Tools and services built from the patterns. Everything here comes out of the same habit: tracing patterns that other people miss, usually because those patterns cross a boundary someone drew.
For everyone who's been holding it together at work and starting to wonder what it's costing. A short, practical guide to working with an anxious nervous system. What's actually happening in your body. What the self-blame is missing. What helps.
Get the guideA collection of prompts built specifically for L&D practitioners working with AI. Practical, tested, and designed to save you from generic output. Built with the ROPE+ prompting framework. Works with ChatGPT and Claude.
Get the packYour brain isn't broken. Your workflow is. A practical toolkit for neurodivergent professionals who want AI to work with their brain instead of against it. Prompts, workflows, and practices written by someone whose own brain doesn't run on neurotypical defaults either.
Get the toolkitA guided process that walks you through diagnosis-first training design. It rules out broken processes and unclear expectations before it lets you design a single thing. Built for accidental L&D professionals and anyone who wants a better process.
Join the waitlistFor multipassionates who are done trying to fit in one box and ready to turn their range into a real practice.
Notify meA practical guide to nervous-system-aware training design, for L&D people who've noticed that stressed learners don't actually learn.
Notify meA structured audit of an existing training program using a diagnostic framework called the Forge Method. You send me what you've got. Within 48 hours, you get back a written review that tells you what the actual gap is, whether training is the right intervention at all, and if it is, where the current program is missing the mark.
This is the fastest, lowest-commitment way to work together, and the one I recommend starting with.
Get a Training AuditYou've done the diagnosis. You know what the real problem is. Now you have to walk into a room and convince someone with budget authority to act on it. That's a different skill than training design. I help you translate your findings into language leadership will act on: a communication brief or talking points built for your specific situation and stakeholders.
One project. Ready before the meeting.
Get Pitch SupportWhen the audit confirms training is the right answer, or when you already know you need something built from scratch, I design the program. Custom work, scoped to what the organization actually needs and what the learners can actually absorb.
Most projects are async-first, with optional calls or site visits when the work benefits from them.
InquireFor organizations that want a regular set of outside eyes on their L&D work. A place to bring problems, drafts, and decisions before they calcify, and get honest feedback from someone who isn't inside the politics of the organization.
InquireI've spent ten-plus years in learning and development, with an M.Ed. in Instructional Design and in-house experience at Amazon and Nintendo. But the reason I care about animal welfare L&D specifically is that I've watched it from both sides. I volunteer at an animal shelter, and I've seen what happens when training programs are built by people who don't know the realities of the work.
The turnover, the volunteer-heavy workforces, the emotional load, the budgets that don't stretch, the fact that a well-designed volunteer onboarding can be the difference between a shelter that holds together and one that falls apart.
A lot of what I've noticed about training I first noticed about animals. The way nervous systems learn. The way a bad environment makes a "behavior problem" look like the animal's fault. The way the simplest explanation is usually that something upstream is broken. Those patterns show up in organizations too, and Canary Patterns exists partly to name them.
The fastest way to start is the Training Audit above. For Training Design, Ongoing Advisory, or any other conversation:
hello@canarypatterns.com