Harold D. Stolovitch, PhD, CPT, is Emeritus Professor of Workplace Learning & Performance, Université de Montréal.  He is a principal of HSA LEARNING & PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS LLC (www.hsa-lps.com), an international consulting firm. His research and consulting activities have included projects with major corporations and organizations such as Alcan, Bank of Montreal, BBDO, CDW, DaimlerChrysler Academy, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, International Association of Fire Fighters, Merck, Pfizer, Prudential, Sun Microsystems, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as many others. 

Harold is an experienced workshop leader and a keynote speaker at major conferences and organizations throughout the world. He is a prolific writer with 13 books and almost 200 articles and book chapters. Harold is co-editor of the first two editions of the Handbook of Human Performance Technology and co-author of the best-selling, award-winning series of books Telling Ain't Training, Training Ain’t Performance, Beyond Telling Ain’t Training Fieldbook and Beyond Training Ain’t Performance Fieldbook published by ASTD Press. He is author and co-editor of the Wiley/Pfeiffer Learning & Performance Toolkit Series. Harold has been the regular, featured “human performance” columnist for Workforce Performance Solutions and Talent Management magazines. He has won numerous awards for his contributions to the fields of Instructional and Performance Technology including the 2001 ISPI Distinguished Professional Achievement award and ISPI's highest award, Member for Life.  He is a past president of ISPI. Harold received the 2003 President’s Award for Lifetime Achievements from the Canadian Society for Training and Development, their highest honor. In 2004, he and his team won the ASTD Outstanding Research Award for their work on Incentives, Motivation and Workplace Performance.