Erin Huizenga is a learning innovator who teaches organizational leaders, teams, and individuals how to build meaningful learning experiences that inspire lifelong habits of curiosity, growth, and collaboration.
Unleash the Power of Learning
Watch Erin’s Tedx Talk about how leaving your work unfinished can lead to more innovation and productivity.
Signature Speaking Topics
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Learning as an individual is one thing, but how can you use learning as a leadership strategy to transform your team and organization? Erin shares 5 essential habits for leaders looking to use learning as a tool to increase team engagement, creativity, and collaboration. Erin will tell you WHY it’s important to lead with learning along with actionable steps on HOW to get started.
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How is your organization using learning? When you stop to think about it, learning is everywhere, but some organizations are spending little time, money, or thought on the critical role learning plays in the work they do. Discover new ways your organization can grow by considering new learning strategies and tools.
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Erin’s work as a learning designer is backed in science, helping learners get the most out of their learning experiences. Erin will share what she’s seen to be some of the easiest-to-implement science-backed strategies to make your learning experiences more effective, engaging, and memorable.
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Failure and learning often go hand-in-hand, but we are quick to welcome learning and slow to embrace failure. Erin shares the benefits of failing, how to fail fast, and how failures are what lead to our successes. She will also provide examples for how to better embrace failure at work and in your personal life.
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As a leader, there are endless difficult conversations that need to be had with employees, clients, and stakeholders. Erin will teach you how curiosity can help you approach sticky situations with a sense of ease and effortlessness.
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In the world of “quiet quitting,” it can be challenging to keep employees interested, engaged, and motivated in their work. Erin shares her secrets of building a top-notch team that is driven, passionate, and focused.
on learning and leadership
As a learning designer, Erin thinks about designing meaningful learning experiences for people of all ages every day.
Erin is the Co-founder and CEO of Desklight, a learner-centered instructional design firm. The Desklight team partners with organizations to provide learner insights, identify effective strategies, and bring new learning experiences to life. Some of their clients have included:
Cultivate Curiosity
Savvas Learning Company: Leveraged gamification in a way that benefited both students and teachers without overpowering learning.
Smithsonian Affiliations: Collected insights from Affiliates to identify unique opportunities for learning, exploration, and collaboration.
Shimmy Technologies: Conducted in-depth user research in Bangladesh to better understand women’s needs to turn feedback into active learning opportunities.
Check out desklightlearning.com for more client work.
Learning in the Wild
Approachable daily habits for modern leaders looking to boost team engagement, collaboration, and creativity.
