Megan Torrance
Megan Torrance is CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, helping organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data and ultimately performance. Megan has over 25 years of experience in learning design, deployment and consulting.
Megan and the TorranceLearning team are passionate about sharing what works in learning, offering professional development programs in instructional design, learning technologies, racial equity and Agile methods.
At TorranceLearning, Megan has brought several products to market – Eleventure® (an off-the-shelf curriculum of business skills topics), LLAMA® (an adaptation of Agile methods for the instructional design context), and xapi.ly® (the statement builder for xAPI learning products) – as well as founded the xAPI Learning Cohort (a 12-week learning experience offered twice a year with recent enrollment topping 850 worldwide), the ID Ways of Working professional development curriculum and CREW (Cultivating Racial Equity in the Workplace).
Megan is the author of Agile for Instructional Designers (2019), The Quick Guide to LLAMA (2012), and two ATD TD at Work publications: Agile and LLAMA® for ISD Project Management (2014) and Making Sense of xAPI (2017). She is a frequent speaker at conferences nationwide. TorranceLearning is on the 2018 list of Michigan 50 Companies to Watch. In 2019, the Learning Guild named Megan as a Guild Master for her contributions to professional development in the workplace L&D industry.
A graduate of Cornell University with a degree in Communication and an MBA, and an eCornell Facilitator in the Women's Executive Leadership curriculum, Megan lives and works near Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Augmenting Learning & Performance with AI
Thom Powell, Value People, and Gerard Krupke, BSB Design
Culture and Learning: The Catalyst For Employee and Customer Engagement
Katherine Phillips-Parrish, Phillips Learning Design
Feed the Beast: How to Win on Social Media with Engaging Kick*ss Content
Joshua Scheinblum, Five Seasons Media
From the Public School to the Private Sector: Teacher to Corporate Trainer
Alan Feirer, Group Dynamic
A Higher Education Perspective on Collaborating with Subject Matter Experts
Dr. Long Hi and Hiro Iino, Iowa State University
How to Make Development Assessments a Better Investment
Dick Hannasch, Aware and Willing, LLC, and Roxy Galkin, ChildServe
The Key to Increasing Learning Performance - Psychological Safety
Molly Mackey, LEAdeRNship Institute
L&D Consulting in a Vending Machine World
Denise Kyle-Needs and Jacey Beukelman, Farm Bureau Financial Services
Level Up Your Organization's Measurement and Evaluation Culture
Jon Pederson, Principal
Leveraging Coaching When Working with Subject Matter Experts
Jacque Hollingshead and Katelyn Proctor, Mary Greeley Medical Center
Making Learning Stick Why Training Can Fall Short and What To Do About It
Dr. Teresa Peterson, Sarah Noll Wilson, Inc.
Mary Roth and Elizabeth Kinsey, Principal
Redefining Your TD Role From Functional Expert to Strategic Leader
Carlos Rojas, 2.0, and Gina Brown, Magnify Innovation and Leadership
Skills Revolution The Skills Driven Future of Talent Development
Joey Spivey, Wellabe
Things We Don't Know We Don't Know Managing Skills and Talent Development
Dr. Jeffrey Kappan and Stephen Smith, Baton Global
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Each year for Professional Development Day, we select one non-profit to spotlight for the event. This year, we're spotlighting Pi515, a non-profit that supports and empowers students to foster a life-long interest in STEM. You'll learn a little bit more about Pi515 at Professional Development Day in February.
Mission: We challenge, inspire, and teach technology skills to students with potential - empowering refugee and underserved youth to achieve success, garner influence, and gain stability in their families and communities.
Vision: Our vision is to ensure students succeed with opportunities. We’re building a community to empower underserved youth with skills for the future.
Learn more about the organization here.
Check back again next year!
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