{"id":2470,"date":"2017-03-07T09:42:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T09:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackbkeenan.com\/?page_id=2470"},"modified":"2017-03-07T09:42:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T09:42:20","slug":"john-epstein-senior-session-leader","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jackbkeenan.com\/about\/jbk-core-team\/john-epstein-senior-session-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"John Epstein &#8211; Senior Session Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><noindex><\/noindex> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>John Epstein &#8211; Senior Session Leader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Epstein hadn\u2019t planned on being a learning facilitator, but the course of his career changed in 2000 when he volunteered to be a graduate assistant for a training company. A senior facilitator advised him to become certified to deliver their content. The advice was heeded, the certification process began, and a life\u2019s passion was found.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next several years John conducted a number of 12-week courses, earning evaluation scores that consistently exceeded global benchmarks. His enthusiasm and expertise led the company\u2019s leaders to ask John to be a coach and mentor to their junior instructors.<\/p>\n<p>John\u2019s extensive business-to-business sales experience and training certification opened the door to Nielsen in 2006. As Director, Internal Learning &amp; Development, he worked closely with the client-facing associates in Nielsen\u2019s US Media business \u2013 facilitating sales, negotiation and presentation skills classes, speaking at sales conferences, conducting needs analyses and developing learning curricula, among other duties.<\/p>\n<p>As the \u201cambassador\u201d of the U.S. learning organization, John was honored on three occasions by a special request from Nielsen\u2019s Vice Chairman \u2013 to be one of a handful of people hosting her international guests from the Fortune\/U.S. State Department Global Women\u2019s Mentoring Partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, the scope of his activities reached a global group of colleagues and internal stakeholders across the breadth of Nielsen\u2019s portfolio. In 2014, John conducted a train-the-trainer on four continents, certifying senior leaders from over 20 countries to facilitate Nielsen\u2019s sales and negotiation programs.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, JBK started a long-term engagement with Nielsen, beginning with a customized program called \u201cSelling Beyond the Ratings\u201d and when John joined Nielsen in 2006, quickly took over the management of the JBK relationship and was certified in several different JBK programs over the next 10 years, delivering learning to thousands of Nielsen sales people and managers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, John took his love for business, for sales, and for learning and formed his own company to provide contract facilitation services and rejoined the JBK team in a new role as a Certified Session Leader.<\/p>\n<p>John lives outside of New York City with his wife and two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Epstein &#8211; Senior Session Leader John Epstein hadn\u2019t planned on being a learning facilitator, but the course of his career changed in 2000 when he volunteered to be a graduate assistant for a training company. A senior facilitator advised him to become certified to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":168,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackbkeenan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackbkeenan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackbkeenan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackbkeenan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackbkeenan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackbkeenan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2470\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackbkeenan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackbkeenan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}