We are the alternative learning and development company…
…built for impact-driven leaders, knowledge workers, artists, and their organizations.
Is this you?
Did you know?
So we help folks better understand how learning is working (or not) in their organizations, specifically around attrition, burnout, engagement, and creativity.
And do something meaningful about it.
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Hey y’all, my name is Beth. I am the Founder x CEO of Custom Learning Atelier.
Here’s a little bit about CLA…
We exist because we are fed up with the difference between the promise & potential of learning design and its experienced reality. We are here to elevate the good and disrupt the bad in organized learning design.
We are grounded in what we call Harmonic Agency Theory, which is a synthesis of several variations of the critical theme. Operationally it rejects polarizing binaries and opts instead for an intentional study of the tensions that lay in between and amongst entities. Specifically, it seeks and dwells in the in-between-ness, in the tenuous intersections of agency and an organization’s structure as experienced by its ecosystem of people, its stakeholders.
(Yeah, we get nerdy…more on this at another time.)
Our baseline (re)design framework starts with asking:
How do you want people to feel?
What do you want people to think about?
What do you want people to know?
What do you want people to be able to do?
I cannot, nor would I want to do this work alone. Please meet some of my collaborators…and support them and their work, too!
About you…
‘Cause we’re not for everyone.
You are passionate in your purpose.
You believe in the positive impact of human potential and advocate for its prerequisite of protected human rights.
You know that there’s not a scarcity issue on the planet, but a distribution-access-respect-humanity issue.
You’re in a space where you can engage with alternative ways of doing learning and development.
2024 Spring & Summer Collection
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75 minutes
$275
Get clarity, insights, direction, & guidance around all things learning-development-teaching-engagement-outcomes
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4 weeks
Current Pricing: $5000
You don’t know what you don’t know.
Find out how learning is working (and not working) in your company & how to take meaningful action.
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45 - 75 minutes
From free to PWYC to investment
Opportunities for consistent engagement with unlearning & relearning through salons & workshops.
Anticipated 2024 Fall/Winter 2025
Collection Additions
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3 months
Prerequisite: Audit
Get a custom map of your organization’s learning terrain & viable learning journeys.
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3 Months
TBD.
Create awareness, understanding, and engagement opportunities for employees of Certified B Corps.
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Co-Created
100% Customlzed
Got an idea & want a team of experience designers, educators, &. nerds to co-create with? Let’s do this.
Benefits of Working with CLA
What does someone get when they work with CLA?
In short? Data, clarity, insights, direction, and guidance.
What kind of data?
Data from interviews, surveys, document analysis, questionnaires, observations, & social media content.
Clarity around what?
Clarity around what’s working and what’s not working in how your folks are learning individually and collectively at work and in their careers.
What kind of insights?
How to meet folks’ career development goals, individual and collective cognitive load capacities, how equitably folks are experiencing professional learning, opportunities to increase learning in the flow of work…
What kind of direction?
What to start doing, what to continue doing, and what to stop doing when it comes to professional learning.
What kind of guidance?
How to equitably and sustainably engage folks in their own professional learning to reach stated individual and collective goals.
Ready to talk?
Connect
Our Values.
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Hope.
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Art.
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Science.
