Service: Training & Speaking

  • Talks

    I’ve spoken at more than eighteen WordCamps, alongside corporate workshops and professional-association events, on WordPress, AI operations, and learning technology. The recordings worth keeping are collected here. If you’re weighing me for a keynote or a workshop, watching one is the fastest way to see how I present before you book a call. See speaking…

  • The case for the second draft

    I finished a paragraph this morning, read it back, and felt that small private satisfaction of having said the thing. It was all there. The argument, the example, the point. And then I read it again, slower, and noticed it wasn’t a paragraph at all. It was four half-formed thoughts that happened to be sitting…

    The case for the second draft
  • Speaking & Training Delivery

    Conference talks, classroom ILT, virtual training, and corporate briefings on WordPress, AI operations, and learning technology — practitioner delivery for developer, L&D, and editorial audiences.

  • Learning

    The problem this fixes. The LMS was stood up two platform generations ago. The course architecture doesn’t match how the team actually designs learning. The SIS connection breaks twice a year and nobody knows why. Learner data is split across three systems. The person who built it left eighteen months ago. Active-learner attendance for M.L.…

  • WordPress training for teams

    Live WordPress training for your comms or marketing team. Curriculum tailored to your site. Half-day $2,200, full-day $3,800. MA in L&T. Free 20-min call.

    WordPress training for teams
  • Moodle to WordPress: when the move is the upgrade, and when it isn’t

    How to migrate from Moodle to a WordPress LMS stack with user mapping, course parity, enrollment continuity, and reporting validation.

    Moodle to WordPress: when the move is the upgrade, and when it isn’t
  • Microsoft PowerPoint Training 101

    Microsoft PowerPoint Level 1 training — slides that communicate clearly, without borrowed templates and designs that distract from the content.

    Microsoft PowerPoint Training 101
  • Newspapers with WordPress

    Slide deck from a 2012 talk on running a newsroom on WordPress — editorial roles, workflow, and the technical choices that keep multi-author publishing honest.

    Newspapers with WordPress
  • The week the platform moved, and the teaching had to keep pace.

    WordPress 7.0 landed and everything downstream had to move with it — the client answer, the courses, the free tools. This is what that week looked like, and why keeping pace is the whole job.

    The week the platform moved, and the teaching had to keep pace.