About this episode

The episode discusses class accreditation and its implications in the industry with guests from JOIFF.

We sit down with Mark Feldman and Ralph Suppa to talk through the growing wave of questions we’ve been getting by email about class accreditation and what it really means in practice. To bring clarity and visibility to the current state of things, we teamed up with the gentlemen from JOIFF for a grounded conversation on how accreditation works and where the industry is headed. Along the way, we dig into the difference between holding a certification and actually demonstrating competence, and why that gap keeps coming up in real-world training discussions. If you’ve been wondering which credentials matter, how accredited classes are evaluated, or what to look for when choosing a course, this episode helps put the conversation into plain terms.

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