Why Atomic
With more than 15 years of experience in instructional design, learning development, and training leadership, Atomic brings more than production capability to the table.
Atomic brings perspective.
The work begins with understanding the business problem, the learner, and the performance gap not with choosing a tool or building a course.
Learning is not an event. It is part of a larger performance system. When designed strategically, it can improve clarity, strengthen capability, reduce risk, support change, and help people perform with greater confidence.
Strategy and Execution
Atomic can operate at both levels.
Need someone to evaluate an existing learning program, identify gaps, or develop a learning strategy? Atomic can consult.
Need an experienced instructional designer who can step into an existing team and begin producing? Atomic can contract.
Need support developing people, strengthening decision-making, or helping someone move through professional challenges with greater clarity? Atomic can coach.
That flexibility allows organizations to bring in the level of support they actually need without forcing every challenge into the same solution.
Experience Without the Learning Curve
Atomic has worked across complex, highly regulated, technical, and mission-driven environments where training has to do more than look good.
The work may involve translating complicated systems, policies, processes, or technical information into something people can understand and apply.
That requires more than knowing how to use development software.
It requires knowing how to ask the right questions, identify what actually matters, remove unnecessary complexity, and build learning around performance.
Storytelling With a Purpose
People remember meaning better than information alone.
Atomic uses purposeful storytelling, scenarios, realistic decision-making, and human-centered design to help learners connect information to the situations in which they will actually use it.
Storytelling is not added simply to make training entertaining.
It is used when it improves understanding, relevance, retention, and application.
Designed for Real People
Learners arrive with different experiences, abilities, attention demands, and ways of processing information.
Atomic designs with those differences in mind from the beginning.
Accessibility, Section 508 and WCAG considerations, cognitive load, Universal Design for Learning, and neurodivergent inclusion are treated as core design considerations not features added at the end of development.
Good learning should work for as many people as possible.
Built Around Performance
Atomic draws from proven instructional and evaluation frameworks including ADDIE, SAM, Bloom’s Taxonomy, adult learning principles, and Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation.
But frameworks are tools, not formulas.
The objective is always to select the right approach for the problem, the audience, the environment, and the desired outcome.
Sometimes the answer is a course.
Sometimes it is a job aid, coaching conversation, performance support tool, process change, or something entirely different.
The goal is not to create more training.
The goal is to create the right solution.
That is why Atomic exists.
Education & Certifications
Education
Master of Education (M.Ed.), Instructional Design
Western Governors University
Western Governors University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Program Acquisition & Military Management
American Public University
American Public University
Professional Certifications & Development
Coaching Certificate — Association for Talent Development (ATD)
Professional coaching, goal setting, reflective practice, and structured development conversations
Professional coaching, goal setting, reflective practice, and structured development conversations
Kirkpatrick Certified Professional
Training Evaluation and Performance Measurement
Training Evaluation and Performance Measurement
HarvardX — Leaders of Learning
Leadership, Learning Strategy, and Educational Innovation
Leadership, Learning Strategy, and Educational Innovation
Out & Equal — Certified Instructor
Former certification focused on inclusive workplace education and LGBTQ+ professional development
Former certification focused on inclusive workplace education and LGBTQ+ professional development
Whether serving as your creative design partner or leading a high-stakes training initiative, I bring the strategic rigor and storytelling precision to align learning with performance.
Let’s build solutions that move people and organizations forward.