Dr. Carl Binder has been a thought leader in instructional design, performance improvement, measurement and evaluation, knowledge management, and educational reform for over 30 years. As a doctoral student at Harvard during the 1970's, he committed his career to creating practical, accessible solutions that accelerate real-world learning and performance, based on the findings of behavior science. For authoring dozens of articles and chapters, delivering hundreds of presentations and workshops around the world, and making complex concepts easy to apply, Carl received the Fred S. Keller Award in 2004 for contributions to education and training from the American Psychological Association, and Honorary Lifetime Membership - the highest award of the International Society for Performance Improvement - in 2009. Download many of his publications at http://binder-riha.com/publications.htm Carl's most recent contribution, The Six Boxes Approach, puts into motion a strategy for driving what he calls "performance thinking" deep into organizational culture and management practice. Distilling the essentials of human performance improvement into simple visual models and plain English, Six Boxes Performance Thinking enables people in all functions and at all levels to improve human performance and accelerate results. For executives, managers and performance professionals in all fields, Carl's company, The Performance Thinking Network, offers workshops, coaching and resources for a growing global community of practice whose collective intelligence promises to take human performance improvement farther and deeper than ever before.