An Educated Guest
An Educated Guest is a podcast that dives deep into the innovations and trends shaping the future of education. The host is Todd Zipper who has over two decades as an entrepreneur, executive, and investor across K-12, Higher Education, and Workforce Development. He brings together visionaries, innovators, and operators from the education industry to explore the solutions that are transforming learning and work.
An Educated Guest
Latest Episodes
Ep.88 | Beyond the Sticker Price: Rebuilding Public Trust, ROI, and Value in Higher Ed with Strada’s Justin Draeger
In this episode of An Educated Guest, host Todd Zipper sits down with Justin Draeger, Senior Vice President of Affordability at the Strada Education Foundation and former President & CEO of NASFAA. Drawing on decades ...
Ep.87 | Penn Engineering Dean Vijay Kumar on Scaling Higher Ed the Right Way
How can higher education scale its reach without sacrificing academic rigor or student outcomes? In this episode of An Educated Guest, host Todd Zipper sits down with Dr. Vijay Kumar, Dean of Penn Engineering at the Universit...
Ep.86 | Education higher than higher ed — Flight School’s Abby Falik on cultivating aliveness, agency and attention
What happens when our modern schooling system reaches its logical conclusion—one optimized for a thin slice of intellectual testing that the computer in our pocket can now ace in seconds? In this episode of An Educated Guest, host Todd...
Ep.85 | Closing the Experience Gap with Cloud for Good's Founder Tal Frankfurt
What happens when an entrepreneur builds a business not out of a tech epiphany, but simply to survive? In this episode of An Educated Guest, host Todd Zipper sits down with Tal Frankfurt, Founder and CEO of Cloud for Good...
Ep. 84 | From Sylvan to Cintana: Doug Becker on Four Decades of Scaling High-Quality Education
What happens when a high school student decides to skip his Harvard admission to launch a healthcare technology company? You get the four-decade entrepreneurial odyssey of Doug Becker, the founder and CEO of Cintana Education. In ...