Ron Stone (contact Ron )

Senior Vice President

Ron is an author, international consultant & presenter, and one of the worlds most recognized and accomplished authorities on improving and measuring performance improvement initiatives. Ron is a senior vice president with the ROI Institute where he engages in the international consulting practice. While working with Jack and Patti Phillips as a partner since 1995, Ron has made significant contributions to perfecting the ROI Process. He has conducted more than a hundred return on investment studies and directed hundreds more. He provides consulting services in performance improvement, linking training to organization business measures, designing training for results and ROI, and developing measurement and evaluation strategies. Ron also conducts ROI Certification workshops and certifies practitioners in the ROI methodology, and conducts a full range of public and in-house performance improvement, measurement, and needs assessment workshops. He is a certified change consultant.

Ron has twenty-five years experience in engineering and economic development, and in human resource management and training in the aerospace and electric utility industries. He has considerable experience in employment processes, performance management, managing the training function, designing healthcare delivery systems, budgeting and account classification processes, training curriculum design, safety, organizational development, executive development, needs assessment, measurement, and evaluation.

He co-authored The ROI Fieldbook – Strategies for Implementing ROI in HR and Training, Butterworth-Heinemann Publishing, 2006, How to Measure Training Results - A Practical Guide to Tracking the Six Key Indicators, McGraw-Hill Publishing, 2002, and The Human Resources Scorecard, Butterworth-Heinemann Publishing, 2001. He has contributed several case studies to the ASTD In-Action Case Book Series, Measuring Return on Investment (2005 and 1997), Measuring ROI in the Public Sector (2002), and Measuring Learning and Performance (1999) and is a contributing author to other ASTD publications. Ron received his BBA from Georgia State University.