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Strategic Learning Architecture
I start from the business — the outcomes, the roles, the signals leaders actually need to see. The LMS comes last, if it shows up at all.
Portfolio · Liz Linares · Learning Strategist & Experience Architect
I design the systems that make people ready — not just trained.
Learning strategy, AI enablement, and workflow design for teams that need people confident in the moments that actually matter.
Open to senior enablement & AI-adoption roles · Remote · Available 2026
Psych undergrad · MSEd learning designOnboarding + readiness systemsAI-supported practice + workflow toolsHuman-centered + systems thinking
Start here
What are you trying to solve?
Four problems I think about. Pick the one that sounds familiar — and see what becomes possible when it gets addressed at the root.
Dive In
A curated walkthrough — experience first, then the thinking behind it.
Start by doing. Meet the frameworks. Take a toolkit with you. See the evidence at scale. End inside the concepts still forming.
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Case StudyWatch
6 minBest first click
Global Sales Bootcamp
The pre-arrival readiness system behind Build Your Pitch — the full initiative and its outcomes.
Raised pre-arrival readiness from 70% to 90%.
Related toolkit Prism Prep — AI Prompt Kit for Sales
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Case StudyConversation
5 minConversational Practice Environment
Step into a live discovery call with an AI customer. Voice or text, multilingual, no setup.
Live multilingual practice for high-stakes discovery conversations.
Related toolkit Prism Prep — AI Prompt Kit for Sales
Launch Conversation
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3 minShade Matching
A guided product tool for beauty advisors — decision support at the counter.
Related Guided Product Discovery
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Case StudyInteractive
3 minLipstick Recommendation Experience
A color-first recommender for lipstick across sister brands under one umbrella.
Related Major Cosmetic Company — Shade Matching
Launch Experience
FrameworkExplore
6 minCapability Architecture
Designing systems that build capability — not just knowledge. A model for human readiness, judgment, and performance.
Interactive concept for human capability ecosystems.
Related framework Workflow Transformation
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FrameworkExplore
7 minWorkflow Transformation
How Human Performance Technology, learning science, human-centered design, systems thinking, change management, and AI shape workflow redesign.
Interactive diagnosis and redesign for workflow transformation.
Related framework Capability Architecture
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ToolkitUse
8 minPrism Prep — AI Prompt Kit for Sales
Adaptive practice, coaching prompts, and readiness patterns sellers can run inside the workflow.
Related AI Sparring — Practice Environment
Open Toolkit
ToolkitUse
8 minAI Prompt Kit for L&D
Versioned prompts, personas, and patterns ready for learning & development teams to bring into the work.
Related framework Capability Architecture
Open Toolkit
Case StudyWatch
5 minAI in the Workflow
Guidance surfaced at the moment of decision — not in a separate course.
Related framework Workflow Transformation
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Case StudyWatch
5 minTechnician Certification
Field certification rebuilt as a readiness loop, not a course completion.
Related framework Capability Architecture
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Case StudyWatch
4 minTattoo Liner Product Education
Frontline product confidence designed for advisors who only get a few seconds.
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Case StudyWatch
5 minScenario Short Films
Customer service, safety, printer onboarding — narrative built to be felt, then practiced.
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FrameworkExplore
6 minThe Modern Learning Architect
A ten-slide executive walkthrough of enablement when AI is in the room.
Executive-ready framing for AI-era enablement strategy.
Related framework Capability Architecture
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PrototypeExplore
5 minCadence · CareOS
A speculative operating system for caregivers — readiness woven into the daily flow.
Related framework Capability Architecture
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ToolkitUse
5 minAI Use Case Portfolio
Strategic thinking on where enterprise AI actually earns its keep — a portfolio view of use cases and readiness.
Related toolkit AI Prompt Kit for L&D
Open Toolkit
Vision ConceptExplore
4 minFestival of the Elements
A speculative EPCOT festival built around the four elements.
Related Element City at EPCOT
Explore Concept
Vision ConceptExplore
4 minElement City at EPCOT
A future-state park expansion. Worldbuilding, narrative, guest journey.
Related Festival of the Elements
Explore Concept
Vision ConceptExplore
4 minYour Visit Has Impact
Speculative sustainability layer for EPCOT — guests see the footprint of their day.
Related Festival of the Elements
Explore Concept
Selected Systems
Shipped systems. Measured outcomes. Real teams.
A short look at what I’ve actually shipped — onboarding for new hires, practice for the conversations that matter, and support built into the tools people already use.
−10% global ramp time
+25% development efficiency
Rubric-scored readiness
Best experienced with sound
Sales onboarding · AI-supported practice for live customer conversations · in-flow workflow guidance · product confidence for frontline teams · readiness signals for leadership.
Explore the SystemsPractice
Five lenses I use — depending on the problem.
I don’t apply every framework to every problem. I choose the lens that fits what’s actually broken.
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Immersive Onboarding
Getting new hires to confident — not just compliant — across regions, tools, and time zones.
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Participatory Practice
Scenario reps that build judgment for the real customer moments. Practice — not another content library.
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Workflow & Enablement Design
Help built into the tools people already use — so it shows up at the decision, not buried in a course they have to remember to open.
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AI as a Capability Layer
I use AI to support the person, not stand in for them. Helpful where it helps. Quiet where it shouldn't be in the room.
Selected expertise
Learning StrategyEnablement ArchitectureExperience DesignImmersive OnboardingParticipatory LearningSystems ThinkingOperational ReadinessSales EnablementWorkflow DesignStorylineHighspotSynthesiaConversational PracticeAI as Capability Layer
Four rooms
Pick the room that matches what you came here for.
Featured
If you only look at one thing,
look at this.
Flagship system
Completion wasn’t the goal. Readiness was.
A global sales bootcamp, rebuilt as a readiness system. −10% global ramp time.
See the readiness system
Perspective
What if the job isn’t
making content anymore?
The Modern Learning Architect
The job isn’t making content anymore. It’s designing how people actually get good at the work.
What I’ve been thinking about as AI changes what this role is for.
Read the argument
Channel
If something here resonates, let's talk.
I’m always up for a real conversation about learning, enablement, and how teams are actually using AI.