Taylor Blake

Degreed

Helping lead an initiative called Degreed Experiments where we evaluate emerging technologies through prototyping and research.

SVP New Initiatives

Degreed acquired Learn In and I became SVP of Product for Degreed Academies and Content Marketplace.

SVP Product

Learn In

Attract, develop, and retain your talent with a Talent Academy that: 
1) gives employees access to best external skill-building courses and programs through stipends, education benefits, or scholarships 
2) allows you to build your own programs that are cohort-based, hands-on, and collaborative

Easily meet every key learning moment and drive business performance.

Co-founder and Chief Product Officer

University Impact

University Impact sprung out of a desire to embrace a more sustainable way of creating large-scale, positive, social impact (while generating a financial return at the same time). Our mission is to find and fund ventures and businesses that are solving complex, vexing social problems with strong management teams, passion for change, and innovative business models.

Product Advisor

•  Researched, validated, and launched a suite of skill measurement products (Skill Rating, Skill Review, and Skill Certification) to measure any skill at any level. Skill measurement allows individuals and companies to identify gaps, measure progress, and get matched to career opportunities.

Product, Skills

•  Started when team was < 5 people chasing a crazy dream
•  Researched, prototyped, and built product offerings for consumers and enterprise clients
•  Oversaw client success, email marketing, content marketing, user acquisition, customer support

Founding Team / Product Manager

Kaplan EdTech Accelerator powered by TechStars

The Kaplan/TechStars Accelerator is a three month intensive, mentor-driven, deep immersion program for startups.  TechStars was ranked by Forbes as the #2 tech incubator in the world.

TechStars

The RBL Group

The RBL Group is a leadership and strategic HR consulting firm co-founded by Dave Ulrich.

Product Manager

Various

Microsoft - User experience design and research
LinkedIn - Product management for learning products
Innosight - Innovation and strategy consulting
Bloomreach - Market research

Student Intern

I help lead Degreed Experiments to explore how emerging technology (AI) can be leveraged in workplace learning. Feel free to connect or message me.

We’re here to make sure education and skills stay the key to economic opportunity in an AI-driven world—because the future shouldn’t just work for those who own all the capital or compute.

We aim to do this by:
- Helping people handle the changes AI brings to work and life.
- Teaching people how to use and get the most out of AI tools.
- Finding ways to use AI for more than just cutting costs—so we can invest back into people.

Our AI-related experiments help position L&D be at the forefront of navigating this change. Follow along, and let’s ensure human expertise continues to drive progress and opportunity.

Why Degreed? We started Degreed with a passion for lifelong learning and have since seen what works (and what doesn’t) across hundreds of the most innovative learning organizations. After we established the category of Learning Experience Platforms (LXP) at Degreed, I left to tackle a new set of ambitious challenges and cofounded Learn In.  In 2022, through acquisition, we combined the latest innovations from Learn In with Degreed’s market-leading platform to build the next chapter of products to support lifelong learning.

Linda B. Learning

I consult with clients developing innovative learning technology products, projects, and programs, especially for highly technical audiences. I offer my proprietary Level-Up Learning Framework, which is focused on upskilling teams building new learning innovations, as well as my Review and Recommend service, focused on improving existing learning experiences and training programs. I also offer sessions on instructional design and custom learning design consulting. 

To learn more, please visit my website at lindablearning.com.

Founder and Chief Learning Architect

ChatBlackGPT™

In this role, I provide strategic guidance and expert insights vital in steering the team's efforts towards greater cultural sensitivity and effectiveness.

Advisory Board Member

Interflexion

Interflexion is an AI-powered role-play platform that helps professionals become better versions of themselves. Providing scalable, personalized coaching delivered in a natural manner, Interflexion enables the development of interpersonal skills through repeated practice and targeted feedback.

