Our Team

TrainSmart, Inc. is a team of highly motivated, energetic and talented professionals committed to helping individuals and organizations achieve outstanding levels of performance. Our team is dedicated to partnering with our clients and strategic business partners to provide the BEST resources to help our clients solve their business needs.

Our solutions are developed through research and many years of direct experience. Our clients achieve significant, measurable and sustained improvements by changing strategy processes and behaviors to ensure increased competitiveness in today’s rapidly changing global economy.

The principal consultants of TrainSmart, Inc. are a culturally diverse group of consultants whose career backgrounds include curriculum design, programming, teaching, training, accounting, organizational development, sales and marketing and professional speaking. TrainSmart’s consultants, through years of business experience and training expertise, understand the required focus and commitment needed to make a learning experience successful.

Leslie Ciborowski, President Of TrainSmart

A resourceful leader and influential communicator, Leslie is versatile and proactive. Her passion focuses on helping TrainSmart’s clients to resolve the developmental and productivity challenges they face. For 25+ years, her team has produced training solutions that are engaging, interactive and, most importantly, relevant to the learner. She leads TrainSmart’s management team, staff, core team, and “at large’ consultants with a steady hand stating “It is our philosophy that participants learn by doing, and our designers, developers, and facilitators focus on having our clients gain the results they expect!”

Dave Finley, Director Of Business Development

“I have a passion for making people successful! Training for me is all about getting the right knowledge and support in place in time for people to either develop or improve the skills that drive success. Design is a matter of bringing the learner what is needed when it is needed on time and within budget!”

Anna Filas

An energetic, passionate and effective instructional designer that utilizes a collaborative methodology to assess business issues and provide training solutions that meet customer needs.

Anne Harlow

Anne Harlow is an engaging, enthusiastic and entertaining facilitator. Mixing solid design methods with her real-life experience in leadership, technology, marketing and sales gives her the ability to provide training and supporting materials that are relevant, thought-provoking and fun! Her passion to inform and inspire the learner leads to effective improvement of skills and processes.

Dana Skiff

For 30+ years, Dana has added great value to training, training development, and adult education in academia, government, and business including utilities, financial services, high tech manufacturing, food service distribution, transportation, higher education, law enforcement, and non-profit. As a senior consultant, he focuses on training needs analysis and assessments that form the foundations of high level training design or strategic training plans.

Donna Steffey

After years of delivering other's training materials that didn't seem to follow proper adult learning principals I learned the best practices for ID. I think that when it comes to instructional design the most important part of learning transfer is to design interaction with the participants every 10-12 minutes for the classroom and every 3-5 minutes online. We've got to allow our adult learners to share their wisdom and experiences and lead the learning with their comments and questions.

Michelle Allegretti

Michelle has over 15 years experience in training, software and database design and development, management, marketing, and consulting with a concentration in learning or developing and teaching customized applications and training programs to solve business needs. She has developed numerous software applications for small and large businesses. She has conducted courses in many areas including computer software, soft skills, and train the trainer.

Tracey Clothery

As Creative Design Director, Tracey’s amazing track record includes overseeing
the entire creative process for a variety of clients from concept development to production. Her attention to detail and creativity consistently generate amazing results. Our clients depend on Tracy because they know that their “stickman” rendering and design will turn heads in its final form!

Kathy Ley

Kathy adds a robust customer service background to TrainSmart’s skill set. She thrives on and gains great personal satisfaction from assisting our clients and consultants. No task is too small for Kathy, and her quick wit and dry humor make working her a fun experience.

Our team’s goal is to help our clients achieve one or more of the following:

• Lower turnover
• Increased profits
• Higher productivity
• A competitive advantage in the marketplace
• Greater innovation
• World-class customer service
• Reduction in workplace conflict
• Enhanced communication skills