Drury Design Dynamics Names Joshua Harrison as Director of Learning and Performance

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Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:00am EDT

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
Drury Design Dynamics, a leader in the full service business communications
industry based in New York, announced that Joshua Harrison will be joining its
team as Director of Learning and Performance. Mr. Harrison will be responsible
for leading Drury`s award winning Learning and Performance group, working with
the creative, sales and marketing teams to expand the Drury`s offerings as well
as developing new business opportunities. 

"Josh will bring his knowledge and deep insight in the Learning and Performance
industry as well as his extensive experience on the production side of the
Communications industry to Drury Design Dynamics," said Jill Taub Drury, CEO of
Drury Design Dynamics. "In these challenging times, this unique combined
perspective will help our clients translate their goals into real growth and
actionable results." 

As a fifteen year veteran in the field of communications, Harrison has extensive
experience in every aspect from building individual training and sales tools, to
rolling out complete learning systems and helping large companies manage
cultural changes before and after mergers. Mr. Harrison has been a leader in
using technology in pharmaceutical sales training. He helped introduce video
streaming, web-based and satellite delivery to launch meetings. In addition he
has worked on learning modules, installations, kiosks, live training, and
interactive presentations and learning environments. He will bring these
combined skills and offerings to Drury Design Dynamics. 

"Drury Design is a world-class leader in pharmaceutical training, an area of our
company that is experiencing enormous growth," added Chris Drury, President and
Chief Creative Officer of Drury Design Dynamics. "Mr. Harrison is the perfect
choice to help Drury Design as it continues to expand its training offerings to
new markets as well as develop new training products for pharmaceutical,
financial and other industries." 

Before joining Drury Design Dynamics, Harrison was Learning and Performance
Strategist and Executive Producer for MJM Creative Services and served in the
same capacity at Caribiner Communications prior to that. As an L&P Project Lead,
he managed teams of up to 200 people and oversaw projects with budgets of up to
$15 million for diverse a list of clients including Pfizer, Novartis, Merck,
BMS, GSK, Boeringher Ingelheim and Schering Plough, Canon USA, Citibank, GE
Capital, Lucent Technologies, AT&T, Time Warner and the Smithsonian Institute,
among many others. 

Harrison attended Yale University and the University of California, and did his
postgraduate studies in France and Italy. He spent a year in Argentina as a
Fulbright Scholar in the early days of the World Wide Web working on the
relationship between knowledge acquisition and the emerging possibilities of
information transfer created by the internet. In addition to his career in
learning and performance, Harrison runs an independent film company that
specializes in film and documentaries with an emphasis on Latin American and
Caribbean themes. He is also co-founder and director of the St. Barth Festival
of Caribbean Film. Harrison lives in New York with his wife and young daughter. 

For more information on Drury Design Dynamics please visit www.drurydesign.com. 

About Drury Design Dynamics

Drury Design Dynamics is a leading full-service business communications company
specializing in the planning and production of meetings, corporate
communications, learning and performance programs, entertainment and special
events. The company was founded in 1981 by Chris and Jill Drury. Drury Design
has won over 165 industry awards and has built long-lasting client relationships
with Fortune 100 companies including IBM, Wal-Mart, American Express, and
Bristol-Myers Squibb. Drury Design Dynamics is certified by the WBENC as a Women
Business Enterprise (WBE). 





Drury Design Dynamics
Neel Khairzada, 646-236-0110
Press@drurydesign.com



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