Patricia Franklin is the CEO of Atlas Island Media. Patricia has been a leader for over 20 years in the corporate training field, and in the multimedia, television, and publishing industries. She has produced pioneering and profitable corporate-based training and consumer multimedia titles since 1994. In her initial career, Patricia wrote for Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, and The Economist. Ms. Franklin founded Intrepid Film and Television (London) where, for six years, she led teams in the development and production of drama, documentary, and music programming for the BBC, Channel Four Network Television and International Video Network (IVN) where her work captured 100 million-viewer audiences. A graduate of the University of Southern California and a Rotary International Foundation Scholar of The London School of Economics, Patricia is a conference speaker for the International Society for Performance Improvement and the American Society for Training & Development, among other organizations, and leader of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Friends of the London School of Economics.

 

Articles by Patricia Franklin

Shhhhhh! E-Learning Production Secret Revealed: Emotional Intelligence

(6/5/06)
As an e-Learning producer you live in the world of technology much of the time. Yet your success depends on other people — team members, clients, and learners — and on your ability to use thinking and feeling to make optimal decisions in collaboration with them. Other articles look at the role of emotional intelligence in learning. Now learn how emotional intelligence affects production.