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Better Results: Smarter Actions, Decisions & Information


Adult / Lifelong Learning -
Adult Fall 2025

Do you want to get better results from your efforts? Through this course we will discuss how you get more accurate information upon which to make your decisions, less affected by cognitive biases or misinformation. This leads to taking actions that result in you getting more of what YOU want.

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Please read our Adult Programming Overview page for all info regarding registration, cancellation, and building info.

Adult Programs - Edina Community Ed (edinaschools.org)

Registration for all class sessions closes 3 days before the start date.

Late Registration: If you miss the deadline but are still interested, you can contact the Community Ed office. Space may be limited, but we'll try our best to accommodate late registrations.

Email: communityed@edinaschools.org
Phone: (952) 848-3952

Rick Olson

Rick Olson: Rick Olson is a retired professional with a variety of educational and life experiences. He has worked as an economist, an attorney, a certified financial planner, an agricultural loan officer, an agricultural cooperative president, a State Representative in Michigan and a public-school business manager. He obtained a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School and completed the coursework in two Ph.D. programs (Agricultural Economics and Education Administration), but declined to write a thesis in either, so he is not a Ph.D.

An avid traveler, he has been in 49 countries and in all 50 of the United States. He has flown to the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda three times since February 2020 to guide a non-profit organization he founded to assist the refugees at Best Future School (and now at four such learning centers). He has also led the effort on three Rotary International Global Grants for refugee settlement camps in Uganda. He is now also involved in support of the efforts of Sustainable Cambodia.

He currently resides in Prior Lake, Minnesota, USA with his wife of 54 years, a retired school superintendent, and is the father of two boys, ages 45 and 43.

Rick is also an adventurer, having climbed Mt. McKinley in Alaska in 1977, riding his bicycle across the USA in 2016, did a 19-day trek to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest in 2017, and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in 2019. He led Rotary International tours through Eastern Europe in 2019 and again in 2022

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Edina Community Center : ECC - 315
Thursday, Oct 23
7:00 - 8:00 PM

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Price: $ 15 00