Background

Dr. Elizabeth Love designed, developed, implemented, and directs a unique and highly successful citizenship training program sponsored by the City of Bellevue. She has been recognized twice as Washington state's Outstanding Citizen and also with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award. The Catalyst program began at Seattle University, where she completed her doctorate. It continued at Eastside Literacy, where it reached greater numbers of Eastside residents. When the city of Bellevue chose to sponsor it as a service to the community, classes were held at various facilities throughout the community. In 2001, the city brought the citizenship program and Elder & Adult Day Services together. Now the Catalyst staff (director, business manager, marketing manager, tutors, event coordinator, and webmaster) welcome students each weekend.

Dr. Elizabeth Love has many years of in-depth training experience within the education, information services, health care, manufacturing, human resources, and marketing.

Prior to her current position as Systems Educator at the University of Washington Medical Center, she was training manager for technical education at a leading non-profit organization, developing and leading its learning department. As training manager at a multinational firm focused on software sales and marketing, she developed innovative learning programs for management, sales, and information services staff. She also served as health care training manager focusing on quality/reliability programs at Hospice of Snohomish County. At John Fluke Co. and Sprint, she was both Information Services analyst and its training specialist. At the University of Illinois and the Council for Community Services - City of Chicago she was project manager for learning programs. Her speaking and presentation skills have been showcased by Washington Commission on the Humanities, speaking throughout the state as an expert in her field. Various awards have recognized her achievements in the ever-changing world of learning.

One of Dr. Love's strengths is her ability to link training designs to real world situations. She brings these needed strengths to diverse environments, helping to streamline the learning process. Her ability to integrate problem solving techniques, continuous improvement strategies, and quality control actions have brought her projects in on time and within budget.

She has extensive experience in leadership and team development, continuous improvement systems, management/supervisory development, customer service programs, improvement and process redesign. She has utilized her considerable skill set during acquisitions and mergers. Dr. Love has been the training lead on major software conversion projects. In all of her work, she has worked with adult learners with diverse cultural and linguistic perspectives.

Well versed in technical, industrial, and organizational needs of her clients, Dr. Love is a valuable subject matter expert, assessing client and user needs and evaluating project results. Her key to success is her ability to facilitate the implementation of effective systems, designing learning systems to prepare and support employees during times of great change, while at the same time meeting corporate objectives. Her approach highlights the needs of all organizational levels, establishing positive relationships, bringing users' feedback to improving the development and implementation processes.

Credentials

Dr. Love received her BA and MA from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Her doctorate in Educational Leadership from Seattle University specializes in Organizational Development. Her ongoing career has continued to focus on educational technology in the workplace, where learning meets the needs of employees and is essential to organizational goals.