Transforming Online Orientations
How a traditional onboarding experience became a brain-friendly, hybrid, interactive program using spacing, connection-building, and low-budget tools like Kahoot!, Gather.Town, Storyline, and Rise.
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Learning Experience Designer | Speaker | Builder of Interactive Adventures
Designing learning experiences that help people explore, connect, and discover.
I build interactive onboarding, training, and speaking experiences that turn new ideas and environments into opportunities for curiosity, connection, and discovery.
Speaker at ATD, The Learning Guild, Learning Solutions, and Learning Leaders Forum.
ATD
The Learning Guild
Learning Solutions
Learning Leaders Forum
Featured work
Selected adventures
Selected public-release projects and presentations, organized as case studies instead of a file cabinet.
Mission Possible
An Amazing Race-inspired onboarding talk with a mission passport, live challenge, debrief, and a framework others can reuse for their own programs.
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Puzzles, Portals, and Prototypes
A practical look at using AI to brainstorm, narrow, iterate, and prototype gamified learning experiences without losing the human design signal.
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APL Amazing Race
A large-scale scavenger-hunt style experience that used passports, progress trackers, hints, and collaborative location challenges to drive connection.
View materials →My approach
I believe learning works best when people are curious, engaged, and able to connect new ideas to meaningful experiences. Whether I am designing onboarding programs, conference presentations, gamified learning experiences, or AI-enabled learning tools, my goal is the same: help people navigate unfamiliar territory with confidence.
Much of my professional work is proprietary, so the examples here focus on the strongest public-release material: conference sessions, infographics, passports, handouts, and presentation decks that already tell the story well.
What I bring
- Experience designing learning for technical and professional audiences
- A focus on connection, collaboration, and learner engagement
- Practical experience with gamification, onboarding, and emerging technologies
- Strong grounding in adult learning principles and learning science
- Commitment to accessibility, inclusion, and real-world application