What is SafeColleges?
SafeColleges is the leading online staff training and compliance management system
specifically designed for campus employees. With a comprehensive course
library that provides training on Emergency Management, Environmental,
Health, Human Resources, Nutrition Services,
Security, Social & Behavioral, and
Transportation issues, SafeSchools delivers all of the essential
training for every employee on your campus.
History
Co-Founders.
Brian
Taylor and Greg Estep co-founded Scenario Learning in 2004 with the
idea of creating Web-based safety and compliance resources to meet the
unique needs of academic institutions. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the
company began operations in 2002 and has quickly grown to serve
customers in all 50 states as well as internationally.
Focus.
The
premise for Scenario Learning’s products is simple. Safety and
compliance resources for general industry or manufacturing fail to meet
the unique needs of academic institutions. With that simple idea,
Scenario Learning built SafeSchools and SafeColleges, which were initially comprised of a
half-dozen online safety training courses. These online courses were
coupled with a state-of-the-art Compliance Management System to deploy
the courses through the Internet and track all the training for
compliance purposes.
Content Expertise.
From
the beginning, each SafeColleges course was authored by a recognized,
national expert to ensure that the content met the specialized needs of
school and academic administrators. In particular, Brian leveraged his
expertise as a publisher with Thomson Learning to procure the very best
authors across the United States to create training content specifically
for the SafeSchools and SafeColleges systems. Today, there are more than sixty
nationally-prominent authors who are part of our editorial team –
helping to ensure that participating districts, schools, and colleges
all enjoy the most dependable content in the most critical area –
safety.
Flexibility and Scalability.
SafeColleges' revolutionary Compliance Management System (CMS) is unlike any other.
The
system has an array of features that are uniquely suited to simplifying
safety and compliance tasks for school and college
administrators. This includes seamlessly integrating online and offline
learning. Leveraging Greg Estep’s background as an architect of
Internet-based systems, the CMS enables the busy safety administrator to
have all relevant compliance data at their fingertips and to analyze
the data for process improvement.
Expanding and Growing.
SafeColleges courses now number 50 with more to be announced every
year—campus-specific, of course, and with nationally-renowned
authorship. SafeColleges is now the clear industry leader in campus
staff training and compliance, serving colleges across the U.S.
Moreover, the company has demonstrated success forging partnerships with
insurance and workers' comp providers who serve colleges as
well.
Management Team
Brian Taylor: CEO, Co-Founder
Brian
honed his leadership skills over 15 years with Thomson Learning, one of
the nation's largest publishers, where he held a number of executive
management positions. Brian left Thomson to co-found netTrekker, where
he was COO. Brian helped conceptualize netTrekker, which is now a widely
adopted curriculum-based search engine serving 11 million students.
Brian has excelled in alliances throughout his career, having formed
successful partnerships with Apple, Pioneer, Microsoft, Autodesk, Intel,
McGraw-Hill, Follett, Pearson, and Houghton Mifflin. Brian has a BA
from Judson University, an MBA from Xavier University, and executive
education from Columbia University.
Gregory Estep: COO, Co-Founder
Greg
is renowned for the development of pioneering Web-based technology
applications for education. His engineering innovations have garnered
numerous awards and recognitions from USA Today, WSJ, and Technology
& Learning. Greg was the Chief Technology Officer at Hobsons,
the publisher of CollegeView and CareerView. Greg also designed the
architecture for netTrekker, the nation's leading academic search
engine, which is now a market standard. Greg has a BS in Information
Systems from the University of Kentucky.
Steve Holland: Editor-in-Chief
Steve is a seasoned educational publishing executive with experience in
all facets of content development and instructional design. He began his career as the Business
Development Director of Pharos Technologies, a successful venture-funded
network software firm. He also was
the Publisher of Computer Education at South-Western/Thomson Learning. Steve then became a Product Manager for
CNN and many of their education initiatives. He started with Scenario Learning as both a contract
editor and author, before joining the business in a full-time role in 2009 as
Editor-in-Chief. Steve has a BA
from Miami University and a MA from the University of Southern California.
Jim Nulsen: Director of National Accounts
Jim
was Scenario Learning's first employee and has worked in nearly every
position in the firm except for programming. He has often been Scenario
Learning's leading salesperson as well as leading the marketing efforts
through the initial stages of growth. More recently Jim has helped lead
the company's growth through partnerships with insurance and workers'
compensation providers in his role of managing national accounts. Jim
has a BS from Miami University.
Donna McMullin: Director of Marketing
Donna
is an experienced education marketer with an unusually good balance of
creative and strategic sensitivity. She has enjoyed the good fortune of
leading the marketing efforts at a large publisher as well as a
high-growth, successful startup named to the Inc. 500 list of
fastest-growing companies. Donna is formerly the Director of Marketing
Communications for South-Western Educational Publishing as well as VP of
Marketing for Thinkronize, developers of netTrekker. Most recently, she
led the development and marketing efforts of a new Educator Community
for one of the nation's leading assessment providers, eInstruction.
Mark Armstrong: Director of Creative Services
Mark
was a core software engineering leader for WebTV Networks, a company
that enables households to access the Internet through their
televisions. Following the acquisition of WebTV by Microsoft in 1997,
Mark remained with Microsoft for 12 years where he led teams to ship
hardware and software products and services including Internet-TV and
integrated satellite DVR solutions. Before his work in consumer
products, Mark was a software architect at Symantec, co-founder of a
Cincinnati-based software startup and a video game designer. He is
credited with more than a dozen major commercial software releases. Mark
has a BS in Physics from Stanford University.
