I met Laura Scroggins at a two-day Drupal Fundamentals I & II workshop she led in early October. She began the workshop with a great deal of energy and enthusiasm--for Drupal, for our individual projects--and it didn't flag even as she demonstrated module after module.

I really appreciated that Laura didn't simply plug in a few modules and show us how they work. She also taught us ways to evaluate the dependability of contributed models and instructed us on best practices for backing up, installing, and configuring the modules. Additionally, Laura provided workshop participants with pointers for evaluating hosting services and Drupal themes. This type of information is nearly as valuable as the hands-on experimentation in Drupal.

Laura supported the lecture/discussion portions of the workshop with relevant examples based on a pre-workshop survey. The survey also allowed her to anticipate some of the specific Drupal features we would be interested in and schedule our time to address those.

Finally, Laura created an online forum so that workshop participants could contribute thoughts, ideas, questions, observations and notes during the class and for a period of time afterwards.

Interpersonally, Laura shined. She remembered and used people's names, acknowledging individual contributions with graceful appreciation and ably fielding questions with answers garnered from her own experience. She was also quite willing to research answers to questions she hadn't heard before.

For all of these reasons, I recommend Laura as a trainer.