About

We rehearse before your maintenance window does.

Directory Forge Academy started as a late-night lab club for Windows administrators who wanted honest failure modes, not slide decks. Today we still cap cohorts so instructors can read the room, adjust pacing, and leave you with notebooks that survive the walk back to your desk.

Portrait for Sora Han, Program Director

Program Director

Sora Han

Keeps cohort calendars honest, negotiates venue realities, and makes sure every lab reset happens before you log in.

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Lead Active Directory Instructor

Haneul Park

Teaches recovery and identity defense tracks with scripts that assume you will be tired on day two.

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Lab Environment Engineer

Noah Iyer

Builds flaky WAN emulators and connector surprises so your notes survive first contact with production.

Portrait for Leah Okonkwo, Curriculum Designer

Curriculum Designer

Leah Okonkwo

Writes narratives that security reviewers and app owners can share without translating twice.

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Client Success Manager

Mina Cho

Coordinates office hours, procurement questions, and the small kindnesses that keep teams returning.

Clarity over noise

We translate directory work for security, apps, and leadership without diluting the technical stakes.

Labs that fail well

Every module includes a graceful degradation path so you can pause, discuss, and resume.

Coaching after class

Office hours exist because tickets do not wait for perfect recall.