Company | Unicon, Inc.

Our Story

Unicon is a technology consulting firm focused solely on the education ecosystem. We partner with institutions and companies to create learner-centric digital experiences to transform online teaching and learning. We believe in the power of technology to expand access to education and in the power of education to create a better future for all.

Founded by two dedicated engineers who graduated from Arizona State University, Unicon operates by two fundamental principles:

Prioritizing the well-being of clients
Fostering a supportive internal culture

Diversity and Inclusion

Our hiring practices distribute job postings across specialized populations in order to reach and attract diverse talent.

It is our aim to fill each role based on merit, qualifications and abilities, as selected from a diverse pool of applicants.

Our Employee Resource Groups focus on representing the needs of our employees in company decisions that impact the employee experience.

We encourage our ERG participants to share their stories and lived experiences. We offer our employees opportunities to collaborate with one another across a variety of identities in support of community, mental health, and overall wellness.

Employee feedback is critical to our ongoing inspection and adjustment of company culture.

Our employee engagement process regularly surveys our employees to inspect how well we are living our core values of integrity, mastery, impact, curiosity, and uplift. On our most recent employee survey, we scored above 4.0 for each of our core values (on a scale of 1 - 5).

Our company’s north star acknowledges that education has the power to create a better future for all.

As a company centered around learners, we fully recognize that learning never ends and this is true in the pursuit of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We are still learning and will continue to inspect and broaden our diversity and inclusion efforts in order to continue to be the workplace our employees, clients, and communities need us to be.

Meet the Team

Senior Leaders

John C. Blakley

co-CEO and Founder

Kate Valenti

co-CEO

Dan McCallum

Vice President Technology

Patience Breinholt

Vice President Human Resources

Kenna Ose

Vice President Market Development

Jim Layne

Vice President Marketing

Our Clients

Over 400 clients and counting

Since 1993, we have been designing, developing, and managing education technology solutions for major universities, colleges, and corporations.

The following is a partial list of our latest clients.

Universities

Arizona State University
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Columbia University
Georgia Institute of Technology
North Carolina State University
Oakland University
Stanford University
Texas A&M University
University of California, San Diego
University of Notre Dame
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Colleges

California Community College Colleges System
Boston College
Brooklyn College - CUNY
California College of the Arts
College of Lake County
Foothill - De Anza Community College District
Marist College
Merced College
Onondaga Community College
Portland Community College
Sinclair Community College
Tacoma Community College

EdTech

2U Inc.
Apogee / Campus Televideo
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Barnes & Noble College
Cisco
Internet2
Instructure
Lumen Learning
N2N Software Solutions
NoteAffect

Publishers

Amplify
Cambridge University Press
Cengage
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Macmillan
McGraw-Hill
Pearson Education
RELX Elsevier
Scholastic
John Wiley & Sons

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