Sandy Mueller Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Learning and Development Role:Design and translate needs assessment, business performance goals and other client data into a comprehensive instructional design program. Collaborate with staff and subject matter experts, develop performance objectives, and recommend instructional strategies and content design. Incorporate learner prerequisites and workplace transfer activities. Continuously review goals and progress with client teams. Recommend assessment and program evaluation activities. Ensure alignment of instructional methods attending to consistency and quality.Independent contractor work examples include:Project 1: New Hire Procedural Training Outline  Rapid development of a procedural training PowerPoint presentation for sales force instructor-led or webinar training.  Reviewed course needs analysis, survey feedback, technical brochures, and images. Constructed course objectives, outline and test questions. Developed course in PowerPoint and test questions in an electronic survey tool. Presented ideas for augmenting the course in the future. Project 2: Onboarding Courses for Sales Force New Hires Developed overall introduction to the company. Designed and developed intensive new hire product training in certification levels. Training included prestudy work, intensive instructor-led courses, testing to certify in each level, and transfer of learning activities back on the job.  Created test questions for each course to legitimize certification.

Minneapolis, Mn

As Director of the Lawlor Institute: Developed leadership and sales courses for higher education admission and marketing professionals under The Lawlor Institute umbrella. Training course content included topics for recruitment and retention such as: trends in higher education, communication styles, increasing applicants in the sales funnel, etc.  Organized Lawlor Forum workshops including course content outlines, presenter recruitment, and facility arrangements. Lawlor Advisory is a higher education consulting firm “focused on the art and science of marketing.” Primary activities are strategic marketing, audits, and training and presentations. The firm advises in the areas of leadership development, organizational change, institutional marketing, enrollment management, operational efficiency, and “edupreneurial” innovation. For more information see: https://lawloradvisory.com/ .

St. Paul, Mn

As assistant director for leadership development for the Minnesota Private College Council, Fund and Research Foundation duties included securing and administering higher education professional development grants. The work included: Design and implementation of leadership development programs for presidents of Minnesota private and public four-year institutions in Minnesota (Kellogg Foundation grants). Design and implementation of faculty development workshops for faculty and administrators at public and private institutions in Minnesota and the Dakota (Bush Foundation grants).  Design and implementation of faculty research awards to enhance communities in rural Minnesota (Blandin Foundation).

Minneapolis, Mn

Served as a client liaison for a firm of expert industrial psychologists. Scheduled psychological assessments for selection or promotion including individual interviews, role plays, and group sessions. Coordinated the processing of reports and feedback to clients and individuals.

St. Paul, Mn

St. Paul, Mn

M.A. Education (Hrd), Human Resource Development

Graduate Certificate, Online Instruction

B. A., Social Science