
What is Mo Cred?
We are excited to launch a new platform for team member appreciation, recognizing your learning, skills, and achievements in a meaningful way. The State of Missouri has partnered with Accredible to bring you MO Cred. Team members in participating agencies are eligible to receive digital badges and certificates. This new opportunity is an incredible way to highlight your commitment to professional development, personal growth, and public service. MO Cred is all about distinguishing and celebrating YOU! YOU are our most important resource!
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Your responses to the Quarterly Pulse Survey highlighted team member appreciation and recognition as a priority. Watch this video to learn more about the exciting new things coming your way!
Current Badging Initiatives
Frequently Asked Questions
Team members in participating agencies will have the opportunity to receive a digital badge through MO Cred. Please use the list at the bottom of this page to find your agency’s MO Cred administrator(s). The Office of Administration, Division of Personnel, oversees the creation and issuing of statewide digital badges. You may contact them at TalentDevelopment@oa.mo.gov.
Through the Quarterly Pulse Survey, team members told us that appreciation needs to be a priority. The launch of MO Cred is one of many new initiatives to increase team member appreciation (another example is MOAppreciation.mo.gov). MO Cred also allows the State of Missouri to introduce innovative technology to bring team member recognition to a new level, accredit our ongoing training programs, and compete with other industries.
Our team members must have the opportunity to share their learning, skills, and achievements in a meaningful way that engages them in today’s virtual world. Digital badging offers an innovative approach to obtain, share, and verify credentials to peers, supervisors, and social media. Through this initiative, you can easily showcase your commitment to professional development, personal growth, and public service.
Digital badging has become commonplace across many industries over the last decade. You can now find universities, private sector companies, and all levels of government entities investing in badging software.
Once you earn your digital badge, you will keep it for life. Changing positions or leaving the State will not impact the badges you have received. If you leave State employment, you will not be eligible to receive future or in-progress badges.
From your digital wallet, you can share to various social media sites, add to your email signature, or share your link directly with others.
No. If you earn a digital badge and do not wish to participate, you can disregard the email you received notifying you of the achievement.
There is no limit to the number of digital badges you can receive. You must fulfill a badge’s requirements to have it issued.
-What digital badges exist?
-Who decides when someone has fulfilled the requirements to earn a digital badge?
-I’m having trouble accessing my digital badge. Who do I contact?
-I completed the posted requirements for a digital badge but have not received it. Who do I contact for help?
-What initiatives will be tied to digital badging?
-I have an idea for a digital badge we can implement. Who do I tell?
*Participating agencies have MO Cred administrators. Please use the list at the bottom of this page to find your agency’s MO Cred administrator(s). The Office of Administration, Division of Personnel, oversees the creation and issuing of statewide digital badges. You may contact them at TalentDevelopment@oa.mo.gov.
There is no cost for team members to participate in or receive a digital badge through MO Cred. Team members need to complete posted requirements to obtain individual digital badges.
There is no tenure requirement to be eligible for MO Cred participation. Team members need to complete posted requirements to obtain individual digital badges.
Once you have completed posted digital badge requirements, the administrator will issue the badge. For statewide initiatives, the badge will be sent within 30 days. For participating agencies, reach out to your point of contact below for their timeline. For all badges, you will receive the credential through your work email address. From there, you will have access to the digital wallet.
For statewide badges, the Office of Administration reviews team member eligibility and program requirements on a monthly basis and issues credentials once all criteria have been met.
Your digital wallet is home to the badges you’ve received from the State of Missouri. From here, you can share your learning, skills, and achievements to social media. The digital wallet serves as a quick, on-the-go means of accessing your badge archive.
Once you’ve receive a digital credential, an email will be sent to you with a link to “view your badge.” This link takes you to your digital badge and wallet. You can bookmark the page to manage and share your credentials in the future.
Participating agencies are deciding the cut-off date for their own initiatives. For the statewide badges issued by the Office of Administration, credentials tied to digital records will be processed first. All others records and badges will be processed as able. If you have any questions, please contact the appropriate person below.
Participating agencies will decide which training opportunities they wish to tie to digital badging. Statewide, the Office of Administration will issue digital badges for White Belt, Yellow Belt, and The Missouri Way.
*Mandatory training (those that are required as part of your role) are not eligible for digital badging. MO Cred only considers training opportunities that are optional and meet specific criteria determined by each agency.
**Additionally, the only training opportunities that an agency may consider are those that were created and facilitated by the State of Missouri. This would exclude, for example, all content made by LinkedIn Learning or other external sources.
