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Hi, I’m Robert Mackie—a learning designer and development leader who loves turning complex topics into clear, engaging learning experiences. I design, deliver, and facilitate onboarding, leadership development, and skills programs across teams and geographies, blending instructional design, facilitation, and creativity to drive real-world impact. I’ve built L&D functions from the ground up, created company-wide onboarding programs, and partnered with executives to align learning with OKRs and cultural goals. I’m passionate about individuality, collaboration, and lifelong learning, and I’m always excited by new ideas and positive, people-centred change.…Hi, I’m Robert Mackie—a learning designer and development leader who loves turning complex topics into clear, engaging learning experiences. I design, deliver, and facilitate onboarding, leadership development, and skills programs across teams and geographies, blending instructional design, facilitation, and creativity to drive real-world impact. I’ve built L&D functions from the ground up, created company-wide onboarding programs, and partnered with executives to align learning with OKRs and cultural goals. I’m passionate about individuality, collaboration, and lifelong learning, and I’m always excited by new ideas and positive, people-centred change.

Robert Mackie

Instructional Designer, Online Trainer, UX Designer, +1

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Hi, I’m Robert Mackie—a learning designer and development leader who loves turning complex topics into clear, engaging learning experiences. I design, deliver, and facilitate onboarding, leadership development, and skills programs across teams and geographies, blending instructional design, facilitation, and creativity to drive real-world impact. I’ve built L&D functions from the ground up, created company-wide onboarding programs, and partnered with executives to align learning with OKRs and cultural goals. I’m passionate about individuality, collaboration, and lifelong learning, and I’m always excited by new ideas and positive, people-centred change.…Hi, I’m Robert Mackie—a learning designer and development leader who loves turning complex topics into clear, engaging learning experiences. I design, deliver, and facilitate onboarding, leadership development, and skills programs across teams and geographies, blending instructional design, facilitation, and creativity to drive real-world impact. I’ve built L&D functions from the ground up, created company-wide onboarding programs, and partnered with executives to align learning with OKRs and cultural goals. I’m passionate about individuality, collaboration, and lifelong learning, and I’m always excited by new ideas and positive, people-centred change.

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Hi, I’m Robert Mackie—a learning designer and development leader who loves turning complex topics into clear, engaging learning experiences. I design, deliver, and facilitate onboarding, leadership development, and skills programs across teams and geographies, blending instructional design, facilitation, and creativity to drive real-world impact.

I’ve built L&D functions from the ground up, created company-wide onboarding programs, and partnered with executives to align learning with OKRs and cultural goals. I’m passionate about individuality, collaboration, and lifelong learning, and I’m always excited by new ideas and positive, people-centred change.

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Work Experience

Senior Learning Design Lead at Media Zoo

September 1, 2022 - September 1, 2023

Award-winning digital agency specializing in film, communications and learning. Led learning design across programs, built onboarding and development initiatives, and designed company-wide education events. Implemented L&D policies aligned to departmental needs.

Senior Consultant - Learning, Development & Facilitation at Self-Employed

July 1, 2025 - Present

Provided consulting services in Learning Design, People Development & Facilitation. Led end-to-end learning projects with a human-centered, Design Thinking approach and supported multiple client engagements.

Instructor + Programs Manager at RED Academy

August 1, 2015 - March 1, 2017

RED Academy was a private college, born of Canada’s top agencies, that produced highly employable, creative technologists for the real world. I was a founding member that grew the company to 3 cities. - Built academic programs that held an average score of 4.5/5 on Course Review. - Grew a startup institution to $1 million of revenue a quarter. - Leads a team of six facilitators and instructors. - Founding member that designed, planned, and delivered a full time, immersive UX Design program to cohorts up to 50 students. - Lead, designed and delivered a school wide "Personal and Professional Development" program to develop students holistically. - Ensured the highest possible quality of learning for students through consistent evaluation and updates to curriculums. - Mentored, evaluated and assisted both students and instructors. - Collaborated with third party businesses and suppliers to help deliver the best possible experience.

Senior User Experience Designer at Samsung, Blast Radius & partner agencies

April 1, 2007 - June 1, 2015

Led the design of digital experiences for major clients across multiple agencies, focusing on user-centered UX design, interaction design, and collaboration across teams.

Learning & Development Unit Lead at Interactio

September 1, 2021 - September 1, 2022

This fast-growing startup is creating a next-gen multi-lingual meeting platform focused on remote simultaneous interpretation (RSI). My role was to build a unit focused on setting standards for developing the employee base, growing management and providing access to learning. - Built and lead the Learning and Development Unit from the ground up - Developed a company wide measure of success linking employee learning and company OKRs - Built partnerships with post secondary institutions to extend employee learning opportunities - Design and managed company L+D budget to enable all employees access to flexible learning - Built L+D policies and procedures aligned with departmental needs - Re-built the employee onboarding around a cohort based experience that exposed new hires to all departments and company culture with an over 80% approval rating. - Launched multiple company wide tools through building vendor relations - Re-launched and hosted a weekly, company wide show focused on updates, education and connection

Senior Consultant - Learning, Development & Facilitation at Independent / Self-Employed

July 1, 2025 - Present

Approach and design process adaptable to all subject matters with particular expertise in UX Design, Training Courses, E-Learning, Instructional Design, Train the Trainer, Creativity, Team Building and storytelling. Deliver ongoing client engagement across multiple sectors with scalable solutions.

Engagement Manager (People and Culture) at TELUS Digital

August 1, 2018 - August 1, 2021

One of Canada's three leading national telecommunications companies. I managed multiple programs and projects focused on engagement, learning, development and training. - Re-designed, managed and delivered the department wide on/off boarding program with an average average approval rating of 4.54 out of 5 (91%). - Launched the pilot of a Leadership Excellence program to a user base of 180+ managers. Generated a 66% increase in proficiency of skills trained. - Lead an engagement project to renovate the team office space with a multi million dollar budget. This included the implementation of smart technologies to improve working conditions and collaboration. - Member of multiple engagement and DE+I committees that delivered initiatives to make a more progressive corporation. - Designed, built and delivered multiple engagement workshops for teams as large as 100+ in size with average scores of 4.28/5 for personal engagement and 4.52 for fun. - Designed, built and delivered a unique, bespoke program on Change Management built on the principles of Story Telling. - Dedicated mentor to team members focusing on presentation skills.

Learning Designer & Advisor at Vancouver Coastal Health

April 1, 2017 - August 1, 2017

The leading health authority for the Greater Vancouver Area. Working in this public sector authority I worked with a wide range of clients and departments advising them on how to build online and offline learning. - Design, develop, deliver and evaluate programs and training - Coach and support subject-matter experts in best practices - Assess needs and competencies of various audiences - Lead distributed e-learning initiatives in a blended environment - Balanced multiple projects and client relationships simultaneously - Coordinated filming and production of video training material - Developed e-learning programs Vancouver wide with over an 80% average success rate for participants.