After 20 plus years as an instructional designer, I made a deliberate move into consulting. Not because I stopped loving the craft, but because I kept seeing the same gap across every sector I worked in. Government. International development. Healthcare. Defence. Nonprofits.  I kept seeing well-intentioned courses with no real learning outcomes, good courses with no way of knowing if they made a difference, and resources that excluded the very people they were meant to serve because nobody had checked whether they met basic accessibility standards.

 

The missing link: A strategic learning plan and well designed resources to support it. That groundwork changes everything. So I decided to focus on exactly that.

 

I chose Canadian nonprofits because their mission to help others aligns with mine. These organizations use education and learning as tools for change, building capacity and reaching people in their often hard to reach communities. That kind of work deserves careful planning behind it. That’s something worthwhile to wake up to each day!

 

When I'm not doing that, you'll find me outside. Hiking, climbing mountains, walking dogs (sometimes ones that aren't even mine), and reminding myself that the best ideas rarely happen at a desk.