IDOL courses

At IDOL Systems Consulting, I design and implement business systems that eliminate inefficiencies, stop hidden leaks, and free CEOs to scale with confidence.

We work with mid to large sized companies to:
	•	Diagnose operational leaks that cost money, time, and energy.
	•	Re-architect workflows and integrations into seamless, scalable systems.
	•	Protect profit margins by eliminating waste and duplication.
	•	Provide ongoing system optimization and support, ensuring efficiency endures.

Our philosophy is simple: inefficiency is expensive. The right system is an investment that pays for itself many times over.

Founder & Principal Systems Architect | IDOL Systems Consulting

IDOL courses is the authorized trade school for instructional design and online learning that serves clients while developing the next generation of creative learning designers.

✏️ 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄’𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 WE 𝐃𝐎: Grab our hand, put your learning cap on, and prepare to get in-depth how-to for everything instructional design and online learning. No matter where you're starting or what you want to focus on today, there is a program, course, or workbook that was designed especially for you.

✏️ What 𝐖𝐄 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐑: 
📚𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐋 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲: Do you want to become a corporate instructional designer? The IDOL courses Academy will help you do just that. It is designed to be the bridge between theory and the practice of corporate instructional design. We have over 500 IDOL Success Stories!
All that's listed below is INCLUDED in the IDOL Academy:

📚𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐋𝐬: Nail the basics and get comfortable with Articulate Storyline® with a project-based training course.

📚𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐋 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐨:In this course you’ll get a step by step 12 mini lesson module on how to build your online portfolio from scratch.  Even if you’ve never developed a course before. 

📚𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐋 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞
📚𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬
📚𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐋 💚𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐯𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠
📚𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐋𝐬
📚𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐋 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐱
📚𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜
📚Industry-Preferred Tools: Lectora, CenarioVR, Genially, Canva, Vyond

✏️𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐒𝐀𝐘: "IDOL is a great program! You are given all the tools and resources to be successful in a career for instructional designers. Highly recommend!" ~Patrice Lawson

✏️ 𝐄𝐍𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘 ✏️

https://www.idolcourses.com/academy

CEO | Instructional Design Training| Courses for Instructional Designers | Upskill with IDOL courses

IDOL courses Academy

IDOL courses Academy is the only AUTHORIZED and award winning career school and implementation program of its kind that not only shows you exactly how to create your job application assets and build a portfolio from scratch, but also includes credentials, industry-preferred software,  mentorship, coaching, and PAID experience opportunities in instructional design and online learning. 

It's your entire instructional design career neatly packaged behind a single login.

This is the most wildly comprehensive, results-focused instructional design training on the planet. 
Get all the details: www.idolcourses.com/academy

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Head of School | Chief Learning Officer | IDOL Academy | Enroll www.idolcourses.com/academy

IDOL Talent Pool

✏️𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐞 𝐃𝐨: We provide vetted freelance instructional designers and online learning (IDOL) developers quickly.

Do these Instructional Design staffing woes sound familiar?
👉The new hire isn’t working out as you expected.
👉It’s time-consuming to weed through resumes.
👉You can’t find good instructional designers that are available now.
👉The training deliverables don’t look so hot.
👉Can’t vet candidates because you lack instructional design expertise.
👉Freelancers are hit or miss.

✏What We Offer:

Vetted Contractors
Our rigorous training and screening process ensures you get access to the best talent. We only accept people who earned credentials from the IDOL courses Academy, have a portfolio, and are people we’d want to work with ourselves.

Done for You Service
Based on your requirements and project needs we will hand-select our top candidates, let you interview them directly, when you’re happy with your selection we’ll take care of the rest.

Speedy Hiring
We send you candidates to review within 48 business hours or less. After you select the IDOL you want to work with we can put them on your team in as little as one business day.

✏HOW IT WORKS

Schedule a Call
Tell us what you want and your hourly budget. Rates start at $50 an hour.

Review the Candidates
Based on your requirements we handpick candidates for you to review and interview.

Hire an IDOL
Select the candidate you want and we take care of the rest. You can start working with them immediately.

✏We Get It – IDOL Head Hunting is Hard.
We not only hire IDOLs ourselves, we built an intense training program with lifetime support to develop candidates that we’d want to work with. Now we’re making this same talent available to you. Members of the IDOL Talent Pool have to go through a rigorous curriculum, earn credentials, and create a portfolio with a minimum of three assets that have been through multiple reviews by our expert IDOL Coaches and Mentors.

Hire Vetted Freelance Instructional Designers & eLearning Developers on Contracts |  Hire an IDOL

eLearning Freelancer Bootcamp

The only eLearning industry implementation program of its kind for new and experienced freelancers.

