The Team

Sheila Boyington

Sheila C. Boyington, P.E. is President and Co-Founder of Thinking Media. Sheila also served as the Vice President for ACT Workforce and led the sales and implementation team for the ACT NCRC/WorkKeys®/KeyTrain® team nationally.  She now leads the team and efforts to expand Learning Blade and its adoptions.  In these roles she became one of the most knowledgeable and experienced persons in the country with work/career ready programs and their implementations. Sheila has seen, and been involved in, the evolution of programs in most states with an NCRC, CRC, or WorkKeys program. She has worked with the state-level stakeholders in all of these states. Her involvement has been direct, choosing to work on such projects personally, as well as involving her former KeyTrain® staff, which is why her expertise is as vast as it is – and why she is known throughout the country in this capacity. Projects she has been involved in developing include, but are not limited to: The Kentucky Work Ready Program , The Arkansas Career Readiness Certificate Program , The Oklahoma Career Readiness Certificate Program, The Oklahoma Work Ready Community Program, The Alaska Career Readiness Certificate Program, The Michigan National Career Readiness Certificate Program, The Georgia Work Ready Program, The Georgia Work Ready Community Program, The Tennessee National Career Readiness Certificate Program, and The Virginia Career Readiness Certificate Program.
Sheila has won numerous awards for her Entrepreneurship and Leadership including the Athena, Navigator of Entrepreneurship, Supernova, and Chattanooga Engineer Entrepreneur of the Year. Sheila is a Professional Engineer, and holds a Masters Degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida. Sheila worked for environmental firms such as Black and Veatch, Parsons Engineering prior to founding Thinking Media. 

Dane Boyington

Dr. Dane Boyington is Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of Thinking Media. Dane also served as the Vice President, Workforce Curriculum, for the Workforce Development Division of ACT, where he led curriculum development and technology planning. Dane, along with Sheila was responsible for the development of the curriculum systems for KeyTrain and Career Ready 101, and for the implementation of several new technology platforms which were acquired by ACT in 2010. He works to create technology systems that are practical, easy-to-use, and promote education in our country. Dane represented ACT on several occasions at meetings with the Manufacturing Institute to assist in the skills credentialing system. Dane also designed and developed the Certificate Key Program that was employed in Alabama to track certificate data.
Dane is the visionary thought-leader for Thinking Media and leads the design and development of the tools created. Dane holds a doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.S.in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida with high honors. Dane also held technical manager positions at DuPont prior to founding Thinking Media. Dane also co-founded CharacterEd.Net, an online system for character education in schools, and PictureRx, which provides a system for improving medication adherence in low-literacy populations.