Erik Francis with Maverik Education and Christian Nielson with uQualio® E10
Maverik Education, LLC provides academic professional development and consultation to K-12 schools, colleges, and universities on developing rigorous learning environments and delivering educational experiences that challenge students to demonstrate higher order thinking and communicate depth of knowledge (DOK).
Erik M. Francis, M.Ed., M.S., Owner of Maverik Education, is an international author and presenter with over 20 years of experience working as a classroom teacher, a site administrator, an education program specialist with a state education agency, and a professional development trainer.
He has extensive experience working with diverse populations of schools, staff, and students at all grade levels from pre-kindergarten to post-graduate. Erik is the author of Now THAT’S a Good Question! How to Promote Cognitive Rigor Through Classroom Questioning published by ASCD. His book on teaching and learning for depth of knowledge will be published by Solution Tree International in 2021.
Erik is also ranked as one of the World’s Top 30 Education Professionals for 2019 (#13) and 2020 (#3) by the research organization Global Gurus.
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uQualio® is the company name and the name of a new kind of video eLearning platform for the use in onboarding, training, marketing, sales and sales support.
uQualio® takes the value of video for training, cloud-based technologies, SaaS, smartphones, social media, gamification, and bite size learning and creates a new way to create, distribute and consume learning.
uQualio® is a revolutionary way to do this for companies, NGO’s, non-profits and startups across the world.
Christian Nielsen is uQualio®’s Chief Product Officer and co-founder. He holds a Master of Science in Electronic Engineering.
He has a long career with extensive international experience in Management, Leadership & Quality within learning and software industries. Back in 2000 Christian was the CEO of one of the first eLearning companies in Denmark.
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Debra Hildebrand is the Founder and CEO of The Lurnist. She has over 20 years’ experience in consulting and over 10 years in corporate training and teaching in higher education.
She is one of the architects for the Project Management Certification program at the University of Washington, where she received the Team Teaching Excellence Award and currently instructs in the online portion of the program. Additionally, she developed and currently teaches two highly popular online courses at Stanford University. She has developed and produced over 200 educational videos.
Prior to building her own business, she worked as a management consultant for a boutique consulting company in the Pacific Northwest where her role included creating successful solutions for high profile, complex, cross-functional projects in the public sector.
She earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York, NY and she serves on the advisory board for the University of Washington Project Management Certificate Program and is a National Mentor for SeedSpot.
About Hildebrand Solutions, DBA “The Lurnist
The Lurnist provides strategic solutions for online business startup, marketing and course creation. We provide entrepreneurs, small businesses and service professionals with coaching and training to help them build a successful and revenue generating business. We do this by providing real action steps that can be implemented right away and strategies for automating work that is slowing down progress. Our motto is SIMPLE and ACTIONABLE.
