NANCIE PAYNE, M.S.

Nancie Payne, President and Senior Consultant of Payne & Associates, Inc. and the Northwest Center for the Advancement of Learning, is internationally recognized for twenty-nine years of training and development. Her work has included both human resources development and training as well as in education and workplace-based systems.

Ms. Payne has provided consultation in thirty-two states and Canada. Her specialties include organizational development and management, learning characteristics/styles and multiple intelligences, person-centered approaches, managing internal and external environments, course design, training analysis/assessment, evidence-based processes, and critical evaluation techniques. She is an excellent facilitator. Participants attending her training frequently comment that their experience was the best development activities they have ever attended.

She is the author of the Payne Learning Needs Inventory and has facilitated 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, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Washington. Ms. Payne has written numerous articles and book chapters on facilitating learning, assessment of learning styles, transition to employment, and learning differences in the workplace. She has developed a variety of training curriculum for both the private and public sector.

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 pursuing her doctorate in Postsecondary/Adult Learning through 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 was recently asked to join the Board again. She is a member of the National Rehabilitation Association, the National Learning Disabilities Association, the Society for Human Resources, the Association for Training & Development, Commission on Adult Basic Education, and the National Association for Adult with Special Learning Needs. In her community she is an active Chamber of Commerce member and former Board of Trustees and an 18-year board member and past president of the Thurston County Economic Development Board of Directors. Additionally, she is Chairman of the Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council Board of Directors and has been the American Heart Association South Sound Heart-Walk Sponsor Chair. She is a member of the Olympia Downtown Association.

Ms. Payne is a vocalist and an avid antique pottery collector and proprietor of Purely Pottery. Her passion is people – her motto – maximizing human potential and creating productive environments.

 

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