Goran Trajkovski, Ph.D., is an AI strategy and educational-technology consultant who has spent 30 years designing academic programs, courses, and assessments for universities and edtech companies, and founded the AI company enlAIten (successful exit).
AI strategy, course design, and educational transformation — from someone who's been doing this since 1995.
Founded enlAIten AI · successful exit, 2025
What I do
Every engagement is shaped to your context — but the work tends to fall into one of these. Each one is built on a 30-year track record and the same operating principle: analysis to action, with no gap.
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Your team stops asking "what's a prompt?" and starts shipping with AI in 30 days. Customized programs that translate hype into operational fluency — across roles, disciplines, and risk tolerances.
For L&D leaders Faculty Knowledge workers
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From concept to launch. Competency models, assessment architecture, accreditation alignment, instructor enablement. The same playbook that built 35+ programs and 350+ courses at WGU, Touro, Visa, and UC Berkeley.
For Universities EdTech Corporate academies
03.
Accreditation-ready evidence packages that survive scrutiny. Volunteer evaluator with ACCSC, ACE, MSCHE, and ABET — I know what auditors look for because I've been on both sides of the table.
For Provosts Deans Compliance officers
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Stop buying tools that gather dust. I help leadership teams pick, sequence, and govern the technologies that actually move the needle — including AI ethics frameworks for institutional adoption.
For CIOs · CAOs Boards AI councils
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High-impact sessions on AI, data ethics, and digital transformation for leadership teams. Recent keynotes: AI4 2025 (Las Vegas), Grand Canyon University, Cayuse Connect, Training Industry.
For Boards C-suites Conferences
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Analytics and visualization that make strategic planning legible. Patent-holder in statistical output modulation. NSF grantee. I make the data tell a story you can actually act on.
For Strategy teams Boards Foundations
How I work
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Three questions answered before anything else: What's the objective? Why now? What's the most efficient path? If we can't answer these, we're not ready to start — and I'll tell you that.
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Logical, effective plans grounded in facts and reality — not aspiration. Every practical step identified. You'll see exactly what gets done, by whom, and when. Timelines force closure; closure forces value.
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Analysis to action with essentially zero gap. I think and act simultaneously — it's the operating model that lets one person do the work of a team. Velocity is the whole point.
How I work
Most consulting stops at the deck. I keep going. Four phases, run in tight loops, until the work ships and the metric moves.
Listen first. Map the real gap between where you are and where you need to be — from the people doing the work, not just the people approving the budget.
Build the operating plan. Milestones tied to outcomes that matter, not deliverables that feel productive.
Ship in increments. Working curriculum, assessments, governance — every week, not at the end of the engagement.
Track real signals — adoption, completion, outcomes. Iterate on data, not opinion. Hand off something the team can run without me.
Selected work
Founder · 0→1 → Exit
Founded an AI-powered EdTech SaaS startup. Built proprietary algorithms for content similarity detection and institutional effectiveness measurement.
University AI Governance
Founding member of an AI Council for a multi-college institution. Architected ethics framework, governance policies, and a multi-million-dollar program portfolio across data analytics and executive AI programs.
Corporate L&D at scale
Pioneered corporate AI education strategy for a global technology workforce. Designed comprehensive Data Science curriculum on a $2M budget.
Portfolio Transformation
Led academic portfolio across business and technology programs. $2M+ annual budget, 125+ team members. Reduced time-to-degree by 20%. 35% enrollment growth · 100% accreditation approval rate.
Active Courseware
Currently authoring courses and certifications for Pluralsight (Adversarial AI series, Claude, R causal inference), Coursera (financial analytics series), UC Berkeley Extension (10-module Biostatistics, 135 contact hours), and Arizona State University.
International Expansion
University partnerships and program localization across Mongolia, Indonesia, Ghana, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia. Regulatory navigation across jurisdictions. Cross-cultural curriculum that actually lands.
Portfolio
Six categories. 30+ real artifacts you can examine right now — publications, design samples, assessments, sample courses, and media. Look at the work, not the bullet points.
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8 selected pieces · IGI Global, Wiley, evoLLLution
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7 working samples
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4 deliverables
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4 instruments
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3 video collections
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3 walkthroughs · SCORM live
Track Record
Roles, recognition, service, and selected publications — a condensed view. The full CV (publications, grants, accreditation work) is downloadable below.
CEO
The Art of Living Large · Baltimore
25-year independent practice. High-risk, emerging-tech educational products.
Founder & CEO
enlAIten AI · Remote
Built an assessment quality-assurance platform — 7 similarity algorithms, AI-powered item review. Successful exit, 2025.
Director, Data Analytics & AI Council Founding Member
Touro University Illinois
AI governance for a 19,000-student global system. $3M program portfolio · 98% regulatory approval · international enrollment +45%.
Lead Academic Program Manager (7 roles in 10 years)
Western Governors University
130,000+ students · $2M annual budget · 125-person team. Course completion +25%, support tickets −40%, 100% accreditation approval across 15+ programs.
Lead Learning Experience Producer — Technology
Visa, Inc.
Built Visa's data-science curriculum for the global tech workforce. $2M budget, NPS > 90.
CTO & Dean, School of Engineering
World Education University
Built proprietary LMS from scratch. Devised the MOOC process. Established the School of Engineering.
Director, Product Strategy & Development
Laureate Education
IT/Engineering vertical across 40+ institutions, 500,000 students. Built ACE (Academic Computing Environment).
