Our work

From global certification strategies to award-winning academies, here’s what changes when education is designed as a system. Most of our clients prefer to stay anonymous, so many of these stories are described by industry rather than by name. The work is real, and so are the results.

Bring structure

HR technology company

Implementation, configuration, and onboarding teams

Building the foundation that let AI build the course

A complete course delivered 15 minutes after stakeholder approval

FromKnowledge held by individuals

ToA governed system AI can build on

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Before

Implementation knowledge lived with individual people and in informal practices. Training built on that would reproduce the same gaps that create delivery risk, and AI tools would only produce the confusion faster.

What we did

  • Assessed the current state and the highest-risk knowledge gaps
  • Defined an enablement blueprint with governance and a phased production plan
  • Designed the instructional architecture before any content was generated

After

The Customer Education leader wireframed the module, got sign-off with minor tweaks, and used AI to generate and deliver the full course within 15 minutes. The company now has a repeatable production model for the rest of the program.

Bring structure

Global payments company

Global and regional education and certification teams

Creating a global certification strategy

One certification standard across regions and product domains

FromRegion-by-region credentials

ToOne standard that makes every certification credible

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Before

Regions approached certification differently, with no shared definition. Programs carrying the label didn’t consistently meet the same standards for role relevance, rigor, or credibility.

What we did

  • Defined what certification is and isn’t, with standards for certifications and badges
  • Created a decision framework for when a topic warrants certification
  • Built role-based certifications across product domains, from job roles to assessment blueprints

After

A shared credentialing language, clear criteria for which credential to build, and a repeatable method for role-based certification, applied across multiple domains and regions.

Bring structure

Global social media company

The global sales organization

Building scalable, AI-enabled seller capability

One capability model behind certification, enablement, and AI training

FromStandalone AI courses and role-based content

ToA capability architecture with AI built into the work

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Before

Expectations for sellers and managers were defined inconsistently, so people developed against different standards. AI tools changed faster than any standalone AI course could be maintained.

What we did

  • Translated sales roles into capabilities, proficiency statements, and progression
  • Connected them to a modular curriculum and a shared taxonomy
  • Embedded AI practices in seller workflows, so tools can change without breaking the model

After

One architecture for developing and evaluating seller capability across roles, now underpinning certification, the enablement catalog, and AI training.

Bring structure

Enterprise software company

Leadership and 12+ content teams

Unifying a fragmented learning organization

A new learning organization approved, with first-ever VP and program roles

From12 disconnected content teams

ToOne learning organization with a shared strategy

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Before

More than 12 teams created learning content in silos, with no link to business goals: multiple portals, duplicated processes, and wasted people and technology.

What we did

  • Mapped audience overlap, strategies, and program goals across the company
  • United the teams around one learning strategy and upskilled leaders in measurement
  • Designed a new learning department, roles, and a change management plan

After

Leadership approved the new organization and hired a VP and program managers into roles that had never existed. The technology teams were unblocked to design one learning platform.

Connect learning to performance

Social media management platform

Customers across six product areas

Rebuilding a course catalog around capability

25–30% more growth in taught behaviors than the rest of the catalog

FromPoint-and-click feature tutorials

ToCapability that shows up in product usage

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Before

The catalog taught customers where features lived, but not how to use them to reach their goals. There was no clear line between learning and the product behaviors the business cared about.

What we did

  • Tied each program to a business goal using the 7D Framework
  • Defined the capabilities customers actually needed
  • Rebuilt 30 courses across six tracks around real work, not the interface

After

The client compared completers with matched accounts over 90 days. The rebuilt courses were associated with roughly 25–30% more growth in the behaviors they taught than the rest of the catalog.

Based on the client’s matched-comparison analysis; directional rather than causal.

Connect learning to performance

Online community platform

Sellers and managers in two pilot teams

Replacing content volume with focused seller behavior

A pilot measured by seller behavior, not course completions

FromA perceived content problem

ToA capability and performance-system problem

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Before

Measurement enablement content was spread across courses, battlecards, tools, and resources. Sellers could complete all of it without running better client conversations.

