D2 Learning Design
Award-winning learning designer with 15+ years of experience creating immersive, impactful e-learning. I use multimedia, gamification, and dynamic assessments to build training that sticks.
Learning, Designed for Impact
Looking for e-learning that keeps people engaged? Need to refresh content that's lost its edge? Need to get your awesome onto an LMS? Whether you need comprehensive program design, interactive e-learning, LMS configuration, or curriculum updates, I can help.
The Work
A selection of projects that showcase my expertise in creating effective and engaging learning solutions.
Spot the Fake
Spot the Fake is a 90-second teller-training explainer for a fictional Caribbean bank, Leeward Cay Bank, on catching counterfeit $100 bills. It opens with a fact that frames the whole lesson: in the U.S. the most counterfeited bill is the $20, but worldwide it's the $100.
The Business Tune-Up: Torque & Ledger
The Business Tune-Up is a one-minute animated brand explainer for a fictional small-business consulting firm, Torque & Ledger. Instead of a generic "we help businesses grow" pitch, the whole service is told as a garage tune-up.
Oakline HR: Enroll in Your Benefits
Oakline HR: Enroll in Your Benefits is a software simulation that teaches new hires to complete benefits enrollment in an HR self-service portal, the kind of system training every onboarding program needs. It follows the classic three-mode model: Show me; Try me; Test me.
The Colleague Who Wasn’t There: Deepfake Fraud
The Colleague Who Wasn't There is a two-minute animated security-awareness explainer about one of the fastest-growing threats to finance teams: deepfake "whaling" scams. Viewers follow Ethan, a careful finance director, as an urgent request from a trusted overseas colleague escalates to a live video call, and then discover that no one on the call was real.
Fieldline Interactive Product Demo
The Fieldline Interactive Product Demo is a three-minute guided tour of a field-service operations platform, built in Articulate Storyline for the kind of enterprise sales and onboarding demos agencies are asked to produce. The viewer follows one urgent HVAC job at a medical center from the first alert to the paid invoice across nine real product screens, clicking each step themselves.
AML Training: Structuring
Every Teller Knows a Guy Like Vic is a 90-second motion-comic micro-lesson that teaches bank tellers to spot structuring: a customer splitting cash deposits to stay under the $10,000 reporting line. Told as a modern corporate noir, the story is narrated by a teller, Sarah, about a friendly regular, Vic, whose deposits keep landing just under ten thousand dollars.
The Magnet Is Always On: MRI Safety
The Magnet Is Always On: MRI Safety is a 10-minute interactive safety module designed for everyone who works in a new MRI suite: front desk, nurses, technologists and physicians, as well as anyone who walks patients toward a magnet that never turns off.
The 50-30-20 Budget
The 50/30/20 Budget is a one-minute animated explainer that teaches a simple, memorable way to split every paycheck: 50% to needs, 30% to wants and 20% to "you, later."
Working Safely Around Heavy Equipment
Working Safely Around Heavy Equipment is a custom-built HTML5 safety module. SCORM-wrapped for LMS tracking, that teaches construction crews the five judgment calls that keep people out from under a load. Learners size an exclusion zone, open a sling until it fails, and decide when a lift has to stop.
The Blowout Preventer: Know the Signs, Shut It In
The Blowout Preventer is a 90-second technical explainer for new drilling crews on well control. It shows why a well kicks (formation pressure overcoming the weight of the drilling mud), the warning signs on the rig (a gain in the pits and a well that keeps flowing with the pumps off), and how the blowout preventer stack stops a kick from becoming a blowout.
The Art of Customer Recovery
This e-learning module is designed to equip learners with essential skills to resolve customer issues and transform negative experiences into positive outcomes. This module integrates a variety of engaging and immersive instructional techniques to enhance learner comprehension and retention.
Building Trust Under Pressure
Built in Articulate Rise, this e-learning module turns the abstract concept of psychological safety into a concrete, hands-on experience. Learners explore how trust forms, fractures, and repairs through immersive micro-activities, real-world scenarios, and reflection tools designed for immediate workplace application.
Blood Pressure at Home, the Right Way
Blood Pressure at Home, the Right Way is a two-minute animated patient-education video for people who have just been asked to check their blood pressure at home. Viewers follow Diane, a woman in her late fifties, as she learns that small, everyday habits (crossed legs, a cuff over a sleeve, chatting while the monitor runs) can push a reading up by ten points or more.
Phishing - How to Avoid Taking the Bait
This e-learning module is designed to help learners identify and avoid phishing attacks. Through engaging activities, the module covers key phishing tactics like email phishing, spear phishing, and smishing. Learners practice spotting red flags and applying protective measures, ensuring they are equipped to safeguard themselves and their organizations from phishing threats.
Layers, Loops, and Laundering: The AML Challenge
This Anti-Money Laundering (AML) scenario is an immersive e-learning module in which the learner is placed in the role of a bank compliance officer and must investigate a string of suspicious financial transactions.
De-Escalation Techniques
Built in Articulate Storyline and utilizing dynamic avatars in their work environment, this activity puts learners in the middle of a customer complaint scenario, where tone, body language, and emotional pressure come to life. Learners watch three possible customer rep responses to the complaint and must choose the most effective approach.
Take a Breath: The 5-Second Pause
Built in Articulate Rise 360, this interactive micro-course helps learners recognize their stress triggers, visualize their emotional responses, and apply a simple, science-backed pause technique to regain control in high-pressure moments before a situation escalates, whether with coworkers, customers, or clients.
The Client Satisfaction Problem
This micro learning module follows a customer service manager at a software company as she investigates declining client satisfaction scores.
The Eisenhower Matrix
This interactive e-learning module that illustrates a simple, yet powerful organizational tool that can be used to prioritize work tasks. This module integrates a variety of engaging and immersive instructional techniques to enhance learner comprehension and retention.
How to Parallel Park
Designed in Articulate Storyline, this module is fully custom-built driving experience that turns one of learning's oldest problems on its head: parallel parking
First Day Waves: Virtual Onboarding Guide
This interactive onboarding module reimagines orientation as a dynamic, learner-driven journey. New hires navigate an interactive office map to meet team members through interactive, AI-driven avatars.
Unlocking Homeownership
Modular e-learning course that prepares first-time homebuyers before touring properties. Blending video, self-assessments, and simulations, the course helps buyers define must-haves, set budgets, and practice real-world decisions. The result: less wasted time for agents and more confident, prepared clients.
The Perfect Brew
In this e-learning training simulation, the learner steps into the role of a barista, tasked with crafting a variety of coffee drinks based on customer orders using a realistic espresso machine, promoting both accuracy and efficiency in a fast-paced café environment.
Medical Abbreviations and Acronyms for Caregivers
Built in Articulate Rise, this interactive training module introduces essential medical abbreviations and acronyms used by caregivers in daily practice. Designed to prepare learners for both the State Caregiver Exam and real-world caregiving tasks, it combines clarity, interactivity, and visual reinforcement to ensure confident recall in real-life scenarios.
Barista Recipe Guide
The BrewMaster app is a dynamic, interactive digital job aid designed to standardize and streamline coffee preparation for baristas. Developed as a comprehensive reference tool, it ensures consistency and accuracy in drink crafting, from espresso shot counts to milk preparation techniques, across a range of popular beverages.
The Pomodoro Technique
This animated explainer video introduces the Pomodoro Technique as a simple, effective productivity hack.
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