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Tora Estep is a senior associate editor at ASTD, where she has been a staff editor and writer for more than five years. She edited Infoline, ASTD’s monthly publication dedicated to training workplace learning and performance professionals in a wide variety of topics and wrote several issues, including “Be a Better Manager,” “Meetings That Work!,” “Basics of Stand-Up Training,” and “Managing Difficult Participants.” She has also contributed several articles to T+D and was part of the editorial and writing team that produced the ASTD Learning System, a 10-volume study guide for practitioners preparing to take the CPLP knowledge exam. Prior to ASTD, she worked as an editor for International Communications Inc. editing books and magazines for the World Bank, the International Development Bank, the U.S. Southern Command, and more.

Contributor to ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals - Available as article-length Fast Fundamentals whitepapers (PDF download): The Evolution of the Training Profession, and Ethics for Workplace Learning and Performance Professionals.

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