What we did

  • Started from the target seller behaviors and worked backward
  • Connected knowledge, a focused workshop, practice, field application, and manager coaching
  • Reused existing content and filled only the real gaps

After

The pilot is underway and designed to show whether sellers run stronger measurement discovery. If it validates, the model extends to other teams without multiplying content.

Connect learning to performance

Procurement software company

Implementation partners and solutions consultants

Refocusing partner certification on implementation performance

A certification built around six areas of real implementation work

FromProduct-knowledge validation

ToEvidence of implementation readiness

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Before

Early certification materials leaned on product topics and simple recall, without testing how partners plan, configure, launch, and support a real implementation.

What we did

  • Built the certification from the job outward
  • Organized it around six areas of implementation performance
  • Reworked items to test configuration decisions and applied judgment

After

A job-relevant certification and an item set aligned to the decisions implementers make. Passing now indicates a partner can apply the methodology, not just recall the product.

Connect learning to performance

TV advertising technology company

Self-service advertisers at every experience level

Building customer capability for a self-service product

Learning pathways that start each customer at their level

FromExplaining where to click

ToBuilding the capability adoption depends on

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Before

Despite in-product help and tutorials, smaller advertisers struggled with budget, attribution, and setup. The gap wasn’t the interface; it was advertising knowledge.

What we did

  • Interviewed customers to separate product questions from capability gaps
  • Designed an academy around personas and the decisions advertisers make
  • Created differentiated pathways by experience level

After

Education expanded beyond product tutorials to build real understanding, and customers no longer all start with the same introductory content.

Build it right

Urbanitae

Prospective, new, and experienced investors in Spain

One adaptive academy for every kind of investor

Two industry awards and thousands of learners

FromScattered resources

ToOne adaptive academy for every investor

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Before

Investors ranged from the merely curious to experienced. Resources were scattered, and Urbanitae needed to move each one forward without maintaining three separate academies.

What we did

  • Mapped learner segments and the competencies they shared
  • Designed one integrated curriculum with adaptive learning
  • Added course- and path-level pre-assessments that recommend lessons

After

Thousands of learners, Best Training Initiative at the ASPRIMA-SIMA Awards 2026, and one of El Mundo’s 100 Best Ideas of 2026.

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Build it right

Government technology company

The education team and its customers

Launching a full-day certificate program in 12 weeks

A full-day program and 100-item exam, built in 12 weeks

FromAn impossible deadline

ToA launched program held to the same standard

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Before

The education team had three months to launch a full-day training program, with no internal resources or expertise to do it.

What we did

  • Ran a rapid development process
  • Built the full-day curriculum and scripts for three instructor-led sessions
  • Built three e-learning modules and a 100-item certificate assessment

After

Launched on time and under budget, with NPS and completion rates matching or beating the team’s existing programs.

Build it right

Cloud security software company

The marketing team and its prospects and customers

Turning around an inherited certificate program

Completion from under 10% to over 50% in two months

FromLectures nobody finished

ToA program that feeds pipeline

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Before

Marketing inherited a certificate program of hour-long PowerPoint lectures, with completion under 10% and no in-house learning design expertise.

What we did

  • Aligned learner personas with business goals
  • Revised the program strategy
  • Designed curriculum and instruction for five modules

After

Completion passed 50% within two months, improving the pipeline of marketing-qualified leads. The program owner was promoted with expanded scope.

In their words.

“Vicky walked me and my team through the discipline of customer education and the nuanced balance between business KPIs and education goals — and empowered our team to become better stewards of our customers’ educational journey.”

Joe MuscolinoSr. Creative Director, The Wall Street Journal

“Vicky brought exceptional expertise, insight, and a truly collaborative approach. Thanks to her guidance, we now have a clear vision for the future of customer learning.”

Jessica PollackSenior Manager, Customer Learning, Autodesk

“Her approach was thorough and well-informed, committed to staying fully aligned with our vision every step of the way. Her efforts were essential to our program’s success.”

Robin WisnerAdmin Certifications & University Program Manager, OpenGov

“Vicky has an incredible ability to break down complex concepts and back them up with research and reasoning — giving me the clarity I needed to advocate for new approaches and structure programs that drive real impact.”

Mandy PattersonCustomer Education Leader

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