TEACHING

Leveling up People, Leveling up Organizations

Why I teach

Teaching is one of the most direct ways to give back — and one of the most honest ways to test what you actually know. Preparing a class forces articulation that practice alone rarely demands. It deepens the teacher as much as it develops the student.

I am drawn to mature crowds: working professionals, career changers, people already navigating real constraints. The classroom becomes a space to connect theory to friction they are living. That tension makes the teaching sharp.

There is also a compounding logic I believe in: when you level up a few people, you level up the organization they belong to.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

Lecturer and Course Creator

Full-arc UX curriculum for career changers and working professionals — covering ideation, wireframing, Gestalt principles, design systems, information architecture, prototyping, and designing with AI.

Class: Introduction to UX

Schedule for an Introduction to UX course at Concordia University, spanning five weeks, with topics including class introduction, problem definition, information hierarchy, micro-interactions, research methods, wireframes, design systems, prototyping, and UX handoff.

UDEMY CLASS

Boost Employee Performance: Create a Team Learning Culture · Course Creator

Boost Employee Performance: Create a Team Learning Culture. An independent course built around the ALTE framework — a four-stage model for building learning organizations. Aimed at managers and leads who want to create cultures where teams actively develop together.

Class: Udemy Alte Framework

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ÉTS — École de Technologie Supérieur

Guest Lecturer · Master's level

Invited to present on how to build and scale design systems to a graduate UX cohort — practitioners asking sharp technical questions at a professional level.

Class: UX Design Master

HEC Montréal

Guest Lecturer · Master's UX & Business Analyst Certificate

The same subject, two very different rooms. For the UX cohort, the conversation was craft and governance. For the business analyst certificate, it was business logic and alignment. Adapting both made the material stronger for each.

Class: Master Of Science - User Experience

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Teaching is how I give back to a field that shaped me — and how I stay honest about what I know. Every class is a reminder that expertise is not a destination. It is a practice.

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