Data Vault Foundations
Practice
I design learning systems that turn complex material into structured practice, feedback and usable understanding.
AI products Learning systems Interactive web experiences
Learning design is a core practice, not an add-on. I was a learning designer at MCR Groupe from 2019 and led the learning function as Chief Learning Officer until 2022 — needs analysis into tailored programs and tools; curricula, scenarios, role plays, assessments and facilitator materials; the firm’s knowledge systems; 50+ training sessions for client teams from SMEs to large groups; and one certification workflow automated, from a day’s work to minutes. From 2022 to 2026 I continued the practice through my own firm, Make Working Fun, as a Getting More Senior Instructor — one of three globally — and taught at ESCP Business School in 2022–23.
Fourteen interactive chapters on Data Vault, SQL, dbt and EU compliance — 100+ exercises, quests and feedback. Independent work; for certification and enterprise Data Vault, see Scalefree.
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Content is what you read. A learning system is what makes you able: the sequence, the exercise, the feedback, and a reason to continue. Every learning product here has all four. The slides are the least of it.
An interactive tool built on Yu-kai Chou's Octalysis framework — the 8 Core Drives of human motivation, navigable.
Kruger, Epley, Parker and Ng's research on tone illusions, turned into a playable minigame.
A French web app teaching iOS basics for seniors: gestures, email, messaging, phishing, basic troubleshooting.
Why cross-cultural interviews lose great talent — and how to fix it.
Write more impactful sentences — a concise, practical one-pager on readability.
What local LLMs are, how they protect your privacy, and how to install the popular ones on a Mac.
I train and coach people, and build AI-powered interactive courses. Live workshops and coaching for your team, plus interactive courses they keep using after I’ve left.
Or write to lorenzo.colombani@live.fr. Available on retainer, for a few clients at a time.