Upcoming Training Workshops
I produce and teach my own online training workshops on a variety of UX design and content strategy topics. On-sale workshops are listed here. View the full 2023 workshop calendar.
All Upcoming Events
UX Days Tokyo 2023 (Web Directions East)
March 31 – April 2, 2023
Tokyo
Workshop and presentation on Writing for Designers and How to Get the UX Writing Done. Presented in English with simultaneous translation to Japanese.
Confab: The Content Strategy Conference
April 30 – May 3, 2023
Minneapolis, MN
Training workshop User-Centered Content Strategy at the last-ever Confab conference.
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Recent History
World Information Architecture Day: Des Moines
March 4, 2023
Des Moines, IA
Delivering a new new keynote presentation The Cause of Clarity.
Voicing Automatons: UX Writing for Digital Experiences
January 26 through March 15, 2023
NYC / Online
A new course on UX writing for SVA’s Interaction Design MFA students.
Content Ecosystem Mapping (workshop)
November 29 & December 6, 2022
Online
A two-part training on the strategic alignment and discovery tool of content ecosystem mapping.
Clarity Through Content Strategy (workshop)
November 14–15, 2022
Online
A two-part training on bringing clarity to your company’s digital strategy projects with content strategy and the VMT framework.
Content Strategy Fundamentals | School of Visual Concepts
November 5 & 12, 2022
Online
A two-part training on content strategy fundamentals as part of the Content Design & UX Writing certificate program through the School of Visual Concepts, Seattle.
LavaCon Content Strategy Conference
October 23–26, 2022
New Orleans, Louisiana + Online
A main stage presentation live from New Orleans on Monday, October 24: Keeping the U in Your UX Strategy.
Private Event
September 21, 2022
Online
An in-house presentation on UX writing for a financial services client.
ISTC Meets Series
October 19, 2022
Online
A meetup presentation for the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators: It’s All UX Content: 5 Uncomfortable Truths About Content & UX.
Portland UX Content
September 22, 2022
Online
A presentation followed by Q&A with the Portland UX Content meetup community: The UX Content Universe (and Beyond!)
Button: The Content Design Conference
October 10–12, 2022
Seattle, Washington + Online
A main stage presentation live from Seattle on Monday, October 10: The elephant in the glovebox: Why UX needs content strategy now more than ever.
Events and Organizations
In addition to the above, I’ve been lucky enough to lead talks, trainings, or in-house workshops for these events and organizations.
- AIGA Design Camp
- American Advertising Federation
- American Society of Safety Professionals
- Ameriprise
- Berghs School of Communication
- Bern and Zurich UX Writing
- Button: The Content Design Conference
- College of American Pathologists
- Confab: The Content Strategy Conference
- Content Design España
- Content Design New York
- Content Marketing Atlanta
- Content Strategy Canberra
- Content Strategy Minneapolis / St. Paul
- Content Strategy Seattle
- Des Moines Agile
- Gather Content
- The Getty & Getty Research Institute
- Harvard University
- HighEdWeb
- Hogan Assessments
- Information Architecture Summit
- Interaction Conference (IxDA)
- International Association of Business Commnicators (IABC)
- Iowa Arts Council
- The IRS
- Mendix
- Midwest UX
- Minneapolis Interactive Marketing Summit (MIMA)
- MinneWebCon
- Mizzou (The University of Missouri)
- Now What? Workshops
- Object-Oriented UX Happy Hour
- Plain Language Summit
- Prime Academy
- Principal Financial Group
- PUSH UX Conference (Germany)
- Quarantine Book Club
- Rocket Mortgage / Quicken Loans
- SAIC
- Schibsted Inspiration Fest
- School of Visual Concepts (Seattle)
- Securian Financial
- United Educators
- Utterly Content Global
- UX Lisbon (UXLx)
- World Information Architecture Day
- World Usability Day