Joining Ryan on this episode is Jonathan Finkelstein, the founder and CEO of Credly; a top 50 hottest tech company recently acquired by Pearson that helps the world speak a common language about people’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Thousands of employers, training organisations, associations, certification programs, and workforce development initiatives use Credly to help individuals translate their learning experiences into professional opportunities using trusted, portable, digital credentials.
He is author of Learning in Real Time, a frequent contributor and speaker on HR and learning technology, a former board member of the American Alliance of Museums Media & Technology Committee, and producer or host of thousands of online events and programs for talent development, learning and HR audiences.
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS

Creating a shorter form credential system connects people to the right job. This in turn facilitates upward mobility that is much more capability based.
While more industries and businesses are looking towards specialized training certifications, having a system in place to easily recognize the skill sets that individuals possess is important for translating and transferring those skills to a new arena.
No matter where your organization is right now, the importance of holding onto your core values should always be at least equal to striving for larger financial goals.

 
BEST MOMENTS
' A lot of people over the last year have been re-thinking what it is they want to do in the world, what are they good at?’
‘What do you have to show for it at the end? The state of the art was still at best a paper certificate saying ‘good job’  attaboy, attagirl, you completed this thing.’
’Virtually everyone that engages in learning or taking an assessment or getting a certification has some positive benefit they have in mind.’
‘We want people to understand what their human capital is actually worth.’
 
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How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to LinkedIn) and many more.
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Ryan is a Founder, Podcast Host, Speaker, Loving Father, Husband and Dog Dad. He is an 18x award winner and grew a business unit from 0-$30M in Annual Recurring Revenue while adding $30M in capital revenue in less than 6 years.  He did this all with only 4 salespeople and without demand generation.  
Whether you are a new Founder,  VP or CEO who is already generating  6, 7 or even multiple 8 figures annually, you are going to gain knowledge about sales you didn’t know existed.
 
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