About Great Circle Learning

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Great Circle Learning is a software company.

Our software frees users to work more efficiently when using Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Our software product lines are:

  • LeaderGuide Pro™
  • zAPPs-apps
  • george! for PowerPoint

LeaderGuide Pro™ is the fastest, easiest way to build consistent, reusable facilitator guides and participant workbooks to support traditional and virtual training. LeaderGuide Pro™ provides templates that ensure consistency and tools that increase productivity. LeaderGuide Pro™ is an ad-in to Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Files are easy to build, share and update.

zAPPs-apps add-in to Word and PowerPoint and Excel. zAPPs Got-ur-Back makes backup copies of prior versions of files. zAPPs Stats-Geek efficiently provides all of the available data about an open file in one dialog box. The zAPPs Collection includes tools that import and export content and images within and across Office files formats, and more.

george! for PowerPoint optimizes slide files for print distribution, building formatted Word documents complete with cover page, table of contents, page numbers, lines for capturing notes, and more.

GCL software frees users to focus on content and work more productively while we make Word and PowerPoint and Excel work better.

Our mission is to provide unique productivity software that liberates your mind as well as your mouse, in the belief that the space we open up will be your canvas for new and exciting endeavors.

Why is our company name Great Circle Learning?

We began as provider of custom training and development services in 1992. We started developing applications that run within Microsoft Office for our own use, to increase productivity and ensure consistency. As clients started asking for those tools, we began to sell them. Today our focus is solely on developing and supporting our productivity software.
 

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Who We Are

richard michaels

Richard V. Michaels

Chief Product Architect of Great Circle Learning

Richard is an expert at applying critical thinking to address large-scale business challenges, and at GCL he is responsible for the design and development of the company’s products and corporate education interventions with its clients.

Over his more than 30 year career Richard has been responsible for the development and delivery of hundreds of training & development initiatives for major organizations including: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Guardian Life Insurance Company, Hoechst-Roussel, IBM, Novartis, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Schering-Plough, Scherring A.G., Wyeth-Ayerst, Sanofi-Aventis, the FDA, the U.S. Army Training Command, the U.S. Army Logistics College, the Singapore Institute of Management, the Singapore Civil Service Institute, and the American Management Association.

In addition to his skills in instructional design, writing and education, Richard is also an expert software developer; his programs are in use world-wide.

He has blended his choices of educational pursuit, computer science at the undergraduate level and educational psychology at the master’s level into a successful career.  Richard also holds two professional certifications from the Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals, a U.S. Merchant Marine Officer License from the USCG, and in 2011 he was honored by Microsoft Corporation with their Microsoft Community Contributor award.

nancy michaels

Nancy A. Michaels

As one of the owners of GCL Nancy wears many hats. Her focus is on sales, marketing and product support. Nancy has also worked both domestically and internationally as an advocate for others in the judicial court systems. Her talent is matching people in need with what they need.

Holly Mills

C. Holly Mills

When you call or email for help Holly is there, as she has been since her first day on the job July 10, 2000. Think of Holly as your champion. Meeting your needs is her main concern.