EST. 2020·LOS ANGELES·DO-GOODER WORK ONLY·LEARNING DESIGN·INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN·AI ENABLEMENT·EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY·MUSIC, VIDEO & SOUND·EST. 2020·LOS ANGELES·DO-GOODER WORK ONLY·LEARNING DESIGN·INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN·AI ENABLEMENT·EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY·MUSIC, VIDEO & SOUND·

Learning Design · Instructional Design · AI Enablement

Make the thing.
Then make it work.

ben schwier

I work at the strategy level, and I make the thing too. Two decades of work across media, learning design, and AI: seven years running culture at GoPro, a GRAMMY credit, an M.Ed., and an AI adoption practice running across a 125-organization national network. Either way the job is the same, turn learning and AI from talk into something people actually use.

GoProGRAMMYM.Ed.Fridays at The Park
02Learning Design & AI

Learning design, AI & performance strategy

Instructional design and educational technology, backed by an M.Ed. and years of doing the work, not just reading about it. I work at the strategy level, learning design, AI adoption and governance, and human-centered systems for teams that need new capability, not more content. And I build what I scope. The projects below are a selected few, pulled from a much larger body of work.

AI adoption & governance

Built an AI adoption and governance practice for a national organization and its network of 125+ partner organizations across 30 states. Strategy, guardrails, and the change work that makes it stick.

Performance strategy

Diagnose what's actually blocking performance before anyone builds. Design the smallest intervention that moves it.

Instructional design & learning experience

Courses, simulations, and learning experiences people finish, built on instructional design that respects how people learn. An M.Ed. and years of building this stuff behind the instinct, not just theory.

Educational technology & UX

I lead the UX and AI work across learning platforms, the LMS, and web portals, so what ships is something people can actually use.

Learning, performance, and AI work across a national network of 125+ organizations and The Park DAO.
Case StudyDG-001

The Park Academy

ProblemArtists and educators couldn't actually use onchain tools. The material was a firehose.

BuildAn open-source, modular, on-brand curriculum, designed and produced end to end.

ResultOnchain tools that make sense to people who don't live in crypto.

Case StudyDG-002

Cold-Chain: a Storyline branching scenario

ProblemInstructional designers get handed course requests for problems courses can't fix, and most of them say yes.

BuildE-learning that goes past the standard branching scenario. Built in Articulate Storyline, you face two AI-powered stakeholders and practice six performance-consulting moves.

ResultLearners walk out able to spot when a course is the wrong intervention, and what to recommend instead. Playable below.

Case StudyDG-003

AI adoption, national network

ProblemA 125+ org network with no shared way to adopt AI safely or well.

BuildAn adoption and governance practice: strategy, guardrails, training, and UX across platforms and portals.

ResultAI that earns its place; it ships things faster without making them worse.

02·BFeatured Case Study · DG-002

Cold-Chain: e-learning that talks back

This is what e-learning looks like when it stops being a slideshow with a quiz. I push Articulate Storyline past the standard branching scenario into something that behaves like a real conversation. It puts you across the table from two AI-powered stakeholders to practice six performance-consulting moves. Try it; it runs right here.

02·CFeatured Case Study · DG-001

The Park Academy

Artists and educators couldn't actually use onchain tools; the material was a firehose. I designed and produced an open-source, modular curriculum that turns it into something people can pick up and run with. Client: The Park DAO.

02·DFeatured Case Study · DG-003

AI enablement that sticks

A national organization and its network of 125+ partner organizations had no shared way to adopt AI safely or well. I built the adoption and governance practice from scratch: strategy, guardrails, training, and the UX across its platforms. This is the method I run.

01ASSESSFind the realperformance gap,not the hype.02PILOTSmall, real usecases. Provevalue fast.03GUARDRAILSPolicy, privacy,and a clearyes / no.04ENABLETrain people.Tools + promptsthey will use.05MEASURETrack adoptionand outcomes.Then refine. GOVERNANCE · CHANGE MANAGEMENT · HUMAN-CENTERED Assess, pilot, set guardrails, enable, measure. Then repeat.
+Beyond the L&D work

There's more to the story.

Music and sound, plus a nonprofit creative hub I help run. Different rooms, same instinct.