Will Thalheimer

Will Thalheimer, PhD
President
Work-Learning Research, Inc.

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Work-Learning Research Website
www.work-learning.com
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LearningAudit.com Website
www.learningaudit.com
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Will's Phone Number
617-718-0067
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Catalog of Publications
www.work-learning.com/catalog/

Will Thalheimer is a learning-and-performance consultant and researcher who specializes in helping clients build more effective learning interventions.

Dr. Thalheimer has worked in the field since 1985 as an instructional designer, simulation architect, project manager, product manager, trainer, consultant, and researcher. He founded Work-Learning Research in 1998 to bridge the gap between academic researchers and practitioners, to compile research on learning, and disseminate research findings to help instructional designers, e-learning developers, trainers, and performance consultants build more effective learning-and-performance solutions.

His clients include people and organizations from around the world, including giant multinationals, government agencies, small businesses, institutions of higher learning, foundations, and individuals. He has published papers, research reports, and articles on instructional design, e-learning, and research methodology. People from all over the world, including many of the industry’s learning gurus, subscribe to Work-Learning Journal and News and trust Will Thalheimer to provide recommendations that are useful, relevant, and practical.

Dr. Thalheimer speaks regularly at national and international conferences. His conference presentations always receive numerous evaluation-sheet comments like the following: “This was the best presentation I attended—solid information delivered in a style that helped me learn.”

Will holds a BA from the Pennsylvania State University, an MBA from Drexel University, and a PhD in Educational Psychology: Human Learning and Cognition from Columbia University. He is a member (and former chair) of the International Society for Performance Improvement’s (ISPI) Research Committee.

In his current work, Dr. Thalheimer is (1) writing and doing research for a series of books on learning from a research-based perspective, (2) doing client work involving learning audits, workshops on research-based instructional design, e-learning reviews, learning-design consulting, and program evaluation (3) editing and publishing the Work-Learning Journal , (4) writing this web blog, and (5) speaking at conferences.

For more information about Dr. Thalheimer, visit
www.work-learning.com/will_thalheimer.htm.