VonGeyer Consulting - Designing the learning experiences you need

DESIGNING THE LEARNING EXPERIENCES YOU NEED

With extensive experience in the industry, we understand the challenges facing L&D and how to meet them through digital, flexible, scalable, and targeted solutions. And we love a good challenge!

Our ‘Circular’ Learning Experiences Methodology

Like the economy, we believe that learning experience design needs to be circular, rather than a linear, one-time exercise. At VonGeyer Consulting, our methodology, processes, and services are designed to achieve this goal.

Circular loops allow us to design experiences that are restorative and regenerative in nature so they can naturally adapt to evolving learning, business, and technology requirements.

Contextualized curation allows us to reuse and repurpose learning components and content from a variety of sources to build effective learning experiences, circumventing the need to create everything from scratch.

Sustainable development strategies allow us to create multidimensional and discrete microlearning components that can be used across multiple learning paths, roles, and even future iterations of the program.

Our consultative approach allows us to design experiences customized to your specific business needs, learner profiles, content sources, and technical environment.

As professionals, learners, and human beings, we change, grow, and evolve through our entire life. And as conscious citizens of the world, we try to conserve what we have and reduce waste by recycling, sharing, and reusing resources. Shouldn’t our learning experiences be designed to do the same?

Service Offerings and Solutions

Our services are designed to help our customers create and deliver robust, effective, and apt learning experiences. We can support you with learning consulting and instructional design services across a variety of contexts and formats.

Learning experience design

VonGeyer Consulting can lead and manage the end-to-end learning design process for our customers, from needs analysis to building consensus and buy-in across stakeholders on the program design and components. Our process is designed to ensure that we achieve the required outcomes while offering the flexibility to adapt to different organizational contexts and requirements.

What are the key activities through our design process?

Needs analysis
Stakeholder interviews
Learner persona definition
Content collation and curation
Learning components definition
Certification strategy design
Learning path creation

Content curation

VonGeyer Consulting can support you by analyzing and mapping learning assets across a variety of content sources—LMS, subscription, Intranet and internal platforms, public domain—and delivering deployment-ready learning paths using curated content sources and required connecting content/assets.

What you know:
The sea of relevant content that you own or have access to presents the ideal way to get the most out of your training spends

What you need:
Specialist abilities required to navigate this sea of content, map content to learner profiles, and create learning paths that will leverage this content

Instructional design

VonGeyer Consulting provides managed instructional design services for the design and development of learning output across a variety of formats—across eLearning courses, microlearning modules, formative and summative assessments, animated and expert videos, instructor-led sessions, webinars, and workshops, in-application training and help content, and so on.

What deliverables would you receive?

Program-level Instructional Design Document (IDD)
Unit-level Detailed Content Outline documents (DCOs)
Component-level storyboards and scripts
Functional eLearning modules (developed in defined authoring tools)
Designed PowerPoint presentations and Word/PDF guides and resources

Legacy training transformation

VonGeyer Consulting can support you through Learning Program Design that converts linear, long-duration, and rigid legacy programs to flexible blended microlearning structures. Our microlearning structures include a blend of learning methodologies across change management and communication strategies, ‘teach’ components, ‘read and understand’ resources, social learning activities, practice and assessment modules, and on-job quick reference aids.

What could be considered a ‘legacy’ program?

Existing programs that are primarily instructor-driven—ILT, vILT, webinar, etc.

Existing programs that are a blend of instructor-led training and ‘lengthy eLearning modules’

Existing programs that are entirely eLearning-based and comprise multi-hour, linear eLearning courses

Continuous learning support

VonGeyer Consulting can provide support to design and deploy continuous learning and communication strategies and to enable communities of practice and social learning experiences. Our services range from an initial engagement to design the learning/communication goals, framework, strategies, and deployment mechanisms to monthly rollouts of learning and/or communication assets and periodic moderation of social learning communities and forums.

What could continuous learning assets look like?

Expert interviews
Stories, cases and examples
Infoposters, FAQs, procedures
User testimonials
Use cases and benefits
Leadership messages
Practice tasks, cases and activities

What are the key activities through our design process?

Needs analysis
Stakeholder interviews
Learner persona definition
Content collation and curation
Learning components definition
Certification strategy design
Learning path creation

What you know: The sea of relevant content that you own or have access to presents the ideal way to get the most out of your training spends

What you need: Specialist abilities required to navigate this sea of content, map content to learner profiles, and create learning paths that will leverage this content

What deliverables would you receive?

Program-level Instructional Design Document (IDD)
Unit-level Detailed Content Outline documents (DCOs)
Component-level storyboards and scripts
Functional eLearning modules (developed in defined authoring tools)
Designed PowerPoint presentations and Word/PDF guides and resources

What could be considered a ‘legacy’ program?

Existing programs that are primarily instructor-driven—ILT, vILT, webinar, etc. OR
Existing programs that are a blend of instructor-led training and ‘lengthy eLearning modules’ OR
Existing programs that are entirely eLearning-based and comprise multi-hour, linear eLearning courses

What could continuous learning assets look like?

Expert interviews
Stories, cases and examples
Infoposters, FAQs, procedures
User testimonials
Use cases and benefits
Leadership messages
Practice tasks, cases and activities

Experience and Expertise

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*The presented numbers are indicative of the cumulative experience of the founding partners at VonGeyer Consulting across their careers in the Learning industry.

Lisa Vongeyer

For the last 18 years, I have had a single answer to the question, “What do you do?”. I’m an instructional designer.

Yes, I have had various designations and roles across my career so far.

I’ve been a learning consultant for more than a decade and designed program-level solutions for a wide variety of subject areas and customers. I’ve conducted needs analysis, content sourcing, and training structure design workshops with client stakeholders onsite and virtually. I’ve designed complex learning games, visual communication assets, microlearning paths, eLearning courses, in-application system training components, and instructor-led workshops including productized frameworks and Brandon Hall award winners.

I’ve also managed a team of 25+ instructional designers across recruitment, development, mentoring, resourcing, and allocations for over 7 years. I’ve designed processes, offerings, structures, and frameworks to optimize and maximize resource utilization and revenue generation across delivery and sales functions.

But the foundation for success in everything I’ve taken on is my core instructional design skill set that has been built and honed since I came across this field in 2004 and fell in love at first brief.

So, hi! It’s good to meet you. I’m Lisa, an instructional designer and partner at VonGeyer Consulting.

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Content enthusiast. Introvert with unexpected success at building and sustaining client relationships. Always in search of a creative pursuit. Adventurous spirit.

I love creating and consuming content but, most of all, I enjoy learning. And across a career that has spanned 20 years, I have had plenty of opportunities to learn and create, first with the publishing industry and then in the learning and development field. As part of a decade-long stint in instructional design, I started off being a part of large teams—working on custom eLearning projects, working with customers and content from varying domains, facilitating training sessions for my peers—and then moved my way up to leading a team of Instructional Designers myself.

My adventurous spirit—backed by my understanding of the custom learning solutions business—then led me towards account management and consultative selling. For another decade, I played the role of a key account manager with responsibilities for growing revenue across several accounts. This role put me up front and personal with my customers—defining problem statements, presenting solutions, building consensus, and closing deals.

It’s now time to consolidate the different facets of my experience to solve problems and build solutions in a different avatar. Hi! I’m Julian, an experienced learning professional and partner at VonGeyer Consulting.

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