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B Optimal's
Empowerment Lab

A curated space where research-informed insight meets real-world practice—supporting empowered learning, leadership, and growth in work and learning organizations.

In Higher Education

Applied insights, tools, and frameworks for educators, tutors, and institutions designing empowered learning experiences.

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In the spotlight.

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Skills in Action™️
Part of the STARR+ Story Toolkit

Skills in Action is an action-oriented, future-ready competency framework designed to represent and advance student skill development. Grounded in research across learning sciences, educational assessment, and career and future-readiness frameworks, it provides a rigorous, evidence-informed model for making skills visible and meaningful in higher education.

As a reflective teaching and learning tool, Skills in Action supports purposeful skill development and learner agency by guiding educators and learners to identify, describe, and reflect on the skills embedded in real coursework and experiences.

Insights & Applications

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Thought leadership, research-based insights, and applications.

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Learn how we design tools to empower learning.

The B Optimal
STARR+ Story Toolkit

As educators, we know that students gain valuable experiences, but they struggle to see and articulate their skills, connect learning across contexts, and communicate their growth in meaningful, career-connected ways.

 

STARR+ provides structured scaffolding and interactive, flexible tools to help students surface their experiences, name what they've learned in skills-focused language, and connect their growth to future contexts and opportunities in their own words.

In the Workplace

Exploring how empowered leadership takes shape in the workplace—through insight, practice, and tools.

 •      Practices + Perspectives    •  

Thought leadership, research-based insights, and applications.

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In the spotlight.

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What Does It Do?

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Learn how we design tools to empower learning.

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