Who We Are

Imperial Consulting Corporation focuses on careers and skills to better prepare more students and adults for 21st-century employment. Our clients have included State Directors of Adult Education and GED Administrators, Early College High Schools of North Carolina, the California Adult Education Association, Microsoft, and many more. We serve large school districts, individual schools, colleges, universities, professional associations, non-profit organizations, businesses, and local, state, national, and international governmental agencies.

Imperial Consulting Corporation's senior consultants offer clients a superior consulting relationship based on the latest research tempered with mutual respect, and delivered with the highest professional ethical standards.

Imperial was founded in 1968 by Edward E. Gordon, Ph.D. who is its president and author or co-author of 17 books, over 300 articles, and white papers. Imperial Consulting's research and case studies on career education, skills, and literacy best practices have been featured regularly in articles and white papers written by Edward Gordon. Also interviews with Edward Gordon on these topics appear regularly in print and on the Internet. National publications in which articles by Ed Gordon have appeared include: Principal Leadership and the NASSP Bulletin (National Association of Secondary School Principals), Techniques (Association for Career & Technical Education), The Futurist, Phi Delta Kappan, Training, T+D (American Society for Training & Development), Careers Update (American Association for Career Education), and Adult Learning (AAACE).

Articles on Ed Gordon's books and research have been featured in Education Week, USA Today, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Dallas Sentinel, Courier-Journal, Business Week, ComputerWorld, Quality Progress, Education Update, Report on Literacy Programs, the Knight-Ridder News Service, and Gannett News Service.