About

More than 20 years of applied educational-management practice, now operating in the United States.

Advance Strategies Group is the commercial brand under which Advance4edu LLC delivers the CRIAR Framework to U.S. small and mid-sized enterprises, founder cohorts, and financial-literacy learners.

Serving organizations across the United States · Bilingual English / Spanish delivery · Operated by Advance4edu LLC (Advance Strategies Group)

Timeline

More than 20 years of applied practice, within more than 30 years of professional leadership.

2005

CRIA Brasil method authored by Adriano Salvador and first applied across four schools of the Colégio Americano Batista network; foundational applied entrepreneurship pedagogy later codified into the CRIAR Framework.

2014–2016

Direction of the Cachoeiro do Itapemirim campus of an accredited multi-campus college system (IGC = 5, under prior direction, per the Brazilian Ministry of Education).

2022

U.S. practice development begins through prior U.S. professional-development activity.

July 22, 2024

Advance4edu LLC formally incorporated in Utah (Entity 14087020-0160); the platform launches under the Advance Strategies Group brand.

Operating vehicle

Advance4edu LLC was formally incorporated in Utah on July 22, 2024, as the U.S. institutional expression of an educational-management practice previously operated through Advance4edu LTDA (Brazil, Dec 2, 2021) and, before that, through direct professional engagements dating back to 2005. U.S. practice development dates to 2022 through prior U.S. professional-development activity; the LLC entity itself was incorporated in 2024. Entity Number 14087020-0160. Registered at 560 S 100 W, Suite 35, Provo, UT 84601.

In production · Q3 2026

Current U.S. engagements.

These engagements reflect the platform in production. Additional relationships across U.S. educational-services organizations are onboarded on a rolling basis.

FL

Second Chance Financial (active since July 2025)

Since July 2025, Adriano Salvador has maintained an active professional engagement with Second Chance Financial (Frederico Martins), focused on training and team-development activities under an applied-pedagogy approach. A countersigned partnership letter dated June 29, 2026 (Parkland, FL) documents the engagement. Ongoing · logged in operating record.

Ongoing
BR / UT

Assessora Consultoria (Espírito Santo, Brazil · active since 2005 · continued through Advance4edu LLC)

Public-administration training program serving Brazilian municipal governments across more than one hundred formal cooperation agreements. Curriculum and pedagogical direction under Adriano Salvador's continuous supervision; the operational relationship is delivered from the U.S. side by Advance4edu LLC since 2024. Ongoing · logged in operating record.

Ongoing
BR / UT

Long-standing Brazilian educational-institution partnerships (Advance4edu LLC delivery since 2024)

Two Brazilian educational-development institutions — a basic-education institution and a professional-development institute — engaged in continuous consultative relationships with the founder for more than fifteen years. Instructional-design and executive-education contracts are delivered from the U.S. side by Advance4edu LLC since 2024, ensuring bilingual continuity as the client bases expand into the U.S. market. Ongoing · logged in operating record.

Ongoing
UT

U.S. entrepreneurship-education pilot (Utah · exploratory · Q3 2026)

An exploratory pilot with a U.S. entrepreneurship-education organization in Utah, evaluating the CRIAR founder-cohort methodology for adaptation into a U.S. K-12 and community-college entrepreneurship curriculum. Discovery phase · logged Q3 2026. Additional relationships across U.S. educational-services organizations are being onboarded on a rolling basis.

In discovery
Last updated · Q3 2026
Public record · Brazilian Ministry of Education

Institutional quality anchor.

Accredited multi-campus college system · Five campuses under prior direction · 4 × IGC 5 · 1 × IGC 4

IGC (Índice Geral de Cursos) is the institutional quality index maintained by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, publicly verifiable on e-MEC.gov.br. Under prior direction, four of the five campuses of the accredited multi-campus college system were rated IGC 5 (institutional maximum) and one was rated IGC 4. Adriano Salvador served in the direction of the Cachoeiro do Itapemirim campus during the 2014-2016 cycle in which the maximum score was recorded at that campus.

Peer-reviewed publication
Peer-reviewed ·Lacruz, A. J. & Salvador, A. — "Contribuições de Programas de Educação Empreendedora para a Abertura e Manutenção de Novos Negócios" — QUALIS A4 · ISSN 1988-7833 (presented at ANPAD scientific meeting; published in Contribuciones a Las Ciencias Sociales)
U.S. operational footprint · Q3 2026
Operating entity
Advance4edu LLC
Utah limited-liability company, incorporated July 22, 2024.
Entity number
14087020-0160
Utah Division of Corporations filing.
Registered address
Provo, UT
560 S 100 W, Suite 35, Provo, UT 84601.
Delivery
Bilingual EN / ES
Corporate, Entrepreneurship, and Applied Financial Education.
FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
I have spent more than 20 years operating educational institutions — from basic-education networks to higher-education campuses that reached the maximum institutional quality score under the Brazilian Ministry of Education — within more than 30 years of professional leadership. Since 2022, that practice has been active in the United States. Advance4edu LLC, incorporated in Utah in July 2024, is the institutional vehicle through which the platform now delivers Corporate, Entrepreneurship, and Applied Financial Education to U.S. organizations. What I am building here is not a new venture — it is the current operating expression of a discipline I have been refining for more than two decades.
— Adriano Salvador, Founder & Chief Executive

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