Our Trainers

Sandi Antalick Board of Directors, Trials Whether Sandi is training in class with her Beagle, Lou, or watching from the sidelines as a Registrar, she’s continually impressed with how the GSLTC trainers interact with their students. She knows from personal experience that their one-on-one instruction is always positive, helpful and supportive, and these experiences inspired her to join the Club and learn more about training. Sandi joined the GSLTC in January of 2010. With her trusty sidekick Lou, she has taken classes since early 2009, and has taken all levels of training. A member of Dog Scout Troop 149 since 2008, Lou became an official Dog Scout the following year. And although Lou has not earned a title yet, he and Sandi enjoy competing in Rally, as well as hiking, taking long walks and investigating exciting new places. Recently, Lou earned his Dog Scout hiking badge and has started to learn Tracking. Additionally, Sandi has served the GSLTC Inventory committee since 2011 and as a Registrar for classes and events since 2012. In July of 2012, she was appointed 2^nd Vice President on the GSLTC Board and is serving her first term successfully. Sandi aspires to take the Dog Behavior and Training Basics Course soon and start her journey as a trainer. She shares her home with 3 Beagles: Lou, Snickers and Angel.
Lucy Bailey, CPDT-KA Board of Directors, 1st Vice President KPA CTP TAGteach Primary Certified Lucy joined Greater St. Louis Training Club, Inc. in 1965 at the age of 15. The knowledgeable and friendly instructors patiently helped her train her Welsh terrier and encouraged her to enter the club’s annual obedience trial. In their first venture into the sport of obedience, Lucy and her dog, Owen, won first place in a Novice A class of 63 entries. They went on to earn a CDX title and Lucy was firmly hooked on the sport of obedience before she went off to college. Lucy became an Assistant Trainer in the 1970s and a Head Trainer soon after. She was instrumental in helping the club transition to all clicker training and in initiating the collaborative training program which GSLTC maintained with the Humane Society of Missouri for over a decade. She and GSLTC Trainer Linda Schulte raise, train and show their own dogs under the kennel name of Wysiwyg Welsh Terriers. Wysiwyg dogs participate in Earthdog trials as well as Obedience, Agility, Tracking and conformation events. Lucy recently retired from work as a Human Resources Training Manager, and is a member of the American Society for Training and Development, and the facilitator for the club’s Assistant Trainer preparation course. Additionally, she is a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers and owns and operates her own in-home dog training business, Dogs Unleashed LLC.
Gloria J. Bartok Gloria’s love of animals began early in her life while living on the family farm in Southern Illinois. Her first companions were a Cocker Spaniel named Sarge, a beagle named Rippy and cats Lucky, Missy and Sampson. As an adult, her furry family has included Rags, a mixed breed dog, Flanagan the Irish Setter, and loveable Golden Retrievers Max and Murphy. Wanting to reconnect with dogs after the death of Max, who passed away at the age of 14, Gloria began volunteering at a local shelter. In 2009, Gloria adopted a mixed breed Shar-Pei puppy, whose mother had been recently rescued during a puppy mill raid. Affectionately named Sassy for her independent spirit, she quickly became Gloria’s new best friend. A great traveling companion, Sassy has driven cross-country to New York City and Seattle with Gloria multiple times. Although Gloria had her first experience with obedience training with Max as a puppy, and knew about clicker training since 1991, it wasn’t until Sassy and Gloria attended GSLTC classes in 2009 that she realized the full potential of positive training methods. Excited about the work that she and Sassy accomplished, Gloria enrolled in and completed the Dog Behavior and Training Basics course. Since 2010, she has been an Assistant Trainer with GSLTC in Puppy Elementary, Kindergarten and Foundation Manners classes. Her love of animals with issues and her success with shy dogs while volunteering has led her to begin assisting with the GSLTC Shy Dog classes. Gloria is looking forward to obtaining her CPDT-KA certification in the future and has a BS in Finance/Management from Eastern Illinois University.
Fran Beezley Board of Directors, Secretary TAGteach Primary Certified CGC Evaluator After taking classes with the Greater St. Louis Training Club, Fran joined the Greater St. Louis Training Club in 2003. Training with the Club inspired her to enroll in the Assistant Trainer’s Course and after passing her assessments, she began teaching group classes. Currently, she teaches Basic Foundations and Competition Obedience classes, and assists with Puppy Elementary. With her dogs, BobDog and Angel, she has competed in Obedience and Rally and earned a MB-CDX and MB-RAE through the Mixed Breed Club. And since mixed breeds were allowed to compete through AKC, Fran and her All American Dog, Angel, have also earned their CD, RE and Canine Good Citizen titles. She believes an owner and his/her dog will not only have fun, but also develop a deep bond through positive training. Fran shares that belief with all of her students and encourages them to further develop their relationships with their canine companions.
