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Category: Microlearning
Tools Used: Articulate Rise 360, Canva
Needs Analysis: This course was designed for a solopreneur business coach who was seeing an uptick in her clients not feeling comfortable and confident in email marketing.
Target Audience: The target audience includes new or relatively new solopreneurs who create and manage email campaigns but have performance gaps in deliverability factors, segmentation strategies, and analytics.
Brief: Effective email marketing remains a powerful tool for customer engagement and conversion, but many organizations struggle with low open rates, poor click-through performance, and high unsubscribe rates. Marketing teams need specialized skills combining technical knowledge, content strategy, and data analysis to optimize campaign performance.
This course addresses content creation and optimization, including subject lines, preview text, and email copy.
Evaluation: Success was measured through improved open rates, increased click-throughs, reduced unsubscribes, and better conversion rates, ultimately leading to higher ROI on email marketing efforts.
Note 1: This Articulate Rise course has full functionality, and all interactive materials can be clicked.
Note 2: This is a 6-mircomodule series. Due to copyright and NDA, this is the only module that can be displayed in this portfolio.
Category: Onboarding New Employees
Tools Used: Vyond, Canva
Needs Analysis: This project was designed for a sustainable technology company experiencing rapid growth and needing to streamline their onboarding process for new team members. The company wanted to ensure consistent messaging about their unique culture and sustainability mission while reducing the time managers spent on repetitive orientation tasks.
Target Audience: The target audience includes new hires across all departments at Horizon Nexus, with particular focus on technical and client-facing roles who need to quickly understand the company’s sustainability solutions and collaborative work environment.
Brief: Effective employee onboarding is crucial for retention and productivity, but many growing organizations struggle with inconsistent experiences, information gaps, and slow integration into company culture. This animated onboarding series provides a warm welcome while systematically introducing new hires to company mission, workspace, technology, team structure, and growth opportunities. The animation uses approachable characters and clear, concise language to engage viewers and establish a positive first impression.
Evaluation: Success is measured through reduced time-to-productivity metrics, increased new hire satisfaction scores, improved 90-day retention rates, and feedback from department managers on team integration. The animation series has become a cornerstone of Horizon Nexus’s standardized onboarding experience.
Note – this experience was developed through upskilling coursework as a final project. It is a fictitious company.
Category: Multi-Module e-Learning
Tools Used: Canva, Loom, Podia (original hosting), Tutor LMS on WordPress (migrated hosting)
Needs Analysis: This multi-module course was designed for a solopreneur who needed a course on trauma-informed education. Needs for the project included interactive video modules, static and interactive PDFs, and a bank of tools that educators could easily access, with embedded and downloadable options for all tools.
Target Audience: Upper elementary (Grades 3-6) teachers, special educators, and other professionals working with students at this age level.
Scope of Project: Storyboarding, course layout, visuals, sales pages, video scripts, and video post-editing were created for the client.
Brief: A 5-module course was developed. The first three modules were designed with videos, workbooks, and visuals related to social emotional learning and trauma-informed teaching. The last two modules were designed with a library of tools that educators could pull to use with their students at a variety of need levels. Videos were 1-3 minutes describing a tool and how to use it.
Evaluation: 92% Confidence Improvement Amongst Course-Takers
Category: Workshop Design
Tools Used: Google Slides, Slido, Figma, Canva
I led in-person and remote transformation workshops helping educators shift from algorithm-based to strategy-focused mathematics instruction.
96% Extremely Satisfied Rating
Category: eLearning Training
Tools Used: Canva, Loom
I was invited to present to an audience of entrepreneurs about the mindset topic of staying motivated, even in stressful times in our businesses.
37 Minute Asynchronous PD Delivered to 1,000+ Attendees
Category: Interactive PDF Creation
Tools Used: Canva
Needs Analysis: This PDF was designed for a solopreneur mindset strategist who needed a way for his clients to reflect on their mindset, specifically around imposter syndrome, through an interactive journal.
Target Audience: Solopreneurs, primarily in the education industry, struggling with imposter syndrome mindset blocks.
Brief: The goal of the needs analysis was achieved, as the solopreneur was able to provide this workbook to clients between group and 1:1 meetings to amplify their progress over time.
Category: Podcast Recording, Editing, & Distribution
Tools Used: GarageBand (recording and editing) Captivate (episode hosting and sharing), Canva (graphics)
Needs Analysis: This podcast is made for solopreneurs who are in a business mindset membership. It is a private podcast that is released weekly. Members have access via our LMS and a private link where they can subscribe to it on their favorite podcast player.
Target Audience: Solopreneurs, primarily in the education industry, struggling with imposter syndrome, comparison, and perfection mindset blocks.
Brief: The goal of the needs analysis was achieved. The solopreneurs who listen to the podcasts report liking the podcast episodes, and it has become a part of many of their weekly routines.
Download Rates: 37-86% across episodes
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