LearnSmartly · Educator Evolution Journey

    Know your people before you teach them

    Certification for learning and development leaders

    A six-session journey for learning and development leaders, coaches and facilitators. You'll grow your own capacity, learn to read how differently people learn, and finish as a LearnSmartly Certified Practitioner.

    • 6 live sessions
    • 2 hours each
    • Online
    • R10,500 per person
    • Certification and 10 team reports included

    Who it's for

    Learning and development leaders, HR partners, facilitators, coaches and learning designers, whether you work inside a large organisation or with clients of your own.

    You'll get the most from it if you suspect that completion rates and satisfaction scores tell you very little, and you want to see people change after a programme and be able to show it.

    Why this, and why now

    Most enterprise learning systems were built to deliver content and count who finished. They do that well. What they can't tell you is whether a person was ready to learn when they arrived, or what changed after they left.

    This journey gives you a way to see both. You'll work with your own report first, then learn to read a whole group, and finally use it with a real team of your own.

    What you'll be able to do

    • Read a LearnSmartly report and debrief it with an individual or a group
    • Build and facilitate a Group View for a team or client group
    • Use readiness and resilience to decide how a programme starts, and who needs support first
    • Design sessions that work for the different ways people take things in
    • Measure again after 90 days and make the case to the people who hold the budget

    The six sessions

    1. What If Your Teaching Purpose Isn't What You Think?

      Orientation and Personal Mastery

      At work: understand your own readiness to learn, and what it means for how you lead learning.

    2. The Group Is the Teacher

      The Group Debrief experience

      At work: experience a Group View debrief as a participant, so you can run one with confidence.

    3. Your Presence Either Expands or Contracts Capacity

      Emotional Resilience

      At work: see how pressure shapes what people can take in, and adjust before it costs you.

    4. What If Assessment Could Accelerate Becoming?

      Neuro-Quadrants

      At work: use a readiness baseline to decide how a programme starts.

    5. Question Quality Determines Transformation Depth

      Enneagram and Inquiry

      At work: ask the questions that move a debrief from polite agreement to real insight.

    6. Design Environments Where Change Can Take Hold

      Learning design (4MAT) and the business case

      At work: design for difference, then measure again at 90 days and show what changed.

    Five principles we work by

    • Space creates transformation.

      Change needs room in the diary. A crowded agenda leaves none.

    • Silence is power.

      The pause after a hard question is where people do their thinking. Hold it.

    • Questions over answers.

      People act on what they work out for themselves.

    • Breakdown precedes breakthrough.

      Discomfort in a session is often a sign that something is shifting.

    • The group is the teacher.

      The room usually knows more than the facilitator. Design for that.

    Become a LearnSmartly Certified Practitioner

    To complete your certification:

    1. Attend at least 5 of the six sessions.
    2. Write your Educator Evolution Manifesto.
    3. Run a Group View debrief with a team in your organisation or a client group of 5 to 10 people, with David's support.

      Up to 10 team reports are included in your fee, valid for 60 days after the programme ends.

    When you're certified, you receive:

    • A certificate and a digital badge for LinkedIn
    • The LearnSmartly practitioner conversation guide
    • Practitioner rates on further LearnSmartly reports
    • A place in the alumni community, with support when you need it

    Already an alumnus?

    If you completed an earlier Educator Evolution Journey, you can become a LearnSmartly Certified Practitioner by running one Group View debrief with David's support. Email david@learnsmartly.institute to start.

    Investment

    R10,500per person

    Includes your own Educator Report, up to 10 Advanced Learning Reports for your team or client group, and certification as a LearnSmartly Certified Practitioner.

    Bringing your team? Ask us about organisational cohorts.

    What alumni say

    “Thank you for the generosity of spirit and the nudges — being a companion in reflection and a 'soul whisperer'.”
    Felicity BoyersLearning and Design Manager, PMI
    “I loved working on this and kept going back to our sessions, which have been incredibly impactful.”
    Leoni GroblerDirector Executive Education, Wits Business School
    “This has been a phenomenal experience! Thank you for this brilliant opportunity. I'm looking forward to getting this out to clients now!”
    Dr Christien GroothofDirector of Business Development, Open and Customised Education
    “This was a wonderful, inspiring journey.”
    Nikki LoweDirector and Shareholder, EQUILIBRIUM Consulting
    “Thank you for a very insightful and different learning experience. It has definitely opened my eyes and mind.”
    Candida di GiandomenicoFounder & Director, Thinck
    “It was one of your earliest provocations for the group that prompted me to write this book.”
    Dr Bill RelyeaLeadership Coach & Author

    Ready to know your people before you teach them?

    Enrol now

    Questions? Email david@learnsmartly.institute or message us on WhatsApp .