Board of Directors

Chapter President:  Gwen Day

Duties of Office

As President of ASTD Mid Michigan Chapter, Gwen’s primary role is to provide vision and direction to the Board of Directors and the membership. Her main responsibilities include developing key strategies for the chapter and leading the Board in establishing goals, action plans and measures to accomplish them.

Gwen Day, President

Biography

Gwen has more than 20 years of experience managing, designing and delivering experiential learning, training, organization development and learning.  As owner of New Day Consulting, she brings first-hand knowledge and experience to all aspects of organizational learning and consultation.  Previously, she spent more than 22 years at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek in multiple capacities within the workplace learning and training function.

Gwen holds a Master of Arts degree in Organizational Development from Fielding Graduate University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business/Management from University of Phoenix.

She has been a member of national ASTD for more than 20 years, but has become more involved in the local chapter for past year.  She is excited to take on the President’s role and move the chapter toward its strategic goals.

President-Elect: (Position Open)

Duties of Office(s)

The President-Elect acts for the President in the President’s absence. The President-Elect serves and facilitates planning in preparation for his/her term as President. The President-Elect performs other duties as requested by the President, including service as liaison to the program director and ad hoc committees.

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Past President:  Marcia Soderberg

As Immediate Past President of ASTD Mid Michigan Chapter, Marcia’s primary role is to mentor the president and help provide vision and direction to the Board of Directors and the membership.

Biography

Marcia Soderberg, Past President

Marcia Soderberg is a developer of serving leaders. As a coach, trainer and consultant, she comes alongside people, empowering them to make the transformational changes they seek for their lives and organizations. Marcia has a passion for inspiring people and organizations to move from where they are to dynamic environments valuing people and results. She brings over twenty years of experience leading and managing in financial services and non-profit environments. She has served over fifteen years as a ministry leader, growing individuals and teams to greater ministry effectiveness.
Having a background in organization development, Marcia has experience moving from conception to completion such organizational strategic initiatives as mission, values and vision development, branding and renaming, and communications systems. She’s the recipient of communications best practices awards from the Public Relations Society of America, Credit Union Executives Society and Credit Union National Association.

Marcia is the founder of SERVINGleaderz LLC, an organization that focuses on growing and developing servant leaders in churches, non-profits and schools. She’s a Member of the International Coach Federation.  She holds a BA in Management and Organization Development from Spring Arbor University. Her son, Alan, currently serves in the military and lives with his family in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Vice President of Membership and Interim Vice President of Finance: Debbie Myrand

Duties of Office(s)

Debbie fills in as Vice President of Operations. In this capacity, she coordinates with other Vice Presidents the planning and implementation of special events and maintains all official records of the chapter except finance and membership. She will assist in development and implementation of chapter annual plan.

As Vice President of Membership, Debbie’s primary role is to promote membership and focus on member initiatives.

As Interim Vice President of Finance, Debbie reports on the financial condition of the chapter at meetings of the Board and at other times when called upon by the president. Debbie also receives revenue, pays expenses, oversees finances and accounts, provides monthly documented reports to the board, monitors the annual budget and serves as liaison for the yearly audit. The calendar year shall be the fiscal year.

Debbie Myrand, Vice President of Membership, Interim VP of Finance and Past President

Biography

Debbie has been involved with the Mid-Michigan ASTD chapter since 2004 and has held the positions of VP of Operations, President, and currently is the interim VP of Finance and Past President.  Under Debbie’s leadership, the chapter doubled its size, made a commitment to quality programming, drew the chapter into the technology age, and expanded its influence across Mid-Michigan.

Since 2001, Debbie has worked for the Michigan Catholic Conference as an Operations Specialist and currently as a Technical Support Specialist training bookkeepers and business managers of catholic entities throughout Michigan for e-business processing as well as an internal trainer for IT projects and upgrades.  Previously, Debbie was a small business owner, first spending 14 years in Early Childhood Education as a center director and two years as the owner of a temporary employment agency.  Debbie has also served as a Board Member for the Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children, the Central Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children and the Michigan Providers Alliance.  She was a conference presenter at many local and statewide Early Childhood Conferences and specialized in training child care providers in maintaining proper business & financial records.

