A five-week online learning experience designed with Career Coaches to help mid-career professionals move from career uncertainty to a practical, evidence-informed transition plan.
The Authentic Pivot is a structured online course built for professionals who feel stuck, misaligned or ready for change, but are not yet clear on what direction to pursue.
Rather than focusing immediately on résumés, interviews and job applications, the course supports the earlier stage of career transition: reflection, exploration, decision-making and low-risk experimentation.
The learning experience combines short lessons, interactive activities, guided reflection, live workshop design and a progressive Career Transition Portfolio to help learners turn uncertainty into practical next steps.
Note: Preview access is provided for demonstration purposes only. Selected details have been adapted or recreated to protect privacy, source materials and unpublished IP.
Project Snapshot
Engagement
Online course / learning experience design for Career Coaches
Format
Five-week course with lessons, activities, workshops and assessment
Foundations
Adult Learning Theory · Experiential Learning · Authentic Learning & Assessment Design
Methods & Tools
Ruzuku, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, AI-assisted visual assets, Miro
[Image row: Course module screenshot / confidence check / drag-and-drop activity / transcript component]
The Challenge
Many career programs begin too late in the transition process.
They focus on helping people apply for roles, but many mid-career professionals are still trying to answer more fundamental questions:
- What do I actually want next?
- What strengths do I want to keep using?
- What options are realistic?
- How do I move forward without making a rushed decision?
The challenge was to design a learning experience that helped learners move from uncertainty into structured exploration and practical action.
The goal was not to create a content-heavy course. It was to build a learning journey where each activity contributed to a useful career transition artefact.
My Role
I designed the course concept, learning journey, module structure and learner-facing experience.
This included:
✔️ mapping the five-week course structure
✔️ defining weekly outcomes and learner outputs
✔️ designing the Career Transition Portfolio assessment
✔️ writing lesson content and video scripts
✔️ creating interactive HTML/CSS/JavaScript learning activities
✔️ planning live workshop flows and reflection prompts
✔️ designing transcript and accessibility support components
✔️ creating representative course visuals and media assets
✔️ building the course experience inside Ruzuku
Learning Design Approach
The course is built around a five-stage journey:
Discover → Explore → Prioritise → Design → Test
Each stage contributes to the final assessment — the Career Transition Portfolio — so learners are not completing disconnected worksheets. They are gradually building a practical resource they can use beyond the course.
The learning design uses authentic assessment, reflective practice, short interactive activities and structured workshop moments to help learners turn self-reflection into practical action.
Featured Learning Assets
Interactive learning activities are designed to improve knowledge retention, real-world application and engagement.
Activities were created through the mixture of hand code, no-code tools and AI.
Examples include:
Diagnostic Quizzes
E.g. A one-question-at-a-time diagnostic that helps learners identify their starting level of clarity and confidence.
Drag-and-Drop Activities
E.g. An interactive activity helping learners distinguish between job titles, responsibilities, capabilities and professional contribution.
Interactive Forms
E.g. A guided form-style activity where learners identify their skills, strengths, values, motivations, preferences and constraints.
Video Transcripts
An expandable transcript block designed to support accessibility and allow learners to revisit key lesson ideas.
Want to see it in action?
Try the Drag-and-Drop activity I’ve created below.
Interactive activity
From Job Title to Professional Contribution
The statements below all describe the same professional, but they reveal different layers of their experience. Drag each card to the category it best represents.
Statements
Categories
What these five layers reveal
A job title identifies the role you held. Responsibilities describe what you were expected to do. Capabilities describe what you learned to do. Recurring problems reveal where others value your help. Your professional contribution brings these elements together into a broader statement about the value you create.
Pause and reflect
Course Structure
Authentic Pivot was designed as a five-week learning experience. Each week follows a consistent rhythm:
- short educational lessons
- individual preparation activity
- live practice workshop
- reflection or discussion prompt
- portfolio checkpoint
This gives learners a predictable structure while allowing each week to build toward a different career transition artefact.
Explore the Course Preview
The public preview shows selected parts of the course experience, including the introduction flow, Week 1 learning assets, interactive activities and course media
Note: Preview access is provided for demonstration purposes only. Selected details have been adapted or recreated to protect privacy, source materials and unpublished IP.