Anders Gronstedt

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Anders Gronstedt (born October 6, 1965) is a Swedish-born American author, public speaker and entrepreneur. He is an advocate of virtual reality and augmented reality training, transmedia storytelling and game-based learning and president of the Gronstedt Group.[1][2][3]

Background and career

Gronstedt received his MBA from the

University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1994.[4]

He was an assistant professor in marketing at the

University of Colorado at Boulder 1994–97.[5]

In 1997, he founded the Gronstedt Group. As president of this firm, he helps global companies like Google, Intuit, GE, United Healthcare, Deloitte, Dell, Avaya, American Eagle Outfitters, Microsoft, Kimberly-Clark, and government clients like the U.S. Department of Transportation and the City of New York improve performance with next-generation digital simulations, gaming, and immersive 3D virtual worlds.[6][7][8] He is considered a learning visionary[9] championing immersive learning approaches.[10][11]

Publications

In 2000, Gronstedt wrote the book The Customer Century, based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with senior marketing and corporate communications managers from top companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Ericsson, Philips, and Xerox about how to integrate communications.[12]

His 2007 Harvard Business Review article chronicles how companies like EMC and IBM use podcasting to train employees.[13]

Gronstedt has written three ATD Infoline monograms:

  • Basics of Pod Casting (May, 2007)[14]
  • Training in Virtual Worlds (March, 2008)[15]
  • Learning Through Transmedia Storytelling (January, 2014) with Marc Ramos[16]

Gronstedt wrote two chapters in The Handbook of Strategic Public Relations and Integrated Marketing Communications, Second Edition,[17] and one chapter in Karl Kapp's The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook: Ideas into Practice.[18]

Recent TD Magazine and CLO Magazine articles by Dr. Gronstedt focus on virtual and augmented reality in learning.[19][20]

References

  1. ^ Rio, Ave (March 8, 2018). "Bringing the Future Forward". Chief Learning Officer Magazine.
  2. ISBN 978-0804789158
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  3. ISBN 978-1562868116
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  4. ^ Gronstedt, Anders (1994). Integrated communications at America's leading total quality management corporations.
  5. ^ Schultz, Don E.; Gronstedt, Anders (Fall 1997). "Making Marcom an Investment". Marketing Management.[dead link]
  6. ^ Wright, Aliah D. (March 2, 2010). "Forget the Classroom: Turn to the Web for Innovative Learning Techniques". SHIRM. Archived from the original on January 8, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
  7. ^ Johnson, Claire (June 9, 2016). "Learning! Champions: Setting the Pace". Elearning! Magazine. Archived from the original on November 9, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
  8. ^ Weinstein, Margery (September 2016). "Are you game for learning?". Training Magazine. Archived from the original on 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
  9. ^ O’Driscoll, Tony (February 2018). "Training 2020: Riding the Waves of Change". Training Magazine.
  10. ^ Ellis, Ryann (February 2018). "Get in the Driver's Seat: UPS Explores VR Training". ATD Insights.
  11. ^ Seaton, Hugh (2018). VR Learning: A Primer for Learning & Development (eBook). Archived from the original on 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  12. ISBN 0415921996
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  13. ^ Gronstedt, Anders (June 2007). "Employees Get an Earful". Harvard Business Review.
  14. ISBN 978-1562864880
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  15. ISBN 978-1562865221
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  16. ISBN 978-1562869519
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  17. ISBN 978-0071767460
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  18. ISBN 978-1118674437
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  19. ^ Gronstedt, Anders (June 2016). "From Immersion to Presence". TD Magazine.
  20. ^ Gronstedt, Anders (July 2016). "Chasing Pokémon Can Help You Catch Learning". CLO Magazine.

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