Meet Your Trainers
Meet Your Trainers
Joc Clark
Jonathan "Joc" Clark works as a facilitator, process consultant and trainer. He has been working within leadership, team and organization development for 25+ years. He specializes in creating collaborative working environments. His services include: customized organization development, team building; executive coaching; meeting facilitation; strategic planning and change management; and the facilitation of participatory processes, outdoor, multicultural and action learning experiences.
Joc has a Ph.D. in leadership studies and change management in the professions (2008) as well as an M.Ed in Organization and Management (2002). He is also a certified facilitator in Future Search methods, dialogue skills and through NTL and Outward Bound Professional. Joc offers bilingual services in English and Spanish. He has been working with business and government leaders in Northern California since 2002.
Roger Gerard
Roger Gerard's background includes 19 years of hotel/restaurant management and 11 years teaching in public and private post-secondary education relating to the Hospitality field. Roger Gerard is currently the director of the Hospitality Management program at Shasta College and the statewide representative for Hospitality for Family and Consumer Sciences in the California Community College system. Education includes a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership and a Masters Degree in Educational Technology from Northern Arizona University.
Catherine Goggia
Catherine Goggia is a Butte College Associate Faculty member for the Business Education Department and a Training Specialist for the Office of Contract Education. She is also a Subject Matter Expert for the Chabot-Las Positas Training and Development Solution Group. Catherine earned degrees in English and Communication Studies from California State University, Chico.
Catherine brings more than twenty-five years of private sector work experience - from the front line to corporate level sales and marketing - to her trainings. Her sales background ranges from capitol goods to long-term service programs, including face to face and telephone sales. In addition to that, she has worked with county, city and non-profit organizations. Her training's provide skills, tools and knowledge based on real-life work experience.
Catherine co-authored and illustrated the children's counseling workbook, When I Think About How I Feel. Her work was included in The Best Contemporary Women's Humor, Crossing Press. Catherine was the recipient of the Butte College Academic Excellence Award in 2001.
Lisa Gorman
Lisa is a registered nurse, massage therapist, and registered yoga teacher with twenty years of health care experience. She skillfully integrates Western medicine, and Eastern philosophy into customized wellness solutions to meet individual client's needs. Lisa's unique approach to wellness focuses on bringing the body and mind into union, thus creating an environment where healing and change will occur naturally. As most diseases afflicting Americans are lifestyle related, Lisa's mission is to provide clients with tools allowing them to "embrace a heathly lifestyle for life". Her energy, enthusiasm and passion for health and wellness, inspires clients toward more balance, joyful lives.
George Grams
George has worked in many diverse aspects of vocational services for 25 years. Specific areas of expertise include helping employers control workers compensation costs, disability evaluation, ergonomics, jobsite modification, FEHA/ADA consulting, medical case management, and facilitating a practical approach to good business.
He holds a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology, certification as a Disability Management Professional, a national Rehabilitation Certification, and is the principal of Grams & Associates in Chico, California. Professional endeavors include developing and implementing Disability Management/Return to work programs for Union Pacific Railroad, California Department of Corrections, Butte County, Department of Veteran Affairs, and a number of smaller employers.
Margi Johnston
Margi Johnston has been a Butte College Associate Faculty member for the Business Department for approximately nine years. She currently teaches Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, and Access), WordPerfect, Computers for Beginners, Center for Academic Success Critical Skills workshops, and Personal Computer Use Classes for The Training Place.
Prior to teaching for Butte College, Margi established and was the director for a Vocational Training School and the owner of a hardware and software retail/repair establishment.
Margi holds a Master's Degree in Education, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Marketing from Indiana University, a Paralegal Credential and a Certificate in Online Education.
Joe Schlesinger
Joe is an instructional design consultant and business coach with over 15 years experience designing and developing training solutions for companies such as Altera Corporation, Cisco Systems, Fireman's Fund Insurance, and Verizon. A graduate of the Instructional Design program at Chico State, Joe has returned to his "favorite hometown" of Chico after 12 years in the Silicon Valley.
Margaret Schmidt
Margaret Schmidt holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University with a focus in Marketing and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing, with a minor in Sociology, from California State University, Chico.
Margaret spent her early career years working in the electronic semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley. After moving to Butte County in 1989, she focused her career on direct sales and marketing in Northern California. She spent four years at a local economic development consulting firm marketing Butte County. She currently specializes in grant writing, fundraising and developing marketing and public relations programs and managing projects that positively impact economic development in the surrounding communities.
Margaret brings over 25 years of business experience to the classroom to provide unique, customized onsite training programs.
Jes Vargas
Jes Vargas has over 24 years of experience in the fields of Engineering, Quality, Project Management, Business Development, Manufacturing and Executive Management at such companies as GCS Inc, Bombardier, Advance Technical Systems, Siemens and Rabbit Semiconductor. Throughout his career Mr. Vargas has serviced as a prime change agent within organizations. Mr. Vargas holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, a MBA in Operations and certifications in TQM, Material Management, and Lean Manufacturing.
