**Alison Campbell**

**Publications, Committees, Presentations and Project Management**

PUBLICATIONS

**2006** - *Literacy, Life and Employment:* *An Analysis of Canadian
International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) Microdata:* Report (The
Conference Board of Canada)

**2005** - *Profiting from Literacy: Creating a Sustainable Workplace
Literacy Program:* Report (The Conference Board of Canada)

\- Developing a Community of Employees Through Team Time at Teleflex
Canada: Case Study (The Conference Board of Canada)

**2004** - Skills and Opportunities for Entrepreneurs with
Disabilities---IBDE Program - Community-based Learning Opportunities for
Persons with Disabilities Winner in the 2004 Community Learning Awards:
Case Study (The Conference Board of Canada)

> \- Skills for Change Supports Skilled Immigrant Employment -
> Community-based Learning Opportunities Winner in the 2004 Community
> Learning Awards: Case Study (The Conference Board of Canada)
>
> \- Connecting Women in Need with ICT Skills - Community-based Learning
> Opportunities for Aboriginals Winner in the 2004 Community Learning
> Awards: Case Study (The Conference Board of Canada)
>
> \- Administrative Professionalism at J.D. Irving, Ltd. -- Medium
> Business Winner in the 2003 Awards for Excellence in Workplace
> Literacy: Case Study (The Conference Board of Canada)

\- Mining for Performance Excellence at BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc. --
Large Business Winner in the 2003 Awards for Excellence in Workplace
Literacy: Case Study (The Conference Board of Canada)

\- Solving the Training Puzzle at La Ronge Motor Hotel -- Small Business
Winner in the 2003 Awards for Excellence in Workplace Literacy: Case
Study (The Conference Board of Canada)

**2003** - *Strength from Within: Overcoming the Barriers to Workplace
Literacy Development*: Report (The Conference Board of Canada)

**2002** - *Success by Design: What Works in Workforce Development*:
Report (The Conference Board of Canada)

> \- *Diversified Metal Engineering* -- Small Business Winner in the
> 2001 Awards for Excellence in Workplace Literacy: Case Study (The
> Conference Board of Canada)
>
> \- *Cameco Corporation, Key Lake Operation* -- Medium Business Winner
> in the 2001 Awards for Excellence in Workplace Literacy: Case Study
> (The Conference Board of Canada)
>
> *- The North West Company* -- Large Business Winner in the 2001 Awards
> for Excellence in Workplace Literacy: Case Study (The Conference Board
> of Canada)

**2001** - *Breaching the Barriers to Workplace Literacy -- Knowledge
Review Report* (The

Conference Board of Canada)

\- *2000-2001 Business and Education Ideabook* (The Conference Board of
Canada)

**2000** - *1999-2000 Business and Education Ideabook* (The Conference
Board of Canada)

> *- Measuring Meeting Planner Satisfaction with Hotel Employee
> Interactions: A Pilot Study* (article in The Journal of Convention and
> Exhibition Management: Summer/00)

**1999** - *1998-1999 Business and Education Best Practices Ideabook*
(The Conference Board of Canada)

\- Master's Thesis: *An Investigation of Meeting Planner Satisfaction
with Hotel Employee*

*Interactions* (University of Guelph)

COMMITTEES

**2006** - Working Group: Improving Access to Work-Related Learning
(Canadian Council on

Learning)

**2004** - *Focus On Literacy* Project Steering Committee member
(Canadian Education Association)

**2003** - Executive and Program Advisory Committee member of the
Workplace Learning

Conference: Advancing Adult Work-Based Learning: Building a 21^st^
Century Community

of Practice (Chicago, December 8-10, 2003)

PRESENTATIONS

Commission on Adult Basic Education: Peer Workplace Education Conference
(Houston, TX, April 25, 2006)

Workshop - Making the Business Case for Workplace Learning to Enhance
Performance

Skills for Life: Essential Skills and Workplace Literacy Conference
(Radium, BC, March 3, 2006)

Workshop - The Bottom Line: Improving Fundamentals Improves Productivity

Developing People*--*Maximizing Performance: Global Solutions - 2005
Workplace Education and Learning Conference (Toronto, December 1, 2005)

Workshop - Dimensions of Workplace Education Recognition: Shared Goals
and Alternative Strategies

Teachers of English as a Second Language Canada Conference: Research
Symposium (Ottawa, May 26, 2005)

Workshop - Securing Literacy and ESL's Potential in the Workplace

Successful Strategies for Workplace Literacy Focus Groups

April 12, 2005: Ottawa Meeting

April 15, 2005: Halifax Meeting

April 18, 2005: Toronto Meeting

April 20, 2005: Calgary Meeting

April 22, 2005: Vancouver Meeting

Partners 2004 Symposium: Finding the Power of Partnerships (Montreal,
April 29, 2004)

