ESource Corp has named Joe DiDonato as Lead Advisor and Interim President

ESource Corp., a leader in Learning and Performance Improvement Staffing and Consulting Services, has selected Joe DiDonato to oversee all of ESource Corp.'s new business development, business operations and strategic direction.

"This is unbelievable!" exclaims Robert Stolz, VP of Marketing for ESource Corp. "DiDonato has many great relationships in the learning industry. With his knowledge and experience, ESource Corp. will elevate to new levels of staffing, consulting, and learning. We are all very excited about Joe coming on board!"

Ordained "The Godfather of Education" by Oracle Corporation for his early work in the 80's to create what we know today as "blended learning and delivery," Joe was a double-nominee for the CLO of the Year in 2006 for the work he's done to move education into the workplace using his new 20-30-50 Model for corporate education. Joe is the Interim President for ESource Corporation, and will help ESource evolve their service and product offerings to be more valuable to the corporate education marketplace. Prior to ESource, Joe was responsible for the strategic vision and execution for Enterprise Technology Training and Development at Countrywide Financial Corporation. Mr. DiDonato's responsibility at CFC spanned that diverse financial and banking enterprise for purposes of aligning the various Business Unit IT groups on initiatives in learning, curriculum, and delivery methodologies, as well as insuring their focus on corporate strategic directions.

Joe has an extensive background in education, which ranges from running customer and internal education operations at Oracle and PeopleSoft, to running entrepreneurial endeavors at education companies such as Knowledge Universe, KnowledgePlanet, Productivity Point International, Global Knowledge, and Interwise. Mr. DiDonato is thought of as one of the leading thinkers in the world of Corporate Education. Joe is also on the Board of Directors of The Wellness Community, a non-profit that provides education and support services to cancer survivors, and he and his wife are the Co-Founders of The Orphan Foundation, a group that helps provide financial assistance to families who are adopting from the world's orphanages.

Mr. DiDonato states, "We've known for some time that a heavy reliance on classroom-based education is ineffective in industries where the entire knowledge base is renewing itself every 12 to 18 months - like technology and medicine."

"This [new role] is kind of like helping to define a succession plan for the industry. We hope to work with many education suppliers - and corporate learning groups - to identify what the new product and service offerings should be in today's corporate environments - products and services that are more aligned to providing 80% of the training in the workplace - outside of the classroom", says DiDonato.

Furthermore, DiDonato explains, "These new offerings will run the gamut of embedded training in applications, to federated search engines that reduce the time it takes to find information, to making the tacit knowledge in the heads of experts a searchable commodity - all possible with today's technologies. This new model will effectively move the role of training into the workplace, where business results are more easily measured."

"The Delphi Group says that their research shows that an average knowledge worker is spending 25% of their day searching for information", says DiDonato.

Mike Giambra, CEO of ESource Corp., explains, "Our 12 years of providing Fortune 500 clients with high-quality professional learning consultants on a contract basis and Joe DiDonato's decades of learning products and solutions experience, are a great match; unsurpassed by any other full service learning consulting company."