I've always noticed
things early.

Shelter dogs learning to trust. Nervous systems under pressure. Teams heading somewhere no one wants to go. Patterns other people don't see yet.

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Pattern recognition across every boundary that matters.


I'm Delisa. I've spent more than a decade in learning and development, and most of that time I've been noticing things other people didn't want to hear yet.

I have the M.Ed. and the resume. But the way I actually work has always been less about frameworks and more about pattern recognition. I notice when an onboarding program is creating the attrition it's trying to prevent. I notice when a team's high performers are masking. I notice when a training problem isn't actually a training problem at all.

I'm also a multipassionate by nature. I volunteer at an animal shelter. I was a classical musician. I'm neurodivergent. I build small tools when I can't find an existing answer. For a long time I thought the breadth was a liability. I've come around to the opposite view: the breadth is how I notice.

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What I Do

Learning design, writing, and tools for people who notice things early.

Consulting

For companies and animal welfare organizations that want training to actually train. I start by figuring out whether training is even the right answer.

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Guides & Tools

Field guides, prompt packs, and toolkits built for anxious professionals, accidental L&D practitioners, and neurodivergent brains.

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Writing

Essays at the intersection of animals, nervous systems, and how people actually learn. On Substack.

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Selected Work

Each one started with a gap I kept seeing.

In how L&D tools work, in how teachers are trained to support neurodivergent students, in what pet owners know when something goes wrong. Each one is an attempt to close that gap.

Volunteer Onboarding Module

Volunteer Onboarding Module

An interactive training module for animal shelter volunteers. Built using the Forge Method, with branching scenarios, perspective shifts, and consequence-driven feedback. Try it yourself.

ADHD Awareness for Teachers

ADHD Awareness for Teachers

A self-paced course for K-12 educators on recognizing and supporting students with ADHD. Built around real classroom moments and the small, specific moves that change how a student experiences the room.

Thinking Forge

Thinking Forge

An AI-powered training design tool built around diagnosis, not content generation. It rules out broken processes and unclear expectations before it lets you design a single thing.

First Aid for Pet Parents

First Aid for Pet Parents

An eLearning teaching dog and cat owners how to respond to emergencies. Organized by symptom and severity, in the order you'll hit the decisions.

If you've ever been told you notice too much, you're in the right place.

Whether you're here about a consulting project, a product you're curious about, or something I haven't thought of yet.

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