Michael J. Giambra
Founder & CEO
Before opening ESource in 1994, Mr. Giambra spent several years in sales and marketing to Fortune 500 companies including two years selling consulting services for IBM, Computer Horizons, and Computer Associates. He joined Management Recruiters International (MRI) as the Northeast Director for their new InterExec division, a group placing middle and upper level professionals, such as managers, directors, and CEOs into contract career opportunities. Candidates’ functional areas of expertise included Human Resources, Training and Development, Marketing, Engineering, Information Technology and Project Management. It was his success with MRI that provided Michael the realization of the incredible opportunity to provide outstanding contract professionals to many areas of business and enough motivation to create ESource Corp.
In analyzing the market, Mr. Giambra saw a growing need for training and development, staffing and consulting services and understood Atlanta to be a ripe market for corporate training initiatives. In 1994, the first ESource Corp. office opened in Atlanta. His analysis was further supported by the incredible presence of training and development professional in the Atlanta area. At the time, it was home to the largest American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) chapter in the world, with 1500 members, 75% of who were independent consultants.
With over 30+ years in business, Michael has grown ESource Corp. into one of the fastest growing training and development, providers in the region. The company’s vast network of top talent continues to support significant learning initiatives at over 50 top national companies, including IBM, Unisys, GE Consumer Finance, KPMG, UPS, MetLife, Deloitte Consulting, Lucent Technologies, Countrywide, and McKesson.
In April of 2004, Mr. Giambra moved to the Northeast and opened the New Jersey office of ESource Corporation. With the company’s 2+ decades of operation, ESource Corp. is now more equipped to continue its market growth with clients from New Jersey to Washington to Florida to across the world.
Tony Irace
VP, Learning Solutions
Tony has a clear mission – helping others improve their performance at work. He has spent his career designing, delivering, organizing, and implementing learning solutions aligned to his clients’ business objectives. He is a strategic, collaborative, and innovative business partner who works with Senior Business Leaders to help them achieve their goals.
Tony led the learning function for the ADP Major Accounts Division, responsible for an organization of over 200 learning professionals focused on providing learning solutions to their 80,000 external clients and to their 5,000 U.S. and global front line service associates. Under his leadership, his teams implemented award-winning learning programs for clients and internal associates, introduced new learning technologies, and launched professional certification programs. His work has received awards from the Society of Technical Communication (STC) and Training Top125.
Over his 30-year career, Tony has held instructional design, project management and people leadership positions. He has extensive experience in business transformation initiatives, including building and restructuring learning organizations, learning system selection and procurement, and rollouts of large corporate initiatives.
Tony earned a BA in English Literature and an MA in Linguistics from New York University. He has completed graduate work in Adult Education and Workplace Learning at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. Tony previously held the office of President of the ATD Northern New Jersey Chapter and currently serves as a Member at Large on its Board of Directors. Tony is a founding member of the ATD Northern New Jersey Executive Advisory Council (EAC).
Al Johnson
Managing Director, Fractional Learning Leaders
Al is a proven Learning and Talent Development leader who drives business success through strategic people and technology initiatives. With extensive experience guiding global organizations through both internal and external leadership roles, Al leverages his expertise to unlock human potential and deliver transformative results.
He is an accomplished learning strategist and practitioner with a proven track record of designing and implementing impactful talent development programs. Al is a trusted advisor in technology selection, organizational design, and performance optimization. He also enables critical skill-building through innovative learning academies and communities of practice.
As the VP of Consulting at Bersin & Associates, his research-driven approach to consulting helped clients navigate the evolving landscape of learning and development. Being the principal author of the NIIT’s 2020 Adaptive Learning Organization study, he provides data-backed insights to enable organizations to align with emerging digital transformation and future of work trends and best practices.
Al is a seasoned learning and talent management consultant with an extensive track record of driving strategic transformations for global enterprises. As the former leader of the Bersin by Deloitte consulting practice and a core member of Deloitte's Learning Consulting leadership team, Al has collaborated with top business, talent, and learning executives across industries to define powerful strategies and enable organizational change. With his breadth of expertise and SUNY education, Al delivers data-driven insights that empower clients to achieve their most ambitious talent and learning objectives.
Pat Brost
VP Experiential Learning & Development
Pat brings more than 30 years of both national and international experience in the areas of strategic planning, organizational development, sales, marketing and training to enhance business goals and performance objectives for her clients. She has an extensive background in the healthcare field and her client list includes Astellas, Johnson & Johnson, Biogen Idec, Bristol Myers Squibb, Novartis, Pfizer, Merck, Ortho-McNeil, Ethicon, Abbott, and Wyeth, just to name a few. Pat has also created training programs in a wide variety of other industries, including retail sales, consumer goods, finance, insurance, data security, banking, technology, and telecommunications. She has created training programs and full curriculums for some of the largest companies in the world, such as NTT America, Alcatel-Lucent, Verizon, Avaya, Brother, Crown Cork & Seal, PUMA, Harley-Davidson, Autodesk, Johnson Controls, McAfee, Xerox, Kodak, Bank One, the American Bible Society, Bank of America, and Hewlett Packard.
