Lori Kane, Ed.D. Email & Phone Number

Langley, WA, US

Langley, Washington, United States

At Ritual Mischief we listen to local forests and plants and work with them to create playful community emotional support. We make herbal offerings, such as shampoo bars, soaps, salves, lip balms, sleep pillows, dish soap bars, and other home goods. We also host community makers markets to support local creators and neighbors. And we sometimes create.

Island County, Washington, United States

Gratefully based on South Whidbey Island, we host photography and herbalist workshops, home-canning classes, makers markets for locals, and other community events. Home of the Daniel J Gregory Photography studio and Ritual Mischief herbal studio. We also write and publish books about photography, wonder, becoming playful elders, community building, and.

Whidbey Island, WA

We make our living hosting creativity, writing, photography, home-canning and other fun workshops, retreats, gatherings, and a writers grotto out of our studios here on Whidbey. Daniel also sells his amazing photos, teaches photography elsewhere (PCNW, CreativeLive, KelbyOne), and he does 1:1 photography mentoring for clients around the world. I'm also an.

Central District, Seattle, Washington

Collective Self was my personal blog documenting ways that humans currently survive, thrive, and pull forth transitions (with experiments in coworking, care partnering, writing, community revealing, storytelling, play, and self-organizing groups). Collective Self evolved to become the name of our Seattle home, which became a free community coworking space.

Central District, Seattle, USA

Co-invented a neighborhood-spanning event around a 2-mile temporary hopscotch path by combining neighbors' desires to meet more neighbors, have fun, make the neighborhood safer, and change perceptions about the neighborhood being dangerous. More than 40 events emerged around the route - from yard sales to flea markets to carnivals to Guinness Record.

Greater Seattle Area

I explored the orchard steward community, made friends, listened to stories, shared the stories more broadly via two blogs to help make the orchard steward community more visible to itself and others, and support stewards in doing the same. I also helped in the various pocket orchards around Seattle--everything from digging weeds, picking up trash.

Flash mobber, story gatherer, story teller

Co-imagine, create and sustain an informal consultants collective for new consultants in the Seattle area in the fields of Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Training and Education, Management Development, Conflict Resolution, Research, and Coaching.

Co-created and then worked on team of learning solutions consultants that solved learning and educational needs for teams within Microsoft Learning and other teams across Microsoft as a whole.

Invented the process and then co-led cross-team efforts to plan, design, manage, and evaluate large-scale curriculum for Microsoft Learning. Curriculum were families of MS Press books, MSL classroom-based courses, MSL e-learning courses, and MSL exams and certifications related to MS product launches of SQL Server and Exchange.

I began by editing classroom-based courseware, then doing some writing. Within a year, I was applying what I was learning from my master's program and moved into an instructional designer role. At first, I designed classroom-based and e-learning courses for Microsoft Training & Certification. Then I helped train new teams and vendors to do the work.

Redmond

Helped clients (mostly Microsoft) create books, Help documentation, and software development kits. Depending on the project, I served as writer, editor, managing editor, and/or project manager.

Redmond, WA

I oversaw creation of marketing proposals for this civil engineering firm.

Redmond, WA

I oversaw creation of reports, white papers, and drawings for this environmental engineering firm. This included writing and editing reports, supervising creation of CADD and other drawings accompanying the reports, and managing a staff of 6 people.

Edmonds, WA

I supported multiple project managers at this environment engineering firm by helping run and organize projects, which included scheduling subcontractors, communicating with staff in the field, and helping create, edit, and organize project paperwork. I also edited technical reports and white papers for clients and helped our engineers, geologists, and.

Seatac, WA

For a brand-new art store and custom poster shop, I hired and trained a staff, set up the store to open, managed the staff, and sold artwork and custom mounting and framing.

Ed.D., Educational Leadership

Activities and Societies: Alpha Sigma Nu honor societyConducted research that documented how self-organizing work groups form, sustain.

M.Ed., Adult Education & Training

Ba, English Major, Business Minor

Activities and Societies: Golden Key national honor society