Content, Learning & Digital Experience Leader

The idea for Speed Trap came to me while I was walking my dog, Jade. I'd been thinking about gamification in Cert Buddy™ and where the line is between making studying more engaging and making it feel gimmicky. Points, streaks, achievements, and leaderboards can all have a place, but I don't want Cert Buddy to turn studying for a certification exam into a carnival of badges and animations. The learning still has to be the point. My mind wandered back to the games I grew up wit

I’ve read a lot of books about management over the years. Leadership models, coaching frameworks, organizational theory, difficult conversations, team dynamics. Like most people who’ve spent a long time managing, I’ve probably absorbed dozens of books and hundreds of articles on the subject. But there’s one book I still recommend more than any other: Managing Humans by Michael Lopp. I first read it sometime around 2007, when I was moving more fully into management roles in so

Most exam prep tools are essentially question banks attached to a progress bar. When I started building Cert Buddy™, I made a deliberate choice: I wasn't going to build another quiz app or an exam braindump designed simply to help people cram and pass. Putting questions on a screen, scoring answers, and showing a percentage is relatively straightforward. I was more interested in whether an exam prep product could develop an increasingly useful understanding of the learner and