Dr. Katrina Boone

Areas of Expertise

The kinds of work I love doing, and where I can help you.

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Human-Centered Leadership & Team Development

Leading people the way I'd want to be led. Clear, honest, and built on trust, so teams actually do their best work.

  • Coaching leaders and teams through change, ambiguity, and growth
  • Building team rhythms that create clarity, ownership, and momentum
  • Turning organizational priorities into work people actually want to do
  • Cultivating cultures of feedback, equity, and shared accountability
  • Reading team capacity and capability gaps, removing roadblocks, and clarifying priorities
  • Developing people into greater ownership and bigger roles
  • Serving the people I lead, not the other way around
In practice
  • Restructuring teams around outcomes, not legacy roles
  • Mentoring emerging leaders into senior, system-wide responsibility
  • Bringing strategy and the frontline into the same conversation
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Educational Leadership & Enterprise Strategy

More than 15 years in higher education, with the last 7 in senior administration overseeing enterprise learning systems and the high-performing teams who run them.

  • Senior oversight of enterprise platforms, processes, and policy
  • Leading institution-wide projects with executive leaders, IT, faculty, and end users
  • Chairing and serving on advisory committees, workgroups, and task forces
  • Oversight of LMS platforms (Canvas, Blackboard, and similar) and the educational technology around them
  • LTI and SIS integrations, learning analytics, and platform governance
  • Enterprise scale: multi-campus environments serving thousands of learners and hundreds of faculty
  • Budget ownership, technology investments, vendor partnerships, contract negotiation, and multi-year agreements
  • Leading pilots end to end: discovery, evaluation, stakeholder feedback, implementation, adoption, and assessment
  • Executive briefings and strategic presentations that turn complicated data into decisions leaders can act on
  • Turning institutional strategy into plans teams can actually run
  • Currently lead the digital and online learning and educational technology department for the institution
  • Coordinate assessment and data tracking across 40+ service departments
  • Compliance oversight for web content accessibility (WCAG) and inclusive course design
  • Prior leadership of new student programs for master's and doctoral students: admissions, recruitment, enrollment, and matriculation through degree conferral
In practice
  • Overseeing high-performing teams of instructional designers, LMS administrators, and course quality
  • Serving as the trusted advisor executives, IT, and vendors call when the decision is complicated
  • Weighing cost, value, scalability, and service impact on multi-year technology investments
  • Standing up governance for accessibility, AI use, and instructional quality
  • Modernizing legacy systems on a phased, learner-centered roadmap
  • Keeping enterprise LMS environments and the edtech around them running well
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03

AI Strategy, Automation & Workflows

Practical, responsible AI, from policy and guidance to the workflows that actually move work forward.

  • Institutional AI strategy, guidance, and responsible-use frameworks
  • Fluency across AI applications and platforms, generative and agentic
  • Designing workflows that automate complex, multi-step work
  • Embedding AI inside LMS and edtech: course build, support, analytics, and content
  • Agentic AI and AI-enabled workflow automation using APIs, webhooks, and JSON
  • Institution-wide AI education and enablement so people build real capability
  • Coaching leaders on where AI belongs, and where it doesn't
In practice
  • Writing guidance that helps institutions adopt AI with confidence
  • Prototyping AI-assisted workflows that compress weeks of work into hours
  • Walking teams through the cultural and operational shifts AI asks of them
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04

Learning & Development, Instructional Design, and Learner Experience

I understand how people learn. I design learning and development that meets adults where they are, with UX and LX thinking baked in, accessible by default, and built inside the systems that deliver it.

  • Learning & development strategy across in-person, hybrid, and online
  • Instructional design grounded in how adults actually learn
  • User experience (UX) and learner experience (LX) design
  • Competency-based program design tied to real-world outcomes
  • WCAG compliance and inclusive course design across instructional teams
  • LMS-anchored course design, build, and quality review at scale
  • Professional learning programs and knowledge resources that stay useful after the session ends
  • Experienced trainer and facilitator across modalities
In practice
  • Building course quality frameworks adopted across institutions
  • Coaching faculty and designers into accessibility-first authoring
  • Reframing programs around demonstrated competency, not seat time
  • Standing up LMS templates, rubrics, and review workflows that hold quality across hundreds of courses
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05

Media, Storytelling & Digital Product Development

Storytelling and creative production are part of how I lead. From video and brand work to launching digital products, I love making expertise feel human.

  • Concept-to-launch product execution using AI-assisted workflows
  • Full-stack media production using Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Kaltura, with Articulate for interactive learning
  • Cinematography, videography, and multi-format video editing
  • Storytelling and brand video for institutions, founders, and digital products
  • Narrative and brand work that turns expertise into trust
  • Executive-level visual storytelling and presentation design
  • User-centered design grounded in real user behavior
  • Rapid prototyping with real production craft and scalable systems thinking
In practice
  • Founder of BluuOrchid Digital Solutions, with four products launched
  • Designing personalized, human-feeling digital experiences
  • Directing and editing short- and long-form video for brand, product, and institutional storytelling
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06

Tools, Platforms & Systems Fluency

Fluent across the platforms institutions actually run on, from learning systems to creative production to enterprise SaaS.

  • Enterprise learning systems (LMS/LXP): Canvas, Blackboard/OpenLMS, Moodle, and similar
  • Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), platform integrations, APIs, webhooks, and JSON
  • Authoring and e-learning: Articulate; Adobe Creative Suite for design and media
  • Video and media: Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Kaltura, YuJa Panorama
  • Enterprise video conferencing and collaboration suites
  • Microsoft 365, advanced PowerPoint, and executive visual storytelling
  • Enterprise SaaS and ERP: Ellucian Banner and Colleague, HRIS, SQL reporting
  • Knowledge management, learning analytics, and reporting dashboards
  • AI tools and platforms across generative and agentic workflows
In practice
  • Picking the right tool for the job, not the trendiest one
  • Standing up workflows that connect learning, media, and enterprise systems
  • Coaching teams into fluency on the platforms they already own
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