Leading Good People to Do Good Work

Brilliantio® was created by Paul Jenkins, an internationally known documentary film director who is also an instructor on Udemy with 33,000 students in his courses on storytelling, filmmaking and narration, personal development and business.

The Brilliantio's mission is to foster excellent learning, creative approaches and storytelling.

Apart from Paul's own courses, which are available on Udemy, we are working with excellent teachers and instructors around the world, who co-create their courses with us.

We aim for the highest standards in teaching, technical quality and ethics. Courses taught by our instructors are always based on extensive and deep personal experience.

We run two Facebook groups: 'Brilliantio' and 'Courseathon' to help people with their storytelling and to make high quality online courses rapidly.

The courses we release consistently score 4.5 or higher on Udemy. You are in safe hands!

Rick Stiffney PhD

I have served in leadership capacities since my late adolescence. For nearly 40 years I served in various professional leadership capacities – leading organizations to produce results week in and week out. I have consulted with a broad range of organizations across the U.S. and beyond. Most of my consulting work has been with executives, senior leaders, and boards on issues of executive leadership, corporate mission and identity, strategy, and governance. I have also had the honor of developing leadership programs and teaching leadership to aspiring and mid-career leaders in various settings. I have served on a variety of nonprofit governing boards and served in various volunteer leadership positions with where we attended.

I use an approach to teaching that blends the best of research and literature, the stories of others, and my own experience - both the successes and the setbacks. I believe that as adults we learn more as take a principle and practice a new behavior. My teaching sessions always include a take-home assignment to focus learning through practical application.

I am currently in a season of life I characterize as tapering and tempering. I want to give my best energy to developing the leadership of others. I am married, a father of two and grandfather to three. Family and faith are central themes in my life. I hope both offer a moral compass for my life and leadership.

Although my career has been accounting, since 2005 I have been capturing Life Stories with video of people primarily in my community. The tagline "Extraordinary stories from ordinary people" tells what audience I target. They do not need to be elderly, but many of them are. The oldest interviewee was 103 years old and the youngest was 8. These types of interviews, over 250 now, have extended my story capturing to "things" in my community. An old Italian-American neighborhood has been documented as well as an 1837 grist mill (the oldest in Indiana, the oldest building in my county (1834 log house), the history of my hometown Elkhart, Indiana, and the history of our county's courthouse and its tower clock. Preserving these stories for the benefit of future generations is what I strive for... I am passionate about stories and storytelling in this way. Since I won't be able to do this forever, I would like to teach others to do what I do. I would like them to know the techniques of recognizing a story, developing it, and to tell it in a way that is authentic, creative, and using style (but no spin). This is part of my legacy... to pass on this information so that more stories can be preserved by others.