Jim Everidge is the president/CEO of Rapid Learning Deployment (rapidLD), which provides management consulting, implementation, and operations services for HCM technologies and software products to support these technologies; Jim oversees the company’s marketing, business development, and learning consulting work. He also founded Rapid Talent Measurement, which leverages big data from rapidLD customers into a technology framework that allows these same customers to mine their data for information about human capital. He holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry/biology from Auburn University and an MBA in entrepreneurial business from The University of South Alabama. Jim has been a member of ASTD for over 20 years, including a two-year stint on the ASTD National Board Selection Committee.