Performance & Value Focused Instructional Designer

I'm a technical instructional designer who works collaboratively with subject matter experts, business partners, and stakeholders in corporate environments.

I enjoy creating high-quality, engaging, and valuable digital training for a diverse audience meant to improve performance or solve performance problems in less time.

I'm available evenings and weekends for freelance instructional design and contract eLearning developer roles with Articulate Rise and Storyline

My specialties

  • Translate technical & IT into digestible content for non-techies.
  • Redesigning instructor-led training for effective and shorter online delivery
  • Creating software training to be realistic and scenario-rich.
  • Analyzing complex needs to learn if training is a fit and how to best approach a project to improve performance.
  • Using digital adoption platforms (DAPs) to help employees use software in the flow of their work.

The Blog

What’s The Most Important Part Of Working From Home?

I'd like to think I was a pro in the work from home field (if it was a field). I've been doing it since 2013 and even before that I...
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Where have I been all these *years*?

Yes, I have been completely absent from this blog for many years. Somewhere in early 2016 I think I just had a few too many things going on and it...
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Who Is The Real Project Stakeholder?

When you start a new project, are you asking the following questions: Who is the real project stakeholder? Who holds the biggest stake in your project? The answer to these questions...
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Transitioning Responsibility to Managers, T&D Becomes a Curation Resource

Without managers being fully invested in training, there is no chance it will have an effect on people. Just as with everything else in an organization, training relies on its...
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Move Forward

Progress can seem like a scary thing sometimes. It can mean that the things we're comfortable with are suddenly pulled out from under us. A world which everything is familiar...
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Looking Back On 2015

This is my obligatory end of the year post reflecting on my year in 2015. It's not really obligatory of course, but it's fun to look back at all my...
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Great Minds Think Alike

Everybody's heard this phrase right? I know I hear it on almost a daily basis. Every time I hear this statement I can't help but thing how great minds absolutely do...
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Training Culture vs Learning Culture – A Mind Shift

There are some common terminology issues in training and staff development departments in many organizations. Some of these terminology issues give birth to larger problems and ways of thinking about training...
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3 Tips For Learning Online

A few weeks ago I was contacted to give some tips for learning online. I was fortunate enough to have three of those tips included in the article titled 101...
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