About Our Supporters

In 2016, RSolutions and Dr J Paul Rand, were tasked by state and federal legislators to review and propose a structure for a newly accredited method of funding workforce development solutions. Drawing from the vast research and regulatory oversight administered by the organizations just defined, the focus is implementation of a grant-based, vocational and workforce development system: Application and research that has been conducted at the intersect of organizational training and higher-education, with seminal applied-roots in 1979; to seminal and empirical findings released in 2014.

To date only a small handful of firms have researched and investigated the science of applied-learning, applied-research, and applied-leadership disciplines that are fully developed in this section. These include:

  • RSolutions Management (formerly SRP, Inc.) a human performance improvement research think tank. This was operated in conjunction with the Society of HR Management consortium of 250 colleges (SHRM);
  • Society of Learning Accreditation (SLA) the independent measurement and applied-research benchmarking system monitoring SRP, Inc applied-learning programs against established Department of Education requirements; against Department of Labor accreditation standards, and against Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) top 15% graduate school outcomes.
  • Society for Applied Professional Science, managed by the Strategic Learning Alliance (Association) which incubated and monitored economic and labor economic value to the aforementioned systems that ultimately created the foundation for applied-leadership sciences measured through obtained professional certifications, professional diplomas (international degrees), and laid the ground work for statistical studies of intensity research and learning programs with an association of 7000 certified professional coaches, over 500 labor researchers, 10,000 HR professionals, and participation with multiple societies in psychology, human resources, and other applicable disciplines.

History of Regulatory Oversight

These learning lessons and coming recommendations are not one consultants view; nor the work of a single university. Instead this seminal effort draws from over 1200 co researchers, insights collected from thousands of professional coaches, and data captured from organizational insights of some 3000 HR professionals representing over 30,000 employees.

The research spans a decade and has been vetted by:

  • Association for Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business: this regulator body establishes the standards for top graduate student performance. Only the top 15% of all graduate business schools are recognized. The Applied-Professional Studies have been integrated and approved through accredited schools on the basis of multiple levels of educational standards and courses within the disciplines of applied-learning, applied-research, and applied-leadership.
  • Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) accreditation standards, this entity independently tested and issued certification and recertification standards for the human resource industry (HR) certifications to be introduced, they work independently (as of 2014) from the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM)..
  • Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), an international organization with over 600,000 members that directly impact workforce development, career development, and labor economics. Human Resources directly defines the value of certifications, certificates, degrees, diplomas (international degrees) and relevant compensation standards based on free-market surveys for industry, role, demand, and value provided by specific jobs.
  • SHRM, College Consortium, a group of 250 colleges to which the independent agencies listed previously regularly updated the colleges on trends. This system also benchmarked applied-professional standards for ten years running finding that it out performed 99% of the higher-education systems and organizational training methods.
  • Private Research and University Program Research: multiple university courses, seminars, certificates and degrees were put on at various institutions spanning 1979 to 2016. Sponsoring colleges and universities hosting courses, seminars, summits, and courses included:
    • Boise State University,
    • Seattle Pacific University,
    • College of Development & Training, Ontario;
    • University of Utah;
    • University of Wisconsin;
    • University of Washington;
    • Capella University;
    • University of Dubi;
    • University of California;
    • Oxford, Princeton, Harvard, and more.
  • Federal & State Regulatory Accreditation Standards: American Schools/Colleges of Business (AASCB), Veterans Affairs (VA) & Department of Defense (DoD) accreditation; Department of Labor accreditation: In the final years of testing, delivery, and development of Leadership (as a terminal degree and graduate certificate) within multiple systems of applied professional sciences required full accreditation and regulatory oversight by the Department of Education; the Department of Veterans Affairs; and various federal and state Department of Labor, Social Services and other regulatory agencies These regulatory agencies requiring not just institution accreditation of the university, but specific degree, diploma, and certification approval.

Over the years, the programs defined became structured, regulated and monitored for various academic, research, and scholarly purposes. The sum of the key parts is the "Applied Professional Science" industry. The key disciplines being: Applied-learning, Applied-research, Applied-leadership. The adoption of the SLA accreditation, therefore, carries forth this R&D as the core standard of education and application. This allows programs to "Add-to", build-on/around the method to provide instantly accredited programs for certifications, certificates, or degree/diploma's that are not restricted to a single university approval system and can be relicensed to other colleges using the decade old proven success model developed by RSolutions (formerly SRP, Inc), SHRM, and various university affiliates.