About

Our why

We want the digital learning experience that higher education creates to be successful and transformative for all who are involved. And, far too often, that is not the case today. In order for higher education to be the great force for change that it should be, it needs to be better at envisioning, creating, managing, and evolving digital learning.

How we're different

Everyone at Palmetto Insights has extensive experience in both higher education—so we have great empathy for your daily challenges—and in professional services—so that we have worked on dozens of digital learning projects in all types of contexts. This combination allows us to understand, innovate, communicate, and get things done.

Our guarantee

We guarantee that our professionals will deliver on our promise to you. If we don’t live up to our promises to you and if you aren’t absolutely delighted with the services that we provided, we insist that you tell us and we’ll refund the whole billable amount plus $1000.

Our values

  • Impact: Work only on projects on which we believe we can make a difference
  • Respectful: Always convey respect and thanks
  • Honesty: Communicate honestly, even when it’s difficult
  • Collaborative: Working together is better for all

Our logo

Our logo features a palmetto tree leaf. We wanted to give a nod to our company’s home of South Carolina.

Who we are

We are a small consulting firm comprised of professionals who have each worked both inside and outside higher education institutions.

Former dean, former award-winning teacher & professor, former department chair — we have been in your position, so we know your challenges and opportunities.

Dr. Scott Moore
Founder

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Scott received his BS from Furman University, MSM from Georgia Tech, and PhD from Wharton. After 20 years as a tenured faculty member, department chair, and BBA Program Head at Michigan Ross School of Business, he became Dean at Babson College. He then went on to lead sales (while also providing some consulting and engagement management as well) at Extension Engine, the world’s leading creator of custom learning platforms. He most recently was a managing director at Engageli, the world’s best synchronous learning platform.

Background
  • Earned a B.S. in mathematics from a small liberal arts university
  • Earned an MBA from a large state engineering-focused institute
  • Earned a PhD from Wharton
  • Received tenure in information technology from Michigan's Ross School of Business
Teaching
  • Won multiple teaching awards from students while teaching about databases to business school students
  • Won the University of Michigan's highest teaching award from the university's faculty—the Thurnau Professorship
  • Designed, created, and taught the first online course at the business school
  • Taught programming, database, consulting, and entrepreneurship courses
  • Used a wide range of pedagogies: project-based, problem-based, lab-based, case-based, writing-based, and research-focused
Positions
  • Was the first faculty head of the BBA program at Ross
  • Led the first overhaul in over 40 years of the BBA program
  • Was departmental chair and led a successful tenure case for a junior faculty member
  • Was Dean of the Undergraduates at Babson College
  • Was head of sales at a private edtech firm that created the world's best custom online learning platform, Harvard Business School Online
  • Led online learning engagements with a range of schools from small regional liberal arts to a large Ivy
Unexpected facts
  • I taught a Philosophy of Science course to PhDs. Feyerabend gets me revved up much more than Kuhn.
  • I have programmed in well over a dozen languages—Fortran, APL, Pascal, Prolog, LISP, Python, C, PHP, Javascript…the list goes on. Julia is my most recent addition.
  • The first concert that I went to was Elvis Presley in Memphis.
  • I have lived in 9 states and have only three more states to visit in order to check off all 50.
  • I was a travel softball coach for 8 years. Four of my players ended up in Division I.
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