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Christine Marsh wins the Distinguished Service Award
The International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) has two special honorary awards that recognize individuals for their significant contributions to Human Performance Technology (HPT) and to the Society itself. Those awards are the Thomas F. Gilbert Distinguished Professional Achievement Award and the Distinguished Service Award. ISPI is pleased to announce this year’s recipients: William R. Daniels and Christine Marsh. The awards will be bestowed at the 2005 International Performance Improvement Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 10-15.
Distinguished Service Award
Congratulations to Christine Marsh, this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, an award that recognizes long-term, outstanding, and significant contributions to the betterment of ISPI.
Christine Marsh is more than just a witty, charming lady. She is an astute professional who skillfully applies and articulates Human Performance Technology (HPT): facilitating tough executive strategic planning sessions, enabling teams to identify complex root causes, and designing solutions that get results. Her global experiences demonstrate her ability to work across cultural boundaries, within all levels of an organization; to move effortlessly between functional teams; and to mediate the development, implementation, and institutionalization of new goals and objectives.
Since 1995, Christine has been a truly active ISPI member: presenting concurrent sessions, “Cracker Barrel” topics, and a 2001 Masters’ Series; publishing articles in Performance Improvement; contributing virtually to committees; planning and hosting conference International Rooms. Over the past three years, Christine’s facilitation skills have been instrumental in helping ISPI Europe develop a strong chapter with successful annual conferences in the Netherlands, Paris, and Lisbon.
Christine has also been an amazing ambassador and teacher globally. She used wallpaper (flipcharts were not available) to share the Principles of HPT with professionals in Siberia, presented at ISPI South Africa’s inaugural conference, and shared her experience and wisdom with IFTDO in Brazil and India.
Anyone who meets Christine soon learns that she continues to be innovative through her elegant, simple, insightful, and effective approach to solving business and organizational challenges. Five minutes in her presence may engage the other party in a discovery exercise, illustrative story, role-play, or team effort to answer pertinent questions. One ISPI colleague reports that Christine is an instructive and nurturing coach to newcomers as well as to experienced performance consultants.
Christine continues to make a valuable contribution to ISPI, ISPI Europe, other professionals, and global corporations. She quietly and effectively gains the respect of everyone with whom she interacts. Christine truly epitomizes distinguished professional service and is a role model for this very special award.
Right: Christine with Award winner William R. Daniels. The Thomas F Gilbert Distinguished Achievement Award recognises outstanding and significant contributions to HPT.
