Carie Whitehead
Senior Technical Leader: Instructional Designer
UCAR
Carie Whitehead is passionate about education and has been since
childhood. Her career has always centered around adult learning with most
of the past 30 years in positions that include information technology,
corporate training, higher education, inward and outward facing instruction
for nonprofits, and instructional design/development.
She has a unique talent for translating tech-speak to English and currently
uses this to create learning opportunities and programs for software
implementations. Her passion is science-based design that reduces
cognitive load and leads to effective learning outcomes. As a creative
techie, she loves creating interactive, fun, and engaging self-paced
courses.
Carie was nominated for a major company award in 2019 for her work in
implementing a new learning management system and received a
performance recognition award in 2020 for outstanding leadership and
technical excellence. She's been presenting at Guild conferences since
2019 and looks forward to every opportunity to learn and share with this
community.