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Your Virtual Training Works. What If It Could Work Even Better?
The Master Class in Virtual Design & Delivery - a self-paced seven-part series built around the H.I.V.E. Method™ that helps Learning & Development leaders create Holistic, Immersive, Vibrant Experiences that deepen engagement, strengthen retention, and encourage immediate application - while cutting virtual design time in half.
They’re Logged In. But Are They Really Learning?
Check Off If Any Apply:
Still starting your sessions with detailed agendas, objectives, ground rules, and organizational expectations?
Relying on familiar PowerPoint structures: titles, bullets, and minimal images?
Focusing heavily on data, information, models, and theories?
Using participant workbooks and multiple downloads?
If “yes” to any of the above, your virtual training may already be doing exactly what it was designed to do. But there may be an opportunity to take the learning experience further - creating more participation, connection, retention, and application.
Learners are present, but not always actively involved. They’re logged in, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re thinking, contributing, and connecting with the learning.
Engagement depends heavily on the facilitator. A strong trainer can create energy, but great design can build engagement into the experience itself.
Learning happens in the session, but doesn’t always travel beyond it. Valuable content can be understood in the moment without being remembered or applied afterward.
The opportunity? You don’t need to start over. Small shifts in how virtual learning is designed can turn training that works into learning people genuinely engage with, remember, and use.
The H.I.V.E. Method™: Build on What Works. Create Learning That Sticks.
The H.I.V.E. Method™ is a simple, practical design model that shows you how to create Holistic, Immersive, Vibrant Experiences - virtual learning designed not only to deliver information, but to get people participating, thinking, connecting, and applying what they learn.
With this approach, you’ll cut your virtual design time in half - getting more done with the resources you already have.
Deliver what’s expected - and discover what else becomes possible.
Design learning experiences people want to participate in. Move beyond attendance and create genuine involvement.
Build in discussion, practice, and connection. Shift from passive content delivery to active learning.
Take the spotlight off the facilitator. Build engagement into the experience so the facilitator doesn’t have to carry the session alone.
Drive real-world application. Help learners connect what happens in the session to what they do afterward.
Reduce stress and overwhelm. A clear, repeatable structure makes strong virtual design faster and easier.
Backed by years of experience and grounded in brain-based learning principles, this method gives you the clarity and confidence to create virtual learning experiences that engage people, deepen learning, and drive application.
Turn Virtual Training Into Learning People Remember and Use
Seven Self-Paced Master Classes
Seven focused Master Classes, approximately 15 minutes each, give you practical, immediately applicable strategies you can use to elevate your very next virtual learning experience.
Brain-Based Learning
Discover how the brain actually learns, retains, and recalls information, so you can design virtual learning that strengthens attention, retention, and application.
Better Virtual Design
Learn how to rethink everything from the first five minutes and PowerPoint slides to facilitator guides and participant materials - creating experiences that invite participation instead of passive viewing.
Practical Evaluation Tools
Use tools including the Retention Pyramid, Brain Science Audit, and Comprehensive Learning Design Evaluation to assess your programs before they’re delivered and uncover opportunities to make them even stronger.
Immediate Application
Move beyond simply delivering content and start creating virtual experiences people remember, talk about, and immediately put into practice.
Inside The Master Class in Virtual Design & Delivery
01
Master Class 1: The Science Behind Learning.
Discover how the brain actually learns, retains, and recalls information. Apply proven neuroscience principles that increase attention, retention, and the immediate application of new skills.
02
Master Class 2: The Two Non-Negotiables of Virtual Design.
Learn the two foundational design principles that turn effective virtual sessions into deeply engaging learning experiences and create the framework for every program you design.
03
Master Class 3: The First Five Minutes Change Everything.
Master a proven approach that captures attention from the very first moment and builds learners’ energy, curiosity, involvement, and willingness to contribute.
04
Master Class 4: It’s Time to Rethink PowerPoint.
Move beyond slide-driven presentations and design visual learning experiences that invite participation instead of passive viewing.
05
Master Class 5: Facilitator Guides Reimagined.
Learn what to eliminate, what to simplify, and what to include so facilitators spend less time managing materials and more time creating meaningful learning experiences.
06
Master Class 6: Participant Materials That Drive Learning.
Transform participant guides from collections of information into learning tools that reinforce learning, improve performance, and sustain behavior change.
07
Master Class 7: Measure It. Improve It. Repeat It.
Use practical evaluation tools to assess every program before it’s delivered, so you can design with confidence and achieve measurable results.
This is more than a course. It’s a completely new way of thinking about what virtual learning can be.
Is The Master Class in Virtual Design & Delivery Right for You?
Who This Is For:
L&D leaders and training managers whose virtual training is working - and who want to discover how much more engaging, memorable, and applicable it could become.
Teams delivering valuable content that want learners to participate more deeply, retain more of what they learn, and put it into practice.
Organizations ready to move beyond simply delivering effective virtual training and explore what an exceptional virtual learning experience can look like.
Who This Is NOT For:
Organizations that see attendance and content delivery as enough and aren’t interested in exploring a more engaging learning experience.
Trainers who believe virtual learning can never create the engagement, connection, or impact of in-person learning, regardless of how it is designed.
Anyone looking for a quick tip or one-off trick instead of a practical system they can apply across their virtual programs.
What Could Change in Your Very Next Virtual Session?
Every session is an opportunity to help learners do more than attend.
Deeper participation. Get learners actively thinking, contributing, and connecting throughout the experience.
Stronger retention. Design learning in a way that makes key ideas easier to remember after the session ends.
Greater connection. Create meaningful interaction between learners, facilitators, and the material itself.
More immediate application. Help learners turn what they’ve learned into something they can actually use.
Your workforce already has access to information. The opportunity is to create the connection, practice, and application that turn information into meaningful learning.
The Assumptions That Limit What Virtual Learning Can Be
“Virtual training will always be less effective than in-person.”
Not necessarily. When thoughtfully designed, virtual learning can create meaningful participation, connection, and application - without everyone being in the same room.
“If people are logged in and attending, they’re engaged.”
Attendance is only the beginning. Real engagement happens when learners are thinking, contributing, interacting, practicing, and making connections with what they’re learning.
“A great facilitator is what makes virtual learning engaging.”
A strong facilitator matters, but they shouldn’t have to carry the entire experience. Great learning design builds engagement into the session itself, allowing the content and participants to play an active role.
From Almost Fired to Global Virtual Learning Expert
Meet Your Guide: Mary Oursler
At the start of my corporate career,
I was an HR Manager - and nearly fired. I knew they were right - I wasn’t thriving in HR and honestly I did not enjoy the job.
Instead of letting me go, leadership gave me six months to prove myself at the company’s corporate university. That chance changed everything. I discovered my true calling in Learning & Development - and never looked back.
My mission is simple: REVOLUTIONIZE virtual design and delivery so learning becomes meaningful, engaging, and transformative.
Your Next Step
Your virtual training is already working. Now imagine what it could become.
Option 1: Keep delivering the virtual training you already know works.
Option 2: Build on that foundation with the H.I.V.E. Method™ and create learning experiences that get people participating, thinking, connecting, remembering, and applying what they learn.
You don’t need to start over. You’ve already built the foundation.
Now discover what’s possible when virtual learning is designed differently.
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