Melissa Daimler of Twitter Joins ASTD Board of Directors

The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) announces that Melissa Daimler, Head of Organization Effectiveness & Learning at Twitter, has joined the Society’s board of directors for a three year term, 2014-2016.

Integrating interests in learning, coaching, and organizational dynamics into a career, Melissa currently heads the Organizational Effectiveness & Learning team @Twitter. She joined in 2012 with a mission to build leaders while growing the company. For Twitter’s 3,000 employees worldwide, her team executes on management, leadership, team and professional development, executive coaching, new hire onboarding, organizational consulting, and talent development planning. She leverages the principles of the Twitter platform (public, real-time, conversational, and distributed) when designing any learning experience for employees.

Prior to joining Twitter, Melissa headed the Global Learning and Organizational Consulting team at Adobe Systems. In 2011, Melissa’s team won top honors for the Best Learning Team from Brandon Hall. It was also featured in two case studies on innovative approaches to learning. Prior to Adobe, Melissa led HR at Epylon (now part of Accenture). She also built an executive coaching company focused on coaching early-career executives.

Melissa lectures at the Berkeley/Columbia MBA program and is an enthusiastic contributor to the body of work exploring the integration of organizational and individual learning. One of the first coaches certified by the International Coach Federation, Melissa graduated from Pepperdine University with a M.S. in Organizational Development.

Melissa can regularly be found sailing on the San Francisco Bay or skiing in the Sierras with her husband. You can follow her on Twitter @mdaimler.

About ASTD

ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to the training and development field. In more than 100 countries, ASTD’s members work in organizations of all sizes, in the private and public sectors, as independent consultants, and as suppliers. Members connect locally in more than 120 U.S. chapters and with 10 international strategic partners. ASTD started in 1943 and in recent years has widened the profession’s focus to align learning and performance to organizational results, and is a sought-after voice on critical public policy issues. For more information, visit www.astd.org.