Helping learning teams design better learning with confidence, clarity, and momentum
In-house L&D teams are juggling a lot. Complex stakeholders. Tight timelines. Big expectations. I work alongside learning teams to lift the quality of learning, strengthen design capability, and create ways of working that actually stick without adding more process, pressure, or fluff.
Sometimes that looks like a single, high-impact session. Sometimes it’s a guided journey. Sometimes it’s embedded leadership.
We’ll choose the shape that fits your team.
Ways we can work together
High-impact skill accelerators
When your team needs a boost - fast.
Learning Jams are focused, practical sessions designed to show your team how to do the work better, not just talk about it. No theory dumps. No tool demos. Just real learning challenges, tackled together.
Perfect for teams who want to:
build confidence in modern learning design
sharpen specific skills
unblock stuck work
inject fresh thinking and momentum
Popular Jam themes include:
Visual design for internal learning & comms
Crafting explainer videos that actually land
Storytelling for behaviour change
Visual communication for L&D teams
Human-centred experience mapping
Reducing cognitive load in learning
Rapid prototyping for learning teams
Every Jam is tailored to your context and current work.
A guided journey to modern learning practice
This is for teams ready for a step-change not just a one-off session.
A Learning Team Glow Up is a structured experience where we elevate how your team thinks, designs, and delivers learning across capability, systems, and creative practice.
What shifts during a Glow Up:
more confident in learning experience design
clearer ways of working (tools, templates, decision points)
less rework, more impact
stronger partnerships with stakeholders and SMEs
a shared learning language across the team
Think fewer “order takers” and more strategic learning partners.
What your team walks away with:
A shared learning design approach
Not just individual skill uplift - a common way of thinking, designing, and making decisions together.
Reusable tools, templates, and frameworks
Everything we build together and what I mock up is yours to keep/use long after the engagement ends.Stronger learning experience design judgment
Your team knows why something works not just how to follow a process.
Embedded learning experience design leadership without the hire
When your team needs senior guidance, not just extra hands.
Adopt an Alien is ongoing, embedded support where I work alongside your team as a senior learning partner guiding decisions, lifting the quality bar, and helping your people grow while delivering real work.
You’re not just getting support, you’re getting access to 12+ years of learning and organisational development experience, working with global organisations and complex, high-stakes learning programs.
I bring a systems lens to learning - seeing how capability, culture, ways of working, and the people experience all connect. I’ve partnered with world-class learning teams to build world-class learning capability.
I’m not here to take tickets. I’m here to lead thinking, shape direction, and help your team level up! Plus.. I’ll be bringing the good vibes ONLY.
Best for teams who:
need experienced learning experience design leadership without a full-time role
are navigating complexity, scale, or change
want calm, confident guidance while building capability
What this looks like in practice:
senior design and strategy guidance on live projects
hands-on coaching while your team builds real work
better decision-making frameworks (not more process)
uplifted quality, confidence, and consistency across outputs
What it’s like jamming together
Amanda was an absolute star partner for our Talent team. She joined us during a period of shifting priorities and plenty of ambiguity, but never once lost her positivity, creativity, or momentum. Despite unforeseen changes throughout the project, she stayed flexible, solution-focused, and consistently delivered high-quality work on time. Her design work elevated our materials instantly, and her Learning Jams on comms and marketing were a real highlight - creative, practical, and genuinely engaging. We left every session with clear tools, templates, and techniques we could use straight away. If you need someone who brings energy, craft, and calm in equal measure, Amanda’s your person.
Sarah Clancey
Principal Talent Development Partner
Amanda was an absolute star partner for our Talent team. She joined us during a period of shifting priorities and plenty of ambiguity, but never once lost her positivity, creativity, or momentum. Despite unforeseen changes throughout the project, she stayed flexible, solution-focused, and consistently delivered high-quality work on time. Her design work elevated our materials instantly, and her Learning Jams on comms and marketing were a real highlight - creative, practical, and genuinely engaging. We left every session with clear tools, templates, and techniques we could use straight away. If you need someone who brings energy, craft, and calm in equal measure, Amanda’s your person.
Mary Elia
Manager Strategic People Partnerships
Not sure where to start?
Some teams begin with a single Learning Jam. Others step into a Glow Up or ongoing learning experience design support.
We’ll figure out the right approach together.
A short conversation to explore what your team needs and how I can help.