A student of your profession (Doug Harward)

Our latest guest on this episode of BCEN and Friends is Doug Harward, the CEO and Founder of Training Industry. Training Industry is well-known throughout the professional spectrum with health-care workers and many other types of professions and this is due in part to an “accidental stumble” made by Doug. He is a very interesting man and we have many questions that we wish to have answered on this episode (he does just that).

First and foremost, he came up with an idea while at Nortel Networks when he told those he worked within the business that they should have a training department, rather than having Joe teacher Ted and Ted then teaching Allie in a ladder-style training technique. Once he told the company he worked for that a training department was needed, they told him to “go for it,” and that’s exactly what Doug did.

After some years of hard work, Doug founded the leading training organization now in the business, Training Industry. If you have ever done any type of training, chances are that you know of the business he founded and are fairly familiar with it. His mission was to bring training services to organizations all over and he did just that.

Not only is Doug a renowned CEO, he offers great advice to the listeners by letting us all know that we should all be “lifelong learners” within our profession, regardless of what it is. After all, as long as we continue to seek knowledge based on our profession, we can continue to grow as a person as well as an industry professional. He couldn’t be more accurate when he says, “Methodologies are everchanging.” What we learned last year could change very quickly, so it’s essential to have ever-growing amounts of training and the ability to be opened to always learn the new technologies that we may face on a daily basis.

Doug is married to a nurse and together they have two canine kids named Jackson and Sherman. Pre-COVID, their canine babies helped children in the Ronald McDonald House through a program called “See Spot Read” which enables kids to read to the sweet pups instead of out loud to other children. This is used to help the children to sharpen their reading skills.

When it comes to learning, Doug believes it is an endless realm and learning can never go out of style. For more insight on Doug and what advice he can offer, tune into this episode of BCEN and Friends.

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