This 8 week-long program is the only implementation program of its kind that not only shows you exactly how to create a business plan and price your services but also includes access to 3 successful eLearning business owners and a network of other instructional design and eLearning freelancers. 

www.idolcourses.com/bootcamp

Enroll today!

eLearning Freelancer Bootcamp | OPEN | idolcourses.com/bootcamp

Southern New Hampshire University

Lead Network Instructional Designer | Online Curriculum Writer | Course QA

ACS Group (American CyberSystems)

Director Of Training And Development | LMS Administrator | eLearning Developer

Birch Communications

Senior Instructional Designer | eLearning Developer | Talent Development | Training

Acoustic

Instructional Designer | Trainer | Systems Training

Shorter University

Assistant Dean Of Students

Online Academic Program Manager | Curriculum Writer

I don’t create training manuals. I build profit engines.

Most mid to large sized companies are leaking money every single day through broken workflows, clunky handoffs, underused tools, and systems that were patched together instead of designed to scale. CEOs know it, but they often cannot see where the bleeding starts.

That’s my genius. I walk into the mess, diagnose the leaks, and rebuild the system so the company runs leaner, smarter, and more profitably. I don’t patch problems. I re-architect how the business operates so inefficiency cannot creep back in.

I’ve done this in my own companies, scaling multiple ventures into multi-million dollar operations while keeping teams small and systems tight. Now, I bring that same clarity and precision to CEOs who want to protect their margins and free themselves to focus on growth.

If you are an established leader with a serious challenge and the budget to solve it, send me a direct message.

Robin Sargent, Ph.D. Instructional Designer-Online Learning

44 years ago today, I was born into a world I had no idea I’d someday disrupt.

But honestly? I didn’t start out as the “founder of IDOL courses.” I started out as a woman who desperately wanted… options.
Options to build a career on my own terms.
Options that didn’t require begging gatekeepers for a chance.
Options that didn’t demand I sacrifice my family, my freedom, or my sanity.

Fast-forward many chapters — failures, breakthroughs, pivots, late-night doubts — and I created IDOL courses because I knew what it felt like to want a career that felt both creative and freeing.

And today, on my 44th birthday, I’m thinking about the moment everything shifted for me:
👉 The moment I realized no one was coming to give me “permission.”
👉 The moment I stopped waiting, started building and doing it messy.
👉 The moment I became the kind of person who turns a dream into a blueprint.

That’s the spirit I want to pass on today.

So in true “Robin fashion,” I’m celebrating by giving YOU the gift:
🎉 44% OFF the Pay-in-Full IDOL Academy Bootcamp
🎉 Code: ROBIN44
🎉 Today only
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If you’re standing in your own “before” moment — wondering if this could be your pivot, your chance, your beginning — consider this your sign.

Your career can look wildly different 44 days from now… let alone 44 years.
I’ve watched thousands of people transform their careers.
Teachers. Tech workers. Full-time parents. Career changers.
No experience. No portfolio. No background. Just determination. And now they’re instructional designers, earning more, living freer, and finally feeling proud of their work.

Use code ROBIN44 at checkout → 44% off today only.
Let’s make this year the one where everything changes. 💛

Founder | Systems Architect for CEOs | I diagnose and fix the hidden inefficiencies that cost companies money, time, and growth.

🛑 STOP Applying for Jobs with a Basic Portfolio. It's Not Working.

If you’re an Instructional Designer—aspiring, transitioning, or growing—your portfolio is the single biggest bottleneck to landing the roles you want.
It's time to stop starting from scratch and start building systems, not just content.

Join the founder of IDOL courses and leading corporate ID voice, Dr. Robin Sargent, for a FREE, live training that will fundamentally change how you approach your portfolio. https://lnkd.in/euSzs6dE

✨ How to Build a Portfolio with AI ✨
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3rd | 12 PM ET

This isn't just theory. We’re drilling down into tactical application:

🤯 AI Portfolio Blueprints: Discover exactly which AI tools to use for brainstorming, scripting, storyboarding, and building high-impact portfolio pieces—without the hours of manual labor.

❌ The Fatal Flaws: Identify and eliminate the common portfolio mistakes that make employers and clients instantly lose interest.

🚀 Systems Over Objectives: Learn how to design portfolio projects that solve system-level business outcomes, not just learning objectives, proving you're worth a top-tier salary.

Whether you're new to ID, a teacher transitioning careers, or a seasoned freelancer, this session will turn your "I don’t know where to start" anxiety into unshakeable application confidence.
Seats are limited for this live training. Stop letting a weak portfolio hold you back.

➡️ Save your spot now and build the portfolio that opens doors!
https://lnkd.in/euSzs6dE

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🎙️ Thinking about becoming an Instructional Designer in 2026?

Join our free webinar TOMORROW 12PM EST:
“How to Become an Instructional Designer in 2026: Skills, Tools, and the Fastest Path In”

Register: https://lnkd.in/euSzs6dE

✅ What skills and tools actually matter
✅ Why portfolios > degrees
✅ How to land your first ID job faster than you think

Whether you’re pivoting careers, leaving the classroom, or just starting out — this is your roadmap.

📅 Save your seat now


#InstructionalDesign #CareerChange #IDOLAcademy #eLearning #RemoteWork

🎄 This time last year, you were lesson planning over winter break. Now you design corporate training for a global tech company.

