Skills-Based Training Episodes

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In this episode, YOUR guest is Tom Dawson, Interim President & CEO at Strada Education Network, YOUR host is Dr. Joe Sallustio, & YOUR sponsor is Unmudl!
Listen in as Joe talks with Tom about how Strada works with colleges, students, & employers to create & refine education to workforce pathways.


Thomas C. Dawson is Strada Education Network’s interim president and chief executive officer. He previously ...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! In this episode, your guest is Kate Colbert, President at Silver Tree Communications, LLC, & your sponsor is MDT Marketing!


It‘s episode #300, can you believe it? In this episode we make a major announcement that could change the face of higher Ed completely. We’ll introduce you to Kate Colbert, Co-author of the soon to be EdUp BOOK Experience. Want to know what the future looks like for higher education? Want to...

Welcome back to America’s leading higher education podcast! In this EdUp Embedded Episode, sponsored by the Black History and Culture Academy, Joe talks one-on-one with Lisa Honaker, Managing Director of Sales, Eastern U.S., FedEx Office. Lisa oversees a huge piece of the FedEx Office organization including near 200 employees and millions in sales. With a focus on helping higher education institutions drive operational efficiencies in the shipping, printing, marketing and product areas, she has ...

Welcome back to America’s leading higher education podcast! In this episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by the Black History and Culture Academy, we welcome Charles Knippen, President, National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS)!

Charles talks with Liz and Joe about NSLS, it's mission and very ambitious goal. NSLS has a robust speaker series that have included ex US Presidents among other well known leaders. Listen in as they discuss the definition of leadership and how to asses it....

Welcome back to America’s leading higher education podcast! In this episode, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we welcome Dr. Marni Baker-Stein, Provost/CAO, Western Governors University!

Marni talks about WGU's expansion while they've personalized the learning experience at scale. She discusses the interesting concept of factored graduate return while detailing WGU's laser focus on access and degree attainment for low-income students and students of color. Marni speaks the truth when she says that s...

Welcome back to America’s leading higher education podcast! This is The EdUp Experience President Series Episode #74. In this episode, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we welcome Akiba Covitz, CEO of Foundry College. We round out our coverage of the amazing work at Foundry College by talking with Akiba about Foundry's charge toward national accreditation via DEAC and potential approval of an accredited associate degree in business administration. With a commitment to online synchronous learning, stud...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast! In this incredible episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by Incubeta, we welcome Michelle Westfort, Chief University Officer, InStride. Listen in as special guest cohosts, Holly Owens, host of EdUp EdTech, and Dr. Stacey Gonzales, host of EdUp Edge K-12, talk with Michelle about the amazing work that is being, and will be, done at InStride. Michelle shares her thoughts and what she likes to call working to learn and learning to work...

Welcome back to America’s leading higher education podcast! In this fantastic episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by Incubeta, we welcome Jamie Merisotis, President and & CEO of the Lumina Foundation. In this tremendous episode, we speak to Jamie about a range of topics related to the Lumina Foundation's work at local, state, and national levels to design an affordable learning landscape with the goal of educating 60% of American workers by 2025. College has never been less affordable than...

Welcome back to America‘s leading higher education podcast! In this fantastic episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by Element451, we talk with Lisa Cohen Gevelber, Founder and VP of Grow With Google. With a commitment of one billion dollars, and one million Google employee staff hours, Grow With Google was created to (a) help small businesses leverage technology and (b) to create employment equitability by tearing down barriers for two-thirds of American workers looking for meaningful work ...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast! This is The EdUp Experience President Series Episode #63. In this episode, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we welcome Ryan Collins, CEO at Bethel School of Technology! Bethel School of Technology (aka Bethel Tech) is the first faith-based tech bootcamp in the world. Ryan discusses why organizations are so interested in Bethel Tech grads that have both high-skill and high character. There is no doubt that students learning full-stack, data s...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast! In this fantastic episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by The Evolllution, we talk with Don A. Wettrick CEO, President at the STARTedUP Foundation. Don talks us about how (and why) we can incorporate entrepreneurship in middle and high school. He also discuses his take on the difference between being clever and innovative. Listen in to hear a very innovative practical example of a win, win, win scenario that a few of his students c...

In this amazing episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by EvoLLLution, we have the honor of speaking with Brian Kibby, CEO, Destiny Solutions Inc. & OmniUpdate! We have an EdUp Exclusive for you in this episode - Brian Kibby announces the merging of Destiny Solutions Inc. and OmniUpdate into a new single organization called MODERN CAMPUS! Brian details the need for Modern Campus and the services the organization will provide, including marketing expertise and continuing education hosting - it...

In this amazing episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we have the honor of speaking with Frank Britt, CEO, Penn Foster! Penn Foster is the original correspondence school in the United States. Their focus is on middle-skill income jobs - 'gray jobs', as they market to a student consumer that defines the type of education they want to consume. As the largest provider of upskilling the middle class in the US, Penn Foster's aspirations are not to be a school - they strive to be...

This is The EdUp Experience President Series Episode #49. This episode marks the one year anniversary of The EdUp Experience's first episdoe release on January 25th, 2020. Since then, 148 episodes have been released, including 49 in the President Series, and people have listened to EdUp more than 32,000 times!


In this episode, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we welcome Dr. Michael Cioce, President, Rowan College at Burlington County! Establishing a brand is important - Michael's goal is to commun...

This is The EdUp Experience President Series Episode #46. In this episode of The EdUp Experience, we welcome Dr. Stephen Kosslyn, President Emeritus & CAO, Foundry College. Foundry College has created programs that are future-proofed against technology, and through active learning in their "Forge" learning environment, students emerge skilled up and business ready. Dr. Stephen Kosslyn served on the Harvard faculty for many years but saw the lack of practicality in some of the curriculum as it re...

In this amazing episode of The EdUp Experience, we have the honor of speaking with Ken Eisner, Director of Worldwide Education Programs with Amazon Web Services. The AWS Educate & AWS Academy programs aim to fill the need for skilled workers in cloud computing technologies - which is at an all-time high. Ken discusses Ed-Tech's role in educational equity, and why technology can contribute to closing the wealth gap through economic attainment. Also, Ken points out why co-created learning between ...

In this episdoe of The EdUp Experience, we talk with Dre "Dre All Day" Baldwin, Founder/CEO of Work On Your Game. WOYG is a mental framework, business, brand, and content machine helping you to become your best self by developing the thing that matters most - YOU! Dre talks to us about how to become a story instead of a statistic, what it takes to become great at what you do, and why all things are not and should not be equal in life. What does this mean to higher education? It means everything....

In this episode of EdUp Embedded, Dr. Eric James Stephens, Founder of HireHigherEd talks to Elizabeth about his goal to create an academic community for job hunters to share resources after being displaced by the COVID-19 health crisis. He started with an initial, free, two-day live-streamed event in August, with over 50 speakers, 9 live-streamed thought leader panels, nearly 20 workshops, and over 250 registered attendees.

He has continued the momentum with free weekly online workshops to help...

Our guest on this episode is Warren Kennard, Founder/CEO of ConnectEd Crowdsourced Education and Managing Director of Cahoot Learning. Warren talks to us about facilitating student engagement in online learning, the importance of upskilling and stackable credentials, and the state of higher ed in other countries besides the US.


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