Our Team
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Bernice McCarthy Bernice is CIO and founder of About Learning.
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Michael McCarthy Michael is CEO of About Learning.
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Chris Lattig Chris is director of operations and sales for About Learning. Chris has worked with the company for 19 years.
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Mary Piekarski Mary is office manager and client support for About Learning.
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Fran Zidron Fran is art director and director of training for About Learning. Fran has been with About Learning for 14 years. |
About Learning is an educational training and publishing firm that works with educational and training organizations throughout the world on how to create high performance learning. We offer 4MAT, a transformative process for improving the quality of teaching and learning in any educational setting.
About Learning works with organizations to help them understand the dynamics of learning—the different ways people learn, and how to design training or instruction that encompasses these differences. Founded in 1979, About Learning is now considered a leading expert in how people learn, and offers one of the most widely used instructional design systems in the world.
Our assessment tools are some of the most widely used instruments in the field, and include the Learning Type Measure, Leadership Behavior Inventory and Hemispheric Mode Indicator. Online versions of these tests are also available for instructors looking to use these tools as part of their own courses.
The 4MAT Model is widely accepted as a highly effective tool or improving the quality and impact of learning. Extensive articles, research and action research studies have documented the positive impact of this model. See our 4MAT Research page to see the extensive research supporting the positive impact on our model.
About Learning consults with a wide range of educational and training organizations, including the National Institute of Corrections, The Peace Corps, Aveda Corporation, Merck, The US Navy, The Hawaii Department of Education and the Center for Creative Leadership to help them design more dynamic and engaging learning methods.
About Learning has international licensees in Australia and Malaysia, Europe, and Mexico and Latin America. These licensees have been trained and certified to bring our full range of training and products to educational and corporate customers in these different regions.
Our corporate Division—4MAT 4Business—works with corporations throughout the US and Canada to help them improve their training and development programs.
We invite you to learn more!
Current Projects
- Hawaii Department of Education Hawaiian Language Immersion
- Yonkers Public Schools District-Wide Implementation
- Aveda Corporation
- Moanalaua High School New Student Orientation Program
- Southern Union of Seventh Day Adventist Schools (Seventh Day Adventist Schools maintain one of the largest private school networks in the country)