If you have any questions, please reach out to the appropriate point of contact below.
No. The State of Missouri cannot issue digital badges for any certifications or training opportunities that were sponsored by an outside organization. You can contact the organization you received the training from and request a certificate or digital badge, if available. Many professional organizations are issuing digital credentials now.
The MO Cred administrator(s) for your new agency can change your email in the system to reflect your current email address. When this is done, your digital wallet will merge previous badges into the new account.
When a badge image is added to an email signature, Outlook automatically resizes it to be too large. To fix this, follow these steps:
- Insert the badge image to your current signature using the signature settings in Outlook.
- Save the new signature (with the large image).
- Open a new email. You will see your signature with the large image. Here, you can resize the image by dragging the corners. Once you have it appropriately sized, copy your signature.
- Return to the Outlook signature settings and edit your current signature. Paste the version you copied earlier and hit save.
Please visit www.Accredible.com for more information on digital badging or to further review the software.
Agency Points of Contact
Jennifer Hentges
Department of Agriculture
Jennifer.Hentges@mda.mo.gov
Shari Steele
Department of Agriculture
Shari.Steele@mda.mo.gov
Ashley Woodruff
Department of Commerce & Insurance
Ashley.Woodruff@dci.mo.go
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Stacey Rackers
Department of Commerce & Insurance
Stacey.Rackers@dci.mo.gov
Melissa Davison
Department of Corrections
Melissa.Davison@doc.mo.gov
Garry Brix
Department of Corrections
Garry.Brix@doc.mo.gov
Anita Witthaus
Department of Corrections
Anita.Witthaus@doc.mo.gov
Leah Norment
Department of Economic Development
Leah.Norment@ded.mo.gov
Kelly Morgan
Department of Economic Development
Kelly.Morgan@ded.mo.gov
Kyle McPheeters
Department of Economic Development
Kyle.McPheeters@ded.mo.gov
Jake King
Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
Jake.King@dese.mo.gov
Jessica Schwartz
Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
Jessica.Schwartz@dese.mo.gov
Joshua Rowlan
Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
Joshua.Rowlan@dese.mo.gov
*Missouri Departments of Conservation and Transportation are not participating in MO Cred at this time.
Julie Herigon
Department of Health & Senior Services
Julie.Herigon@health.mo.gov
Tracy Johnson
Department of Health & Senior Services
Tracy.D.Johnson@health.mo.gov
Carla McDaniel
Department of Higher Education & Workforce Development
Carla.McDaniel@dhewd.mo.gov
Laura Hoskins
Department of Higher Education & Workforce Development
Laura.Hoskins@dhewd.mo.gov
Mary Shelton
Department of Mental Health
Mary.Shelton@dmh.mo.gov
Tricia Hawkins
Department of Mental Health
Tricia.Hawkins@dmh.mo.gov
Darlene Fritz
Department of Natural Resources
Darlene.Fritz@dnr.mo.gov
Jakaya Tanoh
Department of Natural Resources
Jakaya.Tanoh@dnr.mo.gov
Janet Watson
Department of Labor and Industrial Relations
Janet.Watson@labor.mo.gov
Nitu Giri-Puri
Department of Labor and Industrial Relations
Nitu.GiriPuri@labor.mo.gov
Nick Omland
Department of Labor and Industrial Relations
Nick.Omland@labor.mo.gov
Ginger Meador
Department of Revenue
Ginger.Meador@dor.mo.gov
Heather Kaiser
Department of Revenue
Heather.Kaiser@dor.mo.gov
Michael Berendzen
Department of Revenue
Michael.Berendzen@dor.mo.gov
Amanda Renn
Department of Public Safety
Amanda.Renn@mshp.dps.mo.gov
Michelle Leffert
Department of Public Safety
Michelle.Leffert@dps.mo.gov
Paul Imhoff
Department of Public Safety
Paul.Imhoff@mvc.dps.mo.gov
Joan Rogers
Department of Social Services
Joan.Rogers@dss.mo.gov
Raeann Pollard
Missouri National Guard
Raeann.Pollard@mong.mo.gov
Tom Joseph
Office of Administration
Tom.Joseph@oa.mo.gov
Travis Rehagen
Office of Administration
Travis.Rehagen@oa.mo.gov
Talent Development Team
Statewide
TalentDevelopment@oa.mo.gov
Questions or Comments?
Please use this form to share any questions or comments with the MO Cred administrative team. You can expect a response within 48 hours of form submission.