Join Us to Discuss “Customer Training: 5 Ways to Fast-Track Your Programs in a Slow Economy”

Mountain View, CA – August 20, 2008 – Expertus, a global provider of services that optimize the business impact of learning, and Chief Learning Officer Magazine today announced an upcoming webinar, “Customer Training: 5 Ways to Fast-Track Your Programs in a Slow Economy,” scheduled for Thursday, September 4, 2008, at 2 p.m. EDT.

To register, visit www.expertus.com/webinar3/pr. The free, one-hour webinar features an all-star cast of learning gurus, including Brian Summerfield, Managing Editor of CLO Magazine; Tom Kelly, a 25-year learning industry veteran and independent learning strategy consultant, and Mohana Radhakrishnan, VP Client Services at Expertus.

“Customer Training: 5 Ways to Fast-Track Your Programs in a Slow Economy” will address the importance of customer retention, especially in a tough business climate. Attendees will learn how to align customer learning with business goals and create powerful marketing strategies that fill classrooms and increase training revenues. In addition, the webinar will share how to improve operational efficiency and the utility of customer-facing learning systems.

This is the third of four webinars hosted by Expertus through the 2008 Training Efficiency Masters Series, designed to help learning executives master the art of transforming their organizations into models of operational efficiency. Each webinar offers practical insight and ideas about how to master a core dimension of learning efficiency. During each webinar, Expertus executives and industry experts explore key challenges and showcase best practices surrounding four pillars of training efficiency: Cost Leverage, Technology Optimization, Business Intelligence and Process Management.

The CLO Webinar, hosted by Expertus, taps into the knowledge of Tom Kelly, renowned for his expertise as a learning executive at companies such as NetApp, Cisco, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems, NeXT Corp. and Control Data Corp. He is a trusted adviser for a growing list of customers, including small to midsize companies focused on learning organization systems and strategies. At NetApp University, Kelly ensured that employees, partners and customers were professionally educated and trained on the company’s solutions with hands-on training and certification programs.

Joining Kelly is Mohana Radhakrishnan, VP of Client Services at Expertus. She guides Global 2000 corporations as they evaluate, optimize and transform their learning organizations to achieve key business objectives. Drawing on more than a decade of experience, Radhakrishnan’s approach to solving complex operational challenges is customer-specific and vendor-neutral. She specializes in defining the appropriate role of new and existing technologies, applying best practices to business processes and creating performance metrics to monitor and improve results. Leveraging her extensive knowledge, Radhakrishnan has managed multifaceted, technology-intensive programs from requirements definition to full-scale deployment.

The webinar’s distinguished host is Brian Summerfield, Managing Editor of Chief Learning Officer, the leading magazine for the enterprise learning and workforce development industries.

Register for the webinar at www.expertus.com/webinar3/pr

For more information on Expertus’ comprehensive learning services, log on to www.expertus.com or call toll-free: 877-827-8160.

About Expertus
Expertus is the leading global provider of services that optimize the business impact of learning. For more than a decade, the firm’s 500+ learning management professionals have defined and implemented plans, processes and technologies that transform training organizations – creating measurable value for the world’s most successful corporations. Customers include ADP, Cisco, ConocoPhillips, EMC, Honeywell and Lockheed Martin. Every day at these and other companies, more than a million employees, customers and business partners are educated as a result of Expertus’ innovative business strategies, outsourcing services and technology-rich solutions.

Based in Silicon Valley, Expertus serves its customers from offices in the US, UK and India. For more information, visit www.expertus.com, or call toll-free 1-877-827-8160.

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