Growing Into My Professional Goals

My professional goal is to build a career that combines instructional design with performance analysis, improvement, and change management. Through my graduate program and prior professional experience, I've become especially interested in understanding why a performance problem is occurring before jumping into training. My previous experience in healthcare, compliance, education, and business operations has often required me to identify problems, improve processes, and help others adapt to change before setting up any training. I want to keep developing those strengths through instructional design.

My proximal goals are to complete my master’s degree, continue building this portfolio, strengthen my instructional design and evaluation skills, and gain experience by applying what I am learning in professional settings. My distal goal is to move into a role where I can analyze organizational and learning needs and help develop solutions that lead to meaningful, sustainable improvement. I hope to work in healthcare or higher education.

In five years, I hope my portfolio reflects not only what I can create, but also how I approach problems, make evidence-based, design-thoughtful decisions, evaluate results, and keep improving my work.