Trades 2 Trainer Launches to Equip the Next Generation of CTE Instructors
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Trades 2 Trainer Launches to Equip the Next Generation of CTE Instructors
We’re proud to announce the launch of Trades 2 Trainer—a groundbreaking toolkit designed to support skilled trades professionals transitioning into teaching roles in Career and Technical Education (CTE).
Developed in partnership with TCE Consulting and powered by our Ringorang® habit-formation platform, Trades 2 Trainer delivers just-in-time coaching to help new instructors build classroom confidence, apply IEP accommodations, and model the very essential skills they’re teaching students.
The toolkit is deployed as a gamified “pocket coach,” engaging instructors with brief, actionable bursts—so they’re never left figuring it out alone.
This is more than onboarding. It’s a culture shift. And it’s how we retain great talent in education by empowering tradespeople to become transformational trainers.
Future Ready National Game Tournament Expands to 22 States
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Future Ready National Game Tournament Expands to 22 States
Future Ready by Ringorang® is gaining national traction. What started as a local pilot is now a movement—coaching students across 22 states with the essential skills they need for life and work.
In less than three minutes a day, students engage in a national game tournament that turns employability skills into habits. Backed by the Perkins employability framework, the curriculum is delivered through bite-sized, gamified bursts that build real behaviors—and real confidence.
Teachers are seeing the impact. Schools are gaining visibility. Students are winning prizes and earning badges for skills that set them apart.
As demand grows, so does our reach. The Future Ready game is being adopted by school districts, workforce boards, and nonprofit partners committed to preparing students not just to graduate—but to thrive.
Small Business of the Year Award: Finalist
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Small Business of the Year Award Finalist
We’re thrilled to share that Knowledge as a Service has been named a finalist for Small Business of the Year! The announcement was made at the Sunrise Scrambler hosted by the Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce—a gathering of leaders and changemakers across the region. To be recognized in that room, among peers we admire, was powerful.
This nomination reflects the extraordinary work of our team, our partners, and the communities we serve. From powering the Future Ready national game tournament to transforming learning into real-world behaviors through Ringorang, we’ve made it our mission to activate human potential at scale.
We’ve been on the move—connecting with educators, workforce agencies, and innovators at events across the state. And wherever we go, one thing is clear: the world is ready for solutions that actually work.
This nomination affirms what we’ve believed all along. When you build a performance-first culture grounded in habit formation, measurable impact follows.
We’re grateful. We’re just getting started.
Feature: Startland News on Future Ready National Game Tournament
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Chief Vision Officer Robert Feeney announces the start of the Future Ready nationwide digital game tournament for students!
High school students compete on their mobile devices, or Chrome books, between one-to-three minutes a day to adapt employee behavior by forming new attitudes, skills and knowledge using Ringorang’s clinically proven A.S.K. Methodology.
“A newly opened, nationwide digital game tournament aims to help students adopt the life skills needed to start careers wherever they live.”
Robert Feeney
Read the full story on the Future Ready National Game Tournament at Startland News.
Listen: ACT “Ready for Work” Podcast
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High Tech Meets High Touch to Engage Working Learners
Change management enables working learners to acquire skills and adopt behaviors that maximize workforce and learning outcomes. Robert Feeney, Ringorang Chief Vision Officer, appeared on the ACT “Ready for Work” podcast to talk about the importance of behavior change in education and career development as well as how schools and workforce stakeholders are using Ringorang to ensure their students and employees are Future Ready.
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The Door to Performance and Wellness
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Performance and wellness were key themes that appeared in the 2023 Performance Improvement conference by the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI). Topics like happiness, health, mental health and wellbeing were woven into workshops, sessions and conversations in and around the conference, including in Ringorang Chief Vision Officer Robert Feeney’s opening keynote: Breaking Down the Locked Door to Performance and Wellness.
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Presenters were not the only performance practitioners at the conference making the connection between performance and wellness. Attendees recognized the obvious gap and sought strategies to fill it by addressing people’s wellbeing as it relates to performance for their organizations.
In his keynote, Robert positioned “wellness” as a requirement to achieving performance and “performance” as a requirement to achieving wellness. However, to accomplish either of these states at work or in life, he provided the missing piece that opens the door between them: readiness.
Defined, readiness is a state in which we’re prepared for or to do something or in which we’re exhibiting a willingness to do something. When it comes to opening the door to that something, that readiness can feel hard to come by. Say you’re preparing for a marathon, becoming ready looks like practice, practice, practice – hundreds of miles logged to prepare for that 26.2-run on race day. Or, say you’re a manager of a team, and you need to walk through the door into a team meeting ready to lead. You have to help this team perform. If you’re not ready, what’s going to happen? How do you get ready?
“Familiarity is the key.”
Ringorang Chief Vision Officer Robert Feeney
Ringorang, our clinically proven behavior-change technology, activates a decades-old model driving familiarity in consumers around the world: advertising. Advertising is a strategic method of reaching an audience to call them to take an action. Part of that strategy requires frequency to increase awareness – and that frequency leads to familiarity.
When you think about an actor, an athlete or a musician, in preparation to perform, what are they doing? Running their lines over and over again. Practicing their sport until every move is second nature. Playing their instrument until each note is muscle memory.
Repeat exposure makes it familiar. Taking repeated actions makes it even more familiar.
As performance practitioners, we need to create the same sense of familiarity in our people, so they can walk through the door ready for whatever is expected of them, whether that be a new process or a new way of thinking. Our responsibility is to create an environment of readiness for our organizations and the people who work with them. Without repetition, there will not be sufficient familiarity for people to take reliable actions.
In practice at Goodwill Industries of Kansas, our technology is used by people coming out of incarceration to help develop familiarity with what employers will expect of them. We’re working with Level Communities in Pennsylvania to shift attitudes of people who see themselves as life-long renters toward homeownership by creating familiarity with resources available. The U.S. Forestry Service, a division of the USDA, has tapped into Ringorang to provide familiarity with in-the-moment decision-making for frontline firefighters across the country.
Right now, we’re repurposing this same technology in school districts and two-year colleges to prepare graduating students with what is expected of them in the workforce. School districts in Kansas, Louisiana and Arkansas have just delivered the first round of results we’re excited to share.
It’s a model that has been used to shift habits in consumers for decades through advertising. Now, adapted in Ringorang, this model is making a difference at Big Tech companies, schools, national non-profits and other organizations seeking to develop this environment of familiarity to develop readiness for performance and wellness.
