Projects
Fundamentals of Supervision Series
Audience: New supervisors
Format: Eight courses · 16 instructional hours · Virtual and in-person
Tool: Microsoft PowerPoint
An eight-course leadership development series designed to equip new supervisors with foundational knowledge and practical people-management skills. Topics include employment law, generational leadership, harassment prevention, conflict management, interviewing, and employee performance.
My role
I led the instructional and visual redesign of this long-standing eight-course supervision series, modernizing content, refining learner activities, and improving consistency across the curriculum. I served as the lead instructional designer for Introduction to Employment Law and Managing Conflict in the Workplace, with primary responsibility for research and analysis, storyboarding, structuring content, refining instructional approaches, working with SMEs and and developing practical learning activities.
In addition to curriculum updates, I created a custom visual design system for the series from scratch. This included HEC brand-compliant storyboards, theme colors, graphics, representative imagery, and reusable PowerPoint Slide Master layouts. The resulting template system established a cohesive learner experience across all eight courses and created a standardized, plug-and-play foundation for future course development.
I also facilitated every course in the series in both virtual and in-person formats, using learner engagement, recurring questions, and classroom application to inform ongoing refinements.
Deliverables
Refreshed and redesigned presentation materials across eight courses
Lead instructional design for two courses
Revised learning activities and improved instructional flow
Custom brand-compliant storyboard and PowerPoint template system
Reusable Slide Master layouts, theme styles, graphics, and representative series imagery
Adaptations for virtual and in-person delivery
Design Challenge & Approach
The primary challenge was modernizing an established curriculum that had evolved over more than 20 years and had not originally been built using current instructional design practices. The content was valuable, but the materials lacked visual consistency, clear scaffolding, and a cohesive design approach across the series.
To address this, I used a three-tiered redesign approach.
Tier 1: Immediate visual refresh for near-term use. Because a full widescreen conversion would require more time and the existing materials were already visually outdated, I first implemented a lower-lift refresh within the existing 4:3 format. This created a more polished and usable short-term solution while improving the learner and facilitator experience right away.
Tier 2: Instructional restructuring and content organization. I then focused on improving the instructional design of the series by clarifying learning objectives, organizing content into more cohesive sections, strengthening flow and scaffolding, and refining activities to better support comprehension and application.
Tier 3: Full widescreen redesign and long-term template system. Finally, I transitioned the series to a widescreen format and built a fully customized, brand-compliant visual system from the ground up. This phase resulted in the modern version of the curriculum used today and established the design standard and reusable template foundation for future training development.
Selected Artifacts
Representative program and recognition materials are shown below. Proprietary instructional content is excluded.
