Trainer Biography

 

Nancie Payne, M.S.

 

Nancie Payne, President and CEO of Payne & Associates, Inc. and the Northwest Center for the Advancement of Learning, a licensed and accredited community rehabilitation program, is internationally recognized for over thirty years of work in education and workplace-based services for children and adults with disabilities.  She consults with disabilities service providers, elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools, correction facilities, employment and training agencies, human service organizations, and businesses on ways to create productive learning environments and maximize the potential of those with special learning needs.  She has provided consultation in thirty-four states and Canada.  Her work has included the development and implementation of the Payne Learning Needs Inventory and related screening tools, facilitating long-term, system-wide change of service delivery models in the District of Columbia, Indiana, California, Oregon, Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vermont, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Illinois, Mississippi, Rhode Island, North Carolina and Washington.  Additionally she is a consultant for the National General Education Development Test Service (GEDTS).

Ms. Payne has written numerous articles and book chapters on facilitating learning, assessment of special needs, transition to employment, and workplace accommodations.  Her published works include Job Accommodations, What Works and Why published in Learning Disabilities and Employment, edited by Paul J. Gerber and Dale S. Brown, Pro-ed 1997; Informal Assessment of Adults with LD published in Learning Disabilities, Literacy and Adult Education, edited by Susan A. Vogel and Stephen Reder, Brooks 1998; and The Impact of Learning Disabilities In The Workplace, in Successful Lifetime Management, edited by Teresa Citro, LDAM, 1999.  In 2000 a Brookes publication entitled Meeting the Challenge of Learning Disabilities in Adulthood by Arlyn Roffman, Ph.D. features Ms. Payne’s personal insight about the impact of learning disabilities. 

Ms. Payne has a B.A. from the Evergreen State College in Liberal Arts, emphasis in Education-Administration and a M.S. from Chapman University School of Business and Economics in Human Resource Management/Organizational Development.  She is currently a doctoral candidate, School of Education, postsecondary/adult learning from Capella University.  She has served on the President's Committee for Employment of People with Disabilities Taskforce, Washington D.C.; participated in a National Congress funded by the National Institute for Literacy; and was a member of the National Learning Disabilities Research & Training Center Advisory Board.  She has served six years as a member of the National Learning Disabilities Association Professional Advisory Board and is currently serving her third term.  She is a member of the National Learning Disabilities Association, the Society for Human Resources Management, the Commission on Adult Basic Education, and the Washington Association for Postsecondary Education and Disabilities.  In her community she is currently an 18-year board member and past president of the Thurston County Economic Development Board of Directors and a member of the Olympia Downtown Association.  She spent three years as a member of the Olympia-Thurston Chamber of Commerce Board of Trustees and currently serves on the Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council Board of Directors as Chairman.