How did I get here?

The climb to being an Instructional Designer is a quick story. I am passionate about solving problems by building engaging and real-life immersive experiences that build bridges between learners and a company’s needs. Throughout my professional life, I have focused on solution-based activities rooted in short and long-term goals that help organizations and individuals thrive. With my developed eLearning experiences for universities being filled at max capacity with a full waiting list at every launch, I knew it was time to bring my skills to a larger audience. I researched and analyzed where my skills could best serve diverse and inspired communities, and that’s where I found learning design. I enthusiastically and confidently say this is where I’m meant to be.

My inspiration!

My professions have fostered various skills that require strong communication, deep analysis and research to uncover the most effective solutions to problems or issues, and connective collaboration between learners and organizations. The foundation beneath every part of my professional successes is my desire and ability to help others find their personal purpose and connect their professional work to the development of that purpose. My focus is building growth-mindset environments that empower individuals and companies to flourish.

The value I bring!

My personal flare as a learning designer resides in my understanding of the mind and human behavior. My background as a professor of communications focuses on alternative cultures and studying effective communication methods and strategies while my work in journalism is rooted in developing solution-based writing to cultivate effective change. By combining those foundations with my intuitively inquisitive and communal personality allows me to both view and connect multiple perspectives into a common, overarching goal. My learning designs are detailed, realistic, and relevant to the learner.

Now for the fun part!

When I’m not doing deep research on the latest technologies and the neurological patterns of the human mind, or earning another university degree, I am traveling the world (I have visited all continents except 2 – I’m coming for you Australia and Antarctica!); I am learning a new language; I am playing piano; I am writing; I am volunteering; I am dancing; and I am discovering worlds that are fully imagined and ready to be created.