Elliot Corona
Elliot Corona. With over 15 years of experience supporting an industrial training ecosystem (Aramco), complemented by leadership development (QatarEnergy LNG) and leading virtual learning projects (U.S. Dept. of State), Elliot brings a unique combination of corporate and academic perspectives in developing competency-based learning solutions that address capability gaps and business goals. At Aramco, one hybrid learning project involved working with the Corporate Academy to co-design and implement a Sustainability Awareness Program targeting trainees – Aramco’s largest onboarding pipeline. As the lead designer, Elliot conducted a thorough needs analysis, co-developed the program’s learning framework with SMEs, and co-facilitated the pilot delivery. He subsequently trained 14 facilitators from seven training centers, enabling scalable implementation. Pre-COVID, he led the development of a behavioral change model for the “Quit & Win” smoking cessation program in collaboration with healthcare professionals, a smoke-free steering committee, and a dozen certified facilitators to consolidate data. In three years, these efforts resulted in 100 verified “quitters” kingdom wide. Across initiatives, Elliot has served as a bridge between learners, SMEs, facilitators, and operational stakeholders to ensure that development efforts tackle underlying performance needs rather than satisfying statistical requirements alone. More recently, Mr. Corona has broadened his talent development expertise as a Virtual Educator supporting four U.S. Department of State projects in Bangladesh. Designing integrated modules in job readiness and academic profile-building skills, Elliot scaled a synchronous VILT program from one to five in-person learning hubs. He engaged over 100 participants per cohort by linking EdTech, competency frameworks, centralized reporting, and partnerships with local support systems. In parallel, Elliot facilitated in-person workshops for QatarEnergy LNG via a regional training provider, challenging employees to apply leadership skills in emotional intelligence, creativity, time management, and technical writing in task-based simulations. Outcomes were evaluated through qualitative performance observations, L1 evaluations, and pre/post measures designed to identify competency gains and knowledge gaps using standardized methods. Elliot’s professional experience is backed by a master’s in management from Harvard University with an emphasis in organizational performance, coupled with certificates in L&D and project management. In short, Elliot is a versatile trainer who is ready to contribute to the co-design and development of learning solutions with evolving needs. He welcomes a discussion on how “we” could make a meaningful impact.
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Pragya Mishra
Pragya loves convening and is a champion for SDG 17. In her nine years of work experience, she has always found herself bringing diverse stakeholders together for a common cause, and has built collaborations for social impact. She recently completed a 14 months fellowship in the US where she served at the American Express. She managed the AMEX Leadership Academy Alumni Network of over 4300 social purpose leaders. In addition to her role of organizing learning events, she launched Alumni Taskforce – a global volunteer group of 60 alumni to promote alumni led initiatives. Prior to the fellowship, Pragya worked at Ashoka in India. As part of the Fellowship team she helped design and implement programs on leadership development and impact strategy for a network of 400 Ashoka Fellows working on all 17 SDGs. She also designed a unique event concept – Changemaker Dinner, engaging over 250 senior social, business and media entrepreneurs and promoting cross-sectoral collaborations. At the beginning of her career, Pragya lived in an indigenous village in central India for three years and led a grass-root movement bringing all the stakeholders together to build the first school in the area. Pragya has a Master’s Degree in Social Entrepreneurship and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Counseling and Communication. She is adaptive and nimble and by working at the grassroots, national and international levels she has developed strong people’s skills and cultural intelligence. She is curious and loves learning from people and places.
Matt Orr
Matt Orr is a facilitator, non-profit professional, writer, and former teacher. His interest in facilitation began in graduate school in 2012 while enrolled in courses on the subject, and he has since gone on to plan and facilitate many events for a diverse set of partners spanning six countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Germany, Norway, Thailand, and the United States. He also has a keen interest in organizing virtual communities and events, since his day job as Digital Community Manager for The Asia Foundation, a non-profit international development organization committed to improving lives across a dynamic and developing Asia, affords him the opportunity to do that on a daily basis. More broadly he has over a decade of experience working with non-profits, from a large international organization to small community development organizations, public and private educational institutions, and private groups. Born in Texarkana, Texas, he was raised there, and educated at the University of NorthTexas in Denton and the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. Matt now lives in Berlin,Germany on a loud street and plays softball at least once a week at an abandoned airport.
Jessica Brockmann
Jessica Brockmann considers the word as one of the main keys to change, growth, collaboration, relationships and any kind of pursuit. Language is the foundation of our day to day life, so how to use language, how to use the word in order to transform it again into something honest, authentic and powerful. Everything we do, everything we are in this world starts with the word, the inner one, creating our own realities. With an entrepreneurial background, Jessica Brockmann took over roles in Marketing and Sales, became a Startup Founder in Tourism and Energy Supply and worked as a Freelancer establishing Digital Architecture including organizational and structural changes within companies before she left her established life to find answers to life changing questions arising from an inner calling. Outgrown of an old story, she finds herself on a quest to remember what it means to be human. Rediscovering the word as one key aspect to create, to participate and to transform first ourselves, then the world surrounding us. She is an Artist, an Author and a Mirror for every human being, ready to face his or her own limiting narrative.