Learn more about the people behind the Center and how they keep it ticking.

Rob Foshay. Ph.D., CPT, ibstpi fellow

Senior Practice Director 

Rob has been a strategic contributor to Hale Associates for more than 40 years.  His dedication to research, coupled with his years working for major corporations supporting workforce readiness (Texas Instruments, Plato Learning, Applied Learning, and Deltak) enables him to offer guidance that is defensible, credible, and sustainable.  One area of special note is Rob's expertise in cognitive task analyses and complex ill-structured problem solving taught and assessed using problem-based methods and simulations.  Rob's academic experience (Asst. Professor of Medical Education, University of Illinois School of Basic Medical Sciences; Contributing Faculty, Walden University; Doctoral studies mentor, Associate Graduate Faculty, University of North Texas; Adjunct Faculty, Instruction and Training Technology, Governors State University; Asst Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois) and his experience as an editor and reviewer of hundreds of articles for juried journals, provides him access to the latest thinking and research.  He has served on grant review panels for the National Science Foundation.

Rob has written more than 90 articles published in professional juried journals from Association for Education Communications and Technology, International Society for Performance Improvement, American Education Research Association, American Society for Quality, Software, and Information Industries Association (SIIA).  He has written, contributed to, and edited numerous books including Instructional Design Competencies: The Standards (co-authored with Ken Silber, and Odin Westgaard); Writing Training that Works (co-authored with Ken Silber and Mike Stelnicki), Wiley Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer, 2010; and the Handbook of Improving Performance in the Workplace, Vol. 1: Instructional Design and Training Delivery. Wiley Jossey-Bass, 2010, co-edited, with Kenneth Silber.

Education & Awards

• B.S. Oberlin College
• M.S. Columbia University
• PhD.  Indiana University, Instructional Design, Organizational Psychology, and Educational Computing
• Fellow, The International Board of Standards for Training, Performance, and Instruction (IBSTPI)
• CPT, The International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)

Andrew clark, MS, dacum, TEFL 

Lead Technology Architect

Andrew Clark is a Performance Improvement Specialist at Hale Associates, where he combines his diverse academic, professional, and cross-cultural background to help clients enhance organizational performance.  His years studying and teaching abroad inform his refined organizational and learner perspectives.  Andrew holds a B.A. in International Studies and an M.S. from Boise State’s Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning (OPWL) program in the College of Engineering, where he researched applications of artificial intelligence and co-authored “Generative Ai: How Can Learning And Development Professionals Leverage These Tools For Performance Improvement?"  He received OPWL’s Professional Community Contribution Award.  Andrew is the President of a virtual ISPI chapter.  He has native or bilingual proficiency in German and elementary proficiency in Japanese.  Andrew is DACUM certified, TEFL (Teaching English as a  Foreign Language) certified, and a recipient of the Dzidra Shllaku scholarship to study abroad at the University of Salzburg through Bowling Green University.

Dr. Elham Arabi, pronounced (el-hum), is an award-winning global learning consultant and researcher in corporate and higher-ed with more than 18 years of experience in the US, South-East Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.  Elham’s career spans teaching, instructional design, and strategic advisory roles.  She has championed better design and evaluation practices in several organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and done practical research to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of learning programs.  She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her thesis was on enhancing training design based on training evaluation to investigate the effects on training transfer.

Elham has served on the Board of Directors of the ATD Greater Las Vegas chapter, as the director of Special Interest Groups, and currently serves on the Executive Advisory Board of the Learning Development Accelerator (LDA) and the Learning Guild’s Mentorship Program.

In addition to her professional contributions, Elham serves as a volunteer on the Sustainability Board of Greater Boston and has volunteered with organizations in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia focused on reducing child abuse and addressing the exploitation of construction workers and domestic helpers.  To see Elham's full vitae visit