New Horizons Sacramento

Mark Edmead
Instructor

Mark Edmead is an IT Transformation consultant and trainer with over 28 years experience providing IT transformation and business improvement services that align information technology with business goals to drive bottom line performance and growth. Mark has developed and delivered courses for the SANS Institute, MIS Institute, the University of California San Diego, the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and the Technology Training Corporation. He is also an adjunct professor at Keller Graduate School of Management. Mark has delivered numerous international workshops throughout the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Switzerland, Germany, Chile, Mexico, and Scotland.

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Education is what survives when what has been learned what has been forgotten.

Maura Dolan
Instructor

Maura is an accredited coach and trainer with over 17 years’ experience delivering training courses and coaching senior executives and leaders in a broad range of industries. She designed and delivered an internationally recognized advanced coaching and mentoring qualification.

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Her company, Life & Executive Coaching Institute (LECI), is an approved QQI provider for a range of Level 6 Coach Training and Train the Trainer. Maura’s signature strength as an Executive Coach and an Accredited Trainer is her ability to balance her empathetic style with a challenging action and performance-based focus. She achieves this through building non-judgmental, authentic, and supportive relationships.

Gary Morgan
Instructor

Gary has over 35 years’ experience in the field of education and leadership. With extensive success in growing leadership talent across cultures, corporations and college campuses around the world, he has a proven track record for success. As an experienced speaker, Gary has inspired audiences to achieve their leadership potential at over 100 conferences and speaking engagements each year. As a corporate and academic advisor, he has used his knowledge to help build robust plans for leadership when they did not exist. As a published author, Gary has established a nationally recognized, credentialed leadership certificate and minor programs with a premier leadership development program for the second largest university in the United States.

Interesting Facts and Hobbies:

His company, Life & Executive Coaching Institute (LECI), is an approved QQI provider for a range of Level 6 Coach Training and Train the Trainer. Maura’s signature strength as an Executive Coach and an Accredited Trainer is her ability to balance her empathetic style with a challenging action and performance-based focus. She achieves this through building non-judgmental, authentic, and supportive relationships.

John Warner
Instructor

John, an Applications and Business Skills Instructor, got his first computer in 1986 (a dual-floppy 8088!) After working with computers and the nascent internet (Mosaic browser, newsgroups, etc.) at school, he taught Applications and Networking for New Horizons from 1997-2003. “There are some REALLY good trainers out there, and so many different approaches that I don’t know if I do anything different from them. I attempt to synthesize bits from many trainers that work well into a presentation that (I hope) provides added value to the students who want to learn more about a particular software.” -- John's training philosophy

Jeff Zahorowski
Instructor

Jeff joined New Horizons in 2000 and has over 25 years of experience within the IT field. His passion is making a difference in his students’ lives through education and training. In his mind, education is the gift that keeps on giving. He attributes his success in the classroom to his years of competing in extemporaneous and impromptu speech in high school. His years of working in a university radio station honed his presentation style into what it is today.

John DeVries
Instructor

John began his career with New Horizons 14 years ago in Tampa, Florida before he moved west to join the team in Sacramento, California. Prior to joining New Horizons, he worked for other 30 years as a product and marketing manager within the computer and data communications industries. He had his own web design and consulting business. As a trainer, John focuses on developing a clear understanding of underlying principles, rather than just the “tips and tricks”. He believes students who leave his class with a strong fundamental model of how a technology works can always extend their skills through further practice. His years of experience within various industries have provided him with the real-world knowledge to bolster the theoretical content of his courses.

Ed Gans
Instructor

I grew up in the Chicago area and received my B.S. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. After living in Austin, Texas, Southern California and Montana, my wife and I decided to move to Sacramento to be closer to her extended family of 200 relatives in the Bay Area and start our own family. I began my New Horizons of Sacramento Senior Account Executive career in 1996 as my first position in Sacramento. After serving the needs of the military in Southern California where I operated concessions at the Base and Post Exchanges through AAFES, my first calls at New Horizons were to Travis and Beale Air Force Bases. I have been working with the military and then the State of California at New Horizons ever since!