Verify, https://credsverse.com/credentials/5c9a43a5-c17e-4698-aae0-ab83ccf5edf3
Board Role
Founder and CEO, MBA Standards Board™, since December 2019
Executive Director, MBA Leaders Forum, since March 2026
Professional Biography
Cheryl Nunn is CEO of the MBA Standards Board™, where she leads a modern standard for business credentials in an AI-driven hiring market. Her organization turns real work experience into verified credentials that employers, recruiting software and AI search can confirm in seconds. She also founded the MBA Leaders Forum, a professional association for MBA-level leaders, and serves as its Executive Director.
Before MBA Standards Board™, Cheryl spent fifteen years as CFO and CEO of ALG Group, a book publishing company focused on business and executive education titles. She brought early digital workflows, print-on-demand and e-books to a slow, manual industry. In 1998 she built the company with a 99 percent remote workforce, decades before remote work became the norm. Earlier in her career she held a NASD Series 24 principal license, managing a brokerage office, and was recognized as a top national producer in financial services. She also served in advisory and public service roles in Utah focused on workforce development and higher education policy.
Cheryl is the author of GET FOUND. GET HIRED. How to Turn Verified Credentials Into Job Offers, which shows job seekers, career changers and rising professionals how to compete on proof instead of claims. She writes the weekly Credential Edge: AI Advantage newsletter on credentialing, AI hiring and the future of work.
She advocates for credentials that are affordable, competency-based, renewable and machine-readable. Every credential MBA Standards Board™ issues is registered in the Credential Engine Registry, because she believes trust in the AI era has to be verifiable and human judgment has to stay in the loop.
One Question, Answered
Question. If AI screens my profile before a person ever reads it, what can I do this week to get found?
Make your proof readable by machines, not just people. AI screening tools trust what they can verify, so a credential with a live verification link, registered in a public registry like the Credential Engine Registry, carries more weight than a degree or skill you simply typed in. Start by adding the verification URL to every credential on your LinkedIn profile that has one. Then use the exact skill terms employers search for, because the software can only find what you name.
Areas of Expertise
1. Skills-Based Hiring
2. Verified and Digital Credentials
3. AI Strategy for Executives
4. Career Development and Career Transitions
5. Credentialing Standards and Competency Frameworks (CTDL)
6. Board Governance
7. Future of Work and Workforce Transformation
Education and Credentials
1. MBAe™, MBA Standards Board™ (2025)
2. Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Finance, Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Business
3. Executive MBA Certification, with AI and Organizational Change and Agile Leadership specializations, SectionAI (2023 to 2025), including the AI for Business Mini-MBA, the Marketing Mini-MBA, 8 certifications and 50+ courses
4. 2026 State of Credentialing, Accredible (2026)
5. NASD Series 24 General Securities Principal License, FINRA (1987 to 1998)
Verify My Credentials
MBAe™, https://credsverse.com/credentials/5c9a43a5-c17e-4698-aae0-ab83ccf5edf3
2026 State of Credentialing, https://accredible.credential.net/d2c2b72e-90ba-4a4f-9554-0f44846aab6a
Publications and Thought Leadership
GET FOUND. GET HIRED. How to Turn Verified Credentials Into Job Offers. A practical guide to competing on proof in an AI-screened job market. Advance Reading Copy, 2026.
Credential Edge: AI Advantage, weekly newsletter on credentialing, AI hiring and the future of work. https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/credential-edge-ai-advantage-7379626048780472320/
Employers Are Looking, But Not Finding. Why 91 percent of employers want verified credentials but few see them. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/employers-looking-finding-cheryl-nunn-mbae--rdxtc/
The College System Is Fragmenting. What is filling the gaps as the traditional university model breaks apart. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/college-system-fragmenting-read-learn-what-filling-gaps-nunn-mbae--h8ivc/
The Governance Gap Has a Classroom Problem. Why we teach AI tools but not AI judgment. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/governance-gap-has-classroom-problem-cheryl-nunn-mbae--18rmc/
Professional Philosophy
Experience Counts and Credentials Matter.
Real experience deserves real recognition. A credential should prove what someone can do today, earned through demonstrated competency, kept current through continuing education and backed by an ethics standard.
Ask Me About
1. How to make your credentials visible to AI screening tools and recruiters
2. Turning work experience into a verified credential
3. Building a career after a layoff or career change
Connect
Website, https://applymba.org
MBA Leaders Forum, https://leadersforum.co
LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherylnunn
Substack, https://www.thecredentialedge.com
Professional Interests
Future of Work | AI in Hiring | Higher Education Reform | Book Publishing | Workforce Development