Apr 28, 2021Strive Has Been Acquired By FranklinCovey to Drive Impact at ScaleStrive has been acquired by FranklinCovey, one of the world’s leading corporate training companies. Our team will join FranklinCovey to power the blended learning experience for the thousands of customers and millions of users subscribed to their All Access Pass. — Our mission at Strive is to help people…Startup3 min readStartup3 min read
Jan 11, 2021The Past, Present and Future of Learning & DevelopmentWhy There’s Never Been a Better Time to Build an L&D Company My Lightbulb Moment In the winter of 2010, as a 23 year old relatively new grad working at YouTube, I was asked to compile a list of the most popular channels by category for a year-end wrap up. Scouring YouTube’s internal…Learning10 min readLearning10 min read
Feb 4, 2020Preparing People for the Future of WorkHow technology will impact work, and how employers should respond Executive Summary The impact of AI is misunderstood — AI will primarily automate tasks, not eliminate entire jobs Given this, there will be enormous corporate demand for upskilling, not reskilling Employers are the new educators — they need to help…Future Of Work8 min readFuture Of Work8 min read
Jan 25, 2018Providing a Fair Shot at a Great Career — Announcing Strive TalentAfter many years working on educational innovation at Google, YouTube and Minerva, last February I launched Strive Talent to help people from less privileged educational and socioeconomic backgrounds find family-supporting, middle-class careers based on their skills and potential rather than credentials and pedigree. Today I am excited to share that…Hiring4 min readHiring4 min read
Mar 9, 2017Sustaining the Passion of November 9thWhen I was in high school in the early 2000s, Arianna Huffington spoke at an assembly at my small high school in Oakland. The political climate, like today, was deeply polarized and Democrats were on the march, protesting the war in Iraq in San Francisco and DC, New York and…Bernie Sanders3 min readBernie Sanders3 min read
Nov 9, 2014Learning about learningA syllabus for understanding the past, present and future of higher ed — Eighteen months ago I quit a dream job at Google to join Minerva, an ambitious organization rethinking higher education from scratch (learn more). …3 min read3 min read
May 21, 20147 ways to make sure you’re not wasting time unnecessarilyA guide to saving seconds and minutes that add up — This past year I’ve onboarded a dozen people to partnerships/ sales/ marketing teams, first at Google and now at Minerva. When the company 101, team vision/ strategy/ tactics, and role definition conversations are done, I crank the intensity and passion to 11 for the final session: productivity tools. We spend…7 min read7 min read
Nov 12, 2013Marketing 101 @ Google U The best books, blogs and more from four years studying marketing at Google — “I want you to run a direct marketing campaign reaching five million small businesses across emerging markets — you pick the countries. You’ll have a budget of $XM dollars and the campaign needs to have at least a 5x ROI. …3 min read3 min read
