Instructional Design Learning Strategy Performance Improvement

I help organizations turn complex change into clear action.

Instructional design, leadership development, communication strategy, and performance improvement — combined so people understand what is changing, build the right capabilities, and perform with confidence.

More than two decades across learning, leadership, insurance, education, ministry, and cross-cultural settings.

What I work on

Instructional Design

Learning built from real needs, clear performance objectives, meaningful practice, and evidence.

Leadership Development

Practical support that helps leaders set expectations, coach people, communicate change, and follow through.

Communication Strategy

Complex ideas translated into messages and experiences people can understand, trust, and use.

Performance Improvement

Analysis that distinguishes knowledge gaps from workflow, system, motivation, role, and reinforcement barriers.

Selected work

All work

Instructional design · Insurance Capstone

From Informal Help to Structured Practice

New insurance agents completed onboarding without formal preparation for partner-carrier quoting and binding, leaving them dependent on experienced colleagues during live customer work.

Needs analysis Blended learning design Performance support Assessment design Stakeholder review

May 2025 – August 2026 9 min read

Organizational change · Nonprofit Professional

From Performance to Participation

An established organization had drifted toward passive observation, with expectations uneven and ownership concentrated in a few visible roles, just as a leadership transition and a pandemic removed its routines.

Change leadership Leader development Communication strategy

December 2019 – September 2023 4 min read

Instructional design · Microlearning Portfolio project

Insurance in Plain English

Insurance concepts can be technically correct and still be hard to explain. New agents need practice turning coverage language into clear, customer-ready explanations.

Storyline 360 Scenario-based learning Interaction design Assessment design

2026 2 min read

The short version

I came up in music. Rehearsal is where I learned what instructional design would later give me names for: break a whole into parts, sequence the difficulty, and put feedback close to the performance.

Three years in Sumatra, building a language and cultural exchange, taught me that shared words do not guarantee shared meaning. Twelve years in ministry followed—first as a worship pastor, then as a pastor of liturgy responsible for learning, communications, and team leadership—where progress depended on clarity, trust, and participation.

Today I work in insurance and train the agents beside me, which keeps me close to the frontline conditions I design for. Instructional design formalized what those settings had been teaching me all along.

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Experience at a glance

  1. AAA – The Auto Club Group Insurance Agent to Present
  2. First Baptist Church Powell Worship Pastor, then Pastor of Liturgy Learning, Communications and Team Leadership to
  3. Holly Ridge Baptist Church Pastor of Worship to
  4. Miner Baptist Church Pastor of Worship to
  5. Language and Cultural Exchange, Sumatra, Indonesia Founder & Curriculum Developer to

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When something in your organization is not working as it should, the first useful step is usually making the real problem clear.