FEBRUARY 2012-For designing an online coaching platform to help vets graduate. An online community and platform that coaches veterans through the process of preparing for college and the workforce, Fidelis provides technological solutions...
JANUARY 2012-Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the Vice President used her visit to the Bay Area to promote the Joining Forces initiative, a joint venture with the First Lady to promote efforts that support our troops and veterans and their families...
JANUARY 2012 - Dr. Jill Biden and White House Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, attended a conference to review solutions being devised by top technology companies to address the serious issue of veteran unemployment...
JANUARY 2012 - Employers are frustrated. Despite record-high unemployment rates, they can't find hardworking employees with the skills they need to be competitive internationally...
NOVEMBER 2011 - It’s admittedly difficult to argue for jobs legislation that costs more than $1 billion, won’t produce many new jobs and will clutter an overly complex tax code...
NOVEMBER 2011 - Fidelis founder and CEO Gunnar Counselman speaks at TEDxSF on how the current education system can benefit from new credentialing techniques...
NOVEMBER 2011 - Don Faul, vice president of online operations at Facebook Inc., and Gunnar Counselman, chief executive officer of Fidelis Education, talk about job skills acquired by veterans while serving in the military that are useful to technology companies...
SEPTEMBER 2011 - Most colleges are underprepared for the wave of veterans returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the largest influx since after the Vietnam War...
APRIL 2011 - You know what’s awful about every politician blindly saying he or she “supports our troops”? It’s usually a hollow sentiment uttered just to get applause....
I'm a huge fan of TED talks. My favorite of all time was the Sir Ken Robinson one in which he talked about changing paradigms in schools. So when TED called, I was delighted to answer.
My talk pales by comparison, but it was my best first swing.
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Over the past several months, the team at Fidelis has talked to scores of Fortune 500 companies about partnering to develop a pipeline of qualified military talent for them.
The themes of our conversations with companies have been surprisingly consistent: companies want to hire folks from the military because they recognize it’s a great source of people...
Unsubstantiated Claim #1:
15 years from now, education will be 2,000% better than it is today and it will cost ½ as much.
Adaptive learning technologies, the emergence of the social web, mobile, tablets, appification of...well...everything are all conspiring to fundamentally improve every aspect of learning.
15 years from now schools will have the luxury of...
Fidelis’s initial interactions with the mental health community suggest that a surprising consensus is emerging that traditional models clash with what they call the warrior culture.
While only a small percentage of people getting out of the military have notable symptoms of post-traumatic stress, colleges and companies are concerned about its impact and we...
The team at Fidelis thinks that the national dialogue around veterans is well-intentioned but frankly misdirected.
Even while introducing POTUS at the Navy Yard, Admiral Mullen, an Officer for whom we have tremendous respect, recalled a Sailor saying “I gave my country 100 percent. All I ask for is 100 percent in return....
Our outreach team has spoken with admissions departments at several dozen top-tier schools, including the likes of Harvard, MIT, Stanford, the UC System, BU, Georgetown, Notre Dame, and Wisconsin Madison. These Elite and Tier I colleges across the country are spending considerable resources trying to recruit more former military personnel to study at their campuses.
The...
One month ago, our country mourned on the 10 year anniversary of the vicious terrorist attacks of 9/11. Since that day, our country’s collective mentality about security on American soil changed forever. On this day, our military changed as well.
Gone are the days of complacently choosing military service as simply a stepping stone to free college. The men and women who...
In the past couple of months, Fidelis has had over 70 business development conversations with HR executives and hiring managers at mostly Fortune 500 companies. It’s been amazing to us how consistent they’ve been about the pros and cons of hiring military veterans.
A senior executive at a Seattle-based software giant summed up the attitude like this:...
Azimuth is a quick, game-like survey that will help Fidelis build a solution to the challenge of the military-to-civilian career transition.
