Nick Standlea, host of The Nick Standlea Show

Nick Standlea hosts The Nick Standlea Show, a podcast of long-form conversations on AI, learning and elite performance that reaches more than a quarter million people across platforms. Guests have included Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute; Christopher Summerfield, an ex-Google DeepMind scientist; Howard Gardner; Colin Hanks; Donald Hoffman; Michael Osterholm and Seth Godin.

He has spent 20 years helping young people pursue their goals for college and beyond. He is the founder of Test Prep Gurus, a 1-on-1 SAT and ACT preparation firm in Orange County, California, and of High School Reach, a free research site he built himself, covering college outcomes for more than 34,000 U.S. high schools. He is a former Research Associate at the Quality of Life Research Center at Claremont Graduate University, under Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow, and wrote a chapter on venture philanthropy for Taking Philanthropy Seriously (Indiana University Press, 2006), edited by William Damon and Susan Verducci. He coaches elite-level soccer at CDA Slammers.

He holds a degree in Media Studies from Pitzer College and an MBA from the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurship. He taught business and communications courses at Golden West College as adjunct faculty. He is a member of WACAC and NACAC and co-chairs the NACAC Orange County College Fair. He has presented at the WACAC annual conference, UC Berkeley, Pitzer College, Claremont Graduate University, Loyola Marymount University and dozens of high schools on SAT vs ACT, test anxiety and growth mindset.

His writing and commentary have appeared in Techopedia, OK! Magazine (syndicated to Yahoo, AOL and MSN), the New York Post, Inside Higher Ed and Positive Psychology News. See the press page.

Where else to find Nick

• YouTube: The Nick Standlea Show
• Test Prep Gurus: founder page
• High School Reach
• LinkedIn
• Wikidata: Nick Standlea and Wikidata: The Nick Standlea Show

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