Bob Brasses Board of Directors, Business CPDT-KA, KPA-CTP, CGC Evaluator Growing up in a very rural area, Bob’s best friends were often dogs. In fact, his first experience with dogs was when he was babysat by the family dog, a Collie mix named Sunny, at the age of two. Sunny proved to be the ultimate companion, who would protect Bob, keep him out of trouble and play football in the front yard. Over time, his bond with Sunny created a passion for understanding, communicating and working with dogs. Although Bob had been training for a while, his first opportunity to help a dog in need came when he was asked to rehabilitate an aggressive dog with a bite history, for a local rescue. Bob used positive, reward-based techniques to gain the dog’s trust and start peeling back the layers of his behavior issues. After some time and perseverance, the dog finally had a breakthrough and became a welcome member of the community. That experience proved to be a great learning opportunity, and Bob decided to dedicate himself to positive training techniques. He started his own business, the Pawsitive Canine, after early retirement in 2009, joined the GSLTC in 2011, and completed the Dog Behavior and Training Basics Course that same year. Then, taking his professional development to the next level, Bob earned his CPDT-KA shortly after that. And in 2012, he began assisting and leading classes with the Club. Bob is planning on attending the Karen Pryor Academy in 2013. Bob is the Lead Instructor for the Puppies on Parole prison program at the Potosi Correctional Center in Potosi, Mo. He also has a BS from the University of Missouri School of Agriculture, where he took several classes in Animal Science.
Linda M. Campbell, CPDT-KA RVT VTS (Behavior) AKC CGC Evaluator Linda has been employed by the Humane Society of Missouri since 1975, working in the animal shelter, Veterinary Medical Center, Behavior and Training Department and Administration. She also worked part-time for fifteen years at The St. Louis Animal Emergency Clinic gaining invaluable experience in emergency medicine. A 1990 graduate of the Jefferson College veterinary technology program, Linda became a registered veterinary technician with the state of Missouri that same year. Once she learned of the correlation between problem behaviors and animal surrenders, Linda selected behavior as the focus of her efforts. Linda joined GSLTC in 1996 and has mentored under some very knowledgeable trainers who share her commitment to strengthening the bond between pets and their owners through reward-based training. A 2004 graduate of the Purdue University DOGS! Course, Linda has worked with a variety of dogs, cats and birds over the years and stresses the motto “The behavior that is rewarded will increase” to all her students. She has developed several programs at the Humane Society that work with animals surrendered from sub-standard and/or abusive environments. Over the years, Linda has assisted in disaster-related missions (Hurricane Katrina, Missouri floods, and Oklahoma City tornadoes) as well as rescues of animal from abusive/neglected situations. In 2009 Linda and her department worked with an ASPCA behavior team and Debra Horwitz, DVM, DACVB to evaluate behavioral responses of over 500 pit bulls confiscated in an FBI dog-fighting bust. She currently has a VTS in Behavior, is an AKC Canine Good Citizen evaluator, and is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer. Linda is a member of the Society of Veterinary Behavior Technicians, the Association of Pet Dog Trainers and a founding member of the Academy of Veterinary Behavior Technicians. She has lectured at multiple national, state and local veterinary and animal welfare conferences. Linda shares a home with her husband, Marty, son Nick, and a menagerie of dogs, cats and birds.
Gail Czarnecki-Maulden KPA-CTP Gail’s professional dog training career began nearly 30 years ago when she was a faculty member in Companion Animal Nutrition at the University of Illinois. One of her graduate students, Linda Case, a top-level obedience competitor with years of experience in solving animal behavior issues and teaching classes, convinced her to start taking classes with her unruly Golden Retriever puppy. She quickly became hooked on dog training. She made many mistakes in those early years, but had the help of some amazingly patient mentors, both human and canine! One of the most important lessons she learned was that using force can often make a situation worse and that positive, science-based methods are a very powerful alternative. A self-proclaimed education addict, she is often at behavior or training workshops when not teaching or working with a private client. In February 2011, she graduated with distinction from Karen Pryor Academy (KPA) as a Certified Training Partner. She is a licensed Family Paws Parent Education Presenter (Dogs & Storks and Dog & Baby Connection), a Be A Tree bite prevention presenter, a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT), and makes regular therapy dog visits with two of her dogs, which are registered Pet Partner therapy dog teams. Over the years, she has owned and trained numerous breeds of dogs. She currently owns three Havanese. In her spare time, she enjoys making therapy dog visits, participating in obedience and rally competitions, teaching her dogs fun tricks and helping with Havanese Rescue.

	Mary Duncan Mary has been a member of Greater Saint Louis Training Club since 2005. Waverley, her first exuberant Lab, has proved to be an on-going training project. In fact after years of being trained by Waverley, Mary felt that she could help some other people with their dogs. She has taken on another exuberant lab, Finn, who is catching up fast with his big sister.
