Mike Hower is Chief Learning Officer at Strategic Knowledge Solutions, Inc., a Service-disabled, veteran-owned small business that specializes in knowledge management, expertise development and organizational learning. A 20-year Air Force veteran, Mike spent his last five years on the faculty of the Air University as a leadership development coach and the Director of the Air Force Forums Research Project, developing best practices for social learning and professional networking through communities of practice.
Michael Prevou is President and Co-Founder of Strategic Knowledge Solutions. Michael started one of the first communities of practice in the U.S. Army and led the effort to build a nested network of communities within it. Today that network consists of over 60 communities and 240,000 participants. Michael has worked with the private, public, and non-profit sectors to build communities and improve learning outcomes.
Mitchell Levy has authored forty-three business books and is CEO of the independent publishing house Happy About. After earning his MBA from the College of William and Mary, Mitchell spent thirteen years working for corporations in IT, Finance and Operations. He then spent eleven years as an entrepreneur creating thirteen companies and strategic partnerships, including Happy About in 2005. During this time-frame, he created over seventy courses at various universities and booked over 500 speakers at large-scale conferences.