Jean Barbazette

JEAN BARBAZETTE is the President of The Training Clinic, Seal Beach, California, a training consulting firm she founded in 1977.

The Training Clinic is the leading "Train-the-Trainer" company in the United States .  Her company conducts needs assessments, designs training programs, develops lesson plans, self-paced learning packages, and presents seminars on over 30 different topics.  Workshops include Training Trainers, Communications, Management and Supervision, Interpersonal Skills, Sales and Customer Service and Administrative Assistant Effectiveness.

Jean and a field staff of 20 present hundreds of public and in-house workshops nationally on the techniques of train-the-trainer each year. The Training Clinic presents some of its workshops in the Europe and Latin America through licensees. Jean recently presented train-the-trainer and management workshops in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. She is an active national and local member of ISPI, SHRM and ASTD. 

Jean has been in training and development for 40 years. Former employers include Blue Cross of Southern California and the City of Long Beach. Jean has a BA in Social Science from Notre Dame de Namur University and an MA in Education from Stanford University. She has taught at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Coastline Community College. 

Well known clients include:

Jean has presented at many national and international training conferences such as:

• American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) 1983, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1993-1999, 2001-2006 

• ASTD TechKnowledge 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

• ASTD “Training Ain’t Telling Conferences” 2004 

• International Federation of Training & Development Organizations (IFTDO) 1982, 1999

• International Society for Performance and Instruction (ISPI) 1987, 1991, 1999, 2001 (Highest rated concurrent session of the conference)

• Total Trainer Institutes, Lakewood Conferences 1994

• Organizational Development Network 1982

• International Association of Personnel Women

• Society of Insurance Trainers and Educators (SITE) 1988, 1990, 1994

• Professionals in Human Resources Association (PIHRA)

• National Association of Hospital Admitting Managers (NAHAM)

• HRD Asia, Singapore, 1992

• Indonesian Association for Training & Development, Jakarta, 1993

• Singapore Institute of Management, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998

• Trainers-Meet-Trainers, Kuala Lumpur, Keynote address, 1997

• VNU Learning Conferences: Training Magazine's Training Conference , each year 1998-2007

• VNU Learning Conferences: Training Director's Forum, 2000-2007

• VNU Learning Conference:  Training 2002 Asia , Singapore

• Microsoft Technology Week, 2000(Highest rated concurrent conference session)

•  Microsoft Next Generation Conference, Seattle , 2001, Microsoft “Facilitation Skills for e-Trainers” 2002

Several of her articles have appeared in national publications. She is the author of these published works:

• The New Employee Orientation CD-ROM and Organizer

• Three training packages:  Customer Service:  Back to the Basics, Telephone Techniques, and Dealing with Difficult Customers. 

• Her “BEST-SELLING” book, Successful New Employee Orientation was published by Pfeiffer & Associates in 1994.  Her book was nominated by Human Resource Executive Magazine as the product/book of the year for 1994.  The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) gave the book an "Honorable Mention" in its 1994 competition for book of the year.  A second edition was released in June, 2001.  Jean was sited as an authority on orientation on the front page of the Wall Street Journal on October 13, 1998 .  This article was later reprinted in the San Francisco Chronicle.  A third edition will be out in 2007.

• Jean contributed a chapter on new employee orientation to the Intervention Resource Guide: 50 Performance Improvement Tools, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999.

• Jean is the author of The Trainer’s Support Handbook, McGraw-Hill, 2001

• Jean contributed inventory exercises in the McGraw-Hill Training and Performance Sourcebooks in 1999, 2000 and 2001, 2002, and the Pfeiffer Annuals in 1993, 2004, 2005.

• Jean contributed a chapter for 90 World-Class Activities by 90 World-Class Trainers, Pfeiffer 2007.

• Jean contributed a chapter on “Self-Directed New Employee Orientation” in What Smart Trainers Know, published by Jossey Bass in 2001.

• Jean contributed a chapter to the ASTD Training & Development Sourcebook, 2002 on research for New Employee Orientation and a Sales Inventory in the 2003 edition.

• Jean’s book, Instant Case Studies, on how to write, customize and use case studies in training was published by Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer in 2003.

• The Trainer’s Journey to Competence: Tools, Assessments, and Models, was published by Pfeiffer in 2005 as part of The Skilled Trainer Series.  Additional books in the series published in 2006 include: Training Needs Assessment and The Art of Great Training Delivery.

• Jean’s newest book will be titled, Managing the Training Function, and will be published by Pfeiffer in November 2007.

Jean has received the following awards:

• The "Outstanding Contribution" annual award from the Los Angeles Chapter of ASTD in 1979 for her work in "Position Referral."

• Precious Life Shelter nominated Jean as 1996 Catholic Woman of the Year for Orange County .  Jean is a volunteer at the Precious Life Shelter in Los Alamitos.  PLS serves homeless pregnant women in crisis.  She received an award for her dedication and commitment to the shelter since 1994.

• Jean received three awards from Orange County Chapter of ASTD: The President’s Award in 1998 for twenty years of continuous and outstanding service to the chapter and The Distinguished Service Award in 1999, Award of Merit in 2003.

Jean is qualified to use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.