The right expertise, when it matters most.

Online learning professor

Better digital learning decisions require the right expertise.

Educational leaders are making increasingly high-stakes decisions about digital technology, often without the internal capacity or specialized expertise they need.

At the same time, financial pressures are reducing institutional teams, including the digital learning professionals best equipped to help.

Digital Learning Leadership was created to close that gap.

We connect educational decision-makers with specialized guidance and practical support, helping them make well-informed decisions and take meaningful action.

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Customized help for complex challenges.

We begin by understanding the challenge and existing capacity. We then assemble a tailored team that can provide strategic guidance, specialized knowledge, and implementation support as the work evolves.

Our work includes:

  • Services to help educational decision-makers address complex challenges and advance strategic digital learning initiatives.

  • Community events to help professionals connect, learn, deepen their practice, and contribute to the field.

  • Resources to help educational leaders and digital learning professionals navigate decisions, developments, and opportunities across the field.

Our values.

Move the needle.

We create measurable, meaningful change for institutions, educators, and learners.

Work collaboratively.

We bring together people, perspectives, and specialized expertise because complex challenges are better addressed together.

Cultivate exceptional expertise.

We connect clients with accomplished specialists while helping emerging professionals deepen their practice, strengthening expertise across the field.

Stay human-focused.

We embrace AI and other technologies while keeping human needs, judgment, relationships, and learning at the centre of every decision.

Set the standard.

We earn trust by grounding our guidance in evidence, drawing on leading expertise, communicating with clarity, and holding everything we produce to a high standard.

Meet the founder.

Through her research, consulting, and leadership across the sector, Dr. Nicole Johnson saw educational leaders being asked to make increasingly complex, high-stakes digital learning decisions while already stretched thin and facing financial pressures that limited the in-house expertise they could turn to for support.

She founded Digital Learning Leadership to close that gap.

Intentionally designed to create mutual value across the sector, Digital Learning Leadership gives educational decision-makers flexible access to to specialized guidance and practical support while creating meaningful opportunities for digital learning professionals to apply and deepen their expertise.

This model combines Dr. Johnson’s experience across digital learning research, strategy, policy, and practice, with a trusted community of specialists selected for the needs of each engagement.

Driving everything Dr. Johnson does is her goal of making high-quality learning experiences available to more people through the strategic and responsible use of technology.

Connect with Dr. Johnson on LinkedIn.

Visit her personal website.