Presenter: 

Deborah Thomas 

Deborah Thomas is the CEO & President of SillyMonkey LLC, an education company that specializes in games and simulations and corporate communications, Deborah, who has 25 years experience in creating memorable training events, is an expert in developing accelerated educational games using a wide variety of tools Her methodology provides a process of immersion whereby a person's attention is fully engaged in the activity (to the point of losing track of time), resulting in learning. In the past she managed the standards and guidelines and implemented multiple eLearning solutions for a variety of customers. She developed Idea Central which is an accelerated learning system and an Idea Bank which housed training games, tips and activity shells. She developed games including the board game "I'm Coaching Now" and a variety of other interactive games, board games and card games for customer service training. Her services have been employed by. Coco-Cola, Wachovia, Cushman and Wakefield, UPS, IBM, KPMG, CibaVision, Starr Training and Consulting, and McKinsey and Company. Deborah started her professional life as a newspaper reporter for a top ten paper which she affectionately relates to as "boot camp for life."