Archives: Events

  • Microsoft Project Training at ES Fox, 2019

    Microsoft Project training at E.S. Fox in July 2019. Project is a less-common topic than Excel: the rooms are smaller, the learners arrive with a specific scheduling or resource problem, and the teaching is closer to consulting.

  • Microsoft Excel at DB Schenker, 2019

    The DB Schenker engagement expanded in 2019: Excel 1, Intermediate cohorts, and a year that stretched from January into November. Multi-cohort repeat engagements at a logistics operation of this scale are the standard for delivery credibility.

  • Excel 1 – Intermediate at DB Schenker, 2018

    Excel training at DB Schenker (the global logistics arm of Deutsche Bahn) across multiple sessions in March and early April 2018. The first engagement in what became a two-year training relationship.

  • Microsoft Excel Workshops at CPA Ontario Members, 2019

    Microsoft Excel workshops for CPA Ontario members in February 2019, accountants who use Excel every working day and know exactly where their gaps are. A technically literate room that arrives with real questions.

  • Microsoft Excel at City of Hamilton, 2018

    City of Hamilton returned in May 2018 for an expanded slate: Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word across several weeks. Return bookings from public-sector teams are the clearest measure of delivery quality.

  • Microsoft Office training at City of Hamilton, 2017

    The start of a multi-year relationship with City of Hamilton municipal staff: Microsoft Office training in late summer and early fall of 2017. The return bookings that followed confirmed the fit.

  • Excel 2016 Level 2 at Breville Canada, 2018

    Excel 2016 Level 2 delivered at Breville Canada across two sessions in September 2018. The audience builds product plans and cost models, the kind of Excel work where precision matters.

  • Microsoft Office training at Airbnb, 2017

    One-day Microsoft Office training at Airbnb in November 2017, a focused engagement for a team that needed a specific set of skills without a longer commitment.

  • Pedigree of Oat Lines (POOL) keynote at AAFC Central Experimental Farm, 2008

    In 2008, I gave a keynote at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, to oat geneticists from around the world, about a database I had built for them. Unusual chain: built the platform, then explained it to the people who would use it, with both audiences in the room.