ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LEVERAGED LEARNING
Leveraged Learning is a well-crafted, compelling examination and re-imagination of education. In the face of our consternation about the future of work and societal turmoil, Danny Iny gives us a path toward a smarter and more capable world.
RANDY KOMISAR, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, former CEO of LucasArts Entertainment and Crystal Dynamics, former Stanford professor, and best-selling author of The Monk and the Riddle and Getting to Plan B
Leveraged Learning is a must-read for anyone looking to spread ideas. In a world of shrinking attention spans, education is experiencing a revolution. Danny Iny has his finger on the pulse of whats to come, and a gift for translating complicated, jargon-heavy theory into simple and engaging concepts. The result is a compelling, practical and important guide to teaching in the age of distraction.
RON FRIEDMAN, PH.D., best-selling author of The Best Place to Work
A prescient look at where the learning industry is headed, and the implications for both students and professionals.
JEFF COBB, co-founder of Tagoras, and author of Leading the Learning Revolution
If you are anything like me, your degree alone didnt prepare you for the job you have today. Most likely, you dont even work in the same field as your original degree! Danny Iny isnt the first to make this observation, or to question the path that most educational institutions are on. But no one has laid out a cogent argument for a meaningful alternative for achieving true learning that best serves the student. Until now. If you care about our broken education system, you must read Leveraged Learning .
ABE CRYSTAL, CEO of Ruzuku
Danny takes an intriguing exploration into the problems with the current models for learning, and gives some thoughtful ideas for where we need to go next.
RANDY GAGE, New York Times best-selling
author of Risky is the New Safe and Mad Genius
My reputation is in part because of my education. And I make my living by being an educator, teaching leaders and managers around the world. And Im in a perpetual state of anxiety about the future of education. Because I know its changing... Im just not sure exactly how, or how fast. Danny Iny is my trusted guide across a treacherous landscape.
MICHAEL BUNGAY STANIER, author of the WSJ-bestseller, The Coaching Habit
This is the end of expensive and worthless degrees. As an employer and a lifelong learner, I feel Danny has concisely identified the challenges facing post-secondary both in usefulness to the student and as a signal to employers. His solution, while not simple, will lead to employees who are highly capable, well educated for the task at hand and skilled at keeping their knowledge current to support their current and future growth needs.
DAVE LAKHANI, CEO of Bold Approach, best-selling author of Persuasion: The Art of Getting What You Want
Danny Iny has done the hard work of studying the true future of learning, and outlines the strategies and tactics to make sure you dont get left behind.
DAVID BURKUS, associate professor at Oral Roberts University, and best-selling author of Friend of a Friend and Under New Management
Leveraged Learning is a tour de force of educationhow it evolved, what it delivered and where it is going. We all know that higher education is broken, but Danny give us a penetrating insight into how it is broken and why it is broken. He identifies the four major transformations that are wrecking our current institutions and provides us possible solutions that are cheaper and better. This is a book that will make you think and likely change how you invest in education for yourself and your loved ones.
SRIKUMAR RAO, TED Speaker, former Columbia professor, and author of Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful - No Matter What
Whether youre a lifelong learner or passionate expert, Leveraged Learning will take you on a journey from the failures of our current system, through to a bright and exciting future for education and give you the tools to be a part of it.
GREG SMITH, Founder and CEO of Thinkific
Forget about four-year degrees and decades (or more) of debt. Stop what you are doing and read Leveraged Learning ; it clearly lays out the future of education for students, employers and lifetime learners.
JOHN RUHLIN, CEO of the Ruhlin Group, best-selling author of Giftology
What if modern education was more about engaging curiosity instead of memorizing useless factoids? In this well-argued book, Danny Iny offers an insightful look into how we can (and must) transform the way we learn today. It starts with rethinking what we need to know and reimagining who we choose to teach it to us. Read this book to help you understand what it takes to do both.
ROHIT BHARGAVA, adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and Wall Street Journal, best-selling author of Non-Obvious
Danny offers a clear view into the present education crisis. He then leads us into a future where a new way of learning can transform the education crisis into humanitys greatest opportunity.
CHRIS BADGETT, CEO of LifterLMS
Many people talk about the uselessness and cost of degrees unused but no one has laid out as cogent an argument for a meaningful alternative for achieving true learning that best serves the student. Best of all, students wont be in debt until they are 40 or longer and theyll have the education they need for the purpose it will serve, just when they need it most.
MICHAEL PORT, NY Times, WSJ best-selling author of Steal the Show
This is a book that schools will hate and employers will love. Say goodbye to expensive and often useless degrees. (Be honest, how many people do you know who work in the field related to their degree? I dont know many.) Danny Iny presents a well-defined argument for how education has failed both students and employers and exactly how it not only needs to, but will, change. Say goodbye to 20 years of debt for classes and degrees youll never use after the classroom and say hello to education the way it should be: precise, practical, and profitable.
ANKUR NAGPAL, CEO of Teachable
The conversation around education in these times is an important, nuanced one. Dannys book is full of interesting ideas, examples and is valuable for anyone navigating the world of learning and education.
UJ RAMDAS, co-founder of Intelligent Change and co-creator of The Five Minute Journal
Most forms of traditional education are expensive, and they are failing their students, which is creating a significant demand for non-traditional education channels. In this excellent book, Danny Iny shows us how we can provide a more enriching experience for our students that will translate into more results for them, and more of an impact they will have on the world.
DEREK COBURN, author of Networking Is Not Working
Danny Iny says that in a world of broken education, we all lose. I couldnt agree more. I just wish there had been a Danny trying to fix the world in this way when education was failing me. But Im grateful that hes helping to build a better future for my children.
SEAN PLATT, CEO of Sterling and Stone,
and best-selling author of Write. Publish. Repeat.
Iny is the foremost expert in online education and one who does it ethically and without sleaze. With Leveraged Learning, he has taken his real-world experience in growing his own online education business and helping entrepreneurs like me, and distilled it into a book that will help other entrepreneurs and those who have a lifelong learning passion. I cannot recommend it more highly.
