Leslie Class, founder and strategic learning architect
Founder + Practitioner
Strategy informed by actually doing the work.

Experience spans facilitation, curriculum development, learning systems, workforce enablement, digital learning, and implementation.

Strategic Learning Architect • Founder • Consultant

Build learning systems that make people more capable — and organizations easier to scale.

I help organizations transform complex information, outdated training, and disconnected learning content into structured systems designed around readiness, performance, and real-world application.

20+ Years Learning + leadership
Founder-Led Strategy through execution
End-to-End Strategy, design + build

My work connects learning strategy, instructional design, LMS architecture, workforce enablement, performance support, learning technology, digital experience design, and AI-enabled development into solutions built for implementation—not simply presentation.

Learning Strategy
LMS Architecture
Workforce Enablement
Learning Technology
AI-Enabled Workflows
Experience in Practice

Experience built across learning, workforce, systems, and implementation.

The work spans education, workforce development, frontline enablement, credentialing, technology adoption, and learning-system design—across different audiences and operating environments.

2K+ Learners
Learners Supported Across education, credentialing, workforce advancement, onboarding, and career-focused learning experiences.
200+ Professionals
Customer-Service Professionals Trained Through onboarding, hybrid learning, competency development, performance support, and practical tools for frontline use.
~35 + 25 Employees
Healthcare Workforce Pathways Approximately 35 new hires and 25 existing employees were supported through programs designed around credentialing, career progression, and clinical-role readiness.
8 Environments
Cross-Sector Experience Experience spans healthcare, workforce development, education, customer service, logistics, agricultural education, nonprofit, and corporate environments.
The evidence comes from different kinds of work—not one training model. Teaching, program development, onboarding, workforce transitions, technology adoption, and learning-system design have all shaped how solutions are approached today.
Where the Work Has Been Applied

Different environments strengthen the ability to design beyond a single audience or industry.

Each environment brings different learners, workflows, systems, constraints, and expectations—experience that strengthens how new solutions are diagnosed and designed.

Healthcare
Workforce Development
Education
Customer Service
Logistics
Agricultural Education
Nonprofit
Corporate

The value of that range is not simply industry variety. It is the ability to recognize what can transfer, what must be customized, and what people actually need in order to use the solution.

Need → Solution

See how a real performance need becomes a practical learning solution.

These examples show the thinking behind the work: identify what people need to do, design around the real environment, and build a solution that supports application beyond training.

Identify the Need
Build the Solution
The Need

Employees needed structured pathways to build required knowledge, pursue credentials, and prepare for expanded clinical responsibilities.

The Solution

Structured learning programs combining curriculum, instruction, credential preparation, and workforce-development support.

Application

Learning became part of a practical workforce pathway supporting credentialing, role progression, and clinical readiness.

The Need

New hires needed more than information. They needed to navigate systems, make decisions, communicate effectively, and apply procedures during real customer interactions.

The Solution

Onboarding, hybrid learning, systems instruction, practice activities, competency support, and performance resources for use beyond training.

Application

Training was connected more directly to the systems, decisions, conversations, and resources employees needed on the job.

The Need

Independent contractors needed to learn mobile technology and operational processes quickly enough to become productive in a live logistics environment.

The Solution

Training and support around mobile technology, onboarding, workflow understanding, and operational readiness.

Application

Learning was designed around the actual technology and workflow contractors needed to navigate while performing the work.

The solution changes. The design principle does not. Learning is most useful when it is connected to the decisions, systems, behaviors, and workflows people must navigate after the training ends.
What Transfers Across the Work

Three principles guide the approach regardless of industry or platform.

Start With Performance

Define what people must understand, decide, navigate, or do before deciding what learning solution to build.

Design Around the Workflow

Learning, systems, resources, and support are considered together rather than treating the course as the entire solution.

Build for Real Use

The goal is practical adoption: solutions people can understand, navigate, maintain, and use in the environment where work happens.

