ABOUT MICHAELMichael Herrera, Ed.D., is an education and workforce leader focused on building career-connected systems that turn learners' strengths, experiences, and abilities into validated evidence and economic opportunity.His work connects Career and Technical Education, industry credentials, work-based learning, employer partnerships, multilingual talent, postsecondary pathways, and regional workforce development.He serves as Executive Director of Upper Bucks County Technical School and ACTE Region I Vice President, bringing the perspective of a practicing education leader to conversations about the future of career-connected learning.His guiding framework is simple: Discover. Validate. Connect. Discover what learners can do. Validate those abilities through credentials and demonstrated performance. Connect that evidence to careers, employers, postsecondary education, and economic opportunity.

EDUCATION LEADERSHIP • CTE • WORKFORCE SYSTEMS • CREDENTIALS • EMPLOYER PARTNERSHIPS • ECONOMIC MOBILITY

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SPEAKING, KEYNOTES & WORKSHOPS

Every engagement is designed to move audiences from ideas to practical systems, measurable outcomes, and stronger connections between education and opportunity.Using his Discover. Validate. Connect. framework, Michael helps organizations recognize students’ strengths, validate those abilities through credentials and demonstrated skills, and connect every learner with careers, employers, postsecondary education and economic opportunity.

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IDEAL AUDIENCESMichael works with organizations seeking practical strategies for making career-connected learning available to every student.CTE AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLSStrengthen career pathways, industry credentials, employer partnerships, work-based learning and measurable student outcomes.COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLSBring career-connected learning into academic programs, counseling, extracurricular experiences and schoolwide planning—not only traditional CTE classrooms.LANGUAGE AND MULTILINGUAL ORGANIZATIONSRecognize language ability as a workforce asset and connect multilingual learners with credentials, careers and employers.WORKFORCE, GOVERNMENT AND EMPLOYER PARTNERSCreate stronger connections among education, industry, postsecondary institutions and regional economic priorities.

SIGNATURE SPEAKING PROGRAMS

DISCOVER. VALIDATE. CONNECT.
Building Career-Connected Learning Systems for Every StudentA practical framework for discovering learner strengths, validating those abilities through credentials and demonstrated skills, and connecting learners with careers, employers, postsecondary education, and economic opportunity.CAREER-CONNECTED LEARNING BEYOND THE CTE CLASSROOM
A Practical Model for Comprehensive SchoolsA schoolwide approach to connecting academics, counseling, career exploration, employer engagement, credentials, and postsecondary pathways so career-connected learning reaches every student.LANGUAGE AS A WORKFORCE ASSET
Turning Multilingual Ability into Portable Career EvidenceA framework for identifying learners' language abilities, validating them through recognized credentials, and connecting multilingual talent with careers, employers, and economic opportunity.FROM PROGRAMS TO SYSTEMS
Leading Career-Connected Learning for Economic MobilityA leadership-focused program for transforming individual initiatives into sustainable systems connecting education, credentials, employers, work-based learning, workforce demand, and measurable outcomes.

ADDITIONAL SPEAKING & POLICY TOPICS
Measuring ROI in CTE • Closing the Career Pathways Gap • Governance and Funding Models • Building Employer-Driven Talent Pipelines

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