George M. Piskurich Ph.D.

George Piskurich is an organizational learning and performance consultant based in Macon Georgia, and principal of GMP Associates. He provides consulting services and workshops in Instructional Design, Management Development, and Performance Improvement to clients throughout the country. He specializes in e-learning interventions, performance/training analysis, distance learning, the design and development of self-directed/individualized learning programs for all levels of the organization, telecommuting interventions, and knowledge centers. His workshops on self-directed learning, structured mentoring, interactive distance learning, and telecommuting have been rated “outstanding” by participants from many organizations.

His recent clients have included major multi-national corporations for whom he developed Web-enabled problem solving and telecommuting interventions as well as basic management program, a small technology based organization where he designed the company’s training system, a state board of education where he managed and produced an interactive satellite distance learning intervention, and a number of telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and banking clients for whom he has created e-learning programs and other self-instructional classes on various topics.

With over twenty years of experience in every phase of Learning Technology, he has been a classroom instructor in both the public and private sector, designed development systems for managers, developed and instructed programs ranging from communications theory to computer based training techniques, and created both industrial and health care training departments as a corporate training director. He has created classroom seminars, distance learning programs, and e-learning interventions.

In his specialty of self directed learning, he has created individualized programs on topics ranging from the biological sciences to instructional and supervisory techniques, using print, slide, video, and computer based formats.

He has been a presenter and workshop leader at over thirty conferences and symposia including; the International Self-directed Learning Symposium, the Best of America Conference, and the ISPI and ASTD international conferences. He is an active member of both ISPI and ASTD, where he has held local and national leadership positions.

He has edited books on Instructional Technology, Performance Improvement, and e-learning, written books on Self-directed Learning, Instructional Design and Telecommuting, and authored many journal articles and book chapters on various topics including Customer Service, Structured Mentoring, and Corporate Downsizing. He is currently authoring or editing books on Classroom Instruction and Preparing Organizations and Learners for e-learning. In 1986 he was ASTD's "Instructional Technologist of the Year," and won the "Best Use of Instructional Technology in Business" award in 1992 for his distributed SDL technical skills training design.

You can contact George to talk about Instructional Design, comment on his books, or simply shoot the breeze at his e-mail: GPiskurich@cs.com, or by phone at 478-405-8977.