Nexus Worldwide Computer Training
About Nexus Worldwide Computer Training
Founded on a Simple Belief
There had to be a better way.
Founded in 1998 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Nexus Worldwide Computer Training was built on one simple belief: There had to be a better way.
Before starting Nexus, I spent a few years inside the big contracting companies — watching students get treated like numbers, shoved into classes they weren’t ready for, all so corporations could rake in more money. Certification mills were everywhere. Quality was nowhere.
I didn’t start Nexus with a five-year plan or a billion-dollar blueprint. I started it because I was frustrated. Because I knew it was possible to deliver real education without compromising integrity. Because I believed students deserved better — and so did the teachers who truly cared about them.
The Original Vision
Keeping It Clear & Simple
If you’d asked me back then what my “vision” was, I probably would have laughed. It wasn’t about building an empire — it was about fixing what was broken.
Creating a place where students weren’t just passive bodies in a classroom. Where students had a voice in how they learned — and where teachers weren’t boxed in by corporate policies or PowerPoint decks.
At Nexus, we don’t even call ourselves instructors. Instructors present material. Teachers make sure you understand it.
Our vision was — and still is — simple: Create an environment where real education happens through real connection, where students are heard, and where teaching is a craft, not a script.
Built from Frustration
Driven by Purpose
Starting a company is easy when you’re young and full of fire. Keeping it alive is something else entirely.
In the early days, my biggest challenge wasn’t the competition — it was myself.
I had the title. I had the certifications.
But I didn’t have the humility yet.
I thought knowing technology and teaching was enough.
I didn’t know business.
I didn’t ask for help — and I should have.
In 2001, we had our best year — close to a million dollars in revenue with just six people.
The next year, we made less than half. Reality hit hard.
I had to lay off good people because I hadn’t planned for the hard times.
It was by the grace of God — and because of advice from mentors like Charlie Nipp and Steve Meyer — that Nexus survived.
Charlie gave me a piece of advice I’ll never forget:
“Clay, you don’t build your church for the size of the congregation on Easter Sunday. Fill what you have — then grow out of it.”
I listened.
I learned.
I grew up.
And Nexus kept growing — the right way.
At Nexus, every teacher is a student.
We never stop learning — because every student learns differently.
Mastering technology matters — but mastering people matters even more.
“At Nexus, every teacher is a student — because mastering technology is second only to mastering people.”
Every time we teach, we learn again.
Every class makes us better.
There’s one thing we will never give up:
Live, instructor-led training, in-person.
No Zoom calls.
No webcams pretending to be classrooms.
No sterile, isolated “learning experiences.”
Real education demands real human connection.
Students learn best when they’re in a room together — bouncing ideas off each other, challenging each other, building each other up.
You can’t build warriors through a webcam.
It takes a village — and that village doesn’t exist online.
At Nexus, we protect that village.
We fight for it.
We live it every single day.
Real Teachers. Real Students. Real Results.
Welcome to Nexus
If you’re ready to stop checking boxes —
If you’re ready to build real skills, real confidence, and a real future —
Then you’re exactly the kind of student we built this for.
Welcome to the family.