Bill Brantley

Dr. Brantley is a certified training manager and certified in creating leadership development programs. He is the program manager for the Career Coaching Program at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
He’s served as a trainer for over two decades, designing courses completely from the ground-up. He concurrently held positions as an adjunct college professor at UMD and the University of Louisville (Kentucky). There he designed and delivered courses in a wide variety of topics, consistently using leading-edge techniques such as microlearning and flipped classroom to create courses and training programs.
In 2019, Dr. Brantley was recognized as an Emerging Training Leader by Training Magazine for his work in the Enterprise Training Division - specifically the recovery and redesign of the Supervisory Certificate Program (SCP) training he developed at USPTO. The Emerging Training Leader is a national award given out annually to the top 25 training leaders in industry, government, and the nonprofit sector. Dr. Brantley’s relentless focus on ensuring delivery of benefits and incorporation of modern course pedagogy.

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Stakeholder Outreach: Effective Communication of Complex Environmental Threats (edX)

Learn how to engage communities through powerful storytelling, data visualization, and persuasive presence to motivate action on complex environmental projects. In this course you’ll learn how to improve your project management communication in your work environment and motivate and engage communities with clear communication to address complex environmental [...]

Deliver No-Code/Low-Code Products that Delight Customers and Stakeholders – Product Development and Management Skills (edX)

Learn how to use product development and management techniques to build training programs that teach citizen developers basic product development and management concepts. This course describes how training professionals can use product development and management concepts to build training programs for citizen developers. In essence, trainers will practice the [...]

The Citizen Developer Mindset: Creating Business Solutions with Design Thinking (edX)

Learn how to use design thinking to create training programs to teach citizen developers in design thinking. This course describes the concept of design thinking and how it is used to create empathy for the customer's challenges and needs. Training professionals will use design thinking to create effective training [...]

Persuasion and Presence for Program and Project Managers (edX)

Logic is not enough. Program managers need presence and to move stakeholders emotionally. Project professionals only follow people they both respect and trust. Learn to apply Aristotle’s persuasion triad to create successful communication that persuades.

Storytelling and Persuading using Data and Digital Technologies (edX)

Learn how to gain traction for your digital transformation initiatives with stories based on data that use compelling data visualizations to build a persuasive business case. Decisions made by humans are rarely made by data alone. Human decision-makers have cognitive biases, are affected by emotions, and make conceptual leaps [...]

Storytelling That Delivers Program and Project Outcomes (edX)

Storytelling is how leaders lead other leaders. Tell your project’s story to inspire your project teams, encourage your stakeholders, and gain customer commitment to project and program success. Program and project managers are master storytellers. They have to be in order to weave high-priority information into a memorable narrative [...]

Making Evidence-Based Strategic Decisions (edX)

Drive alignment among managers, employees and the organizational goals through data analytics and data products. This course on digital transformation will show you how to turn your organization into a decision-making factory. What makes a good business decision? How can we combine effective data analytics and feed robust foresight [...]