Skills and Competencies in Corporate Learning & Higher Education: A Chat with Sam Palazzolo

In the coming years, as industries evolve with advancing technology, millions of workers will face the need for reskilling. Yet, this transformation brings opportunities for growth and innovation. By embracing new skills, roles, and ways to showcase achievements and competencies – like digital badges and microcredentials – the workforce can thrive in our ever-changing job market.Listen to the latest episode of BadgeCert's podcast, StreetCred, and hear from our guest speakers who have decades of experience growing businesses and teams across various sectors, and who have implemented digital badges to recognize achievements, skills, and competencies.Speakers:Cathy Brown, Director, Broward Center for Nonprofit ExcellenceMelissa Kaufman, Associate Dean for Education, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel UniversityJim Hayes, President, The Fiber Optic AssociationRuben Garcia, CEO & Co-Founder, CertiverseDr. Ginger Malin, CEO & Founder, BadgeCert – Moderator

In this episode of our StreetCred podcast, BadgeCert's founder and CEO Dr. Ginger Malin meets with Scott Draeger, Customer Experience Officer at Quadient. We learn how Quadient successfully launched and grew a new digital badging program for their customers and Quadient University members. Scott's expertise and advice cover many aspects of the program including the onboarding phase, design, R&D, marketing, social media sharing, partners, and a lot more.

In the latest episode of our podcast series StreetCred, BadgeCert's founder and CEO Dr. Ginger Malin meets with Sam Palazzolo, Founder & Managing Director of The Tip of the Spear Ventures, and Adjunct Professor at University of Nevada-Las Vegas. As we have seen a recent large surge in the adoption of digital badging in the corporate market, we thought it would be very interesting to speak with an expert in corporate learning who also has an understanding of the higher education market.

In the latest episode of our podcast series StreetCred, BadgeCert's founder and CEO Dr. Ginger Malin meets with our new partner Learn to Win. Andrew Powell, co-founder & CEO, and Ryan Findley, Head of Product, share how Learn to Win empowers coaches, managers, and teachers of all kinds with the tools to build effective training material, quickly and easily. Their solutions are incredibly powerful as they combine modern concepts such as active learning, micro-learning, mobile-first & personalized content, and just-in-time learning, and are trusted by many organizations across a variety of sectors including sports, defense, and corporate.

In this episode we speak to Monica Cornetti, a globally recognized leader in Gamification Design and Strategy. She's the Founder and President of Sententia Gamification, which has codified and trademarked a proven process for the gamification of learning, establishing standards and best-practices for HR, L&D, and Adult Education. She's also a published author and runs GamiCon, the only conference exclusively aimed at the design and delivery of gamification for corporate training, adult learning, employee motivation and productivity, innovation, and culture change. In this podcast Monica tells us all from how she entered the gamification sector or how key concepts such as "applied learning" and "learner personas" work, to what's on the horizon for her businesses and the wider professional training industry.

In this episode we sit down with Jay Foster, President and Co-founder of Prolydian. With an entrepreneurial spirit and a deep passion for creating technology-based businesses, Jay enjoys building startups that empower, heal, help, and connect. Having over twenty years of experience developing and managing technology projects that include assisting organizations with certificate and certification programs, he co-founded Prolydian in 2015, a one-stop-shop, cloud-based platform that is disrupting the professional testing industry.

In the second episode of our new podcast series, BadgeCert's founder and CEO Dr. Ginger Malin meets with Aman Nabi, Head of Business Development at Finnovate.io. Mr. Nabi and his team are passionate about modernizing education and delivering EdTech products - some of which are used widely across Canada. In this episode he tells us more about his EdTech background, the importance of facilitating learning and creating more meaningful connections between educators and learners, and also shares his views on many other education and technology-related topics.

In the first episode of our new podcast series, BadgeCert's founder and CEO Dr. Ginger Malin meets with EdTech expert Ruben Arturo Garcia. A serial entrepreneur, inventor and patent-holder, Mr. Garcia invented remote proctoring technologies in 2008 (later acquired by PSI Services), significantly driving down overall exam costs and providing greater access to test-takers. With his latest business venture Certiverse, he's working hard to transform the testing industry through evolving technology, economics, and security.