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Meet the 2025 Board Candidates! |
President Elect (Three Year Term) |
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Robyn A. Defelice, PhD is a learning intrapreneur, author, and presenter with over 20 years in the L&D field. She is the co-author of Microlearning: Short and Sweet and has been researching How Long it Takes to Develop Training for over a decade. Robyn is happiest when she is collaborating with L&D leadership and teams to get them to the decision-making table. Her mission is to empower her peers through unlocking their untapped capabilities and capacity for effective L&D. Her experience spans corporate to manufacturing, government to higher education, and non-profits to startups. She is currently serving as a board member of L&D Cares, the VP of Programming for Association for Talent Development of Central PA and is a member of Learning Leaders Alliance through The Learning Guild.
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Vice President of Administration
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Amanda Hoover is a trainer at Belco Community Credit Union where she has been drinking the credit union Kool-Aid for over 18 years (training for 11 of those). Being the only L&D professional for a majority of that time, Amanda has experience spanning from developing and facilitating in-person training to self-directed online modules on a wide variety of topics. Today, Amanda's focus is to the new employee onboarding experience, technical training and development of online courses. She holds a bachelors degree in Information Science and Technology from Penn State and is currently pursuing her MBA at Shippensburg University. An ATD member since 2013, Amanda took a more active role in the Central Pennsylvania Chapter by joining the Marketing Committee in mid-2020. She served as VP of Marketing 2021-22 and is currently the VP of Administration. She completed the ATD Master Trainer program in 2021 and received her Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) designation in 2022. |
Vice President of Marketing |
| Jennifer Philippe Jennifer Philippe is the Senior Instructional Design Specialist in Graham Packaging’s Learning and Organizational Excellence Development department. After spending many years as an accidental instructional designer/trainer, she received a Master of Education in Training and Development degree from Penn State Harrisburg in 2018. In her role at Graham Packaging, she is exposed to a variety of problems that need to be solved, and opportunities that need to be realized. Her background enables her to assist in projects ranging from the design and delivery of learning programs, leading change management initiatives, serving as a virtual facilitator and producer, assisting in performance improvement initiatives, and other areas where her L&D toolbox might be needed. Jennifer also serves in a leadership capacity in Graham Packaging’s Women in Business Employee Resource Group. |
Vice President of Membership
| Amy Leedy, CPTD Amy Leedy is the Senior Learning & Development Specialist at Four Seasons Produce. Her previous positions include serving as an adjunct professor at Harrisburg Area Community College – Lancaster Campus and as a technical writer/trainer for Global Knowledge Network. She has over 2 decades of experience as a learning & development professional in both academic and corporate environments. As a member of ATD Central PA and ATD National since 2015, Amy’s primary interest is instructional design, with a professional focus on leadership development, learning technologies, onboarding, and compliance. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Delaware and a Master of Arts in English with a concentration in Rhetoric & Composition from the Pennsylvania State University. Amy is a Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD). |
Vice President of Programs |
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