Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/18/2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Join us Tuesday, February 18, for a Virtual Lunch Presentation — AFS Institute is Your No. 1 Source for Your Workforce Development Training Needs — with Jennifer Wheeler Christian, Director of Training Solutions at AFS & The Institute.
Agenda:
12:00 Noon AFS Institute is Your No. 1 Source for Your Workforce Development Training Needs
12:30 PM Open Discussion/Questions
1:00 PM Adjourn
Registration:
- FREE for AFS Members
- $20 for Non-Members
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Presentation Details:
- 40 Expert Instructor-Led technical trainings in the classroom and online via Zoom with hard copy student materials (covering all aspects of the metal casting industry)
NEW: Introduction to Supervisor Development Training
NEW for Spring 2025: Industry 4.0 course
Fall 2025: Training and Workforce Development Biennial Survey
Coming Soon: Certificate Programs - In-Plant and Regional trainings (can be customized)
- Foundry eLearning (110 modules with 21 in Spanish)
Onboarding schedules provided by alloy.
NEW for 2025: Metal casting Facility Safety modules (2)—one for those new to the industry and one geared towards supervisors
Working closely with AFS members and students during the past five years, Jen has listened and learned about the industry’s current training needs. In return, the AFS Institute has delivered training addressing those needs now and moving into the future; thereby ensuring employee attraction, retention and ultimately, providing metal casting success stories for a thriving manufacturing economy.
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About the Speaker:
Jennifer Wheeler Christian
Director of Training Solutions at AFS and The Institute
Jen joined AFS in November 2019 as Director of Training Solutions for the Institute. She is responsible for Institute classroom and virtual training, In-Plant and Regional/Chapter Trainings, and Foundry e-Learning. Jen was instrumental in launching the Institute’s Introduction to Supervisor Development course in 2023.
Jen brings nearly 24 years’ association management experience to AFS, including her role with the Forging Industry Association as Director of Membership & Training. Prior to that role, Jen worked for 13 years at FMA, the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International®, co-host of the FABTECH® trade show and creator of the national event, Manufacturing Day (MFG Day). During her tenure at FMA, Jen led the e-Learning division and grew member training participation by branding webinars as FabCasts® and e-Learning modules as eFab® courses. She was also the liaison to two technical councils and one management council where she coordinated many technical conferences, workshops, management annual meetings, in-plant training and popular plant tour events. While at FMA, Jen successfully completed levels I and II of Bartell & Bartell’s Leadership Flight School.
Jen graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington with B.A degrees in Psychology and Sociology. She is an avid Hoosier fan and lives in the northwest suburbs of Chicago with her two sons. You can find her at numerous baseball diamonds during the summer cheering them on.
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