Work realistic problems
Practice with the ambiguous requests, incomplete evidence, and competing constraints that define real learning-design work.
Online academy for learning designers
Learn the thinking. Practice the decisions. Do better work.
Some learning-design decisions are messy. That's why we practice. Practitioner Lab gives you self-paced lessons, realistic challenges, and focused live masterclasses so you can build confidence before the next tricky project lands on your desk.
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PRACTITIONER LAB · PRACTICE SCENARIOPREVIEW
THE CONSTRAINT
“The launch moved up three weeks. What do you protect first?”
Make the call. Defend it. Compare your reasoning.
Inside Practitioner Lab
An academy that develops how you think, not just what you know.
See how short lessons, realistic scenarios, and applied projects build judgment across the full practice, not just one diagnostic method.
An online academy built for professional practice
This is an online academy, but it is not another library of courses.
Practitioner Lab combines guided lessons, realistic challenges, applied projects, and useful feedback. You build professional judgment by making difficult decisions, comparing your reasoning with experienced practitioners, and trying again.
See the reasoning
Compare decisions, examine tradeoffs, and learn how experienced practitioners make defensible calls without pretending there is one perfect answer.
Build professional evidence
Turn practice into visible proof of judgment, not another certificate that only proves you completed the material.
One academy, two starting points
Start where your practice is now.
Both tracks build professional judgment through realistic work. The difference is the context you bring in and the decisions you need to make next.
For people entering or establishing the field
Build a foundation in performance thinking, design decisions, evidence, and stakeholder communication. Practice explaining not only what you made, but why your choices make sense.
Explore this pathwayFor working practitioners
Sharpen the judgment you use on active work. Challenge requests, diagnose before designing, navigate constraints, and build evidence that makes the value of your decisions easier to see.
Explore this pathwayPractitioner Lab Live
Self-paced development, with focused live experiences when application matters.
Practitioner Lab builds professional judgment over time. Its live masterclasses create occasional, bounded opportunities to apply one method to current work with Andy and other practitioners.
Challenge the Request
Bring one real request to a two-hour facilitated session. Test the assumptions, build stakeholder questions, and leave with a clearer next move.
Review the live masterclassOne event, not another academy
The masterclass is a scheduled Practitioner Lab experience with a narrow outcome. The academy remains the ongoing home for broader courses, practice scenarios, learning paths, and professional development.
One online academy, two ways to enter
Practitioner Lab™ lives inside The Lab™ while remaining a distinct academy experience.
Use it beside active projects when you need to sharpen a decision, or enter directly when professional growth is the work in front of you.
Practice beside the work
Move from a live project into a relevant challenge, critique, or example without losing the context that made it useful.
Develop the practitioner
Follow structured practice paths that build judgment across diagnosis, design, evidence, stakeholder work, and learning systems.
Free practical tutorials
Try the method before enrolling.
Explore short guides linked to working Design Lab patterns and preview proposed masterclasses. Standalone tickets are not on sale yet.
Ongoing academy access
Learn at your own pace. Join live when it adds value.
Practitioner Lab is not a boot camp or cohort. Membership provides on-demand access to academy courses, guided practice, field challenges, applied projects, and new material as it is released. Signature live masterclasses are scheduled separately with preferred Practitioner Lab member pricing.