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For L&D Leaders & Instructional Designers

Move your L&D career from content creator to strategic asset.

Accelerate L&D certifies instructional designers, tracks the trends reshaping corporate learning, and consults with L&D teams who need to prove their impact.
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What we do

Three ways we accelerate L&D teams

Whether you're building your own credibility, staying ahead of a fast-moving field, or need hands-on help solving a performance problem, this is where you start.

The PLDID Certificate

A six-part credential covering everything from needs analysis and learning theory to AI-augmented development. Built to prove you can tie training to business results, not just build slides.

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Trending L&D Advances

Curated, practitioner-level briefings on the tools, models, and shifts moving corporate L&D. From LMS and LXP Adoption to AI governance so your team never designs against last year's playbook.

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L&D Consulting

Needs assessment, program design, change management, or evaluation all brought in as a L&D partner or a short, scoped engagement to unlock your L&D goals. 

Certification

6 Topics - 30 Modules

The PLDID: Professional Learning & Development Instructional Designer

Six topics, thirty modules, one theme: instructional design as a business discipline. Each course builds your skills from foundational theory to Ai - augmented practice.

01

Foundations of Instructional Design

What ID actually is, where it's practiced, and the theories and models that drive it.

- Introduction to Instructional Design
- Learning Theories
- Needs Assessment (Analysis)

- Career Fields & Environments
- Instructional Design Models (ADDIE, HPI/HPT)
- The Kirkpatrick Model Introduction

02

Business Acumen & Setting Goals

Reframing ID as a strategic partner who speaks the language of business.

- Understanding Business Strategy
- Setting SMART Goals
- Selecting KPIs

- Identifying Skills Gaps
- Financial Literacy for IDs

03

Instructional Technology

The ecosystem, tools, and infrastructure that build and deliver learning at scale

- Understanding Business Strategy
- Setting SMART Goals
- Selecting KPIs

- Identifying Skills Gaps
- Financial Literacy for IDs

04

Solution Development & Implementation

Getting the course from concept to launch then getting the organization to adopt it.

- Overview of Project Management for IDs
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Change Management

- Initiating a Project (Defining Success Criteria)
- Project Reporting

05

Result Evaluation

Proving impact with the Kirkpatrick model and Phillips ROI.

- The Kirkpatrick Model (Deep Dive)
- Measuring Knowledge Acquisition (Level 2)
- ROI & Business Impact ( Level 4)

- Surveys & Feedback (Level 1)
- Measuring behavioral Change (Level 3)

06

AI in Learning & Development

Using AI as a co-pilot across analysis, development, and personalization.

- The AI-Augmented ID Workflow
- Personalization & Adaptive Learning
- Future Proofing the L&D Role

- Content Generation & Automation
- Ethics, Bias, and Governance

The PLDID is built for working L&D professionals, transitioning teachers, HR professionals, subject matter experts, instructional designers, training managers, and anyone ready to move from tactical builder to strategic partner.

Stay Current

L&D moves fast. Your sources shouldn't be a year behind.

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What we cover
AI tooling, LXP vs LMS shifts, evaluation methods, authoring platforms, and the business side of L&D filtered for practitioners.

02

How it's delivered
Short, practitioners-created videos and briefings you can read and watch between meetings. 

03

Who it's for
Instructional designers, L&D managers, consultants, and those transitioning into the field who need to know what's changing before it shows up in a stakeholder meeting.

Consulting

Brought in when you have a problem to solve.

L&D
Strategy

Aligning learning initiatives to business goals and prioritizing where L&D actually moves the needle.

L&D Capability & Team Design

Building high-performing L&D teams, defining core roles, and establishing the operational processes needed to execute at high standards.

Learning Technology

LMS and LXP selection, authoring tool stacks, AI, and the infrastructure decisions behind them.

Content Development

Course design and build from outline to finished, deployable assets.

Analytics & Evaluation

Setting up measurement infrastructure, data pipelines, and reporting systems, then analyzing performance to prove L&D ROI.

Not sure which one you need?

Tell us the problem, we'll build a SOW and get to work on the solution.

Ready when you are

Certify. Stay current. Get it done

Start with the credential, subscribe for the intelligence, or bring us in to solve the problem in front of you today.
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