Fast Lane Consulting and Education Services, Inc. Wins Silver

Fast Lane has been awarded the 2019 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Award for Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development in Sales Champion Program!

Fast Lane, a leader in innovative training solutions, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Silver award for excellence in the Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development category. Fast Lane’s win was announced on August 22, 2019. The winners are listed at http://www.brandonhall.com/excellenceawards/past-winners.php Fast Lane’s entry was submitted in collaboration with Intel Corporation, and the award-winning program focused on sales enablement for the Internet of Things (IoT). Several online courses and scenarios were developed to support the program, which has been very well received by Intel personnel.

Chuck Terrien, Fast Lane’s CEO commented, “Our Content Development Team has proven itself to be world class many times. This award is yet another indication of their excellence. We are proud to share this award with Intel. It reflects the results of an engaging and successful partnership between two companies committed to enabling individual improvement and success.”

“Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards Program has recognized leading organizations for the past twenty-plus years for the latest trends in Human Capital Management,” said Rachel Cooke, Brandon Hall Group COO and leader of the HCM Excellence Awards Program. “The initiatives that were honored are not only innovative but fit the unique needs of the business and create truly remarkable success stories.” Award entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts and executives based upon the following criteria: fit the need, design of the program, functionality, innovation and overall measurable benefits.

Excellence Awards winners will be honored at Brandon Hall Group’s HCM Excellence Conference, February 4-6, 2020, at the Hilton West Palm Beach, Florida. Select winners also will serve as presenters in breakout sessions, sharing their leading practices during the conference.

“The HCM Excellence Awards recognize programs that measurably benefit organizations,” said Mike Cooke, Brandon Hall Group CEO. “Many human capital management departments are unable to confirm that their initiatives help the business’s bottom line. Because we focus on measurable benefits, our awards program is universally recognized and highly prestigious.”

Fast Lane is the leading, worldwide provider of advanced IT education for Cisco, NetApp, VMware, Microsoft and many more leading technical vendors. We enable our customers to execute their digital business strategies through our comprehensive portfolio of authorized training courses focused on emerging technologies and through our services such as custom content development, sales enablement, demand generation and business transformation. Our core competency is the outsourced delivery, development, management and marketing of vendor authorized technical training on advanced technologies including Collaboration, IoT, Big Data, Security, Cloud Computing and Mobility. With one of the world’s largest remote lab environments coupled with the combination of physical offices in over 30 countries and partners in over 40 others, Fast Lane has a worldwide reach untouched by any other training organization.

Brandon Hall Group is an HCM research and advisory services firm that provides insights around key performance areas, including Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition and HR/Workforce Management. With more than 10,000 clients globally and 25 years of delivering world-class research and advisory services, Brandon Hall Group is focused on developing research that drives performance in emerging and large organizations, and provides strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and business results. Our mission: Empower excellence in organizations around the world through our research and tools each and every day. At the core of our offerings is a Membership Program that combines research, benchmarking and unlimited access to data and analysts. The Membership Program offers insights and best practices to enable executives and practitioners to make the right decisions about people, processes, and systems, coalesced with analyst advisory services which aim to put the research into action in a way that is practical and efficient. (www.brandonhall.com)

Partner: Intel Corporation

Learn more about the award at http://www.brandonhall.com/excellenceawards/.

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Chief Executive Officer of Brandon Hall Group Mike Cooke Prior to joining Brandon Hall Group, Mike Cooke was the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of AC Growth. Mike held leadership and executive positions for the majority of his career, at which he was responsible for steering sales and marketing teams to drive results and profitability. His background includes more than 15 years of experience in sales, marketing, management, and operations in the research, consulting, software and technology industries. Mike has extensive experience in sales, marketing and management having worked for several early high-growth emerging businesses and has implemented technology systems to support various critical sales, finance, marketing and client service functions. He is especially skilled in organizing the sales and service strategy to fully support a company’s growth strategy. The concept of growth was an absolute to Mike and a motivator in starting AC Growth, in order to help organizations achieve research driven results. Most recently, Mike was the VP and General Manager of Field Operations at Bersin & Associates, a global analyst and consulting services firm focused on all areas of enterprise learning, talent management and talent acquisition. Tasked with leading the company’s global expansion, Mike led all sales operations worldwide. During Mike’s tenure, the company has grown into a multi-national firm, conducting business in over 45 countries with over 4,500 multi-national organizations. Mike started his career at MicroVideo Learning Systems in 1992, eventually holding a senior management position and leading all corporate sales before founding Dynamic Minds. Mike was CEO and Co-Founder of Dynamic Minds, a custom developer of software programs, working with clients like Goldman Sachs, Prentice Hall, McGraw Hill and Merrill Lynch. Also, Mike worked for Oddcast, a leading provider of customer experience and marketing solutions, where he held a senior management position leading the company into new markets across various industries. Mike also serves on the Advisory Board for Carbon Solutions America, an independent sustainability consulting and carbon management firm that specializes in the design and implementation of greenhouse reduction and sustainability plans as well as managing the generation of carbon and renewal energy and energy efficiency credits. Mike attended University of Phoenix, studying Business Administration and Finance. He has also completed executive training at the Chicago Graduate School of Business in Chicago, IL.

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