Asst. Professor & Director, Cognitive Agency & Robotics Lab
Towson University
NSF-funded research lab. Chaired 15 PhD dissertations and 57 master's theses. NSF REU: 15 summer interns.
Volumes I edited or co-edited at IGI Global, Springer/Palgrave, and similar academic publishers — distinct from the authored books shown in the lineup above.
Edited volumes & handbooks
Selected journal articles & chapters
Insights & tools
Interactive maps, talks, and tools published openly. Each one stands alone, built to be useful — not just decorative.
Map
34 non-academic providers · interactive quadrant + globe
Map
32 academic programs · dual-axis + globe
Talk
16-slide deck · 25 min · live prototypes embedded
Selected clients & collaborators
About
Builder. Teacher. Maker. Architect of things that did not exist before.
I came to artificial intelligence in the mid-1990s, when it was an academic backwater most computer scientists treated as a curiosity. I did not pivot when the market told me to. I was already there, doing the work, when nobody was paying attention.
I think and act simultaneously. Before proceeding I need three questions answered: What is the objective? Why are we doing this? What is the most efficient way of doing this? Once those are answered, there is no stopping me.
Direct AND warm. Rigorous AND fast. Prolific AND deep. The contradictions aren't a problem — they're how the work gets shipped.
Books & writing
New for 2026 · Featured
How AI platforms are privatizing the conditions of human judgment.
Twelve chapters, five parts, twelve cases — from a coding agent that deletes a production database to the institutions still missing the categories needed to govern any of it. An interactive outline, with the Introduction and Chapter 1 available to read now.
The Trilogy
Three books, one argument: that the craft of working with AI — prompting, context, and now agents — is fundamentally a human-centered discipline.
Explore the trilogy →Theme 01
Mind Meets Machine
The Evolution of Learning from Ancient Wisdom to AI
AI-Assisted Assessment in Education
Transforming Assessment and Measuring Learning · Palgrave Macmillan · with Heather Hayes
Nurturing Bloom's Garden
How AI Transforms the Educational Landscape
AI Unleashed
A College Student's Guide to Navigating and Mastering Generative AI
Designing Context-Rich Learning by Extending Reality
IGI Global
Theme 02
Adversarial AI Threat Response & Secure Model Design
Practical Techniques for Detecting, Preventing, and Managing AI Vulnerabilities · Apress
Assessment Under Adversarial Pressure
Why AI Broke the Evidence Model in Higher Education
Principles of Healthcare Data Analytics
A Conceptual and Practical Approach · Cognella Textbook
AI & ML in Customer Support & Analytics
Handbook of Research · IGI Global
Applying Data Science & Learning Analytics
Throughout a Learner's Lifespan · IGI Global · ed. with Demeter & Hayes
Introduction to Data Science
A Structured Methodology
Theme 03
Hosted Cognition
How AI Platforms Are Privatizing the Conditions of Human Judgment · 2026
Intelligent Agent Technologies & Multi-Agent Systems
Concepts and Applications · IGI Global
Agent-Based Societies
Social and Cultural Interactions · Handbook of Research
Computational Arts & Creative Informatics
Handbook of Research · IGI Global
Diversity in IT Education
Issues and Controversies
Modeling Homogenous Agent Societies
An Imitation-Based Approach
I also write a personal essay series — The Art of Living Large — four volumes on life, taste, and not apologizing for any of it.
Fiction
Just published · Anchor Items · The Measurement Novels (2026)
Contributing Factor · The Measurement Novels (2026)
Recommended Action
Recommended Action
Kindle · with Alan Schukart
Recommended Action
Paperback · with Alan Schukart
Препорачана акција
Macedonian edition · Lulu · with Alan Schukart
Препорачана акција
Macedonian audiobook · Gumroad · with Alan Schukart
Companions to the English edition
Speaking & media
| Date | Venue | Talk | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | AI4 Conference · Las Vegas | The agent and the assistant: Cultivating AI literacy | Conference |
| 2025 | RNL National Conference · Atlanta | Build-a-Future: Redefining academic writing & admissions in the AI era | Conference |
| 2025 | RNL National Conference · Atlanta | Embracing the future: AI as a catalyst for connectivism learning ecosystems | Conference |
| 2024 | Grand Canyon University | AI-enhanced pedagogy: Guiding emerging technologies in higher ed | Keynote |
| 2024 | Cayuse Connect | The compliance compass: Navigating AI research regulations | Conference |
| 2024 | Training Industry | Where is your L&D team on the AI adoption curve? | Webinar |
| 2024 | Cengage | CTRL+ALT_TRANSFORM: Your role in the AI era | Keynote |
| 2024 | SHRM / HR Professionals Magazine | HEART: Charting a humane AI course for HR professionals | Feature |
| 2022 | Assessment Institute · IUPUI | Identifying biases in performance assessments: Differential item functioning | Conference |
| Ongoing | The evoLLLution | Regular contributor on AI in higher education | Column |
Where else to find me
If you want the long-running thread of where my work goes, the writing is the place.
30+ years of context, ongoing posts on AI, EdTech, and assessment, and the door for most of my professional conversations.
LinkedIn Newsletter
Weekly notes on AI in higher education and the craft of prompt design — for people who actually have to ship.
Substack
Essays that need more room than a post — frameworks, deep dives, and the occasional manifesto.
Medium
Cross-posted essays and one-offs for readers who live there.
Get in touch
Two clear paths — pick whichever fits.
