AGL 066: Teach Everything you Know – Kevin Griffin

Today on the show we have Kevin Griffin, owner, trainer and consultant at Swift Kick.  Kevin was gracious enough to have me on his show, the Swift Kick Show a few months back.  Here’s a link to that episode.

As a software professional with over ten years of experience, Kevin Griffin has had the fantastic opportunity to work with a variety of industries ranging from Military to Health Care to Ticket Brokering.

A lesson he learned early in his career was that true experts and professionals teach everything they learn. Since then, his professional philosophy has been to set his clients up for success from the beginning by teaching them how this crazy world of custom software development really works.

Kevin’s business is dedicated to training developers of all genders, ages, creeds, and experience levels how to be amazing at their jobs.

It is not uncommon to see him traveling around the country and speaking at user groups, regional events, and even the occasional national conference.

Kevin is am a Microsoft MVP, specializing in ASP.NET and web development. However, as a lifelong learner, he tries not to limit myself to a single stack or framework.


Things we talked about

  • Teach everything you know
  • What works best for tech learning
  • Training
  • Opportunity Cost for training
  • Are you training on the right things
  • Conferences
  • Side-Businesses (hustles)

Connect with Kevin


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September 26, 2018
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