Business Services

Business Services at the PDA

While the Professional Development Alliance primarily serves the education sector, our mission to improve lives through continuing education is not restricted to this sector.  We provide the following services to the business, health care, and not-for-profit communities.

Facilitation of Meetings (Consulting Service)

Are your meetings not having the impact that you would like them to have?  Are your attendees leaving without a clear vision or clear direction?  Does your staff believe that meetings are a waste of time - or worse?  One of our skilled Meeting Facilitation consultants can work with you to determine where your organization is having difficulties and help you to remedy those difficulties through mentoring, coaching, and/or training.  For more information, contact us at (815) 744-8334.

Leadership Training

Our Signature Programs can be customized to meet the specific needs of your organization or industry.

Blueprints for Effective Meetings - This training provides those who facilitate meetings with a blueprint for planning meetings, understanding and controlling meeting dynamics, and ensuring that meetings are productive.

Meeting and Conference Space

Our state-of-the-art training rooms can be rented for your training, meeting, or conference.  We have a variety of rooms that can be arranged to meet most needs.  Each training room is fully equipped with a projection device, sound system, presenter laptop computer, wireless (Wi-Fi) access, flipcharts, and markers, Our technical staff is on hand to provide assistance, if needed. We offer a variety of catering options, from gourmet coffee service to refreshment break to hot and cold meals. You can always expect our attentive staff to provide world-class customer. Our convenient location near the intersection of I-80 and I-55 makes us the perfect place to hold your event. Visit our Meeting and Conference Space page for more information.