Board Member

AuthenticID

In this role, I proposed a comprehensive learning strategy focused on career development and employee retention, launched and administered our LearnUpon LMS, built and led teams of coworkers and a contractor to rapidly develop an entire catalog of custom-built and off-the-shelf content (over 80 courses and learning paths in 3 months) for both compliance and role-specific training needs, and designed, deployed and facilitated Basecamp, a highly engaging, blended active learning experience that level sets AID employees on our culture, business, and core solutions. CSAT on all developed solutions to date was 100% recommended, and the ROI for the strategy I was about to implement was 182% return when a RIF occurred and my function was deprioritized.

Learning Program Manager

Blackbaud

During my first six weeks in role, I completed a comprehensive discovery of the engineering functions at Blackbaud, corroborating data from 70+ interviews, 50+ hours of live and recorded observation, and scraping data from Slack channels and doc sites. From that analysis work, I went on to design and develop an Engineering Excellence hub (a comprehensive catalog of the various formal and informal learning options available for technical roles), implemented a peer-to-peer learning model, increased participation in the Microsoft ESI program by 78%, prototyped a learning analytics dashboard, and built a comprehensive business case for implementing an internal talent marketplace in RDO.

Organizational Development Consultant - Engineering Excellence

Simple Habit

In this short-term contract position, I designed the interactive sleep curriculum for Simple Habit's latest app, Sleep Ritual.

Curriculum Consultant

Visa

During my brief stint at Visa, I designed and produced compelling learning experiences for the Product and Tech Colleges at Visa University. My work there included developing several learning experiences supporting the Visa Direct product, an internal Jupyter notebook coding environment to safely and securely experiment with Visa-sensitive data, and several deliverables supporting Visa's SAFe Agile Transformation initiative.

Senior Learning Experience Producer

Oracle Corporation

When Sun was acquired, my role at Oracle involved designing and developing myself, as well as leading teams that develop cutting edge technology-based innovations in learning, performance and user assistance. I also led an Oracle-wide, cross-team learning consortium to increase collaboration and share best practices with other teams at Oracle and was the Oracle primary contact for our membership in Elliott Masie's Learning Consortium. More recently, I worked on projects involving user assistance embedded in products, AI, machine learning and deep learning. I have spent the past couple of years upskilling in this area, including becoming proficient at coding in Python. I was heavily involved in competitive analysis research, data mining and analytics, user experience research, intelligent and intuitive product design, and design of intelligent systems. I am also a certified scrum master and have effectively led teams and projects using this methodology.

Consulting Learning Architect

Senior Learning Architect

Principal Learning Architect

Allstar Fitness

I taught a variety of group exercise classes here, and at several other fitness clubs, including some that no longer exist, in Seattle and the greater Seattle area: American Woman, The Vault, Rain Fitness, Seattle Fitness, Zum, Seattle Athletic Club, Princeton Athletic Club, Bellevue Place Club, Olympic Athletic Club, and more...

Group Fitness Instructor

Sun Microsystems

Promoted within six months of hire, in this role, I designed innovative certification, documentation, and learning products for the Application Platform Software division of Sun Learning Services at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Our team won multiple ASTD BEST awards while I was in this role.

Chief Learning Architect, Application Platform Software

In this role, I updated training standards, methodologies and materials, and organized learning paths for Java developers. I also led teams of curriculum developers and contractors, created and managed timelines, project plans and budgets.

Lead Instructional Designer, SysAdmin/Developer ID group

Behavioral scientist specializing in innovative, impactful, and immersive learning and intelligent, intuitive technology product design. Extensive background in data analysis, technical training, behavior analysis, learning science, neuroscience, behavior-based performance improvement, and sport psychology/performance enhancement.

Passionate lifelong learner who is constantly up-skilling, most recently in the areas of: 
designing for extended reality (XR) learning experiences, writing business cases for corporate-wide initiatives, design thinking, agile/scrum methodology, data science, deep learning, machine learning, and other areas of artificial intelligence, particularly as they intersect with human learning and performance.

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