Hi, I’m Angela.
I integrate expertise in visual design, instructional design, and psychology to produce engaging presentations and corporate learning solutions that motivate, empower, and stick with the audience - long after the final click.
Scroll down to see a few examples of my work.
Featured ID Projects
YWCA - Web Based Training (WBT)
Challenge: Build educational job search videos that aligned with grant-requirements and could help women, with highly varied backgrounds and interests, to secure meaningful employment.
Audience: Women ranging in age, education, race, ethnicity, religion, cultures, and life situations. Some audience members could have been experiencing trauma, homelessness, or mental health challenges.
Strategy: Trauma-informed pedagogy integrated with UDL prioritized safety, predictability, relatability, and flexibility throughout this training program. Lessons were delivered in both English and Spanish via videos (that could be stopped/started as needed and viewed/re-viewed at any time and from any location).
Impact: YWCA Green Bay constituents built modern job search skills that enabled them to secure meaningful employment.
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Resume Firm - Contractor Training Program
Challenge: Define, articulate, and teach a highly subjective and ambiguous decision making process to enable better alignment with company writing standards and improve retention.
Audience: New-to-the-organization (not necessarily the field) Resume Writers. A wide range of education, backgrounds, and experience levels.
Strategy: Employed Backward Design to clarify the skills that Writers needed to have to succeed. Determined acceptable evidence (how the skills would be demonstrated). Iterated versions of lessons and evaluations until team outputs matched the desired result and retention improved.
Impact: Writers produced higher quality resumes that aligned with the firm’s standards and stayed with the company 4x than previous contractors.
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Blended Learning Experience - Onboarding
Challenge: Create an effective training program for highly ambiguous and varied roles within in a high turnover field.
Audience: Community Support Workers (CSWs) and Behavioral Interventionists (BIs) serving a cognitively disabled individual with extensive needs. CSWs typically have not completed any formal education while BIs have graduate degrees and hours of behavioral training. Digital skills ranged from none to intermediate level.
Strategy: Built a comprehensive learning experience comprised of pre-boarding videos, an on-site training program, retention support documents, and ongoing professional development.
Impact: Team members felt more confident and capable in their roles, completed tasks more accurately, and better supported the individual to achieve his goals.
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Featured Presentations
New Compliance Standards Training - Firefighters
Challenge: New industry compliance standards necessitated a revision of this 200+ slide deck. The facilitator also felt the deck needed to be more visually engaging and modern.
Audience: Novice to expert Firefighters across the U.S.
Strategy: Cinematic visuals were used as often as possible to align with the client’s preferences. Custom graphics were built to ensure equipment representation accuracy and to convey complex rules and topics.
Impact: Learners held engagement significantly longer, retained more information, and understood concepts better than with the previous slide deck.
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Conference Presentation - Career Consultants
Challenge: Create an engaging, human-centric slide deck for a conference breakout session from an outline. For some slides, create placeholders that the client would add content to later (design within ambiguity).
Audience: Career Coaches with varied genders, ages, cultures, backgrounds, and levels of experience.
Strategy: Friendly, approachable design aligned with the client’s brand standards. Simple graphics and placeholders that could be easily adapted by the client.
Impact: Session attendees appreciated the content and design. The client has secured speaking opportunities based on the positive feedback from this event.
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Morph-Heavy Mockup
Challenge: Turn a (potentially boring) cross-functional quarterly report into an engaging and fun presentation that will hold the audience’s attention.
Strategy: Leverage bright colors, bold visuals, and morph transitions to capture and retain viewers’ attention.
Impact: See for yourself!
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