SocraticExperience.com, a secondary school for parents seeking a warm, motivating, high performance virtual educational experience for their children, specializing in creative, intellectual, and entrepreneurial students whose needs are not being met by conventional schools.

Founder of the Academy of Thought and Industry, an innovative Montessori-aligned high school with campuses in SF, NYC, Austin, and St. Louis.  They are managed by Higher Ground Education, the leading Montessori network in the U.S.

Twenty-eight years creating innovative K-12 programs and schools, based on Montessori, Socratic, and entrepreneurial principles, including an inner city school at which minority females gained four years of critical thinking skills in four months (on a test that correlates with SAT and IQ); a Montessori middle school in Palo Alto where the average 8th grade SAT for students was higher than the average private school senior; a school for gifted children where middle schoolers passed AP science courses; MVHS, a rural New Mexican school ranked the 36th best public high school in the U.S.; and KoSchool in Austin.  My book, The Habit of Thought:  From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice summarizes my approach.  All of my schools are based on the cultivation of respectful, civil, authentic intellectual dialogue.

This led to FLOW, a non-profit devoted to promoting entrepreneurial solutions to world problems, co-founded with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market.  My second book, Be the Solution:  How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems, co-authored with Mackey, Mohammad Yunus, Hernando de Soto, and others summarizes our approach.

Because global poverty is the biggest of all problems, FLOW led me to focus on bringing better law and governance to the global poor.  As a consequence, I began working to create Special Development Regions and e-government in  Honduras, Senegal, and other regions around the world.

I'm passionate about entrepreneurial solutions to world problems, with personal interest and experience in education and law/governance.  I write on these issues at Medium.

Michael Strong

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Senior Nuclear Project Manager

Childlearn LLC

•	Created and developed a Montessori influenced reading kit
•	Increased Sales 50% month over month on average
•	Developed and sourced an international supply chain 
•	Increased profits by 100%

Co-Founder

Kings River Conservation District

*  Responsible for the safe maintenance and operation of 140 miles of Federal Project Levees in three 
    counties.
*  Manages and plans routine maintenance, large project improvements, and emergency repairs to levees 
   along the Kings River which provides water for 27 different irrigation districts.

Manager Flood Operations and Maintainence 

Tap Truck Santa Barbara

•	Licensee for Tap Truck USA covering Santa Barbara County
•	Increased bookings in territory by 50%
•	Managed the restoration of a 1957 Ford Panel Truck

Owner

RGNext

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Project Manager
•	Managed Projects in support of keeping the range “green” for rocket launches at Vandenberg AFB.

Senior Project Manager

Anderson Burton

•	Performed estimating, document control, and project communication and implementation for electrical and general construction projects.
•	Managed projects totaling over $5 million dollars for customers including Federal, State Utilities, and Private Sector Energy Companies.

Project Superintendent

•	Managed all electrical and nuclear safety projects totally $74-million+, along with outage projects at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, significantly improving and expanding plant reliability
•	Performed on-the-job risk analysis in the speculation and appraisal of many aspects of project development, generating risk assessments and reports to executives and stakeholders
•	Identified and facilitated the resolution of Corrective Actions related to project deliverables through Root Cause Assessments.
•	Negotiated tasks with project stakeholders and community leaders, implementing critical analytic and communication skills
•	Monitor team work load, project timelines, and adherence to set goals, while providing critical project support
•	Oversaw cost controls, performing on-the-job cost analysis and cost control to support budget updates, through identification of wasteful, common, and duplicated project tasks and corresponding solution implementation

Nuclear Project Manager PMP

Atlas Copco

Project Manager

Challenger School (A private for profit school)

*	Supervised 2 directors, 65 teachers and 830 students in grades preschool-8th at the; *	Marketing responsibilities: recruiting customers through phone calls and personal
interaction.
*	Managed the school budget and reduced the number of delinquent accounts by 90%. 
*	Coached, motivated, and managed staff members to deliver the highest quality education
in the world. Decreased staff turnover by 60%
*	Responsible for recruiting, coaching, and terminating (when necessary) staff, students,
and customers. Increased test scores on the IOWA test by an average of 3%.

Headmaster

Carver Bowen Ranch

Rode horses, herded cattle, fixed fence, responsible for the care of over 300 animals

Ranch Hand

Experienced manager of people and equipment.

Specialties: Project Management, Electrical Power Generation, Education, Maintenance and Material Management, Water Infrastructure, Grant Writing

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The Battle

Michael Strong

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