Jade Kazmierski is currently a learning innovation and resource deployment strategist at Northwestern Mutual. In this position, she leads a team of instructional designers and developers responsible for delivering modular and blended learning experiences across operations and technology. Jade also leads a knowledge portal effort, directly tied to strategies within operations and radically changing how information is created and consumed. Other initiatives Jade works on include maintaining a crowdsourced enterprise dictionary, helping to create an enterprise content management strategy, and rolling out a new enterprise learning management system. She has also been working for two years on a transformational journey, combining two learning teams, and moving from a traditional training team model to an innovative learning organizational model.  Prior to this role, Jade was an instructional design consultant, working on notable projects such as envisioning and implementing a SharePoint-based online community platform, serving as a community architect bringing together role-based work teams from within the corporate office and across the sales offices in the United States, and leading a full-scale summative evaluation of an underwriter department onboarding program. She has practiced instructional design, e-learning development and programming, and web architecture across several positions. Jade has a master’s of science degree in organizational performance and workplace learning from Boise State and a bachelor of arts degree in professional communications with minors in business management and computer science. Jade recently presented at the Learning Solutions conference and the Learning and Performance Ecosystems with the eLearning Guild.