Meet Shawna Stushnoff

Shawna Stushnoff is an instructional design leader, customer education strategist, and AI innovation leader with more than 30 years of experience across corporate and academic environments. Her background includes 25 years in corporate operations management, where she built departments, redesigned workflows, and guided teams through major organizational transitions.

Today, Shawna designs learning ecosystems that support activation, adoption, competency, and retention. She combines learning science with advanced technical expertise in Articulate 360, Vyond, Camtasia, Adobe Creative Suite, Canvas LMS, and emerging AI tools. Whether she is developing an interactive course or building the systems that support it, Shawna focuses on creating practical learning experiences that can be implemented, measured, and scaled.

Shawna holds an MA in Learning Design and Technology and is a Quality Matters Master Reviewer and Sententia Gamification Journeyman.

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Shawna Stushnoff
Learning Design and Technology

Build Coach Areas of Expertise
  • Learning Experience Design: Transforming complex content into clear, purposeful experiences that support understanding and application.
  • Learning Technology: Selecting and using authoring tools, multimedia, learning platforms, and AI tools to support the experience without allowing the technology to overpower it.
  • Scalable Learning Systems: Creating repeatable workflows, design standards, content systems, and quality frameworks that support consistent delivery.
  • Measurement and Evaluation: Connecting learning decisions to learner progress, adoption, retention, and meaningful business outcomes.

Ask Shawna About

Ask Shawna how to select the right technology for your concept, strengthen an interactive learning experience, use AI purposefully, simplify complex content, or determine whether your design can be developed and scaled successfully.

Portfolio: www.studio88design.online

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