Workshop - *Building Innovation Capacity One Skill at a Time: A Six
Point Plan of Attack*

Workplace Learning Conference: Advancing Adult Work-Based Learning:
Building a 21^st^

Century Community of Practice (Chicago, December 8, 2003)

Workshop - Balanced Scorecard for Skills: Evaluating Workplace Education
Impacts on Performance (www.scorecardforskills.com)

Workplace Learning Conference: Advancing Adult Work-Based Learning:
Building a 21^st^

Century Community of Practice (Chicago, December 9, 2003)

Workshop - Work-basedLearning.org: Making the 'Business Case' for
Workplace Learning and Improving Skills for Enhanced Performance
(www.work-basedlearning.org)

Workplace Education and Learning Symposium: The Power of Performance
(Toronto, November 18, 2003)

Training Session: *The Solution Tree: A Practical Tool for Developing
Literacy in the Workplace*

Partners 2003 Symposium: Linking Education, Learning and Innovation
(Toronto, April 14, 2003)

Workshop - *Success by Design: What Works in Workforce Development*

Partners 2003 Symposium: Linking Education, Learning and Innovation
(Toronto, April 14, 2003)

Workshop - *Strength from Within: Overcoming the Barriers to Workplace
Literacy Development*

National Best Practices on Innovations in Workplace Skills and Learning
Workshop (Calgary,

September 20, 2002)

Plenary Presentation - *The Importance of Essential Skills to Workplace
Learning*

Workplace Literacy Resource E-Tool

January 25, 2002: Halifax Focus Group Meeting

January 18, 2002: Vancouver Focus Group Meeting

January 16, 2002: Calgary Focus Group Meeting

January 14, 2002: Toronto Focus Group Meeting

January 9, 2002: Montreal Focus Group Meeting

January 7, 2002: Ottawa Focus Group Meeting

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

2006 International Workplace Education and Learning Conference: Sharing
Global Solutions (Toronto, December 5 -- 6, 2006)

The Conference Board of Canada's annual workplace education and learning
conference attracts over 400 delegates. This conference---planned,
managed, and delivered by The Conference Board of Canada---brings
together business decision-makers and workplace education practitioners
to learn about the trends and policy issues facing many organizations
today. International experts from the US, UK, Europe, Australia, and
Canada offer insights into how organizations can meet the global
challenge of finding and developing employees to compete against the
best in the world.

National Credit Review Service: Pilot Project (March 2004 -- March 2006)

Funded by HRSDC, this project researches the potential for a system of
workplace learning recognition through a series of pilot projects. It
tests the expected benefits to individuals, employers and governments of
a national credit review service based on the experiences of the pilot
projects.

Securing Literacy's Potential: How Workplace Learning Programs can
Improve Literacy and Basic Skills for Marginal Employees (January 2004
-- December 2005)

Funded by HRSDC, this research project shows how various learning
delivery methods can be used to ensure that employees gain the literacy
skills needed to be fully competent. It also communicates criteria for
designing or implementing workplace literacy programs and identifies
best practices and successful models for workplace literacy training
delivery.

Overcoming Barriers: Effective Strategies for Enhancing Employee
Literacy and Learning in the Workplace (June 2000 - December 2002)

Funded by HRSDC, this research project examined the barriers to
increasing the breadth and depth of employee literacy and learning in
Canada's workplaces, and identified the principal solutions that
increase the scale and effectiveness of learning strategies, initiatives
and programs.

What Works in Workforce Development (August 2001 -- December 2002)

Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor through the Association of Joint
Labor-Management Educational Programs, this national (U.S.) impact study
examined the impacts of joint labour-management models of workplace
education. The final report examines twelve key training program design
elements and outcomes; the benefits gained by individual workers,
managers, workplaces and unions; the challenges of operating a joint
labour/management workplace training program and suggests next steps to
heighten future impact.

www.work-basedlearning.org *-* A free stand-alone web site managed on
behalf of the U.S. Department of Education since 2002. This site helps
employers make the business case for workplace education programs. It
provides advice, research, best practices, tools, tips, and learning
communities to help employers and their learning partners design and
implement effective work-based learning programs.

www.scorecardforskills.com - A web site managed on behalf of the U.S.
Department of Education since 2002. This site helps organizations
measure and demonstrate the relationship between their workplace
education investments, including workplace basic skills, and measures of
organizational performance. By working through this site, users are able
to produce their own balanced scorecard for skills.

www.workplacebasicskills.com - A web site managed on behalf of the U.S.
Department of Education since 2001. This site provides information on
the economic benefits of workplace education programs to employers,
unions and employees. It also offers basic skills information, tools,
advice and links to resources for employers who want to raise their
employees\' skill levels.