ERDI

ERDI Mission Our mission is to provide a forum for dialogue between outstanding educational leaders and committed corporate partners to shape products, goods, and services that will inspire excellence in education and enrich the achievement of all learners. Since 1985, ERDI has been a powerful network of educational leaders and corporate clients. ERDI-affiliated superintendents are national educational leaders who are hand picked for their professional achievement and for their ability to connect to networks that keep education excellent. When corporate clients want access to educational leaders who can cause what Malcome Gladwell calls the “tipping point”, these are the men and women with whom they want to be discussing strategy to effectively meet the needs of the K-12 education market. Superintendents and corporate leaders frequently say that ERDI provides one of the most effective professional development opportunities they have ever experienced. ERDI offers a learning climate not replicated in any other forum. ERDI panels of hand-selected leading educational superintendents have literally changed business strategies and have helped companies revamp their marketing programs. The ERDI panels provide valuable, creative insights that provide dynamic opportunities for corporate clients to learn from their educational market. Through ERDI panels, corporate clients dialogue with the educational “insiders” whose years of dedicated experience simplify and clarify the educational system. Corporate clients typically modify their products and services as well as marketing plans to better meet the needs of educators and learners that improves programs for all learners and creates better schools for America. It’s a win-win scenario for corporate clients and America’s education system. The goal of the ERDI superintendents, both through the panels and through the informal networking process, is to help corporate clients improve and expand their products and services which will in turn benefit the entire educational system. ERDI superintendents’ commitment to help achieve excellence in education through quality communication with corporate leaders is remarkable. Those who have been through the process testify to its magic. Hundreds of corporations and education-related companies have realized the value and financial benefits of working with ERDI. Whether your company is an established business, large education-based company or an upstart, emerging company, ERDI can help you achieve your business goals. Certainly, Bill Gibbons knows how HOSTS Corporation has grown as a result of its relationship with ERDI: "ERDI has been one of the best investments our company has ever made. The expertise, knowledge, and counsel received has a tremendous and positive impact on our marketing as evidenced by the facts that HOSTS is now in 44 states and in the nation of El Salvador. When we started we had 4 employees." Bill Gibbons, Founder and Chairman of the board HOSTS Corporation Vancouver, Washington Additionally, hundreds of corporate clients have benefited from the networking with other companies. Through its history of 21 years, ERDI has enabled corporate relationships to flourish which has resulted in mergers, acquisitions, enriched partnerships and profitability. It has also created product and marketing development par excel lance! When the best and the brightest corporate leaders and ERDI superintendents come together through formal and informal communication settings, better ideas and concepts result for all. Twice a year, ERDI brings together the best superintendents in the country to provide candid, unvarnished feedback to corporate clients during 3-hour panel discussions focusing on topics chosen by the corporate client. All panel discussions are strictly confidential. The corporate clients and educational professionals who come to ERDI bi-annual national conferences, dialogue about products and services that will support all learners educationally, and that will help achieve excellence for all who are deeply committed to the educational process. Inevitably, products and services improve through panel dialogues and intense networking. Corporate clients can choose the ERDI national conference at which it wishes to have a panel convened. For more information about ERDI panels, please visit the “About ERDI” page. To learn more about ERDI panels and conferences, please complete and e-mail the “Contact Us” page. In the big picture of education, ERDI has a lasting, valuable influence on our country’s educational excellence.

Education Research & Development Institute (ERDI)
15447 Gougar Road
Homer Glen, IL 60491
Phone: (815) 588-1112
Fax: (815) 588-1184