Nick Salmon is the founder and president of the Collaborative Learning Network, LLC.  He is a ninth generation educator with a global practice focused on teaching project based learning, supporting professional development of educators and educational facility planning with dynamic and creative community engagement.  He shares insights into the development of exceptional learning environments at Harvard’s annual Learning Environments For Tomorrow Institute, University of Melbourne Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change (ILETC), South By South West (SXSWEDU) the Montana Conference of Educational Leadership, the global conference of the Association for Learning Environments and webinars for the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission, Association for Learning Environments and Montana Alternative Education Summit.

Nick’s global practice (6 continents, 32 countries, 42 US states) includes c0-facilitating Harvard’s annual Learning Environments For Tomorrow Institute.  In addition to working with more than 200 schools on more than 40 educational visioning and master planning efforts, Nick is a co-founder (with Dr. Fran Locker & Gabriel Diago) of the Revolution in Education Congress in Bogota and Cartagena, Colombia where he leads hands-on project-based learning experiences built upon personal, local, cultural, or global passions.    Nick is the four-time host of the online webinar 24Hours of PBL+, an international celebration of Project Based Learning that includes learners and educators from 75 schools and organizations in 40 countries on 6 continents.  As co-founder of USTAWI Global, he is committed to relationships, learning & communities coming alive.

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Nick is the co-author (with Erin O’Reilly & Mar Cano) of TeamED: Building more effective teams for projects, education and communities. He is co-authoring Web Builders Nigeria with Paul Iwok and Derek Peterson. Nick is the author of Almost, tales of failure, recovery & persistence and near brushes with discomfort. Nick has also written a children’s book entitled Pelchers: childhood memories of the village store. A second children’s book Fireflies will be published in 2025. Nick has developed maker spaces and maker cultures in Australia, Colombia, Kenya, Tanzania and the United States.