About Advanced Business Learning

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About Advanced Business Learning (ABL)

Advanced Business Learning is a leader in sales effectiveness, IT training, and leadership/professional development programs serving Fortune 1000 customers across the country and around the globe. Our team of elite consultants and best-of-breed partners are dedicated to delivering relevant, results-focused programs that have a measurable impact on your company’s short term goals and long term success.

Our heritage is one firmly based on the core belief that a consultant/trainer is far more credible and effective if they have “felt the pain” associated with being in senior leadership, sales management and field sales roles. Otherwise it is virtually impossible for them to be taken seriously in front of an audience of seasoned professionals.

Customized to your organization for maximum adoption

While ‘off the shelf’ programs are focused on the ‘training event’ and typically unconcerned with program integration into your organization we employ a truly reinforced, integrated, end-to-end approach.

Developing unique sales advantage

ABL delivers proven sales and strategic account management (SAM) best practice solutions that help align your organizational strategy with your unique go-to-market sales message. We build fully branded, multi-dimensional programs that you own from beginning to end. Every program is uniquely designed to meet the expectations of your customers and partners.

Learning designed and taught by leading industry experts

To master a new skill, you want to learn from the best. Our training solutions are not just designed to look great, they are developed by experts with more than 20 years of depth in a wide variety of learning disciplines. Our courseware masterfully blends sound instructional design and practical teaching philosophies with an engaging, relevant learning experience in the latest technologies. 

A best-of-breed approach

Our strengths are unique in breadth and depth – bringing together the “best-of-breed” solutions in sales transformation, management consulting and IT training. Our methodologies, skills, experience, technology, people and materials all work in harmony to achieve our clients’ desired transformations. 

About Advanced Business Learning (ABL)

Advanced Business Learning is a leader in sales effectiveness, IT training, and leadership/professional development programs serving Fortune 1000 customers across the country and around the globe. Our team of elite consultants and best-of-breed partners are dedicated to delivering relevant, results-focused programs that have a measurable impact on your company’s short term goals and long term success.

Our heritage is one firmly based on the core belief that a consultant/trainer is far more credible and effective if they have “felt the pain” associated with being in senior leadership, sales management and field sales roles. Otherwise it is virtually impossible for them to be taken seriously in front of an audience of seasoned professionals.

An ABL partnership helps you:

  • Improve sales effectiveness
  • Advance your leadership team’s effectiveness and in turn, employee productivity
  • Arm your IT staff with advanced training in today’s most relevant technologies
  • Reduce your training costs
  • Discover and leverage your unique differentiators for more effective selling strategies
  • Easily evolve your training programs over time to keep in lock-step with your changing needs

Meet Our Team

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THOMAS A. JENKINS
CEO

Mr. Jenkins has as an impressive background serving in executive leadership roles in global Fortune 500 companies such as Westinghouse Broadcasting and AVON. He has more than 20 years’ experience as a business management consultant leading high-visibility, complex multicultural projects and corporate change initiatives. His consulting work led to global travel destinations such as Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil. In his role as CEO of Advanced Business Learning, Mr. Jenkins is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the company, financial goals and client management. In addition to his consummate success as business leader and consultant, Mr. Jenkins is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corp. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Syracuse University.

susanSUSAN MORRIS

President

Ms. Morris is a successful business leader with more than 25 years’ experience in the fields of sales, leadership development, and business consulting. She has served in executive leadership roles in Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Federated Department Stores (Macy’s), and Wilson Learning. Ms. Morris’s areas of expertise include business consulting, research, and the design, development, and implementation of workforce performance solutions and corporate change initiatives that produce bottom-line results for clients. As Vice President of Advanced Business Learning, Ms. Morris is responsible for the company’s long-range business and financial goals, strategies, plans, policies, staffing, and client management. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Marymount College.

JANET YOUNG
Senior Consultant, Facilitator

During her expansive career that now includes several years as a senior consultant, Janet has designed broad organization effectiveness and strategic execution efforts enabling business units to completely transform their organizations.  Her work in a U. S. Business Travel division in centralized call management not only gave the division a competitive advantage, but also, re-directed the Travel Industry.

Results-oriented Leader with 30+ years of progressive leadership and organizational effectiveness experience including:

Learning and Development
Program Design and Delivery
Strategic Planning and Execution
Project Management Facilitation
Knowledge Management Strategy
Organizational Learning Implementation
Leadership Development
Process Improvement Methodology
Team Effectiveness & Development
Organizational Assessment & Cultural Alignment
Organization Development
Organizational Design and Transformation

 

Client Testimonials

The class was great! The instructor was very personable and his level of knowledge was vast.

My knowledge level was addressed pretty well. If there was something I didn’t know, the instructor was more than willing to spend time on the subject after class or on our lunch break with me.

The class was definitely one of the most interesting training classes I’ve ever had. The topics discussed are interesting to me personally.

The instructor had a “real-life” example of a lot of the material that was covered, so I would rate their level of knowledge as very high.

The instructor is one of the most professional and knowledgeable people I’ve ever met. He does a great job teaching.

The instructor was extremely knowledgeable with a plethora of real life experiences that were integrated into the curriculum making it easy to understand and apply.