J. G. Levitt Professional Development

Educator

Jeff gained solid corporate training experience by logging over 3000 classroom hours in both international and Fortune 500 business environments. Prior to that, he learned to design and deliver highly professional online and classroom learning materials through the following experiences:

• Managed and developed comprehensive museum education program as education director at The Discovery Center of Idaho

• Received Christa McAuliffe Fellowship awarded in honor of NASA’s first Teacher-in-Space

• Taught math and science in sign language at the Idaho School for the Deaf

• Earned Master’s Degree in Special Education at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon 

Jeff recently completed a two-year expatriate assignment in Kobe, Japan for a global semiconductor company. In Japan, he gained valuable cross-cultural teaching and educational consulting experience, learned enough Japanese to order at the drive-through, and indulged his digital photography hobby while traveling in Asia and Oceania.  
 

Writer 

Jeff has written many participant and instructor guides, content for web-based training, and scripts for in-house instructional videos on topics ranging from meeting and presentation skills to basic chemistry and problem solving.

• Co-authored Power Tools for Business Writing with Julie Levitt, published by Thomson/South-Western

• Successful grant writer with more than $720,000 raised for schools, museums, and non-profit organization

• Wrote, produced, and delivered Discover the Stars, humorous educational vignettes aired weekly in the Northern Great Basin 
   

Presentation Style and Topics

Making difficult skills easy to learn is the hallmark of Jeff’s teaching style. His writing, public speaking, and meeting leadership courses are known as enjoyable, fast-paced, and useful on the job—immediately.  Jeff’s current courses and workshops include:

• Power Tools for Business Writing

• Technical Writing Essentials

• Business Grammar Review

• Professional Proofreading and Editing