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Three courses built on adult learning research and designed around a specific problem that shows up in the work. Not theory for its own sake; theory applied to what makes this work challenging.
The Courses
Three courses. Three specific problems. Each one is available as a self-directed course set, and if you want to take the material back to a live group, a facilitator set is available for each course as well.
For when your design is solid and the learning still doesn't carry over.
Making Learning Stick | Course Set $67 | Facilitator Set $47
You did the work. The session was good, the content was solid, and people said the right things on the way out. Then they went back to work and almost nothing changed.
That's a design problem, not a content problem, and it's more common than most people admit. Making Learning Stick is built around one question: what does it actually take for adults to move from new information to lasting change? The course covers how adults interpret new material through prior experience, what conditions make transfer possible, and why a single well-designed session is rarely enough on its own.
The course set includes a Start Here guide, audio and video access links, a companion workbook designed to work alongside the course and hold up on its own, and a reference card built for returning to after the course ends.
The facilitator set includes the facilitator guide, slide deck, session planner, and learner resource. If you're planning to run this with a live group, take the course as a learner first. The facilitator set is designed to extend that experience, not replace it.
You've designed learning that should have worked. The content was solid, the session went fine, and people said the right things on the way out. Then they went back to work and almost nothing changed.
That's a design problem, not a content problem, and it's more common than the industry likes to admit. Making Learning Stick is built around a single question: what does it actually take for adults to move from new information to lasting change? The answer involves how adults interpret new material through prior experience, what conditions make transfer possible, and why a single well-designed session is rarely enough on its own.
This course gives you a research-grounded framework you can apply to whatever you're designing next, whether that's an asynchronous course, a live session, or something in between.
The course set includes a Start Here guide to orient you before you begin, audio and video access links, a companion workbook designed to work alongside the course and function on its own, and a reference card built for returning to after the course ends.
A facilitator set is available separately for $67, and includes the facilitator guide, slide deck, session planner, and learner resource. If you're planning to run this material with a live group, complete the course as a learner first. The facilitator set is designed to extend that experience, not replace it.
The Making Learning Stick Facilitator Materials are built for anyone who wants to take this course further into a live session, a team setting, or a learning experience they're designing for others. This set includes everything you need to plan, facilitate, and support your learners: a facilitator guide, slide deck, session planner, and a learner resource your participants can take with them. These materials companion the Making Learning Stick course and require its purchase.
For when people show up, participate, and leave exactly the same.
From Compliance to Commitment | Course Set $67 | Facilitator Set $47
Getting people in the room is the easy part. Getting them to actually engage is something else, and if you've been designing learning for adults for any length of time, you've felt the difference between a room that's going through the motions and a room where something real is happening.
From Compliance to Commitment is about the conditions that create the second kind of room. Not motivation tactics or engagement tricks, but the underlying factors that move adult learners from surface participation to genuine investment and how to design for those conditions from the start. The shift doesn't happen after the fact. It has to be built into the structure of the learning itself.
The course set includes a Start Here guide, audio and video access links, a companion workbook designed to work alongside the course and hold up on its own, and a reference card built for returning to after the course ends.
The facilitator set includes the facilitator guide, slide deck, session planner, and learner resource. If you're planning to run this with a live group, take the course as a learner first. The facilitator set is designed to extend that experience, not replace it.
Getting people to show up is the easy part. Getting them to actually engage is something else entirely, and if you've been designing learning for adults for any length of time, you've felt the difference between a room that's going through the motions and a room where something real is happening.
From Compliance to Commitment is about the conditions that create that second kind of room. Not motivation tactics, not engagement gimmicks, but the underlying factors that move adult learners from surface participation to genuine investment, and how to design for those conditions from the start. The shift from compliance to commitment isn't something you can manufacture after the fact. It has to be built into the structure of the learning itself.
This course addresses how to do that, grounded in what the research actually says about adult motivation, autonomy, and the conditions that make commitment possible.
The course set includes a Start Here guide to orient you before you begin, audio and video access links, a companion workbook designed to work alongside the course and function on its own, and a reference card built for returning to after the course ends.
A facilitator set is available separately for $67, and includes the facilitator guide, slide deck, session planner, and learner resource. If you're planning to run this material with a live group, complete the course as a learner first. The facilitator set is designed to extend that experience, not replace it.
From Compliance to Commitment is an audio and video course for facilitators and course creators, built on a nine-step instructional design system grounded in adult learning theory. This Facilitator Set is the teaching companion to that course. It includes the tools and guidance you need to bring this material to a group, and it's available to learners who've already completed the course because experiencing the content yourself is part of what makes it possible to facilitate well.
For when people are participating and nothing real is happening underneath it.
Building Psychological Safety in Adult Learning Spaces | Course Set $67 | Facilitator Set $47
People can be present, completing work, saying the right things, and still not actually learning. When a learning environment doesn't feel safe enough to ask an honest question or try something uncertain, learners protect themselves. They perform participation instead of engaging in it. That's not a motivation problem. It's a design problem, and it has a design response.
Building Psychological Safety is about what creates the conditions for genuine learning to happen in live sessions, in asynchronous courses, and everywhere in between. The course covers what psychological safety actually is, why fear functions as a design variable rather than a personal characteristic, and what structural and relational choices either build safety into a learning experience or quietly work against it.
The course set includes a Start Here guide, audio and video access links, a companion workbook designed to work alongside the course and hold up on its own, and a reference card built for returning to after the course ends.
The facilitator set includes the facilitator guide, slide deck, session planner, and learner resource. If you're planning to run this with a live group, take the course as a learner first. The facilitator set is designed to extend that experience, not replace it.
You know psychological safety matters. But when the session plan is full and the clock is already tight, it's usually the first thing that gets cut, condensed, or assumed into existence.
That's a design problem, and it shows up in the room whether you planned for it or not. Learners who don't feel safe to not-know, to ask, to be wrong, or to push back don't engage with new material the way the design intends. The content can be solid and the session can run smoothly and the transfer still won't happen, because the conditions for it were never actually built.
Building Psychological Safety in Adult Learning Spaces is a research-grounded course that gives you a framework for designing safety into the structure of a learning experience, not as a warm-up activity or a values statement, but as a design requirement that shapes how you sequence, facilitate, and close.
The course set includes a Start Here guide to orient you before you begin, audio and video access links, a companion workbook designed to work alongside the course and function on its own, and a reference card built for returning to after the course ends.
A facilitator set is available separately for $47, and includes the facilitator guide, slide deck, session planner, and learner resource. If you're planning to run this material with a live group, complete the course as a learner first. The facilitator set is designed to extend that experience, not replace it.
Building Psychological Safety in Adult Learning Spaces is a research-grounded course for learning designers and facilitators built on a nine-step instructional design system grounded in adult learning theory. This Facilitator Set is the teaching companion to that course. It includes the tools and guidance you need to bring this material to a live group, and it's available to learners who've already completed the course because experiencing the content yourself is part of what makes it possible to facilitate well.
The facilitator set includes a facilitator guide, slide deck, session planner, and learner resource.
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