No more grading. No more bells. No more burnout.
Just freedom, remote work, and a career you actually enjoys.

What changed?

You discovered instructional design—and didn’t wait until “someday” to go after it.

This holiday season, you might be reflecting on where you are…
and where you wish you were.

If you’re craving:
	•	More flexibility in your day
	•	More creativity in your work
	•	And more money in your bank account…

Instructional design could be the career shift you’ve been looking for.

🎁 And to make your next move easier, we’re hosting a free webinar:

▶️ How to Become an Instructional Designer in 2026: Skills, Tools, and the Fastest Path In

In under an hour, we’ll show you:
✅ The exact skills and tools employers are hiring for
✅ Why most degrees don’t help you get hired—and what does
✅ The quickest, most effective way to break into ID—even with no experience

📅 Save your spot here → https://lnkd.in/euSzs6dE


🎁 This might just be the career gift you give yourself.
And by this time next year… your story could be the one we’re telling.


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The Cook & Boardman Group, LLC

Corporate Instructional Design & Media Manager

Corporate Training Manager

The Covin Group

*Collaborate with leadership team and business subject matter experts to design small to large-scale, engaging learning that enhances business performance.

*Design and develop comprehensive learning solutions, incorporating multiple deliverables (online, video, simulations, Instructor-led, Virtual, cohorts, etc.), to meet business and performance objectives.

*Create content using appropriate instructional methodologies based on adult learning principles, level, and complexity of learning objectives to design engaging learning and training solutions e.g., courses, games, videos, simulations, quizzes, etc. delivered via mobile, digital, or other broad reach vehicles.

*Completes needs and gap analysis to determine appropriate learning interventions.

*Assist in designing and evaluating digital solutions, including asynchronous courses and digital media components including guides, toolkits, and job aids.

*Produce learning content that meets a “just in time” training for some learners and more advanced, elongated training for senior leaders.

*Conduct research and collaborate with subject matter experts.

*Devise modes of assessment, such as surveys, tests, or quizzes, to measure the effectiveness of the courses.
Validates testing/assessment instruments for validity.

*Conducts assessments and or designs processes to measure the efficacy of training interventions impacting learners’ ability to achieve terminal learning objectives.

Instructional and Learning Experience Designer, Digital Humanitarian

Moment of Truth Life Coaching

(Freelance) Trauma Informed Coach: Life, Health, Business

Integrate Trauma Informed Network

Instructional Design Intern

Acres of Hope LLC

Behavior Consultant

City of Asheboro

*Conduct ongoing needs analysis leveraging staff feedback, subject-matter expertise, and participant and staff interactions to adjust learning strategy and curriculum; develop and manage tracking and reporting progress on participant and staff skill acquisition for 50 + staff.

*Design, develop, and facilitate online and classroom training for organization leadership and employees to increase staff knowledge by 54% from baseline survey of 8%

*Craft and develop grant application to access state funding for local participants; supervise and train staff responsible for data collection and monitoring of grant supports as required by state regulations.

Behavior Specialist (Learning x Development)

Durham Public Schools

*Supervised, evaluated, and coached a team of 7-12 staff  in tracking and reporting progress on participant and staff skill acquisition; managed tracking and reporting on training progress for 150 + employees

Behavior Support Specialist (ID)

Anixter Center

LBS Instructional Coach & Curriculum Developer

Chicago Public Schools

Learning Behavior Specialist

Educators 4 Excellence

Teacher Policy Project Fellow- co-authored policy recommendation on Teacher Evaluation

Instructional Designer | Google Certified Program Manager | Agile | Culture Cultivator | Curriculum Designer + Training Facilitator | Trauma-Informed Disability & DEI(A) Advocate & Mindset Coach

DiSC: SC

Clifton Strengths: 
Relator | Connectedness | Input | Arranger | Strategic

Learning Experience Designer and Facilitator with a demonstrated history of reflective and equitable collaboration among mid-level supervisors and executive leaders.  10+ years of experience designing, developing, and facilitating curriculum content for adult learning programs to address organizational needs; working and experiential knowledge of utilization of adult learning theories like ADDIE, SAM, and UDL for content development and Gagne, Kirkpatrick, and Kaufman evaluation models. Specialization in train the trainer instructional methodology and practices with a trauma-conscious perspective (human centered) and growth mindset focus.

Avid hiker and adventure seeker with my best fur pal; can be found listening to tunes on vinyl and enjoying classic self-growth and development reads authored by the likes of Brene Brown and others.

Authoring Tool Proficiency Knowledge: Adobe Certified Instructor, Adobe Expert, Articulate, Camtasia, Captivate, Canva, Figma, and Genially.

Supporting content creation tool proficiency knowledge: Lumen5, Synthesia, Vyond, Gsuite, Microsoft Suite

LMS Proficiency: Vector, Canvas, D2L, Blackboard, Google Classroom

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