Jon Bachura is the director of the CEDE program in the Ciocca Center. He is the lead instructor for CEDE Facilitator training and serves as the teacher of record for self-directed and homeschool CEDE students. Jon is a strategist, writer, philosopher, facilitator, instruction and pedagogy designer, and amateur comic. He is an epiphany junkie, awesomeness evangelist, and a fan of the Oxford Comma.

A graduate of Emporia State University, he has worked for small businesses and entrepreneurs since he was 10 years old. Jon is a graduate of the Koch Associate Program, one of the educational programs operated by the Charles Koch Institute, where he learned to apply the science of human action to systems, markets and entrepreneurship. Jon believes that all of us are born to solve problems for profit.