Lou Russell 
CEO / Queen / Learning Facilitator | Russell Martin & Associates
Fishers, IN, UNITED STATES
As a sought-after international speaker to leaders, Lou blends her humorous stories with her engaging on-the-ground experience to customize
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Biography
One of these four facts is NOT true about Lou Russell. Check your answers below:
1. Lou is the Queen of Russell Martin & Associates, a 25 year old consulting company
headquartered in Indiana.
2. Lou is a mother of three, wife of one and friend to many.
3. Lou is an avid bowler.
4. Lou’s personal mission is to ignite learning.
Lou Russell is the CEO/Queen of RMA, an executive consultant, speaker, and author whose passion is to create growth in companies by guiding the growth of their people. In her speaking, training, and writing, Lou draws on 30 years of experience helping organizations achieve their full potential. She inspires improvement in leadership, project management, and individual learning.
Lou is the author of 7 popular and practical books: IT Leadership Alchemy, The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook, Training Triage, Leadership Training, Project Management for Trainers, 10 Steps to Successful Project Management and Managing Projects.
As a sought-after international speaker, Lou blends her humorous stories with her on-the-ground experience to speak to the real problems of the people in the room. Encouraged by Lou’s upbeat and practical style, every learner leaves with new enthusiasm and tools to improve their bottom line. You will be moving, laughing, participating, inspired and challenged. Most importantly to Lou, you will learn.
Lou has spoken at over 300 conferences including ASTD International, Society of Information Management (SIM), Training, American Museum Association, Nursing Educators, Project Management Institute, Project World and many corporate events. Lou writes her own monthly e-zine, Learning Flash, with a loyal readership of over 25,000 people. She offers monthly webinars and has authored courses for Villanova University, Nielsen, Elluminate and ASTD.
Lou serves on the board of directors for Butler University, was elected to “Who’s Who in Indiana Technology” in 1995 and named “Women of the Year” in 2000 by Women & Hi Tech. She has a BS from Purdue in Computer Science and an MS in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana. She started the local “Wine and Whine” group in Indianapolis, and is past president of the local SIM chapter. Her business is a certified Women’s Business Enterprise and a Project Management Institute partner.
In her spare time, she learns from her husband and three daughters, volunteers and plays and coaches soccer. She is not good at bowling.
Industry Expertise (10)
Business Services
Program Development
Information Services
Women
Professional Training and Coaching
Human Resources
Corporate Leadership
Education/Learning
Corporate Training
Training and Development
Areas of Expertise (4)
Leading Unruly Project Teams
Focused Performance
Project Management for Scalability
Eq for Project Decision Making Success
Accomplishments (9)
Chairmans Club (professional)
Target Training International
Author: Managing Projects (professional)
Pfieffer publishing
Author: PM for Trainers, Training Triage, Leadership Training, 10 Steps to Successful PM (professional)
ASTD Publishing
Author: IT Leadership Alchemy (professional)
Pearson Publishing
Author / Presenter online Project Management Essentials (professional)
Villanova University
Learning with Lou Russell (professional)
Training Magazine Virtual Netowrk
Registered Education Provider (professional)
Project Management Institute
Women of the Year (professional)
Women and Hi Tech
Who’s Who in Indiana Technology (professional)
Indianapolis Business Journal
Education (2)
Purdue University: Bachelors of Science, Computer Science / Minor in Math 1980
Indiana University: Masters of Education, Instructional Systems Technology 1990
Affiliations (1)
- PMI, ASTD, SIM, Women and Hi Tech, TTI, Techpoint, Catholic Business Network
Links (5)
Event Appearances (13)
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Citizens Energy Group Indiana
Project Management, Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness
Training Magazine (annually since 1995) various
2014-12-31
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Eli Lilly Indiana
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ASTD International Conference *annually since 2000 various
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Daiichi Sankyo New Jersey
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Project Management Institute various
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E-Learning Summit various
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McDonald's Operations Retreat Hamburger University
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Walmart Training and Development Arkansas
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Nike Oregon
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Banc One Ohio
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State of Indiana County Clerks Conference Indiana
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AASLH History Professionals various
Sample Talks (3)
Leading Unruly Project Teams
Using a DISC and Workplace Motivation approach, this presentation will create a picture of the diverse strengths and weaknesses of each member of the team. Once shared, these values and behaviors can be understood and leveraged for the good of the business.
Chaos is NOT Performance: Project Management for Scalability
Can you relate to any of these? You leave work exhausted and more behind, you?re juggling so many different things that any minute you may drop them all, you are both the project manager, developer and entire team on most of your projects except for the occasional other who never returns your emails, there is no end in sight to the insanity? The current state of frustration in our workplaces is killing productivity. It's easy to deliver activity without business value because there is no time to prioritize. Join Lou to hear about organizing and prioritizing your individual scalability. Get stuff done and be more effective. It can be done.
EQ for Project Decision Making Success
Here's how we greet each other, the secret 'handshake' of those of us who have the plague: "How's it going?" "Oh my goodness, we are all so busy…", "Well, that's a good thing in this economy, right?', "Umm, ya sure. Of course it is. " Not only are we teetering on the edge of a very tall cliff, we can't tell anyone about it. It just wouldn't be right to complain. So many people out of work, so many people who's lives are much more difficult than ours. Learn how to leverage EQ to improve your decision making and organize your day to day workload.
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