Dr. Katrina Boone

Who I Am

The person people call when technology needs to make sense.

I’m the relational bridge in the room: consultant, translator, and thought partner. When the issue is complicated, a technology investment, a vendor decision, an emerging capability, team capacity, or simply the best path forward, I’m the person leaders turn to. Being that person is the most meaningful part of my work, and honestly, it’s what wakes me up in the morning.

My leadership is both strategic and deeply practical. I direct multidisciplinary teams across digital teaching and learning, instructional design, enterprise learning systems, professional development, technical support, assessment, accessibility, and implementation, in a multi-campus environment serving thousands of learners and hundreds of faculty. I manage budgets and multi-year vendor relationships, lead pilots and technology evaluations, and use both numbers and real conversations to judge whether something is actually working.

My work has always been cross-functional. I’ve led institution-wide projects, chaired advisory committees, workgroups, and task forces, and partnered with executive leaders, IT, faculty, and end users to move complicated work forward without losing the people inside it. My approach is simple: listen first, look honestly at what’s already in place, name the real gaps, and recommend something the team can actually run.

Today I lead AI strategy and adoption, oversee the institution’s digital and online learning and educational technology department, manage compliance for web content accessibility and inclusive course design, and coordinate assessment and data tracking across more than 40 service departments. I design learning and development with a UX and LX lens, train and facilitate across modalities, and produce video and media that helps the work feel human.

Earlier in my career I led new student programs for master’s and doctoral students, owning admissions, recruitment, enrollment, and matriculation all the way through degree conferral, along with enrollment operations, dashboards and reporting, and enterprise system implementation. The skills travel. What I do moves the needle in higher education, and translates directly into any industry that runs on people, systems, and learning.

Education: Doctorate, Educational and Instructional Technology Leadership · Master's, Instructional Technology · Bachelor's, Management and Marketing

“I move complicated work forward without losing the people inside it.”

How I lead

Signature Strengths

Where I’m at my most useful.

Relational, people-first leadership

Building trust, clarity, and ownership so high-performing teams can actually do their best work.

Enterprise systems oversight

Senior responsibility for the platforms, teams, and policy that keep institutions running.

AI strategy & responsible use

Institutional guidance and practical adoption, done confidently and ethically.

Training & facilitation across modalities

Designing and leading sessions that work in person, hybrid, and online for executives, educators, and end users.

Cross-functional leadership

Leading institution-wide projects, advisory committees, workgroups, and task forces with executive leaders, IT, faculty, and end users.

Learning, UX & LX design

Designing learning and development that respects how adults actually learn, with user experience and learner experience baked in.

Tools & platform fluency

Hands-on across LMS platforms, Articulate, Adobe Premiere and After Effects, Kaltura, video conferencing tools, Ellucian, HRIS, and more.

Compliance & inclusive design

Oversight of web content accessibility and inclusive course design across the institution.

LMS & learning systems oversight

Senior responsibility for LMS platforms, integrations, analytics, and the educational technology around them.

Storytelling, video & media production

Cinematography, videography, and editing across short- and long-form work for brands, products, and institutions.

Budget & vendor stewardship

Managing operational budgets, technology investments, vendor partnerships, contract negotiation, and multi-year agreements.

Pilots & technology evaluation

Leading pilots from discovery and evaluation through stakeholder feedback, implementation, adoption, and assessment.

Executive briefing & visual storytelling

Turning complicated data, technology, and organizational issues into clear stories leaders can act on.

Assessment & data-informed decisions

Using quantitative data, qualitative feedback, and performance measures to evaluate impact and guide leadership choices.

Team capacity & people development

Spotting capability gaps, removing roadblocks, clarifying priorities, and growing people into greater ownership.

Selected Outcomes

Deliverables that moved organizations forward.

AI adoption that sticks

Wrote frameworks and guidance that helped institutions adopt AI responsibly and at scale.

Accessibility as a default

Moved organizations from compliance-checking to embedded, design-first accessibility practice.

Four products launched

Founded BluuOrchid Digital Solutions and shipped a four-app ecosystem with AI-assisted workflows.

Strategy people can run

Turned institutional strategy into operational plans teams could actually execute.

LMS modernization

Led platform-wide changes and governance that improved course build, instructional quality, and learner experience.

Trusted across the table

Built durable working relationships across executive leadership, IT, academics, and frontline teams over more than 15 years.

Cross-departmental data

Coordinate assessment and data tracking across 40+ service departments.

End-to-end student lifecycle

Led graduate admissions, recruitment, enrollment, and matriculation through degree conferral.

Enterprise scale

Led learning systems, integrations, and modernization across a multi-campus environment serving thousands of learners and hundreds of faculty.

Investments that hold up

Negotiated and stewarded multi-year vendor agreements and technology investments weighed on cost, value, scalability, and service impact.

Pilots to adoption

Ran technology pilots from discovery through stakeholder feedback, implementation, and measured adoption.

Data into strategy

Built dashboards, reporting, and a five-year enrollment and retention analysis that shaped executive-level decisions.

ERP implementation leadership

Served as an enterprise system implementation lead and trained SQL reporting specialist connecting operations to configuration, testing, and training.

Visual Journey

From direct service to digital product founder.

01

Direct service

Working alongside the people the work is for.

02

Program leadership

Building, scaling, and caring for programs.

03

Senior leadership

Enterprise systems, strategy, and the teams behind them.

04

Consulting & AI strategy

Advising on AI, accessibility, and modernization.

05

Digital product founder

BluuOrchid Digital Solutions, four products live.