Elena Avery

Independent

Master Trainer

Elena Avery is an IFC accredited Master Trainer and an LPI certified assessor for Trainer Performance and Monitoring Assessment. She also holds LPI certifications in Online Live Facilitation and Online Training Design. She has more than 20 years of experience in international development projects, such as MSME development, banking, and training. She has worked on numerous projects funded by EBRD, USAID, TACIS, IFC, and CIDA in Europe and Central Asia. Since 2011, Elena has been working with IFC on projects for MSME support and banking. She has been involved in developing strategic programs for the private sector, which included training needs assessments, elaboration of training curricula, designing educational materials, conducting training of trainers, coaching, and assessment of trainers. By holding the Kirkpatrick Training Results Evaluation Certificate, she helped training representatives evaluate the effectiveness of their training programs and demonstrate training value to stakeholders and decision-makers.

Elena has designed more than 40 training curricula on a wide range of topics, such as marketing, sales, customer service, business planning, human resource management, organizational management, and personal skills development. She has authored more than 20 training manuals.

In Ukraine, Elena was one of the initiators and founders of an educational program to manage micro-financial institutions (credit unions). She became a Member of the Council under the State Commission for Financial Markets Regulation. The Council developed and led the implementation of the Advanced Training and Certification Program for Managing Credit Union staff. She was responsible for the development of training programs and tests on marketing and management.

Elena has experience leading several projects focused on SME development programs, rural development, and women’s entrepreneurship support. She is currently actively involved in developing online training programs as a training design/facilitation expert and on-line live events producer.

She is willing to travel worldwide for short term projects. Able to deliver training in English, Russian, and Ukrainian.