Interaction Associates Names Online and Virtual Teams Veteran Dana Sednek to Lead the Firm's Live Online Learning Programs

Boston MA, October 8, 2014 – Interaction Associates (IA), the global workplace performance innovator, has appointed Dana Sednek to lead the firm’s innovations in the live online learning environment. Sednek joins IA as Manager of Live Online with a primary focus on developing and expanding the firm’s virtual delivery capabilities.

“Dana is a vitally important addition to the team,” said Andy Atkins, Chief Innovation Officer. “Her experience with virtual leadership development and her ability to create engaging, highly effective online experiences is invaluable to us. Leveraging Dana’s expertise, IA is moving more aggressively into the virtual learning arena, expanding our blended-learning approach,” he added.

Sednek will lead IA’s expansion into live online learning – building on the firm’s extensive experience in award-winning classroom learning.

Sednek has over a decade of experience working with online and virtual teams in global organizations including Cisco, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, and Adobe. As a Sr. Learning and Collaboration Consultant at WebEx, Sednek designed and implemented the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK’s Virtual Leadership Conference, a six-year project designed to connect 260 British diplomats deployed in more than 85 countries.

She was recently cited as an expert in the article Want More Productive Meetings? Throw Out Your Conference Table! in Entrepreneur Magazine’s online edition.

Sednek is a thought leader on virtual learning topics, and has presented on learning and collaboration at the MASIE Learning conferences and has been featured on national webinars for WebEx Learning and the eLearning Guild. She has a Masters in Organizational Conflict Resolution from Antioch University and a Bachelors in Communications, Sociology, and Peace and Conflict Studies from University of Colorado.

About Interaction Associates
Interaction Associates (IA) is a 44-year innovator that equips people to work better together in order to realize superior business results. The firm helps global organizations build high-involvement, collaborative cultures by developing their leaders, teams, and change agents. IA’s clients achieve a new measure of ROI – Return on Involvement – where employees go “beyond engagement” to share responsibility for business success. IA offers customized consulting, learning and development, and coaching services. It was named was named one of Training Industry’s top 20 Training Companies 2012-2014. For more info: http://www.interactionassociates.com.