Next: see how the solutions translate into the work itself. Explore examples of learning experiences, systems, performance-support resources, and digital solutions designed and developed in practice.
Selected Work
Selected Work

See how the thinking becomes learning, systems, and digital experiences.

Explore selected examples across learning experience design, learning technology, performance support, and digital experience design. Open any project to see what it was designed to demonstrate.

Learning Experience Design

Designed for explanation, practice, and learner engagement.

Interactive

Branching Scenarios

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Decision-based experiences that give learners a structured place to practice judgment, communication, and consequences before real application.

Demonstrates: scenario design, decision practice, learner feedback, branching logic, and performance application.
Learning Technology & Systems

Digital learning structured for delivery, navigation, and scale.

Performance Support & Digital Resources

Resources designed for use at the moment of need.

Performance Support

SOPs & Job Aids

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Practical resources that translate processes and workflows into clear guidance employees can reference while performing real work.

Demonstrates: workflow documentation, SOP development, job aids, process clarity, knowledge transfer, and performance support.
Digital Experience Design

See the same learning ecosystem from two different user perspectives.

Instructor Experience

LMS Architecture + Instructor Workflow

See how curriculum structure, course access, navigation, and delivery workflows come together from the instructor perspective.

Demonstrates: LMS architecture, instructor workflow, curriculum organization, navigation strategy, and learning-system usability.
Learner Experience

LMS Navigation + Learner Journey

See how learners access courses, locate assigned work, review progress, and move through a digital environment structured for clarity and ease of use.

Demonstrates: learner experience design, course navigation, learning pathways, progress visibility, digital access, and system usability.
Signature Digital Experience

Interactive Digital Portfolio

A multimedia portfolio combining narration, visual storytelling, embedded examples, motion, and structured messaging into an interactive professional experience.

Demonstrates: digital experience design, multimedia storytelling, visual communication, content strategy, interactive presentation, and experience architecture.
Different formats. One design question. What does the audience need to understand, navigate, practice, or do—and what experience will help them get there most effectively?
Leslie Class, founder of LC Career Center
Founder + Practitioner Leslie Class Founder & CEO, LC Career Center
Strategic Learning Architect • Experience & Enablement Designer
The Perspective Behind the Work

I understand learning from more than one side of the table.

My perspective was shaped by teaching learners, building programs, developing workforce pathways, leading operations, recruiting and onboarding talent, implementing learning systems, and running a business.

That experience helps me see the connections between what an organization wants to accomplish and what the people, systems, workflows, and resources behind the solution will actually require.

Experience That Shaped the Perspective
Instructor Program Builder Workforce Developer Founder Learning Architect Strategic Consultant
The perspective stays connected to implementation. Strategic recommendations are informed by experience building, facilitating, launching, supporting, and evolving the work—not only defining what the finished solution should look like.
What This Perspective Adds

A consulting lens that connects strategy to the environment where it must work.

Whole-System Perspective

I look beyond individual deliverables to understand how learners, facilitators, technology, workflow, content, and organizational requirements affect one another.

Practitioner’s Lens

Experience teaching, operating programs, onboarding people, and supporting users helps surface practical considerations that can be easy to miss from a purely conceptual perspective.

Strategy-to-Execution Continuity

The thinking does not have to stop at recommendations. Strategy can move into architecture, design, development, implementation support, and refinement without losing the original intent.

Modern execution capability without losing the human judgment.

AI and digital tools support research, analysis, content transformation, development, visual production, HTML/CSS work, and workflow acceleration—expanding what can be produced efficiently while strategy, context, and user experience remain human-led.

Strategy + Technology
Experience & Impact

Learning strategy becomes meaningful when it supports real people, work, and performance.

My work has been applied across education, healthcare, customer service, workforce development, logistics, and digital learning environments. Explore selected examples of how that work has supported real learners, workforce needs, and operating environments.

Education
Allied-Health Learning
Hundreds of learners supported

Turning technical knowledge into structured learning.

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Across allied-health education, I have taught and supported learners preparing for areas including medical assisting, phlebotomy, EKG, and medical billing—building curriculum around practical knowledge, readiness, and credential-focused learning.

