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Our Expertise
Our Team
At Second Nature Learning Services, we firmly believe that each of our clients should have a single point of contact in order both to foster an outstanding business relationship and to provide for their personalized needs in an exceptional manner.
Larry White will be your primary point of contact as you work with Second Nature Learning Services. He brings:
- 25+ years of work experience in business management (retail, community centres, contact centres and post-secondary institutions)
- 9+ years of management experience directly in the Ontario College System within the Registrar’s Office of one of the province’s largest colleges
- 6+ years of experience proposing, designing, developing and facilitating online courses at the post‑secondary level in a variety of fields
Larry has a well-developed, diverse, cross-cultural background that lends itself well to developing solid, productive working relationships with those around him. Larry holds the following academic credentials all of which support service to our clients:
- Aligning and Building Curriculum (Algonquin College, 2008)
- Master of Distance Education (Athabasca University, 2006)
- Workforce Management Strategies (Incoming Calls Management Institute, 2006)
- Management Level II - Planning (Acerra, 2002)
- Ontario Management Development (Management Skills) Certificate (Algonquin College, 2001)
- Diversity in the Workplace (Algonquin College, 2000)
- Leadership Skills for the 21st Century (Algonquin College, 1999)
- Certificate in Environmental Assessment (Lakehead University, 1998)
- Bachelor of Environmental Studies (University of Waterloo, 1996)
Larry has published a number of articles and manuscripts on the subjects of adult learning, environmental education and client relations. These include:
- Houghton, E. S. & White, L. A. (2006). Environmental and Sustainability Education in Ontario: A Disorienting Dilemma. In W. Leal Filho (Ed.), Innovation, Education and Communication for Sustainable Development (pp. 229-251). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
- White, L. A. (2006). Environmental Literacy and Distance Learning: A Window to the Future of Education in Ontario. Unpublished Masters thesis, Athabasca University, Athabasca, AB.
- White, L. (2006). Understand Them, then WOW Them! Contact Management, 6(2), 14-15.
- White, L. A. (2005). Making Sense of Adult Learning: Experiential Learning. New Horizons in Adult Education, 19(4), 31-41.
- White, L. A. (2004). A Workable Future: Delineating the Role of Education in Environmental and Economic Sustainability. New Horizons in Adult Education, 18(4), 39-50.
He has been active as both an author of peer-reviewed manuscripts and as a reviewer of texts for publication at the request of the United Nations Environment Program and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. These were related to the publication of Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4) and Visualizing Environmental Science respectively.
He brings a solid appreciation of Canadian and global diversity into the fold particularly due to his having lived in such diverse locales as the Western Arctic, northern Saskatchewan, and large urban centres such as Edmonton, Toronto and Ottawa. He has travelled widely across Canada, North America and around the world.
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