Geri Lopker & Associates

Geri Lopker & Associates is a performance consulting, training, and instructional design firm dedicated to helping organizations succeed. With over eighteen years of experience, our company is equipped to increase your effectiveness, help you reach your goals, and improve your overall organizational health. We do this by examining your current status and planning a precise intervention to improve your chances of success.

Our team of professionals works closely with your managers and staff to identify, develop, and apply strategies that result in progress towards adapting to a changing environment. We can provide a variety of services to meet your specific needs, including organizational assessment, strategic planning, change management, leadership assessment and development, performance improvement, team building, meeting and group facilitation, retreat planning, design and facilitation, executive and management coaching, problem-solving, conflict resolution, departmental restructuring, and performance consulting and organization development.

Our organizational, departmental, team, and individual assessments focus on achieving business goals, improving performance, productivity, and profitability. We use cause analysis to match the factors causing issues, challenges, and lack of achievement. We then provide intervention recommendations and options, design, development, and implementation, including instructional design and development, training delivery, and executive coaching. We also offer evaluation and follow-up on the intervention(s) for sustained improvement.

At Geri Lopker & Associates, we evaluate your current training programs using Human Performance Technology standards and provide strategic leadership and facilitation, strategic visioning and planning meetings and retreats, leadership and management development, succession planning and performance development, developing accountable organizations, team facilitation, and leadership, management, and team development.

We offer customized programs, course design, and development tailored to your audience and situation for most "soft" skills and operational skills. Our customized training programs are linked to business needs and are tailored to meet the knowledge/skill needs of employees, managers, and leaders. We also develop all support materials, including participant workbooks, job aids, leader guides, and audio-visuals that support transfer of learning back to the job.

Our development and implementation of new employee on-the-job and structured-on-the-job training programs, train-the-trainer and facilitator workshops, exceptional standard and customized train-the-trainer workshops, focusing on participant transfer of learning, active learning, interactive training, and return on training dollar investments, presentation skill building for business development professionals, presenters, trainers, and executives, and powerful training techniques for Subject Matter Experts (SME) who are providing training, set us apart from the rest.

Our President, Geri Lopker

Geri Lopker is a trainer and performance consultant and the President of Geri Lopker & Associates. She earned a Master of Human Resources and Organization Development from the University of San Francisco and has earned the prestigious Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) designation. Ms. Lopker is an adjunct professor for Chapman University and ASTD teaching the Human Performance in the Workplace Certificate Courses.

Ms. Lopker focuses on organizational performance improvement and leadership and employee development. She has over eighteen years of experience consulting and training in the areas of systems, finance, change management, diversity, leadership development, communication, strategic planning, team building, and customer relations. Ms. Lopker excels at facilitating focus groups, conducting needs analysis, designing interventions, training and materials, and speaking to diverse groups.