Business Relevance Technical education, credential preparation, structured instruction, and learner readiness.
Operations
Logistics Workforce Readiness

Connecting training directly to operational workflow.

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I developed training and onboarding resources for independent contractors who needed to understand mobile technology, operational expectations, and required workflows quickly enough to enter the field with stronger practical readiness.

Business Relevance Technology adoption, onboarding, process clarity, operational readiness, and workflow execution.
Systems
Knowledge Transfer

Turning expertise into reusable learning systems.

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I translate processes, subject-matter expertise, and complex information into structured curriculum, courses, scenarios, SOPs, job aids, multimedia, interactive resources, and digital learning environments.

Business Relevance Better knowledge transfer, reusable resources, reduced reliance on informal explanation, and clearer access to information.
Architecture
Learning Ecosystems

Building beyond the individual course.

Explore Impact Close Impact

My work extends into LMS architecture, curriculum organization, learning paths, content governance, digital publishing, performance support, and implementation—connecting individual learning assets into systems that can be used and maintained.

Business Relevance Scalability, maintainability, navigation, content organization, and long-term learning infrastructure.
The common thread is implementation—not simply presentation. Whether the need involves credentialing, onboarding, knowledge transfer, workforce mobility, technology adoption, or learning infrastructure, I design around what people ultimately need to understand, navigate, practice, or do.
Credentials & Continued Development

Professional foundations that continue to inform the work.

These credentials reflect the clinical foundation, educational range, and continued technology development that support the broader work across learning strategy, workforce development, digital learning, and modern instructional environments.

Certified Clinical Medical Assistant credential
Credential 01

Certified Clinical Medical Assistant

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Clinical Foundation

Certified Clinical Medical Assistant

This credential reflects the healthcare foundation that shaped my early professional path and continues to strengthen how I approach healthcare education, workforce readiness, clinical learning, and structured training environments.

Healthcare education • Clinical foundation • Workforce readiness
Certified Agricultural Literacy Educator credential
Credential 02

Certified Agricultural Literacy Educator

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Educational Range

Certified Agricultural Literacy Educator

This credential reflects my ability to work across specialized subject areas and translate technical or unfamiliar information into learning that is clear, accessible, and meaningful for varied audiences.

Specialized content • Curriculum development • Audience accessibility
AI Work and Home Life credential
Credential 03

AI Work + Home Life

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Continued Development

AI Work + Home Life

This credential reflects continued development in modern AI and digital tools that support research, content development, analysis, workflow acceleration, and technology-enabled learning and business environments.

AI awareness • Digital workflows • Technology-supported learning
Continued development supports the work—but the work itself remains the strongest proof. Credentials reinforce the professional foundation behind the practice, while the portfolio above demonstrates how that knowledge is translated into real learning systems, workforce solutions, and digital experiences.
Leslie Class, founder of LC Career Center
Strategic Conversation

What does your organization need people to do better?

That is where I prefer to start—not with a predetermined course, platform, or solution.

Sometimes the answer is training. Sometimes it is onboarding, performance support, workflow design, LMS architecture, technology, workforce development, or the system connecting those pieces. I help organizations identify the real need, define the strategy, and build a practical path forward.

Start With the Need Let's determine what is getting in the way of performance. From there, we can decide whether the right answer is learning, systems, technology, performance support—or a combination designed around the realities of your organization.
Strategy grounded in implementation
Systems designed to scale
Focused on real-world performance
Founder-led learning strategy, workforce enablement, learning systems, digital experience design, and technology-supported implementation through LC Career Center.
Recognition & Features

Work, ideas, and a founder journey recognized across media, community, and founder-focused platforms.

LC Career Center's journey has been recognized through founder features, local news, business media, and coverage of education and community-based work.

Founder Feature

VoyageMIA

Community Coverage

New York Post

Television Coverage

News 12 Bronx

Entrepreneur Feature

Latin Vision

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Workforce Development Program Success

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