Brandon Busteed

Brandon Busteed is the CEO of BrandEd, an education company delivering relevant, experiential courses taught by industry experts from the world’s best brands, including Sotheby’s, Conde Nast, The New York Times and City Football.A mission-driven education and workforce development leader, Brandon has been part of successful runs as an entrepreneur of an EdTech company and as an executive at two large, well-known organizations. He champions work-integrated, experiential learning and believes the future won’t distinguish between places of learning and places of work. Busteed has served as Chief Partnership Officer and Global Head of Learn-Work Innovation at Kaplan and prior to that, was Global Head of Public Sector at Gallup, serving higher education, the government, and foundations. As Gallup’s Executive Director of Education and Workforce Development Gallup, his teams led dozens of ground-breaking studies and consulted with hundreds of higher ed and workforce development organizations. Brandon was also Founder and CEO of Outside The Classroom, one of the country’s first successful Ed Tech companies, acquired by EverFi in 2011. Its flagship online courses on alcohol abuse and sexual violence prevention have been taken by more than 13 million college students. An internationally known speaker and author, Busteed has published more than 300 articles and keynoted more than 200 conferences. He is a LinkedIn "Top Voice" and frequent contributor to Forbes.com.