Power skills are the currency of employability.

As artificial intelligence reshapes work, human capability increasingly determines opportunity.

Resilience. Curiosity. Leadership. Communication.

These power skills are developed through lived experience, yet they remain difficult to measure, verify, and communicate with credibility.

CulturaGo exists to make human capability visible and trusted.

From Experience to Evidence.

For decades, education has developed human capability in powerful ways. Students grow through challenge, uncertainty, collaboration, and responsibility. These moments shape how people lead, adapt, and contribute.

Beyond belief in this growth, we need credible validation that travels beyond the institution.

CulturaGo began in global and intercultural education, one of the best environments to accelerate power skill development. Students must adapt quickly, communicate across difference, and navigate unfamiliar systems. The growth is significant. But often, it remains invisible.

As we partnered with institutions, we saw a consistent pattern. Universities were investing deeply in experiences that build career-critical skills. Students struggled to articulate that growth. Employers lacked trusted signals. Leadership lacked measurable insight.

This was not a global education problem. It was a systemic one.

CulturaGo evolved to provide reliable evidence of human capability at scale. Evidence that can be trusted, leveraged and showcased by students and leadership alike.

Our Mission

We exist to ensure that every student and professional has trusted, universally recognized validation of their power skills.

Our Vision

A world where proof of human capability is as credible and portable as a degree.

Over the next decade, we aim to verify power skill development for more than 10 million learners across education and work

Our Values

Belief in human potential

Everyone has unrealized power skills. Our work is grounded in helping individuals and institutions surface that potential.

Praxis first

Power skills are developed through application in real contexts. Evidence must reflect lived experience, not abstract proxies.

Proof over opinion

Trusted decisions require credible evidence. Structured, rubric‑aligned assessment creates clearer, fairer signals.

Intercultural intelligence

The ability to engage across differences is foundational to power skills and essential in an interconnected world.

AI as an amplifier

We use technology to strengthen and reveal human capability, not replace it.

Our Track Record

CulturaGo’s approach was proven in global and experiential learning environments where power skills are tested in real conditions.

We have partnered with more than 50 institutions and program providers, supporting thousands of learners and generating large scale evidence of career skill development.

That experience shaped a model designed for rigor, scalability, and institutional trust.

Our People

Leadership

CulturaGo is led by a team with experience across higher education, experiential learning, assessment design, and educational technology.

Liam Kelly

Founder & CEO

Dr. Marcello Francioni

Head of Education

Andries Bester

Chief Product Officer

Courage Sengwe

Community Manager

Callen Byrnes

Director of Operations

Anel Hugo

Video Producer

Dr. Elsa Maxwell

Director of Academic Partnerships

Richard Human

Chief Technology Officer

Advisory Board

Our advisors include academic leaders and practitioners who help ensure rigor, relevance, and credibility as we scale.

Miranda Roberts

Director, International Programs in Engineering

University of Michigan

Dr. Darla Deardorff

UNESCO Chair on Intercultural Competence

Dr. Elizabeth Erbeznik

Senior Associate Vice President of Curriculum and Academics

WorldStrides

Dr. John Davenport

Dean of Students

Ohio State University–Newark and Central Ohio Technical College

Dr. Lavern Samuels

Director of International Education

Durban University of Technology

Dr. Holly Hudson

Associate Vice President of Global Engagement

Texas A&M

Dr. Krishna Chaitanya

Director at MTDA and Senior Researcher

OSU’s Translational Data Analytics Institute

Phil Simon

Chief Business Development & Government Relations Officer

Cenet

Dr. Maureen Manning

Founder & Principal Consultant

Global Nexus Collective

Sherif Barsoum

Senior Associate Vice President Global Services

NYU

Dr. Christina Thompson

Founder

Compear Global Education

Emily Merson

Study Abroad Executive
& Founder

Dr. W. Patrick Bingham

Director, RAISE Center

Wake Forest University

Rishab Malhorta