Every course.
Every program.
One design team.
Add a designer for your busy season, hand off a single course, or let us build your entire learning program. GTI is the instructional design team you call first.
One team for all things instructional design
Plug us in where you need us, and scale up or down anytime.
Add designers to your team
Experienced instructional designers who join your team to clear the backlog and hit deadlines.
Build a single course
One eLearning module, workshop, or job aid, designed and delivered start to finish.
Design a full program
Onboarding, leadership, or compliance curricula built end to end, ready for your LMS.
Your outsourced learning team
Ongoing strategy, design, and development, like having an L&D department on call.
Bridging the gap in workforce readiness
Today’s workforce is evolving faster than traditional training can keep up.
Most training is built as content, not designed as learning. Across industries, teams get information without the practice, context, and reinforcement that actually change performance.
Too many programs deliver:
- Theory without application
- Content without context
- Instruction without lasting impact
That’s the gap instructional design closes.
Workforce problems, solved by design
Training that doesn’t stick
OUR DESIGN ANSWERPractice, spacing, and on-the-job reinforcement.
Talent pipelines that lack agility
OUR DESIGN ANSWERCompetency maps and role-based learning paths.
Unequal access to development
OUR DESIGN ANSWERAccessible, mobile-friendly, on-demand learning.
Learning disconnected from business
OUR DESIGN ANSWERNeeds analysis tied to your KPIs from day one.
A proven instructional design process
Grounded in adult learning theory and cognitive science, and built on the frameworks professional designers trust.
- ADDIE
- SAM
- Agile
- Adult learning theory
- Cognitive science
- Learning analytics
- 1Discovery and needs analysis
- 2Goals aligned to business KPIs
- 3Learner-centered course design
- 4Visual and instructional assets
- 5Media development
- 6Interactive practice and scenarios
- 7SCORM and xAPI production
- 8Assessment and compliance
- 9Documentation and handoff
Learning experiences, designed end to end
Custom eLearning
Interactive, LMS-ready courses.
Microlearning
Short lessons at the moment of need.
Scenario-based learning
Realistic, role-specific practice.
Facilitator guides and workbooks
Ready for live and virtual delivery.
Job aids and performance support
Answers right in the flow of work.
Assessments and analytics
Proof that learning worked.
Jakaria Ross
Owner, CEO, and Global Design Specialist
Jakaria is an instructional designer with nearly a decade of experience in adult learning, learning design, and people development. She has designed enterprise learning across industries, including as a National Senior Instructional Designer and a Global Learning and Design Consultant.
She leads every GTI engagement as Global Design Specialist, and founded GTI to close the gap between training and performance, combining ADDIE, SAM, and Agile with cognitive science and adult learning theory to build learning that scales and drives measurable results.
- Instructional designer, nearly 10 years
- ADDIE, SAM, and Agile
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
- Mass Communication and Media Studies
- Doctoral studies, Global Business and Leadership
Learning should be actionable, measurable, and transformative, empowering people to not only gain the know-how, but to apply it in ways that drive lasting impact.Jakaria RossOwner, CEO, and Global Design Specialist
The instructional design team organizations rely on
We are a privately owned instructional design and training development firm, not a membership organization. Organizations worldwide rely on us as their go-to design team, for one course or their entire learning strategy.
MISSION
To empower organizations worldwide by delivering skills training that drives business performance and fosters results-oriented development.
VISION
To lead worldwide in transformative, results-oriented training, driving global economic performance amid a rapidly evolving workforce.
Advancing workforce equity and excellence
Scalable learning design
Programs built once and scaled across teams, locations, and industries.
Strategic partnerships
We work alongside your subject matter experts and leaders.
Cultures of continuous learning
Learning systems that keep your people growing after launch.