Boston, MA (December 20, 2002) Ms. Michelle LaBrosse, President
and CEO of Cheetah Learning, accepted induction into the Women Presidents'
Organization at the Boston Chapter headquarters today.
Founded four years ago by Marsha Firestone, the Women Presidents Organization
is a peer advisory and professional development group for successful women.
The WPO empowers executive women by providing a forum to give and receive
input and exchange strategic solutions. The focus is on increasing awareness
and visibility of women's issues and opportunities, business leadership training
and networking opportunities.
LaBrosse has been designing and teaching accelerated learning programs for
business since the early '90's and traditional courses since the '80's. LaBrosse
holds a B.S. Aerospace Engineering, and anM.S. Mechanical Engineering. She
has done extensive post-graduate work with the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Center for Advanced Educational Studies and the University of Washington
Industrial Engineering Program in accelerating adult learning in corporate
environments. Her research focused on using the Internet to accelerate adult
learning and in determining effective adult learning strategies using accelerated
learning with improvisational comedy
In 1995 she prototyped the concept of accelerating learning using "virtual
classrooms" and created online courses in business development. In the
late '90s LaBrosse created and extensively tested a one-day approach to teaching
Project Management while a corporate Research Scientist in Learning Techniques
and Technologies for a large multinational corporation. LaBrosse has 15 years
practical experience in project management on small to medium size projects
starting with her career as an Air Force Officer and continuing
through her formulation of many small business development project teams,
Internet application project teams, and as a Research Scientist.
Widely published and a contributing author of corporate internal publications
on Productivity and Quality, LaBrosse's most recent book "Accelerated
Project Management" was released by HNB Publishing March 2002.
For more information please contact Walter Urban, Cheetah Learning at 519-767-2664 or waltercheetahlearning@yahoo.com.