Connecting Learning & Work

For years, we've helped colleges, universities, and organizations design and implement initiatives that fuse learning and work. Our expertise spans the full spectrum of systems change, initiative co-design, change leadership, and implementation.

Core Areas of Expertise

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  • We help organizations validate and recognize learning from all sources. Turn to us for support with:

    • Digital credentials, badges, and microcredential programs

    • Credit for prior learning (CPL) and prior learning assessment

    • Non-credit to credit pathways

    • Stackable credentials

    • Competency-based education (CBE) design and skills validation

    • Learning and Employment Records (LERs)

  • We design initiatives that connect learning directly to careers and advancement.

    • Work-based and work-integrated learning programs

    • Employer + educator partnership development

    • Career pathways and labor market alignment

    • Skills-based development and advancement frameworks

    • Employability development strategies

  • We provide strategic design guidance and quality frameworks for educational innovation. Our work often includes:

    • Thought partnership

    • Human-centered change leadership

    • Program assessment and educational effectiveness activities

    • Quality assurance and accreditation

    • Redesign, strategic planning, and systems mapping

  • We center equity and access in all initiatives.

    • High-impact practices (mentoring, experiential learning, community engagement, praxis learning)

    • Stakeholder engagement and participatory design

    • Staff and leadership development

How We Deliver

Our work ethic is "To Be of Use." We provide hands-on leadership that gets results:

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  • Creating teams and facilitating the design of initiatives to address complex future-state challenges

  • Managing implementation, timelines, and deliverables from start to finish

  • Leading committees, workshops, and communities in any modality

  • Conducting landscape analyses, action research, and qualitative studies

  • Preparing applications, reports, guidelines, and tools that promote adoption and easy use

  • Training, mentoring, and supporting personnel; connecting resources to needed activities

  • Writing and managing grants and funding proposals

  • Linking to state-of-the-art models, technologies, experts, research, and great collaborators