ABOUT MCM

We connect learning with opportunity.

Micro-credential Multiverse

We build the systems behind skills-based credentials.

MCM helps states, systems, and organizations build clear, connected, and scalable skills and credential ecosystems.

11+ States Supported
100+ Organizations
Thousands of Credentials
Millions of Learners Impacted
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11+ States Supported
100+ Organizations
Thousands of Credentials
Millions of Learners Impacted

Why MCM Exists

Building a credential is easy. Building an ecosystem that works is harder.

Credential initiatives often treat strategy, governance, standards, technology, workforce alignment, and implementation as separate decisions.

MCM was built to connect them.

Separate decisions
One connected system
Strategy
Governance
Standards
Technology
Workforce
Implementation
Ecosystem

We help partners understand how these choices depend on one another, so the system is designed intentionally from the beginning instead of assembled one decision at a time.

What Makes MCM Different

Independent expertise shaped by the field itself.

MCM is built for organizations that need more than a platform recommendation or a strategy deck. We combine independent judgment, systems thinking, senior expertise, and field-tested structure in one focused team.

Independent Guidance

Independent, not tied to a platform.

Vendor-neutral by design.

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Why it matters

We do not sell software or represent a vendor. Our recommendations start with your goals, constraints, and ecosystem — not someone else's product roadmap.

What partners get Recommendations shaped by your strategy, not a sales incentive.
Systems Perspective

We see the whole system.

Cross-functional perspective.

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Why it matters

Credential strategy does not live in one department. We connect governance, technology, data, workforce needs, adoption, and implementation so decisions reinforce one another.

What partners get Decisions designed to work together across the ecosystem.
Senior-Led

Senior expertise stays close to the work.

Direct practitioner access.

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Why it matters

MCM is intentionally small. The people shaping the strategy remain involved in the decisions, artifacts, and implementation rather than handing the engagement off to another layer of the firm.

What partners get Direct access to the people responsible for shaping the work.
Field-Tested Structure

We bring structure shaped by the field.

Experience creates a better starting point.

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Why it matters

Our team has worked across digital credentials, micro-credentials, learner records, and skills ecosystems for essentially the life of the field. That experience gives partners a tested structure for making decisions, sequencing the work, and avoiding problems we have seen before.

What partners get A field-tested starting point instead of a blank sheet.

TRUSTED BY ORGANIZATIONS BUILDING THE FUTURE OF WORK

Logo of the National Education Association with the tagline 'Great Public Schools for Every Student'.
Logo for SciStarter with the tagline "Science we can do together".
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Arizona State University logo with maroon and gold colors and a stylized sun.
Logo of the Georgia Technical College System featuring a stylized map of Georgia and the abbreviation TCSG.
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board logo with blue and black text on a white background.
Logo of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, featuring a circular design with radiating lines.
Text reading 'Education Design Lab' with 'Education' in bold

Our People

A small team with a wide field of view.

MCM combines hands-on delivery with outside perspective, bringing together practitioners and advisors who understand education, technology, workforce systems, and emerging change.

Core Team
Robert Bajor

Founder & CEO

Robert Bajor

Strategy · Systems · Standards

Rob leads MCM's strategy, product, and systems work, helping partners connect credential design, technology, workforce needs, and long-term implementation.

Rachel Lipkin

Director of Operations

Rachel Lipkin

Operations · Coordination · Delivery

Rachel manages our accounting team and creates the operational structure that keeps MCM's projects, partners, and priorities moving forward with consistency and clarity.

Our Network

MCM is built around a network of experienced leaders, advisors, and collaborators who bring specialized expertise and broader perspective to our work.

Benjamin R. Roome, PhD

Responsible AI Advisor

Benjamin R. Roome, PhD

AI Ethics · Strategy · Digital Learning

Ben brings expertise in ethical AI strategy, technology, analysis, and governance to MCM's work.

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Greg Nadeau

Education & Ecosystem Advisor

Greg Nadeau

Ed3 Convener · Ecosystems · Emerging Technology

Greg brings a field-wide perspective on education, emerging technology, collaboration, and the evolving infrastructure connecting learning and opportunity.

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Evidence Matters

We expect the work to stand up to scrutiny.

MCM designs engagements so progress can be measured, assumptions can be tested, and outcomes can be evaluated — not simply described.

Independent Evaluation
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Remarkable success in profound systems change.

Georgia Policy Labs

Independent evaluation of MCM's systems-change work

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Where We Work

State-level work.
National field impact.

MCM has supported credential ecosystem work across 11 states, with projects spanning statewide systems, workforce agencies, colleges, universities, and national initiatives.

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11 States

Also active nationally

Through Digital Promise, AACRAO, SkillsFWD, and the T3 Innovation Network / U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, MCM has contributed to national frameworks, curriculum, interoperability strategy, and CEU policy maps extending beyond the state-level projects shown here.

Open by Design

Built to connect,
not lock you in.

MCM works across the standards, specifications, and schemas that allow credentials, skills, and learner records to move between systems and remain useful beyond a single platform.

Portable Verifiable Interoperable

1EdTech

Credential

Open Badges

Portable digital credentials with structured, verifiable achievement data.

Open Badges 3.0

W3C

Data Model

Verifiable Credentials

Trusted digital records designed for secure verification and exchange.

VC 2.0

1EdTech

Learner Record

Comprehensive Learner Record

Rich learner records connecting coursework, competencies, credentials, and experiences.

CLR 2.0

Credential Engine

Schema

CTDL

Structured data describing credentials, skills, outcomes, pathways, and organizations.

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IEEE

LER

Learning & Employment Records

Infrastructure connecting verified learning, skills, credentials, and employment evidence.

IEEE 1484.2
Field Contribution

National LER Curriculum

MCM authored AACRAO's public curriculum helping higher education leaders understand how learner record standards, governance, policy, and implementation work together in practice.

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Ready to Move the Work Forward?

Build it right the first time.

Bring us the ambition, the complexity, or the problem you are trying to solve. We will help you turn it into a credential ecosystem people can understand, trust, and use.

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