Erik Eisel

About Erik Eisel

I oversee multiple concurrent projects, designing, delivering, and evaluating instructional strategies for business and professional applications. With an emphasis on assessing needs and project requirements, I ensure content mastery of operational, sales/revenue enablement, leadership, and technology-focused training programs across traditional, e-learning, and hybrid formats. As a respected advisor to executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, I collaborate with technical staff, functional experts, subject matter specialists, and vendors to create user-friendly strategies that achieve targeted KPIs. My methodical and communicative approach to training and development ensures the long-term sustainability of learning tools and performance outcomes. Expertise: E-Learning, Web-Based, Video-Based Blended Learning, and Classroom Instructional Design Brand Management Technology: Learning Management Software (LMS) Administration Docebo LMS Docebo Learning Impact Articulate Storyline Website Development

Experience

1. Retail Franchise Trainer, Arco and Ampm

   Marathon Petroleum Corporation

   Jan 2013 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Supervise and direct management training programs across 840 national retail operations (Previously BP, Tesoro, & Andeavor) to ensure franchisee and territory management compliance, operational functionality, and business profitability.• Resolved a COVID-19-related shutdown of over 20 physical training sites by developing a 100% online solution within a tight, six-month timeframe that resulted in an estimated savings of and achieved targeted post-training objectives.• Created a documentary-style video series that has become required viewing for all new Los Angeles employees and all executives; saved up to by single-handedly filming, editing, and producing this first-of-its-kind informative and engaging onboarding series.• Led a team of outside vendors and managed internal content production from ideation to project completion of an on-demand eLearning-based Learning Management System powered by Docebo.• Saved up to $2M in external consulting fees by producing first-time user-friendly videos that eliminated cumbersome manuals and enabled limited English-speaking staff to acquire hands-on skills easily.

Education

• UCLA

  PhD, Comparative Literature & Languages

  1990 — 1997

• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

  German History Certificate, German

• Mater Dei

  High School Diploma

  1981 — 1985

• University of California, Berkeley

  BA, English & German

  1985 — 1990