Welcome to the New Orleans Chapter of ASTD!
Did you know the seeds of ASTD were actually sown in New Orleans? It happened during a training committee meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in 1942. The United States was at war, and training was critical to the meeting the needs of increased production and replacing workers gone to war. The following year, a group of "training men" met for the first board meeting of the American Society of Training Directors in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was later renamed the American Society for Training and Delopment, and the headquarters were moved to Washington, D.C. Today, members of our local chapter are working hard to bring programs to the business community that will help revitalize and stabilize our post-Katrina workforce.