Learning systems.

I design learning systems that turn complex material into structured practice, feedback and usable understanding.

The lineage

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.

Lead proof: Data Vault Foundations

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.

Data Vault Foundations

Data Vault Foundations — the chapter portal

Learning design is not content

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.

Smaller instruments

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    Gamification Helper Tool

    An interactive tool built on Yu-kai Chou's Octalysis framework — the 8 Core Drives of human motivation, navigable.

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    Can You Understand an Email?

    Kruger, Epley, Parker and Ng's research on tone illusions, turned into a playable minigame.

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    iOS Assistant for Senior Citizens

    A French web app teaching iOS basics for seniors: gestures, email, messaging, phishing, basic troubleshooting.

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    Multicultural Job Applicants Guide

    Why cross-cultural interviews lose great talent — and how to fix it.

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    Text Readability Guide

    Write more impactful sentences — a concise, practical one-pager on readability.

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    Easy Local LLM Guide

    What local LLMs are, how they protect your privacy, and how to install the popular ones on a Mac.

Hire me for this

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.

Let’s work together

Or write to lorenzo.colombani@live.fr. Available on retainer, for a few clients at a time.