I am a learning futurist and innovator who teaches organizational leaders, teams, and individuals how to build meaningful learning experiences that inspire lifelong habits of curiosity, growth, and collaboration.

Topics

  • 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.

  • Many organizations are still treating learning as a one-off event rather than a key strategy to their growth. Learn how to take learning from an isolated to-do into an ongoing strategic initiative. What pieces should you consider pulling in to begin building an ecosystem of learning?

  • 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.

  • Erin speaks to professionals in the learning and education space every single day. Learn what the industry is talking about, and how we can move education away from a rigid system and into an autonomous and learner-centered approach.

I’m 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 our clients have included:

Cultivating 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.

Learning in the Wild

Approachable daily habits for modern leaders looking to boost team engagement, collaboration, and creativity.

  • Libby Van Why | McGraw Hill

    One of Erin’s biggest strengths is being able to quickly jump into the mix, understand the problem to solve, and then come up with a plan.

    Erin and her team helped introduce the concept of experience mapping, establish touch-points with customers every week, moderate touch-points, and facilitate collaborative analysis and synthesis to build shared mental models.

  • Lauren Trent | AdvanceEDU

    Erin is a true innovative thinker who always has a unique perspective on things.

    She and her team at Desklight are a joy to work with! They did an artful job helping us tell the story of the pathways we were building and showcasing the impact on individual students. Their work was used broadly throughout the district, with partners, and as we influenced other districts and cities nationally.

  • Amy Hauenstein | Northwestern University

    Erin expertly listened to us and was able to help us tease out a human-centered, emotion-centered, holistic and connective execution.

    The platform the Desklight team built for us was highly interactive and has continued to deliver the experience we had hoped for to our potential students. Their translation of our vision was impeccable, not to mention on-time and on-budget.

  • Kelly Delaney | Savvas

    Erin leads with curiosity, passion, and drive. She consistently strives to do better and learn more each day, and she is an inspiration to be around and a joy to be connected to.

    Erin and her team at Desklight give us a boost of sunshine and hope every time we meet with them. They speak the language of education and share our goals of reaching and engaging every learner.

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