Al Folsom

Dr. Folsom joined SNAP, Inc. in April 2016 and currently serves as Vice President for SNAP’s DoD and US Coast Guard Programs. In this capacity, he also oversees and provides Program Management for the US Coast Guard (USCG) Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) BPA and orchestrates all aspects of SNAP, Inc’s DoD programs, including Army, Navy and Air Force projects. His previous industry experience includes leading a corporate practice of Strategic Business Partner and Performance Consulting Skills workshops, including the entire legacy SABA/Harless suite as currently used by the USCG. With these workshops, he helped people and organizations make the transformation to accomplishment-based approaches as strategic business partners and performance consultants. He brings over 30 years of experience in the field of training and HPT.

His expertise is in Human Performance Technology (HPT) and its specific application throughout the USCG, where he retired as Chief Learning Officer (CLO) as a Captain (O-6) after 24 years of commissioned service. He is also the co-author of Exemplary Performance – Driving Business Results by Benchmarking Your Star Performers (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2013); 2nd Edition (2022) which was awarded International Society for Performance Improvement’s (ISPI) Award of Excellence in 2014 and the subject of the opening Masters’ Series at the 60th ISPI International Conference in Nashville in April 2022.