Connecting Learning and 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