Biography - Beth Thomas

As Managing Director and Executive Vice President of Sequent Consulting, Beth is responsible for the overall success of the Consulting division. In this role, Beth has multiple responsibilities including the overall management of the Consulting business, Chief Learning Officer for Sequent, Inc., and Practice Leader for the Organizational Development Practice. As part of her background, Beth specializes in designing and leading Transformational Training and Large scale Change Initiatives. She has 20 years experience helping organizations through major transformations, such as mergers and acquisitions and organizational change.

Prior to joining Sequent, Beth was Sr. Vice President and Head of Retail Training Development and Planning at JP Morgan Chase. Before that she worked at Limited Brands in Columbus, where she lead the retailer's Enterprise Learning Center and their Service Management practice (supporting all Limited Brands). Prior to that, Beth worked for the international brokerage firm, The Fritz Companies, Inc. Beth is an active volunteer where she has served on the Ohio Steering Committee for Operation Respect, the Masie Center for Learning advisory board, and the Learning Decisions publication advisory board. She has also been a member of the American Society for Training and Development, Masie Center's Consortium, Stepping Stones (Fund raising organization for Christian Education), National Association for Female Executives, and Mid Ohio Training Consortium.

Beth is a frequent national speaker and her professional work has been recognized with national awards and in several national-circulation magazines and newsletters. She is also a contributing editor on four books, On Demand Learning (Darin Hartley), Implementing eLearning (Jay Cross and Lance Dublin), Learning Rants, Raves and Reflections (Elliott Masie) and most recently Lies about Learning (Larry Islaerite).