www.skillify.us

Who We Are

How We Work

Skillify is a unique educational consulting firm run by an agile team of seasoned industry experts and forward-looking researchers, content developers and marketing gurus. We combine cutting edge technology with targeted market and user research to help clients move their customers from learning to doing, and from doing to earning—all in the most direct, efficient and cost-effective way possible.  ​
Skillify works at the forefront of educational evaluation, learning assessments, content development and market and user research.  Our Agile compatible methodologies and principles keep us abreast of emerging best practices, technologies and markets in learning and teaching. We incorporate the outcomes into all our solutions to ensure clients can fast forward results.

Our Methods

Our Standards

Our Values

Comparable to Agile methodologies, we establish a business case and develop the minimum viable products (MVP) using incremental processes.  Coined by Eric Ries, MVP is a learning vehicle that allows the testing of ideas by exposing early versions of a product to target customers to collect relevant data and learn from it.  ​​​​​​​​Skillify passes this learning onto its clients.
Skillify holds itself to world-class standards where excellence is center and circumference.  Consistent with  Agile principles, we welcome change, both internally and externally; and work closely with developers mirroring their iterative pace. All products and deliverables are rigorously tested and refined until they meet both industry and client standards.
Skillify values individuals and interactions over processes and tools, and working solutions over documentation.  Simply stated, we value results. We also esteem innovation and excellence.  We believe the best way to become and remain competitive is to innovate; and the best way to differentiate yourself is through excellence.  
What's Being Said About Our Work
  1. Executive Director
    Once again, many, many thanks for your thoughtfulness. It was certainly a pleasure doing business with you and I see us working together for many more years.
  2. Director of Products and Online Services
    Again, this report is excellent. I really appreciate the thorough analysis. Also, it is wonderful to see that the program had a positive impact. Congratulations on a GREAT job!
  3. Executive Director
    I want to thank you for your time last week. I brought some of what we discussed to the Board meeting. It seemed to go well. They understood what I was looking for and overall I received a good response.
  4. Project Director
    I wanted to let you know how great of a job you did in pulling in all the information together and building a strong case. Thanks for all your hard work!
  5. Project Coordinator
    It has been my incredible pleasure to work with you these past two years. I always appreciate the clarity and order you brought to the work.
  6. Program Director
    By the way, I meant to thank you on doing an outstanding job of providing guidance and support to all of us. We hope that we get the chance to work with you again in the future. Thanks for everything.
  7. President & CEO
    Thank you for taking the time to help [our] Foundation with our Health Literacy curriculum. Your contributions to our assessments were very helpful. Best wishes.
Meet Our Team
Our dedicated ​​​​​​​Skillify team collaborates with a seasoned pool of consultants and industry experts. For internship opportunities click here .
Dr. Everest Black is an educational entrepreneur who first began his career in as an educator, and then educational researcher and consultant.  He later migrated into UX research and design, making him a unique meld of scholarly precision, business acumen and creative strategist.  This distinctive back-ground allows him to combine educational technology with quantitative and qualitative research to help clients move their customers from learning to doing, and from doing to earning—and achieve bottom line results: more successful, marketable and profitable educational programs, online and off.
Everest Black, Ed.D.
Managing Director
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
    --Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1918)