503-896-3312
Training design and delivery, learning tools, e-learning courses
HEY, IT'S MARTY
I'm here to make learning better.
I help people and organizations get their information across clearer and more effectively.
With five years of experience designing online courses, building learning tools, delivering original training and creating educational content, I create better learning experiences, blending skills and concepts from the worlds of UX, andragogy/learning design, and organizational development.
I can design the ideal system for your learning audience and build the tools and content to populate it.
Take a look around the page to see my work, and let's talk about what I can help you teach!
ABOUT ME
Instruction Through a Coaching Lens
People don't want to be given information, they want to be coached and empowered to reach the information themselves.
Fortunately, I've been a coach for years.
I started as a career coach, developing tools, content, programs, and trainings to help people become better job-seekers, Next came coaching businesses to be better and more attractive to employees. Later, I was coaching coaches, making tools and instructional platforms to make them more effective at helping others.
Along the way were pit stops as a film critic, marketing copywriter, podcast producer, and federal investigator!
That experience plus a Masters of Education in Organizational Development from Temple University and hundreds of hours behind a mixing board, made me specially equipped to create multi-media learning tools and training experiences on many topics and concepts.
Let's talk about how we can make better learners together.
I can help you:
Create complete learning experiences for clients, staff, or students
Be a better educator yourself, with tools and experiences specific to you
Teach customers to use your product
Train your staff on new skills and concepts.
Build and manage your content library for different learners
Improve your onboarding and retention.
Develop internal content and communication plans to get your teams to retain relevant information
Anything else that involves instructions and learnings - which is basically everything!
TOP SKILLS
What I bring to the table
ANDRAGOGY
Adults learn differently than young learners, why would you teach them the same way?
I know the models and methodologies that help adult learners teach themselves, retain the information, and apply it themselves.
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Learning doesn't happen in a vacuum. Everything one person in your community learns impacts another.
I specialize in learning and training that impacts the whole organizational structure, while also making sure learners aren't buried under irrelevant content.
E-LEARNING & LEARNING EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Online learning is fast becoming the standard of education at all levels, but in-person training is still important.
To serve both needs, I'm fluent in analog and e-learning standards, models, and software including ADDIE models, SCORM compliance, and Articulate Storyline.
TOOLS AND CONTENT
There's more to learning than just the lesson. Years of content development including podcasts, video production, blogs, and worksheet design, have given me the skills to build educational tools and content for all levels and topics.
Multi-media approaches aid retention and meet the needs of multiple types of learner.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
I know that effective experiences don't come from one person alone. I've led cross-functional teams to deliver learning experiences in collaboration with tech teams, operations managers, instructors, marketing and design teams, and more.
Name a department, I'll speak their language.
ANALYSIS AND INVESTIGATION
I hit the A part of the ADDIE model hard.
I'm adept at asking the probing questions and uncovering information about your situation that you haven't considered.
The more we uncover ahead of time, the better the final product will be.
