Lisa Sommerfeldt

About Lisa Sommerfeldt

I’m a life-long learner who thrives working in a cross functional collaborative team environment to create engaging, digitally accessible learning experiences that exceed expectations! Areas of expertise: consulting on learning strategies with faculty, facilitators, students, subject matter experts, customers and stakeholders advocating for learner and customer success managing projects and vendor relationships mentoring junior level designers converting F2F content into an online format creating hybrid/blended learning solutions conducting needs/task/gap analysis developing online courses with various multimedia assets writing instructor and learner materials facilitating courses, workshops and webinars managing LMS systems and requests utilizing learning analytics to enhance the user experience monitoring help desk data to create improvements that mitigate high-volume areas providing stellar learner and customer support

Experience

1. Manager of Instructional Design (Promotion)

   Management Concepts

   Jan 2022 — Present

   Lead, mentor, and provide a continuous learning environment for the professional growth of my ID team members (senior- and junior-level instructional designers).Assist and support my ID team with their individual performance development plans and career goals.Provide timely and relevant performance feedback and encouragement.Support the sales team in development of requests for information (RFI) and requests for proposals (RFP) for the Learning Services department.Assist with interviewing candidates, make hiring decisions, and collaborate with the Talent Manager with onboarding and training of new employees.Provide Project Manager support and guidance to instructional designers on various project teams (internal and external).

Education

• Johns Hopkins University School of Education

  MS

• Loyola University Maryland

  BS