Accelerating Performance Through a Clear and Effective Mobile Strategy

Join us for a very unique interactive experience, where each participant of this session will be provided with the use of an iPad for exciting hands-on activities. You will learn how an effective mobile deployment strategy can transform a training event into a performance experience by following a comprehensive approach that includes:

• Defining the expected performance
• Hardware management
• Content integration
• Measuring real-time and over-time performance intelligence

Our speakers, Larry Cooney Jr. of Janssen Pharmaceutical and Carl Wooten of Vertical Performance Partners, will discuss how their teams partnered in order to accelerate training and performance through well-organized and effective content deployment, knowledge management, and metrics collection… all within a mobile environment.

5:30pm Registration, Networking, Dinner (included)
6:15      Chapter Announcements
6:30      Presentation
8:00      Close

About our Speaker

                Carl Wooten

Our speaker, Carl Wooten, CEO of Vertical Performance Partners, will discuss how he and his team partnered with companies such as Janssen Pharmaceutical, Abbot Laboratories, and Bristol Myers Squibb in order to help their sales teams accelerate their training and performance through well-organized and effective content deployment, knowledge management, and metrics collection… all within a mobile environment.

Over the past four years he has worked extensively with pharmaceutical companies as a performance strategist with an emphasis on mobile performance technology.

Prior, Carl has served 18 successful years in the pharmaceutical industry, where he held a variety of roles, which included both corporate and field based positions in Sales, Sales Leadership, Marketing and Training.  He was employed with pharmaceutical organizations such as Abbott Laboratories, GlaxoWellcome, GlaxoSmithKline and Sepracor. During his time in the pharmaceutical industry he designed and participated in the launch of 15 novel pharmaceutical products, many of which have been “blockbuster” brands and extend over 9 therapeutic areas.

Larry Cooney, Jr.

Larry, the Sr. Instructional Technologist for Development & Training Operations at Janssen, identifies and integrates technology innovations that increase training effectiveness and performance for Janssen’s sales team.  His current responsibilities include executing a broad mobile strategy that leverages content management and performance analysis through mobile platforms. Prior to Janssen, Larry assisted Merck with their conversion of training content to mobile platforms.  He has also taken on e-Learning development roles with Bristol Myers Squibb and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems.