I am a learning experience designer, strategist, and consultant. I lead the development of engaging experiences: digital learning, organizational programs, workshops, educational initiatives, community experiences, and TEDx events.
My recent work spans curriculum strategy, digital learning, workshops, project-based education, and the development of complete learning ecosystems.
AI WISE is a human-centered educational framework that helps learners work thoughtfully with artificial intelligence. Through the process defined as WISE, Weigh, Interact, Synthesize, and Evaluate, learners examine what they bring to an inquiry, engage actively with AI, integrate what emerges with human knowledge and judgment, and assess both anticipated and actual results.
AI WISE Educational programs are being developed for schools, colleges, homeschooling families, community learning organizations and curious people of any and all ages!
Root Delight makes natural gardening, soil health, food literacy, and regenerative practices approachable for families and beginning growers. The experience combines digital learning, practical projects, storytelling, garden planning, and opportunities for children and adults to learn together through real participation.
Root Delight is designed not only to teach gardening skills, but to help families better understand and participate in the living systems around them.
A Guide to Human Inquiry in the Age of AI
The Art of the Question began with one question posed to three artificial intelligence systems:
Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude converged on the same territory: curiosity, understanding, and the art of asking better questions. Developed through an evolving dialogue among the three systems, the book examines how questions shape attention, carry assumptions, open or close possibility, and influence the answers we receive.
It is part creative experiment, part philosophical inquiry, and a foundational work beneath the development of AI WISE. In an age of instant answers, the question is no longer whether we will engage with AI. It is how we will develop the discernment to do so wisely.
Explore The Art of the Question →Audience analysis, curriculum architecture, learning outcomes, content strategy, assessment, project-based learning, and plans for transfer beyond the experience.
Accessible, learner-centered digital and blended programs — interactive learning, multimedia, LMS experiences, platform migrations, and large organizational initiatives.
Practical, participatory experiences that invite people to question, explore, apply, and reflect. I develop custom workshops, facilitator-led programs, and train-the-facilitator resources.
Turning an idea into a coherent framework, curriculum, program, or public learning experience, as with AI WISE and Root Delight, from philosophy through public positioning.
Helping organizations consider how AI can support learning, inquiry, and human capability without quietly replacing judgment, authorship, or meaningful participation.
Who are they? What do they know? What matters to them? What conditions shape their participation?
What should learners understand, practice, create, decide, or do differently?
What sequence of information, questions, stories, activities, and interactions will help make that change possible?
How will learners contribute their own knowledge, make choices, practice, reflect, and receive feedback?
What will help the learning move beyond the course, workshop, event, or screen?
What produced the intended result? What worked, what did not, and what should change?
For more than two decades, I have designed learning across corporate, higher-education, public, and community settings including large-scale digital programs, curriculum and workshop design, learning-platform transformation, multimedia, accessibility, facilitation, and long-term program support.
A small, internationally minded private business school in San Diego's Little Italy, offering business degrees from bachelor's through doctoral level, with a hands-on, case-study approach to teaching and a student body drawn from dozens of countries.
Supported the head trainer across a busy hunter/jumper program — daily horse care and conditioning, teaching lessons to riders at a range of levels, and helping prepare both horses and students for the show ring.
With a class of CIBU students.
Ideas become learning experiences when people gather around them. I have directed five TEDx events throughout the greater San Diego area, each focused on elevating voices, connecting people, and creating meaningful public experiences around ideas worth sharing.
Director of three events, including two produced in 2014.
Director of the first TEDxKidsElCajon event, creating a platform for young people, educators, and community voices.
Director of a community-centered event connecting local ideas, stories, and people.
On stage at the inaugural TEDxKidsElCajon.
I began working in multimedia and educational technology in the late 1990s and have continued evolving alongside the tools, platforms, and expectations shaping how people learn.
My work has moved across higher education, corporate learning, digital transformation, live events, artificial intelligence, community education, writing, gardening, and the equestrian arena. These environments may look different, but the underlying work is consistent: understanding people, observing conditions, translating complexity, and designing experiences that help learning become action.
I hold a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Geography and a master's degree in Information and Learning Technologies. Today, I work as a learning experience designer, strategist, consultant, writer, and facilitator — and I'm the creator of AI WISE Education and Root Delight.
My constant companion for the last fifteen years has been Super Squid — the dog I named my company, Super Squid Studios, after. When I'm not at the computer, I'm out on the farm: in the garden, taking the dogs for a ride up-country, spending time with the horses, or watching the antics of the ducks.
I write about learning, technology, AI, design, community, nature, creativity, and the experiences that shape how people develop capability. Some insights emerge through digital systems and organizational work. Others come from gardens, community projects, creative experiments, and equestrian arenas. What connects them is an ongoing interest in how people learn to observe, question, adapt, and participate more thoughtfully.
Read the Blog →Bring me in when your organization needs to clarify a learning challenge, shape a curriculum, develop a workshop, transform content into a digital experience, or build an educational initiative from idea to implementation.
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