We’re a learning sciences company that works on-site with supply chain organizations, built on two convictions: that rapid adaptation is the essential skill of our era, and that meaningful work should be accessible to everyone.
As technology accelerates, the most valuable skill won’t be mastering a single tool—it will be the ability to pivot and acquire new skills quickly. Learning how to learn is the best investment you can make.
Benjamin Manning
Founder
Taught by someone who has run the operation
Big 4 firms staff industrial engagements with people who have never been in a distribution center. Every engagement here is led by an operator.
Global supply chain operations
Leadership across planning, sourcing, execution, and logistics — the same functions these engagements are built around. The assessment work is done by someone who has carried the operating metrics being discussed, not by a consultant applying a maturity model to an industry they have read about.
Systems built, not just taught
Three engineering degrees and thirty years as a practicing software and systems engineer. The architecture, integration, and governance work in the agentic practice is work our founder has shipped, including the failure modes.
Georgia Tech, and two decades of learning science
Instructor affiliation with Georgia Tech and teaching experience at three Research I universities. The Story-Centered Curriculum method behind every engagement comes from twenty years of applying learning science research, not from a course design template.
Let Numbers Talk
Stop hiring for skills you could build internally. The talent you need is usually already on your payroll. We embed with your supply chain team on-site, restructure how the work gets done, and leave the capability behind.
Our Story-Centered Curriculum, refined over 20 years of learning science application, places your employees inside authentic professional scenarios where they actively solve complex problems under the guidance of practicing industry experts.
The ROI is straightforward: capable teams make better decisions faster, and upskilling existing employees costs a fraction of recruiting, hiring, and onboarding specialized talent. Every engagement is measured against an operating metric you already own.
We don’t just train your teams. We teach them how to train themselves.
In a landscape where technical skills have a 2–3 year half-life, the real competitive advantage isn’t what your employees know—it’s how quickly they can learn what they’ll need to know next.
Our programs embed metacognitive skill development into every learning experience. Through Story-Centered Curriculum refined over 20 years, your teams tackle authentic workplace challenges while simultaneously learning:
- ✓How to deconstruct complex problems into learnable components
- ✓Which learning strategies work for different types of skills
- ✓How to seek, evaluate, and apply new information effectively
- ✓How experts actually think through ambiguous situations
Out of Tragedy Comes a New Beginning
Our founder and CEO sustained a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) in an automobile accident in high school that left him paralyzed from the chest down and confined to a wheelchair without the use of his hands.
Since 1993 and with the support of an awesome family, he completed three engineering degrees, worked as a practicing software and system engineer for 30 years and taught at three different Research I level universities.
Start with a roadmap.
We assess where AI actually pays in your network, whether your data can support it, and what to fund first. You leave with a costed, sequenced plan you can defend to finance — and a clear view of which of our other practices, if any, you need.
Start With a Roadmap