I'm a learning management professional with extensive experience and deep expertise in instructional design, web-based learning, adult education, training, leadership, and project management. My passion is creating experiences for people that enrich their knowledge and contribute to their successes.
Welcome! Where to start? Me? I'd check out my portfolio first.
I'm a learning management professional with extensive experience and deep expertise in instructional design, web-based learning, adult education, training, leadership, and project management.
Welcome! Where to start? Me? I'd check out my portfolio first.
Here are a few examples of my most recent work. Select each sample's Show Me More button review more information and see any associated artifacts.
For this project, I continued my work synergizing with new clients in the Benefits organization. Through our partnership, we created three courses detailing the 2023 benefit offerings, focusing on the major changes and the potential affect and impact on employees.
I led a team of designers tasked with scripting, producing, and editing 20 instructional videos focusing on how to complete various features of the Workday platform, slated for an enterprise-wide rollout in 2024.
Working with the Employee Experience client, I was tasked to lead the new team of nearly a dozen representatives to build out a completely new version of the Welcome to #LifeAtATT onboarding presentation, delivered weekly via webcast to newly hired management employees.
I led the effort to develop training educating all management employees on how to effectively utilize AT&T's Employee Value Proposition (EVP) when writing new communications, creating new content, or developing new programs designed for employees, candidates, or alumni.
Working with the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion organization, I developed a course to educate learners about how to promote psychological safety in the workplace, a concept originated by Harvard Business School professor Dr. Amy Edmondson.
I joined forces with the Accounting client to develop a short course to highlight their new marketing accounting classification codes. I know, exiting stuff – and in reality, it actually was! The behavioral changes the course was designed to encourage had the potential to save the company millions.
Forging a relationship with a new client, I partnered with a Social Media Governance organization to produce two courses aimed to upskill new-to-title Social Media Community Managers on the company's social media engagement standards.
I partnered with the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion organization to develop a video highlighting four Diversity Pillars. The video was indented to be used as an intro for presentations delivered by Diversity Ambassadors.
Results-driven learning management professional with extensive experience and deep expertise in instructional design, web-based learning, adult education, training, leadership, and project management. Adept at leading learning and development project teams to create engaging and effective learning experiences for constituents in various industries, including business, higher education, and public education.
Manager of instructional design processes and implementation for the Learning and Development division, focusing on the Inside and Outside Sales client spaces.
Managed instructional design processes and implementation for the Learning and Development division, focusing on Enterprise and HR client spaces, impacting 200,000+ employees worldwide.
Managed instructional design and technical writing of courseware for wireline installation technicians, impacting 3,000+ technicians and supervisors.
Managed instructional design and courseware for various degree programs, including Doctorate in K-12 Education Leadership, Doctorate in Adult Education Leadership, Doctorate in Business Administration, Master of Business Administration, and Associate in Digital Media, serving 5,000+ students and 100+ faculty.
University of Colorado
University of Northern Colorado
Udacity
Travel, web design, front-end web development, graphic design, brewing sciences, culinary arts, photography.
Oh, hello... Looks like you've stumbled across the short and sometimes bumpy cyber highway frontage road destination that is my very own!
Kidding aside, let me introduce myself, I'm Geoff, a learning management professional with extensive experience and deep expertise in instructional design, web-based learning, adult education, training, leadership, and project management living and working in and around Denver, Colorado.
At the core of my professional experience is leadership, instructional design, applications of learning theory, curriculum development, and training.
But you already knew that from reading the other sections here, am I right?
Since earning my undergraduate degree, my career path has led me through two venues, each affording their own unique experiences, rewards, and flavor.
In a previous life, I was a professional educator in a public high school, serving at the same school for my entire teaching career, Colorado's Finest Alternative High School. The controlled chaos of a high school classroom, along with some of the greatest peer-mentors a fresh-faced educator could have, provided me with vital and necessary pedagogical skills including instructional differentiation – using a variety of teaching methods with multiple intelligences in mind. As a grew into the postition, my “learn by doing” philosophy further developed and my understanding of the foundations of sound instructional design began.
While teaching, I earned a Master's Degree in Information and Learning Technologies from the University of Colorado at Denver. Soon after graduating, I began working in a corporate environment at Metrolist, Inc., now REColorado, taking on the roles of middle manager, instructional designer, trainer, learning consultant, developer, and trainer mentor.
In contrast to my K-12 experience, this change in career paths forced a shift in focus from adolescent to adult learners — individuals with diverse needs and motivations for learning. I learned and soon experienced that immediacy, utility, timeliness, and application of learned concepts were of primary concern to adults. To achieve immediate application of learned skills, I espoused and implemented a benefit-based learning philosophy at Metrolist, where the concepts introduced to learners were expressly designed to be immediately useful, especially when presented in an experiential environment. These nascent practices and philosophies have permeated throughout my career, rippling, developing, and emerging across the years.
After my time at Metrolist, I moved on to higher education by accepting the role of Sr. Instructional Designer at Jones International University, where I worked with content experts to develop online, instructor-led courses in the Doctorate in K-12 Leadership, Doctorate in Adult Education Leadership, Doctorate in Business Administration, and Associate of Arts in Digital Media degree programs. Jones in the incarnation I experienced has since closed its doors, so to speak.
From 2014 through 2023, I served at a Senior and then Lead Training Manager for Design as part of AT&T's Learning & Development organization. It was during my tenure at AT&T that I further developed my instructional design, learning interaction, leadership, and technical skills. For the latter half of my tenure there, I was part of a highly-skilled team that was responsible for enterprise-wide training and education initiatives, with reach to the entire 200,000 employee corporate population. It was on this team that I was afforded the opportunity to stretch my abilities, and acquire new, more in-demand skills, especially in the learning interaction and video production arenas.
Most recently, I've branched out to be a Learning and Development Consultant for Wesco, a global company with over 20,000 employees that has traditionally worked in the supply chain and distribution arenas, but is currently evolving to include communications, networking, and security solutions. I was hired on to be a part of a newly created, dedicated Learning and Development division that, at the time of my hire, was just over a year old. I'm in on the ground floor so to speak of a new division within a 100+ year old company, with all of the excitement and challenges that entails.
In addition to my full-time occupations, I also have a myriad of part-time ones, all of which I do at varying degrees of competency. Occasionally, my hobbies, interests, and occupations collide.
Personally, I enjoy family activities, traveling the world, movies, concerts, (very) amateur photography, and cooking. I also brew my own beer, which tends to keep me in good graces with friends and family, and I'm a certified beer judge. I do occasionally blow off steam by bartending a couple nights a week at Dry Dock Brewing Company in Aurora, Colorado.
Anyway, enough about me. Thank you for stopping by. Enjoy your stay!
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