Hello 👋
I’m James and I design human-centered learning programs and products that create measurable behavior change and business impact.
A quick snapshot of my experience 📸
📍Sr. Learning Designer at Udemy
📍Learning Experience Designer at BetterUp
📍Director of Content Experience at Grit Digital Health
🎓 Lecturer of Coaching at Metropolitan State University of Denver
⛰️ Board Certified Personal and Professional Development Coach
👨🏻🏫 10+ years as an educator and instructional designer
Sr. Learning Designer @ Udemy
Owned and executed Udemy’s AI-powered leadership development and enbablement strategy, strengthening confidence and capability to drive performance and business impact at scale.
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2024 - Present
Enablement that Elevates
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Enterprise AI Upskilling
Enabled organization-wide AI adoption by building fluency, confidence, and real-world application
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Udemy's Leadership Bench
Owned and executed Udemy’s leadership pipeline by designing and scaling development across emerging, mid-level, and senior leaders
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AI-Powered Learning Experiences
Designed human-centered, AI-powered learning experiences that personalized practice and skill validation at scale
Learning Experience Designer @ BetterUp
Developed curated growth journeys for manager effectiveness at scale
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2023-2024
Empowering managers with the mindsets, behaviors, and skills to elevate themselves and their teams to drive organizational results.
Information Architecture • Content Design • Coaching and Clinical SME • Cross-Team Collaboration for 0→ 1 product • Prompt Engineering and AI-Powered Digital Content Experiences
Providing hyper-personalized learning experiences with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Prompt Engineering as Coaching and Clinical SME • Outcome Measurement • Product Iteration • Machine Learning Team Collaboration
Director of Content Experiences @
Innovative digital well-being content strategy and development for user growth
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2021-2023
Helping users turn evidence-based information into action by creating new content type for digital well-being platform
Evidence-Based Research Synthesis • Content Design • Content Editing • Content Management and Upload • Outcome Metrics • Design Collaboration • Product Roadmap Input
Promoting enhanced content engagement and learning outcomes through interactive content module development
Information Architecture and Journey Mapping • Content Design • UX Copywriting • User Research • Design and Dev Team Collaboration • Assessment Planning • Prototype Testing
Sr. Coaching Coordinator @ Ohio State University
Facilitating personal and professional development through individual and group coaching modalities
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2013-2017
Supporting personal and professional thriving by creating, scaling, and measuring a new coaching service
Program Development • Stakeholder Collaboration • Outcome Measurement • Budget Management • Staff and Volunteer Recruitment • Staff Supervision • Individual Coaching • Group Coaching • Presentation and Facilitation