Julie Buffington is an award-winning instructional systems designer and facilitator with over 20 years of professional experience. She is dedicated to breaking people out of job jail, so they don’t feel trapped, bored, or stifled.

Julie’s evidence-based approach to training, education, and curriculum design centers on the learner, prioritizing safety and organizational/talent development.

Julie’s Design Heroes:

John Keller’s ARCS-V Model of Motivational Design, for speaking to the heart of how adults not only learn, but grow and take ownership of their professional development

Michael W. Allen’s Successive Approximation Model, for creating a banger that keeps projects on tasks and SME’s well-managed

Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence, for describing the art of visually displaying data

Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation, for giving a logical methodology to prove learning happened and was effective

W3C - for teaching us all how to make web-based content accessible to everyone

Inside of Julie's office with an easel holding sticky notes, and walls covered in giant, white paper depicting a chaotic but weirdly organized project in the works

This is my actual office in the middle of an actual project as I strive to not tear out my actual hair.

I ask a lot of questions.

A LOT. but the more I ask, the better your products will turn out and the fewer calls your IT help desk will get.

Julie uses a microphone to present on marketing initiatives for rail safety, including leading a team in Manhattan, KS at the Color Run, pictured in the slide behind her
Two locomotives, Union Pacific engine 7766 sits next to BNSF engine 8783 on a double main line during the daytime. Photographer Julie Buffington
Headshot. Julie wears glasses and stands in a furnished space.