John H. Cox, CPLP, Ed.D.John is the president of the Cox Learning Group. His firm helps companies select, train, and retain their human resources talent. With over 20 years experience, he has completed more than a hundred initiatives for clients in the Retail, Hospitality, Distribution, and Manufacturing industries.

His research project "New Ideas for Retaining Store Level Employees" won the ASTD Excellence in Research to Practice award. He recently presented " Beyond Turnover: An Evidence-Based Model for Impacting Employee Retention" at the 2007 International ASTD conference in Atlanta.

He has held executive positions as Director of Education at ClubCorp and Corporate Manager of Training and Development for The Southland Corporation. John has taught at East Carolina University, University of Texas at Dallas and most recently, the University of North Texas.

John is a facilitator for the American Society for Training and Development's (ASTD) Human Performance Improvement certificate program and the ASTD Certified Professional of Learning and Performance (CPLP) Review workshop.

John was awarded a Leadership Grant to attend North Carolina State University where he worked with Malcolm Knowles and received a Doctorate of Education.

John H. Cox, CPLP, Ed.D
President
Cox Learning Group
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