	Bill Giese CPDT-KA Bill joined GSLTC in 2009 and completed the trainer’s class the same year. Since then, Bill has trained in the Puppy, Adult, Dogs With Issues, and Behavior and Training 101 classes. He also served on the Board of Directors as both an officer and the Chair of the People Committee until 2012, when he was nominated as President of the Board of Directors. Bill became interested in training after adopting a Dachshund puppy-mill rescue named Sam and a mixed breed girl, Libby, who came off the street and straight into his heart and home. Living with Sam and Libby, as well as rescued cats, and learning clicker training, has opened Bill’s eyes to the special relationships we can have with our animal companions when that relationship is built on respect, patience, kindness, and opportunities for fun and games. Bill loves helping others learn to live in harmony with their dogs and appreciates witnessing the relationships that develop between dogs and their humans. Bill is working towards eligibility to sit for the CPDT exam. Bill and his wife, Linda, have previously been involved with a Dachshund breed rescue group and volunteered at a local shelter.
	Diane Goebel CPDT-KA As a volunteer with a local shelter, Diane attended the GSLTC Dog Behavior and Training Basics Course in 2010 with the intention of increasing her knowledge of dog behavior and improving her handling and training skills with shelter dogs. She found the classes to be so interesting that she continued on to become a GSLTC trainer. Currently, Diane is the GSLTC Director of Training and is a Head Trainer in the Puppy Kindergarten, Puppy Elementary and Foundation Manners classes. Diane believes in the positive, force-free training methods advocated by GSLTC and enjoys working with the dogs and their families in GSLTC classes. Diane’s household includes her clicker-trained dog George and two cats, Chloe and Charles. Diane became a Certified Professional Dog Trainer – Knowledge Assessed in 2015 and is a member of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers.
	Jeff Jensen, CPDT-KA Jeff joined the GSLTC and completed the Assistant Trainer Program in 2009. He teaches both levels of Puppy instruction, and assists with Foundation classes. As the co-owner of Four Muddy Paws Healthy Pet Market he realizes the importance of taking a holistic approach to pet care and that includes utilizing a positive approach to training. He believes understanding and strengthening our relationship with our pets is critical in building strong bonds together. Over the years, Jeff has found that using positive training methods is fun and challenging for both the handler and the dog. Additionally, Jeff enjoys helping new handlers build strong bonds with their dogs as he has done with his rescue lab-mixes, Salem and Foster.
	Barb Kohner Board of Directors, Safety Barb Kohner has loved animals her whole life and grew up with many cats and dogs. They rescued their first dog, a Brittany/Beagle mix named Sam, seven years ago and their second, a Brittany named Gage, four months ago. Gage achieved his Canine Good Citizen certification in 2007, and Sam was accredited in 2010. They enjoy walking the neighborhood, hiking local trails, meeting new people and being petted by whomever they meet. Barb became involved with GSLTC when she enrolled in the Family Dog series with Sam in 2007. Since then, she has served on the Board of Directors and as the Director of Training. She currently co-teaches the Dog Behavior and Training Basics Course and assists with group classes. As a psychologist, Barb works with children who have learning and adjustment problems. While taking classes with the GSLTC, Barb was delighted to find that the Club employed the same learning methods she often used in her professional work. Additionally, she was impressed with the positive attitudes of trainers, and how they communicated effectively with dogs. Barb says: “In my work with children, I often find that despite the best of intentions, parents and teachers tend to misinterpret negative behavior as a “motivation” problem or “stubborness” instead of what it usually is – a reaction to stress and lack of confidence or a skill deficit of some sort. Adults then fall into the trap of using negative consequences to try to “motivate” the child. These approaches not only fail to produce the desired effects, but often result in even greater frustration for everyone. When I took classes with the GSLTC, I met trainers who understood the underlying causes of negative behavior and taught the kinds of responses I believe in and try to promote in my work. I greatly admired and respected their knowledge and wanted to be a part of this group.” Barb holds a Ph.D in Clinical Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.
	Linda Schulte Linda joined GSLTC in early 1990s when she started training her first dog. She and her Welsh terriers have participated in obedience, rally obedience, clicker training, tricks, conformation showing, earthdog go-to-ground, terrier races, tracking, and agility. Her dogs have earned obedience, earthdog, and temperament titles (both CGC and TT). Linda breeds and shows Welsh terriers through Wysiwyg Welsh Terriers, which she co-owns with Lucy Bailey, and is webmaster for their site. She is the local rep for WTCARES, the national Welsh terrier club’s rescue organization. Linda has served on the GSLTC Board, and has been the club’s obedience trial secretary for several years. Linda helped develop the Novice Rally obedience class and Advanced and Excellent Rally workshop (class).