Diane Thielfoldt
Senior Fellow
Diane Thielfoldt is a Learning Strategist and Co-Founder of The Learning Café. The Learning Café partners with clients to create custom learning solutions that produce business results and support personal growth. The Learning Café specializes in designing and developing training on the four-generation workforce, leadership, and mentoring. Diane’s corporate career encompassed leadership roles with McGraw-Hill, TRW, Bausch & Lomb, and Xerox in sales, marketing, communications, and learning design, development, and delivery.
Diane collaborates with clients to: recruit, hire, on-board, engage, and retain a four-generation workforce, develop leaders to fill the talent pipeline and craft mentoring initiatives that get results and protect critical organizational “know how” .
Her articles include Engaging Multiple Generations Among Your Workforce, Generation Integration-A Case Study of How Xerox Corporation Bridged the Generation Gap Between Two Business Groups; Mentoring for All Ages; Retaining the Four Generations in the Workplace; WhaGenerations Want from Their Careers; and Nurses with Bifocals vs. Aides with Eyebrow Rings.
Diane holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Pennsylvania State University. She is qualified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and a wide variety of testing and assessment tools, including 360 degree feedback.