About the Author

As founder and principal of Performance Advantage Group, Donald V. McCain has dedicated the organization to helping companies gain a competitive advantage through the development of their human resources. With more than 28 years of corporate and consulting experience, McCain focuses on design and development of custom learning experiences in leadership, sales and marketing, and many other areas of professional development that result in improved business unit and individual performance.

McCain is a senior faculty member and dean of the Sandermoen School of Business, University of Fredericton, which is an accredited online university offering diploma-to-degree and master’s degree programs. McCain teaches graduate MBA/EMBA courses in the areas of leadership, governance, sustainability, and human resource management. He also consults in HRD processes, including design and development, competency identification and development, certification, evaluation (including transfer and return on investment), presentation and facilitation, and managing and marketing the HRD function. Most of his clients are Fortune 100 companies across various industries. His work is international in scope. McCain has also consulted with many new consultants on the business side of training consulting.

McCain has a bachelor’s in business administration, a master’s of divinity, a master’s of business administration with a concentration in HR and marketing, and a doctorate in education in HRD from Vanderbilt University. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses for several universities—including Vanderbilt University, Belmont University, Tennessee State University, and University of Phoenix—in various aspects of HRM, leadership, management, organization behavior and theory, business ethics, marketing, and strategic planning. He is the author of Facilitation Basics (ATD 2015), Creating Training Courses (When You’re not a Trainer) (ASTD 1999), and “Level 4: Results,” chapter 31 in the ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals (ASTD 2008). He was also co-author of Facilitation Skills Training (ASTD 2007). Additionally, he has published several evaluation instruments.

McCain lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Kathy. He has two married daughters, Kimberly and Karla, and two sons, Colin and Weston. He may be contacted at [email protected].