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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is Michael B. Horn. Michael is a serial founder, education strategy consultant, multiple time best selling author, and much sought after speaker on the future of education and believes we can create education that is more student-centered, helps them build their passions, and fulfill their human potential. What started as a co-authorship of the award-winning book "Disrupting Class" with one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth, Clayton Christensen, has led this disruptive thinker over a decade long journey to become a leading authority on the future of education, disruptive innovation, and expert on the global EdTech revolution.You will learn:Michael's experiences and the Jobs to be done for him when he was going to Yale and Harvard.How his dad and upbringing influenced his jobs to be done.Why Michael took the opportunity to co author a book with Clay Christensen.The impact Michael wants to have for every student around the nation.What the 5 Jobs To Be done are when choosing college.Where the most potential for entrepreneurs to disrupt higher education is.Where entrepreneurs have a competitive advantage and where they will fail in higher education.How to balance the desires of the students with what they may need to be successful after college.What the value of an accredited degree is to employers.How we could sidestep past it entirely by working with them to create skills needed after college.Why in order to disrupt k-12 education that we should focus on higher ed.What higher ed's responsibility is to make a more beneficial option for students is.Why free college wont work.What business models higher education should adopt.How Michael has integrated life long learning in his life.What Michael hopes college will look like for his 2 daughters.How he is cultivating their education now while he raises them.How education has the ability to promise, to help people build their passion, fulfill a human potential, and live a lifetime of productive struggle and happiness.How higher education can help students tackle the grand challenges of the world.How we can push the world to Evolve.For more visit https://www.evolvethe.world/episodes/michael-horn