Continuing Education · Collaboration Opportunity
A complete learning series
built for
The Resilience Learning Series — Executive Outliers
"Continuing education works when students leave with something they use on Monday. That's what this series is built to deliver."
organizational resilience.
Long-term success requires resilient people who can build resilient organizations. This series gives your continuing education students the practical tools to do both — through three structured courses that stand alone or form a certificate program.
Track A
Track B
Organizational Resilience
Business strategy & corporate training — 3 courses
Personal Development
Communication, leadership & life skills — expanding catalog
JAMES MURRAY, Curriculum Architect
20+
Years teaching at Bellevue, Green River, Wenatchee, and other colleges
30+
Years advising mid-market businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations
What your Continued Education program gains?
2 Tracks. One
central idea.
The Resilience Learning Series is organized around a single principle: organizations and individuals face the same challenges. They must make better decisions under uncertainty, retain knowledge, and grow intelligently.
The Series
"To be successful, resilient people understand the need to build and develop resilient systems."
Track A addresses organizational resilience — the strategy, operations, and revenue decisions that determine whether a business survives change. Track B addresses personal resilience — the communication, leadership, and life skills that professionals need to thrive in and outside the office.
Together, they give your continuing education program a coherent, differentiated catalog that serves both corporate training clients and general community learners — in one partnership.
For Business & Corporate Audiences
- A ready-made business training package
- Employer-facing programs generating repeat contracts
- Multi-student cohorts that increase CE revenue
- Stronger ties to regional businesses
Track A
Track B
For Community & General Learners
- Courses that draw new general-public learners
- Programs for older adults and second-career professionals
- Broader brand visibility across campus communities
- Increased noncredit enrollment
Designed for business owners, managers, and working professionals. Each course stands alone — or together they form a certificate program in business resilience. Course 1 is the prerequisite; it sets the philosophy and language for the entire series.
Track A — Organizational Resilience
Three courses.
Every leader makes decisions under uncertainty. This workshop provides a practical, non-technical framework for understanding threats, opportunities, and the risks that shape organizational success. Participants learn how to identify hidden weaknesses, evaluate options with clarity, and respond strategically to changing conditions — building the risk mindset required for operational stability and long-term resilience.
A1
Individual Workshops
Practical Business Risk Management
Certificate Program
One complete business system.
Corporate Training Cohort
Leadership Retreat Series
Employer Program
Business Risk Management · Strategic Risk
Course manual: Secure IT by James Murray
* Required
★ Prerequisite for Courses 2 & 3 — sets the foundation for the series
Learning outcomes
Most organizations create documents but rarely maintain them, leaving critical knowledge trapped in the heads of a few key employees. When those people leave — often with only weeks' notice — entire systems collapse. This workshop reframes documentation as operational risk management, not clerical work. Participants learn how to capture tribal knowledge, maintain documentation through simple update routines, and build an archival strategy that preserves institutional memory.
A2
Documentation & Operational Continuity
Operational Continuity · Knowledge Management
Course manual: Document IT by James Murray
Course Two
Learning outcomes
Most businesses try to grow by getting more customers — and it backfires. Costs rise exponentially while revenue grows linearly. Meanwhile, many organizations rely on one or two major customers, creating a single point of failure that can destroy the entire business overnight. This workshop reframes 80/20 as revenue risk management, not marketing theory. Participants learn to identify their most profitable customers, design pricing that supports stability, and build a resilient growth strategy.
A3
80/20 Revenue & Customer Strategy
Revenue Strategy · Customer Risk
Course manual: Market IT (forthcoming) by James Murray
Course Three
Learning outcomes
Communication & Influence
Community Education
TELOS / Lifelong Learners
Returning Professionals
Second-Career Adults
Evening & Weekend Formats
Every workplace has an invisible power structure that operates alongside the org chart. Professionals who ignore it get passed over; those who navigate it well build influence and advance with integrity. This workshop introduces the 3rd Power Model — a practical framework for understanding how influence actually moves inside organizations, how decisions really get made, and how to operate effectively without losing your values or your relationships.
B1
Communication & Influence
Workplace Dynamics · Organizational Power
Navigate workplace influence without compromising your integrity
Communication
Learning outcomes
Track B addresses the personal capacities that support professional resilience — communication, leadership, influence, and the life skills professionals carry everywhere. Designed for community education, returning professionals, and lifelong learners. Each course stands alone and draws a broader, general-public enrollment audience.
3 courses.
The whole person.
Track B — Personal Development
Most leadership development programs are built for people who fit neatly into organizational hierarchies. This one isn't. Leadership for Outliers is for professionals who think differently, lead differently, and often struggle to find their footing inside conventional systems — not because they lack capability, but because they haven't found frameworks that match how they actually think. This workshop gives outlier leaders practical tools to lead with clarity, confidence, and authenticity.
B2
Leadership for Outliers
Leadership · Identity · Decision-Making
For professionals who think differently — and lead differently
Leadership & Thinking
Learning outcomes
Leadership & Thinking
Online dating is one of the most consequential decisions many adults navigate — and almost no one approaches it strategically. This workshop applies professional-grade frameworks to the personal challenge of finding a compatible long-term partner: how to present yourself honestly and attractively, evaluate potential matches efficiently, navigate early conversations with clarity, and make decisions based on structure rather than anxiety or impulse. Designed for working professionals and lifelong learners re-entering the dating world.
B3
Online Dating for Professionals
Personal Life · Decision-Making · Relationships
Practical frameworks for one of the most important decisions you'll make
Practical Life & Career
Learning outcomes
Practical Life & Career
Looking Ahead
Simple to start.
James has taught at Bellevue, Green River, and Wenatchee Colleges. He understands how continuing education programs work — approval cycles, scheduling constraints, enrollment considerations. Here's the path forward.
How a Collaboration Works
Built to last.
Conversation
01
A 30-minute call to understand your program's calendar, student profile, and which course or combination to start with — one course, the full Track A series, or a mix from both tracks.
Proposal
02
James delivers a written proposal — course outline, format, scheduling, and investment — tailored to your institution's needs and enrollment cycle.
Launch
03
James teaches the course. Students receive a workbook. You get a course your students talk about — and come back to enroll in the next one.
Grow
04
Add courses, increase enrollment, expand tracks, or begin the Train-the-Trainer path — embedding the series permanently in your CE catalog.
James is a Business Technology Architect and corporate facilitator with more than 30 years supporting organizations including Microsoft, Disney, McKesson, WSP, and Cisco. He has taught at Bellevue, Green River, and Wenatchee Colleges and specializes in practical risk management, leadership clarity, and operational resilience.
He's the author of Secure IT and Document IT — the course manuals for the first two Track A courses — and his forthcoming Market IT completes the trilogy. He currently serves as President of a Private Equity organization focused on business transition risk. When he teaches, students know the material comes from real experience — not a textbook retold.
Your Instructor
James Murray
Next Step
"Let's find out if this is the right fit for your program."
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