1 Minute Learning was founded in 1999 by Phil Davies, David Unruh, and Hal Calbom to provide the best learning and performance support solutions available. The founding partners share a passion for learning and experience in developing some of the most innovative learning products available.
Phil Davies
Founding Partner
Phil Davies has worked as a creative director, cinematographer, editor and director. In his ten years at KING Davies directed, photographed and edited a variety of news and documentary productions, winning nine Emmy Awards.
Phil has been responsible for all aspects of pre- and post-production of video projects of any scale — from thirty-second television spots to hour long, multi-faceted training programs. Davies also leads the creative process by directing computer graphics specialists and set designers. Recent Davies-directed productions include Public Service Announcements for the Seattle Art Museum and The Pacific Northwest Ballet, several training programs for Maritime Training Services, and the video-based multimedia presentation Jet City for The Downtown Seattle Association. Davies has also managed the business and financial side of Calbom/Davies during the fifteen years of its successful operations.
Phil Davies and Hal Calbom first worked with David Unruh during production of five Lifeskills CD ROM products for Midisoft Corporation, which have been enhanced and are being distributed by 1 Minute Learning and its distribution partners. Calbom led the concept development and writing of these programs, Davies directed the photography and editing, and Unruh managed the instructional design and programming.
Phil Davies is a graduate of The Evergreen State College with a degree in Communications and Media Arts and is a decorated veteran of the Viet Nam War.
David Unruh
Founding Partner
A leader in the online learning and CD-ROM development field, David has developed over 50 commercial software titles, including Music Mentor Maestro Edition; Japanese, Spanish and French To Go; and business training and skills titles including Communicate! and Organize for Success. David was the lead programmer and designer for Access Washington, the State of Washington's public access government project. Access Washington has won numerous national awards including the 1999 BOTI (Business on the Internet) award for best Public Service site on the Internet.
In 1999, David joined the adjunct faculty at the University of Washington in the College of Education and teaches courses on Instructional Computer Graphics and Computer-Based Training.
David graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics from Western Washington University, and a M.Ed. in Educational Technology and Communications from the University of Washington.
Hal Calbom
Founding Partner
Hal began his career as a television news reporter, news anchor, field producer, program producer and host. In eight years with King Television, the Seattle NBC affiliate, he wrote and produced a variety of news and public affairs programs, winning five Emmy Awards and the Champion Media Award for Economic Understanding.
In 1984 Hal left King Television to co-found Hal Calbom / Phil Davies Producers, and for the last fifteen years has worked with leadership of some of America’s leading companies — including Boeing, Motorola, Nordstrom, McGraw-Hill, and US West, among others — producing marketing communications and training media. Calbom / Davies specialized in converting content from one medium to another, specifically working with a number of publishers to produce multimedia accompaniments to successful books.
Recent Calbom media productions include writing and producing the Crisp Publications’ Self-Directed Learning Series in video and audio; writing and hosting Computers at work, Third Edition, for McGraw-Hill; producing audio and video elements for The Boeing Center for Leadership and Learning’s Creating Value learning program; and writing and producing Five S: Creating the Productive Workplace, for the Deltapoint Corporation.
Hal is a graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Government and holds a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Exeter, England, where he studied as Frank Knox Fellow funded by Harvard University.