Pat’s expertise lies in creating training programs designed specifically for outstanding sales performance and customer service excellence. Over the past few years, she has developed several semi-annual e-learning programs for PUMA, for 10,000+ employees worldwide, located in retail stores around the globe. Her goal is always to use her training sessions to inspire employees to reach their full potential, find success, and be happy and excited in their workplace, which leads to higher employee satisfaction and retention rates.
Pat holds a Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. She has earned three International Telly Awards for her video work, as well as an award-winning live satellite television broadcast for Kodak.
Joseph S. Giambra
Lead Recruiter
Joseph “Joey” Giambra is the newest member for the ESource team. With the title of Lead Recruiter, he is responsible for handling new clients and recruiting candidates for projects. With skills from prior experience, Giambra uses his client relationship skills to ensure that the customer gets the right people for the job. From his start, Giambra became an immediate contributor to the team helping with the company’s latest clients in Early 2018 and will continue to consult with those customers for future endeavors.
Giambra earned his Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from Montclair State University in Montclair New Jersey.
Paul W. Nichols
Sr. Instructional Designer, Learning Solutions
Paul Nichols is a seasoned instructional designer with experience in developing self-paced, online, and instructor-led blended training solutions in the consulting and cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) / Payroll industries. He brings the knowledge and perspective of numerous years as an instructional design professional who specializes in designing and developing attractive and instructionally-sound training solutions including self-paced eLearning, microlearning, blended instructor-led training, instructor-led conference workshop sessions, publications, job aids, and social media.
His background includes designing and developing training solutions for the sales, client, and associate training divisions of ADP, Realogy’s ZAP CRM app, the STAR (System for Tracking and Administering Real-property) space management software for the Public Buildings Service (PBS) / US General Services Administration (GSA), the sales divisions of Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals and IMS America (now known as iQvia), and Energy Transportation Corporation.
Paul’s areas of interest include fully leveraging technology in training solutions, integrating social media into training deliverables, and designing and developing training deliverables so they can be utilized in multiple ways for multiple audiences.
Paul earned a BA in History with a minor in Political Science from Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts and an MA in Communication and an MS in Instructional Technology from Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Paul also holds the Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification designation from the American Payroll Association (APA).
Paul J. Maccaro
Senior Advisor
Paul is a senior leadership and organization development partner who brings extensive experience in the areas of talent strategy and talent management, executive and leadership development and organization development. Paul creates and implements talent development options and organization development solutions that align with the business strategy.
Paul is also a trusted executive coach to leaders to help them solve business process problems and individual performance issues that help propel increased organization effectiveness. He works with C-suite and executive leaders to align their business mission and strategic goals to build high performing teams.
As the Principal Consultant at A3 Enterprises and Consulting LLC, Paul has pioneered practical applications to implement solutions that exceed clients’ expectations.
Paul was previously the Executive Director of Talent Management and Leadership Development at Pacira BioSciences, Inc. in Parsippany, NJ, leading the talent management strategy that met the growth objectives of this bioscience company. Paul was responsible for developing and executing talent management processes, assessments and aligning C-suite leaders around the development of their top talent to be ready now. His focus included Culture and DEI initiatives, and a Pay Equity initiative.
Prior to Pacira, Paul led all talent management, organization development and culture-related initiatives for Integra Life Sciences. In this role, Paul strategically directed the design, development and delivery of the company’s learning & organization effectiveness objectives that allowed the organization to attract and retain top talent. He also provided the L&D strategy and development curriculum for Finance/IR, Global Supply Chain, and IT.
Paul has held leadership roles in human resources in multi-industries, including:
Corporate Director, Organization & Employee Development in Global HR at AECOM Technology. Paul led the company’s initial Executive Development Program to successfully graduate 20 global leaders into senior leadership roles across the business.
At AECOM, he also led the global O&ED Center of Excellence team accountable for building the company’s people strength supporting overall business direction across 7 continents.
Corporate Director, Talent Management & Organizational Development at Hess Corporation partnering with the C-suite to execute the people planning cycle and top talent plans.
Senior Director, Learning - Functional Excellence for Honeywell International where he designed and implemented learning strategy and performance solutions with leaders globally in Operations, Supply Chain, Six Sigma, and IT. This helped leaders improve the skills needed to achieve Honeywell’s aggressive growth objectives.
At Honeywell, he also was part of the inception team that developed the Honeywell Operating System™ (HOS) and was selected to provide expertise to the HOS Steering Team executing the organization change strategies enterprise-wide.