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Who said Articulate Rise has to be boring?🤔  Recently, I was inspired by Emma Berry to bring my Illustrator skills into a Rise course—and it turned into such a fun creative challenge!  I loved experimenting with character design and sharpening techniques like masking, adding effects, gradients, and text on a path. For the visuals, I started with characters from storyset.com  and customized them in Illustrator to fit the course design.  Big thanks to Bring Your Own Laptop  

One of the most powerful habits I’ve built into my workflow is holding retrospective sessions after every major training initiative. These sessions help my team and I pause, reflect, and continuously improve—not just the training itself, but how we design, deliver, and support learning. Here’s what works well for me: ✅ Create a safe space  I make it clear from the beginning: this is not about blame. It’s about learning together. When people feel safe, they speak up—and that’s

One of the quiet superpowers in training project management? Knowing how to say “no”... without ever actually saying the word. Because in reality, it’s rarely just “no”— It’s:  🔁 Constant change requests  ⏳ Deadlines that were due yesterday  📈 And priorities that shift faster than you can update your project plan. As training project managers, we walk the line between being flexible and protecting the project’s timeline, scope, and sanity. Here are a few of my favorite ways

🚨 Let’s talk about something that’s hurting companies more than they realize: the undervaluing of the training department. Too often, training teams are treated as a cost center instead of a strategic partner. We’re brought in after decisions are made, expected to "fix" performance issues with a quick course, and rarely invited to the table where real change happens. But here’s the truth:  📉 A disengaged workforce?  📉 Inefficient processes?  📉 High turnover?  📉 Poor lead

🧠 How does an instructional designer step into a brand-new industry and create effective training? This is a question I often hear—and one I’ve had to answer myself more than once. As instructional designers, we’re not always subject matter experts (SMEs), but we do need to speak the language of the learners and understand the context they're working in. When I first started designing training for aviation professionals, I wasn’t sure where to begin. I didn’t have a backgrou

🧩 Behind Every Successful Training Project? A Coalition. Working in learning & development, I’ve seen this time and again: You can have the best-designed training solution — aligned, evidence-based, beautifully packaged — and it still stalls. Why? Because no training project moves forward on logic alone. It moves with support. When I negotiate for time, resources, or buy-in for a specific training project, I look for:  🔍 Who else has a stake in this challenge?  🔗 Whose goa