RWD Establishes the Vanguard Leadership Forum

BALTIMORE, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- RWD Technologies, LLC (RWD), a global company that develops and implements human and organizational performance solutions, announced today the creation of a center of innovation providing access to thought leadership around improving the way people work.  The center, formally known as the Robert W. Deutsch Vanguard Leadership Forum, will build on RWD founder Dr. Robert W. Deutsch's legacy of leadership in helping people work more effectively. It is designed to provide insights and information that can add value for RWD's customers well beyond individual project engagements with the Company.  The Forum will focus on the latest innovations in workforce performance and process improvement to bring these possibilities into focus for RWD's customers, empowering them to make better-informed, more effective business decisions.  This includes access to a broader range of thinking, strategies, models, and tools.

"The Vanguard Leadership Forum was established to provide greater value to our customers," said Gary Walker, senior vice president, RWD Technologies.  "We have a core group of client advisors whose passion and results-oriented focus can strategically inform business thinking, and we believe that customers expect us to share that expertise and make it available to the RWD community."  

The Forum will focus on innovations in several areas such as:

• Leadership and Team Development
• The Performing Organization
• Performance-based Analysis and Design
• Knowledge, Content, and Learning Management
• eLearning and Mobile Learning
• Simulation and Gaming
• Workplace and Social Learning
• Learning Technologies and Tools
• Process Design and Deployment
• Lean Management Systems
• Sustainability

Laurens MacLure, Jr., president and CEO of RWD Technologies said, "In today's economic environment, RWD customers are looking to us more than ever to help them make the best possible decisions for their business.  They don't see our relationship as a single project and neither do we.  The Vanguard Leadership Forum puts a face on our company's long-standing commitment to helping our customers succeed and continuing our legacy of leadership in the human performance improvement field."

RWD customers will be able to access the Vanguard Leadership Forum free of charge as part of their engagement.

About RWD Technologies, LLC

RWD is a leading provider of human and operational performance improvement solutions that help employers maximize the return on their investments in people, processes, technology, equipment, knowledge and customers. Since 1988, RWD has assisted clients and partners in enhancing organizational productivity through its broad range of integrated products and services, which include human capital management and IT consulting services, business transformation and lean process improvement, end-user training, change management, knowledge management and operator effectiveness management. RWD's solutions are used in thousands of organizations globally, and in industries such as manufacturing, energy, automotive, aerospace, healthcare, life sciences, consumer products, financial, telecommunications, services, higher education and the public sector.

Based in Baltimore, Maryland, RWD serves Fortune 500 and other organizations around the world. RWD is privately held, with two dozen offices in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.rwd.com.  

Copyright © 2010 RWD Technologies, LLC. All rights reserved. RWD Technologies and RWD are registered trademarks of RWD Technologies, LLC in the United States and several other countries. All other names are or may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE RWD Technologies, LLC

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