Roger Courville

Founder

Roger Courville is the author of The Virtual Presenter's Handbook, editor of 1080 Group's Web Seminar Producer's Toolkit, blogger at TheVirtualPresenter.com and principal of 1080 Group, LLC, an independent consulting training firm that helps companies design and optimize online presentations and web seminars.

A practitioner in the web seminar industry since its inception, Roger has provided companies with thought leadership, innovative web seminar program design, vendor and system analysis, and staff development. Prior to co-founding 1080 Group, Roger worked for EnvoyGlobal, PlaceWare, and Microsoft. Roger left Microsoft with four others and some venture funding to co-found Corvent, LLC (later acquired by Intercall).

His real world expertise is backed by that of the seasoned professionals at 1080 Group -- expertise gained from working with hundreds of clients on thousands of events involving more than a million event attendees.

Together with co-founder and industry veteran Scott Driscoll, Roger has created the industry's first independent curriculum to teach marketers and trainers how to organize and accelerate their web seminar production efforts.

A partial list of organizations requesting Roger to speak includes American Marketing Association, ASTD, Web 2.0 Conference, Silicon Valley Marcom Resource Group, Organizational Development Network, Product Management Consortium, Product Development Manager's Association. His interviews, guest blog posts, and articles have appeared in eLearningGuild, Plannerwire, Training Australia Magazine, IT Business Edge among others.

A partial list of leading organizations that Roger has personally assisted includes American Express, Harcourt Brace, Allstate, State Farm, Adobe, BEA Systems, Advanstar, CMP, AT&T Wireless, Sanofi-Aventis, Merck, Symetra Financial, Standard Motor Products, NCCI Holdings, Inc., Hitachi, and ThyssenKrupp Safway.