Valerie knows how to help others gain, retain, recall and reuse new knowledge and skills faster, smarter and better. She believes that learning is a skill just like any other skill. Learning competencies can be learned. Learners who know how to learn are like walls that are prepared and primed for paint or wallpaper. The learning sticks and the results are exactly what's needed. The ability to learn faster, smarter and better than everyone else is a major competitive advantage, especially in today's complex, content-heavy, ever- changing, and high tech environments.

Valerie loves learning and helping other people learn. She has over thirty- five years experience in all aspects of performance needs analysis, learning strategy development and learning design. Her company, Learnware Design Inc., has been providing clients with creative, custom-designed, and technology-based learning solutions for over twenty-six years. Her team has the expertise to take complex facts, concepts, processes and procedures and make them easy for others to learn and expertly apply.

Valerie is also the creator/designer of the Canadian Society for Training and Development's (CSTD) Training Competency Architecture (TCA) and Toolkit, the foundation documents for CSTD's Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP) designation.

Valerie is the author of three books:

• Information DISCOVERY - New Employee Orientation and Onboarding

• FACILITATION Skills & Strategies - Classroom and Web-Based Synchronous

• LEARNING Competency Architecture - 6Cs Learning Process (Gaining, Retaining, Recalling and Reusing New Knowledge and Skills)

Keynotes, Webinars and Workshops

• Mastering Learning Overload - Accelerating Your Information Processing Skills

• Pattern Recognition - The Most Efficient Pathway to the Mind

• Ramp-Up - The Critical First Three Months of Employment

• 6Cs Learning Skills & Strategies - Gaining, Retaining, Recalling and Reusing New Knowledge and Skills

• Learning Options and Opportunities

• Facilitation Skills & Strategies

Change, Peak Performance, Lifehacking, Technology, Motivational,