen uses his training and organizational development expertise to help organizations assess their employee performance needs, then designs and delivers programs that impact the bottom line. He has held officer and management positions in Fortune 500 corporations and government agencies for over 20 years. In these roles, he enhanced shareholder value by setting strategic objectives and leveraging resources to deliver excellent customer service and business results. Organization-wide projects he led delivered quality results on time and budget.

 He holds a graduate degree and is a certified human resources and organizational development professional. He has the international distinction of being one of only a few who is certified by all three international human resources organizations—Association for Talent Development (ATD), International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), and Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). His strong facilitation skills have assisted executives and other leaders in creating strategic business and department plans that enabled them to achieve financial and production results and improve work relationships.

 Lee has worked with clients from industries including oil and gas, financial services, retail, logistics, private education, health care, and nonprofits. In 2014, he spent five months working with leaders in Saudi Arabia in the oil industry.

Training Design, Development, Delivery and Evaluation

 Aligned employee and management training with organizations’ business strategies, values, HR policies, and other training and development curriculum

 Designed, developed, delivered, and evaluated both management and employee training for government and private sector organizations with offices across the U.S.

 Created follow-up practices after training events to support learning and behavior change

Courses Facilitated

 Situational Leadership®

 Managing Diversity and Employee Diversity

 Leading a Virtual Workforce

 Negotiation Skills

 Developing Executive Leadership  Performance Management & Coaching

 Emotional Intelligence

 Team Building

 Connecting with Impact

 Advanced Executive Leadership

Certifications

 Certified Professional in Learning & Performance (CPLP) – Am. Society for Training & Development

 Sr. Professional of Human Resources (SPHR) - Society for Human Resources Management

 Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) - International Society for Performance Improvement

 Organizational Development (OD) Certification - National Training Labs (NTL)

 Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - Association for Psychological Type

 360 Feedback Instruments - Human Synergistics, and Personnel Decisions, Inc., LEAD NOW! – Stewart Leadership

 Situational Leadership® - Center for Leadership Studies

Participant Comments

 “One of L’s strengths is his intuitive skill in organizational consulting. [His] excellent ability to see the big picture, think systemically, and give direct feedback on what he sees has contributed great value to my organization.”

 “L, I have to tell you that this has been the best seminar experience in my career. That is entirely thanks to you. Your expertise and delivery were tremendous.”

 “[He] consistently went to the Nth degree in preparing for and facilitating our offsite. We were six individuals working in different directions with a lot of negative, unproductive feelings. He channeled our negativity into a positive path which set us on a true team course. No one in our group thought this quiet, calm facilitator had a chance of bringing 6 aggressive individuals together in such a monumental fashion. He proved us wrong! We are now united!”

 “L has always helped me achieve breakthroughs. He consolidates, synthesizes in an analytical, creative way that sustains energy and motivates me to press on.”

 “I view L as someone you can count on to get the job done and done well.”