Samathmika Balaji Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, US

Learning architecture and delivery strategy for the Talent Management Business unit with full accountability for Learning Impact and ROI aligned to business goals. - Serving as a key liaison between senior leadership, business unit heads, and external partners to ensure learning initiatives address critical business needs and are endorsed at the executive.

San Francisco, California, US

• Strategic leadership on learning experience design, curriculum creation, learning management systems architecture for all business operations team across the organisation
• Direct and Cross-functional people leadership involving a team of Senior and Junior Instructional Designers, Tech-writers, LMS administrators, graphic designers, Learning specialists, Project/Product managers and.
• Leading course design and gamification for virtual and in-person learning, career pathing using learner journeys, simulated job skills training and periodic learning evaluations to check alignment with learning and.
• Program and Project management for Learning Transformation and change management initiatives for all employees and business leaders, including reporting and measuring success against designated KPIs
• Creating and implementing DE&I and People Resources Training for all employees
• Creating and distributing compliance and Policy communications for Crypto, Investing, and Banking

San Francisco, California, US

Leading Instructional Design and Knowledge Management Teams on L&D for Customer service training, new employee onboarding, compliance training, manager training and cross-functional career development.

San Francisco, California, US

Designing course materials, curriculum and learning pathways for employee onboarding and training.

*Strategic leadership and learning program architecture for large scale corporate learning and development programs related to Financial Services, Higher Education, EdTech, DE&I, Leadership Training and HR Training* Designing SOPs, Policy and Procedure communications and knowledge base creation and maintenance for digital communications.

Alexandria, VA, US

• LMS administration and designing curricula and learning framework for skill-development courses for training of trainers
• Desiging and delivering a web-based skills-enhancement certificate course for professionals based in North America, Asia, Europe and Latin America
• Training participants on improving their performance at work, presentation skills, self-access learning methods and collaborative learning skills
• Creating assessment and evaluation tasks based on motivational and critical learning threshold of course participants to provide developmental feedback
• Carrying out monitoring and evaluation of learning and periodically recorded participants’ learning
• Reviewing curricula and content and redesigned elements aligned to the organizational vision, objectives and training needs

London, England, GB

• Learning experience design, LMS Administration and curriculum strategy
• Planning, designing and managing multiple large-scale projects across India
• Designing learning curricula and managing content design for British Council's performance-based training initiatives, for instructor-led, blended and e-learning programs
• Training internal employees and external project consultants on skill-based programs for enhancing leadership skills and job skills as well as other need-based interventions
• Supporting learning and development of employees and other key stakeholders through holistic evaluation of their performance, by analyzing participant response and engagement to training initiatives and by providing.
• Carrying out impact surveys for monitoring and evaluation, strategic assessments and recording participant progress and reporting learning to project lead and funding partners on participant growth

London, England, GB

- Managing a team of Training Consultants, Designers, Project executives and project managers. Planning, designing and delivering a large-scale cascade training project in partnership with other stakeholders. - Curriculum design and materials review- On-site project management and coordination, logistics, budgeting and scheduling- Hiring and onboarding.

London, England, GB

Materials design, curriculum writing, monitoring and evaluation of training, conducting needs analysis, Master Training Training, Teacher Development and Curriculum support

• Designed and delivered corporate courses on soft skills development and English for Information Technology and management professionals at technology and software management companies
• LMS and program administration
• Delivered Job skills and Business English Courses for professionals in the areas of Banking, Sales, Accountancy and Finance as well as for entrepreneurs
• Mentoring and supporting other trainers on the staff with their professional development and designing learning curricula

Master Of Arts - Ma, Tesol

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English

High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates