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I'm Sierra - a Learning & Development Leader and Instructional Designer. I create rich interactive learning experiences leveraging adult learning theories. Check out my work by clicking one of the icons below.
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I love designing learning experiences that are engaging and interactive. I’ve taken part in plenty of workplace trainings where I walked away wondering, “What did I actually learn?” If a training doesn’t change how someone thinks or acts afterward, what’s the point?
That mindset drives me to design training that’s interactive, memorable, and genuinely useful—experiences that help employees learn something they can apply in their work.
I’m driven by a strong curiosity and a desire to keep growing in my work. I hold a master’s degree in chemistry, and during graduate school I received the campus-wide Graduate Student Association Excellence in Teaching Award. The award recognized my ability to make chemistry labs engaging and help students feel confident tackling challenging material. While I enjoyed teaching, I eventually decided to transition into instructional design and began building the skills needed for that shift.
To support that shift, I completed the IDOL Courses Academy and applied those skills in a freelance project for a growing startup, helping them begin building a structured onboarding program. During that project, I created several foundational resources to help them get started. You can learn more about those resources here.
Since then, I’ve worked at Calibrate Health and Oak Street Health as an instructional designer, training manager, and learning design manager, leading cross-functional teams to build training programs aligned with business goals using approaches like ADDIE and backward design.
Outside of work, I enjoy learning new skills and creating things; it’s a reminder to myself that there is always more to learn. Over the past few years I’ve taught myself several hands-on hobbies, including cold-process soap making, knitting, and break baking. I've also been learning how to ski, although that skill definitely has not been self-taught! Exploring new skills, whether professionally or personally, is something that keeps me curious and continually learning.
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