Debbie earned her Child Development Associate Credential (CDA) from Lansing Community College and her Bachelor of Arts in Management and Organizational Development from Spring Arbor University.

You may also wish to view the chapter history for a complete list of our past presidents…

Vice President of Outreach (Open Position)

Duties of Office

The Vice President of Outreach’s primary role is to oversee chapter publicity efforts, market education programs and prepare the newsletter. The Vice President of Outreach also works with the Membership and Program committees to create a plan to market and maintain chapter membership.

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Vice President of Education: Donna Freddolino

Duties of Office

The Vice President of Education leads the education committees in program development and Special Interest Groups (SIG) development.

Donna Freddolino, VP of Education

Biography

Donna is the Education and Training Program Manager for Davenport University’s Institute for Professional Excellence (IPEx). The Institute specializes in the delivery of innovative education for professionals focusing on practical skills including customer service, soft skills, sales training, leadership, performance and management skills development.

Donna is committed to economic development in the state and joined the Mid-Michigan chapter of ASTD last year.  She particularly values working with ASTD to help organizations expand training and education opportunities for their team members. Previously, Donna held several key positions with SunGard, a leading software and technology service company serving public sector and higher education clients.  Donna worked on new alliances, partnerships and products as part of her business development responsibilities.
Donna holds a BA from Michigan State University in Social Science and a Master’s Degree in Telecommunications, specializing in Information Systems and Technology. A Michigan resident for 32 years, she lives in the Lansing area with her husband, Paul, who is a faculty member in the MSU School of Social Work.


Vice President of Operations:  (Open Position)

Duties of Office

The Vice President of Operations’ primary role is to provide vision and direction to the Board of Directors and the membership. Main responsibilities include developing key strategies for the chapter and leading the Board in establishing goals, action plans and measures to accomplish them.

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Vice President of Technology: Jeremy Daugherty

Duties of Office

The Vice President of Technology’s primary focus is to provide a technology infrastructure, including chapter website, social networking and other communications tools in support of the chapter.

Jeremy Daugherty, VP of Technology

Biography

Jeremy Daugherty is a consultant and trainer specializing in mobile, social, and presentation based communications.

With more than a decade of experience in communications and technology, he is a recognized resource for navigating today’s socially networked, always on, smart device driven world. Understanding that strong relationships are the key success, Jeremy helps clients both develop personalized communications strategies and master the applications and devices needed to manage them.

Jeremy began his career with renowned Danish audio-visual manufacturer Bang & Olufsen (B&O) where he designed, trained, and provided technical support for networked home theater systems to distinguished clients nationwide. After his success at B&O Jeremy became a freelance multi-media designer while honing his management and customer service skills at  Fortune 100 companies such as Best Buy, Sears, Sprint and Walgreen’s. It was during this time that Jeremy realized his true passion was educating others about technology rather than creating things with it.

In 2005 he chose to pursue this passion and focused his energies on obtaining a Masters degree in Educational Technology from Western Michigan University. Wanting to quickly apply this new knowledge, Jeremy moved to Lansing in 2006 to work for a local education management organization. There he was awarded over $4.5 million in federal grants while he trained educational professionals how to enhance the learning environment with technology. His technical knowledge, friendly demeanor, and expressive personality allowed him to excel to such a degree that in 2009 Jeremy founded Adams Daugherty & Associates  where he serves as the principal consultant and trainer.

On a more personal note, Jeremy is a life-long Midwest native. Having grown up in Southwestern Wisconsin dairy country, he has a great love for cheese, beer, wine and their many varieties. After the daily grind,  he can often be found reading at  local coffee shops, hiking in the great outdoors, cooking with his wonderful spouse Adrienne, or playing fetch with his Boxer, Maggie.