New Horizons Sierra Vista

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.

Mia Gwyn
Instructor

What Mia Gwyn loves about teaching is the students, but in her own words: “The best part of teaching is knowing that I’ve helped people; the highest compliment from my students is when they ask me “Can we request you as our instructor next time?” Or even more amazing when they say “I keep thinking, where would I be now if I had had teachers like you when I was growing up.” She takes a fun approach to teaching, focusing on making her students laugh to keep the morale up in the classroom. It just goes with her style of going above and beyond of what is expected from a teacher. During classes, she always provides more material and exercises than are commonly found in the books, applying real world value to her students rather than just theoretical knowledge. She draws on her years of experience with teaching in the New Horizons network to provide outstanding training. She is a true master of the Microsoft Office suite, teaching everything from Excel to OneNote, a rather underrated program that could be your next best friend.

Gabe Chapa
Instructor

As a former New Horizons student, Gabe can relate to students’ experiences better than most. He prefers to utilize both theoretical and real-world examples in his classes to produce a well-rounded experience for his students. “My favorite part of instructing is seeing the “a-ha” moment when a student gets it,” Gabe states. He knows that classes can be a bit of an improvisation game when it comes to questions so he remains ready for anything, and knows that the way he sets up the class creates a relaxed and informative environment that leads to the highest levels of student satisfaction.

Matt VanRysseghem
Instructor

Matt has worked within the training industry since 2009 and has worked across customer service, management, real estate and computer training industries. Before he joined our New Horizons team, he was responsible for over 50 employee training programs in various locations across the country. He has spent most of his adult life working with computers. His range of experience has provided him with valuable insight to share with our students. The examples he can pull from his history perfectly match the theoretical content he teaches in his classroom. He approaches his classes with high energy and a positive attitude to create a comfortable and fun environment for students.

Nick Lane
Instructor

Nick has been a Technical Instructor with New Horizons since 2005. Prior to joining the New Horizons family, he worked in the commodities and telecommunications industries. Once he joined New Horizons, he realized his passion for teaching and seeing students succeed in his classes. In his own words, his teaching style can be summed up as: “I start with easy-to-understand summaries, elaborating afterward to cater to both beginner and advanced learners. Humor always lightens the mood, so I always find a way to interject a joke or two. I teach it “like it is.” Nick graduated from Nassau Tech BOCES Vocational Institute, where he received his Computer Repair, Electronics and Network Degree. Nick is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, who has over 18 years of experience building networks and computer systems. He brings real world experience to his students from his years working in different parts of the world for various industries such as CME Group and Cablevision.

Dan Curran
Instructor

"Sure I'll come to Tucson to help you out for a bit." That's what I told my brother's in-laws when they opened up New Horizons in Tucson June of 1997. Twenty years later, three kids, and a great career at New Horizons, I don't think I'm considered a Californian anymore. Not only did I help write the prospectus and was a part of the process to get investors to open the new center, but I came out to assist with sales. I never would have thought I'd connect with so many great people out here over the years, but I've got some great stories...