I lead human-centered and learning-focused solutions for an improved future state, where continual work-integrated learning and skilling is valued, where all learning counts and is recognized, and where all learners have access to - and success as a result of - learning opportunities.

To achieve this future state, I often facilitate purposeful partnerships - ensuring the right organizations and individuals have the opportunity and capacity to work together.

While technology is very often an essential element of initiatives and projects, I start by identifying the human and organizational needs first to ensure that initiatives stick and ultimately make a difference.

I design, lead, and support cutting edge initiatives that ultimately help dismantle the traditional boundaries between learning and work. I have expertise and engage in a variety of related projects, including:

• Assessment: program quality, competencies and skills, and overall educational effectiveness and impact.

• Recognition of Learning: Credit for prior learning / prior learning assessment and recognition; digital credentials and portfolios; and Learning and Employment Records (LERs).

• Change leadership and human-centered change processes.

• Credentialing: microcredentials, badges, non-credit to credit pathways, incremental credentials, etc.

ALSO:

• Competency-based education (CBE)

• Design thinking

• Online and hybrid learning

• Employer/educator collaborations

• Faculty, staff, and leadership development

• High impact practices, including mentoring, experiential learning, and community-engaged learning

• Labor market alignment

• Learner-focused employability and career development

• Prison-based higher education (PHE)

• Qualitative research and analysis

• Quality assurance and accreditation

• Skills-based learning design and validation

• Stakeholder engagement

• State authorization

• Strategic planning and monitoring

• Systems mapping and redesign

• Work-based and work-integrated learning practices and simulations

My work ethos is “To Be of Use” (borrowed from my favorite Marge Piercy poem). I provide hands-on leadership and support to get work done! Examples include:

• Creating and facilitating teams to design learning-focused initiatives that address a future state or solve novel problems

• Managing projects and product development

• Connecting state of the art models, technologies, resources, subject matter experts, and collaborators

• Facilitating small and large group committees, workshops, and communities of practice virtually, in person, and in hybrid modalities

• Performing action research, including landscape analyses and experimental projects

• Preparing reports, guidelines, technical assistance, and job aides that promote integration, dissemination, and adoption

• Training, mentoring, and supporting personnel

• Writing and managing grants and funding proposals