David K. Milliken Email & Phone Number

I have been blessed with a career that has allowed me to follow my passions: innovation and entrepreneurship. Along the way, I have had the good fortune to be able to influence the corporate learning and development landscape with fresh approaches to some age-old problems. Some of those have been world-class failures, but a few, like the creation of Blueline’s ExperienceBUILDER digital design and development platform, are making a difference for all of our stakeholders.Why I Founded Blueline SimulationsOver 20 years ago, my wife and I came to a fork in the road—we could make some significant life changes in order to protect our precious time together as a family while our kids were still young, or I could continue to pursue an increasingly demanding career. I said goodbye to that job and hello to being a more present dad to our boys, who were ages 6 and 8 at the time. Six months later, I co-founded Blueline with three partners. Blueline’s mission became to make a difference for our customers by creating highly immersive (and engaging) learning experiences while giving our employees the flexibility to balance the demands of work with their personal and family lives.My Personal PhilosophyIn the 13 years that I spent in the consulting and training industry before founding Blueline, I identified and refined the tenets of my personal philosophy:1) Achieving your goals doesn’t come without sacrifice. Often, those sacrifices are required at inopportune times. That’s why they call them sacrifices.2) The best businesses consistently create happy customers. (See reference to making sacrifices above.)3) The person who makes the sale should be accountable to ensure that the customer is happy through final delivery and beyond. 4) More often than not, the answers to our customers' most difficult challenges are already known by their employees—we just need to ask the right questions and listen carefully to what they tell us. 5) The higher the level of learner engagement, the better the learning outcomes (e.g., retention, skill-building, commitment, etc.).5) Successful business transformation hinges on building and maintaining positive momentum. Employee engagement and alignment/support are the engine for creating that momentum.These truths have subsequently become foundational to our company’s culture.You may reach me via email: dm@bluelinesims.comOr on my office line at 813-269-7467 x201

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