About Me

Welcome!

I’m so glad you’re here. Take a moment to explore how I bring eLearning to life with a thoughtful, results-driven approach. Dive into my process to see how I work, discover the brands I’ve had the honor of partnering with, and hear directly from clients about their experiences.

Whether you have a vision ready to take shape or a project that needs a fresh perspective, let’s see how we can create something extraordinary together.

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MY PROCESS

TURNING IDEAS INTO IMPACT

01
DISCOVERY
I take the time to understand your learning objectives, audience, and branding inside and out. From there, we dig into your technology and delivery methods to ensure everything aligns. Whether collaborating with your content team or diving into your source material, this is where we craft the narrative and storyboards for something unforgettable.
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RAPID PROTOTYPING
Instead of waiting until the end to see a finished product, I deliver interactive prototypes early on. This way, we stay perfectly aligned on concept and narrative, and you can make key changes while they’re still quick and easy. I’ll even offer multiple options when it makes sense, giving you the flexibility to shape the direction. Each review is laser-focused, ensuring we work efficiently while you stay fully in control of the final result.
03
MAXIMIZATION AND Q&A
Once the prototype gets your approval, I dive into completing the authoring process with finalized content and visuals. I conduct a thorough Q&A to ensure everything is flawless and the user experience is top-notch. At the end of development, you’ll review the entire product and can make any final tweaks. After your approval, you’ll receive the native file, ready to go.

MY REPUTATION

CLIENT FEEDBACK

“Working with Winter is always an incredible experience. She not only understood our business goals with remarkable clarity but also brought deep industry knowledge that proved invaluable. Her timing and follow up is impeccable, always delivering insights and solutions right when we needed them. Throughout our collaboration, Winter’s experience and professionalism shone through, making her an indispensable partner in our success.”

Stephanie Pellegrino
SOCI.AI

“Working with Digital Intellective was a tremendous experience for many reasons. The depth of knowledge with a variety of platforms proved invaluable as our team developed a learning management system. We also learned to author courses using a variety of tools while being taught use cases and best practices for each. I highly recommend a partnership with Digital Intellective for your next project.”

Alan Diehl

FIKE

“Partnering with Winter at Digital Intellective has been an exceptional experience. Winter’s expertise in instructional design, combined with her remarkable attention to detail and high level of professionalism, has made our collaboration seamless and stress-free. She consistently exceeds expectations, fostering a relationship that feels more like working with a trusted friend than a typical consultant. Even without prior knowledge of our specific products and industry, her profound understanding of adult learning and sharp instructional design insights have been invaluable to our projects.

Not only has she created stunning projects that surpass our expectations, but she has also taken the time to guide and teach me valuable insights along the way. Her dedication and willingness to share her knowledge have ensured that we’ve met our goals and timelines, making the collaboration both productive and enriching. It’s bittersweet knowing that our project time will soon come to an end, as I’ll truly miss working with her.”

Courtney Hetler Findlay

SOFTWRITERS

“My entire team loves working with Winter Thielen. She has extensive knowledge of the ThoughtIndustries LMS and has helped us to not only leverage, but maximize, all of the platform’s capabilities for our clients. She has truly elevated our content and learning programs through her creativity, design capabilities and love for figuring out new and inventive ways for our clients to showcase their brand.

She is a true professional, a team player and we consider her one of our best assets any time she’s on a project with us.”

Sara Chapman

NORTHSTAR TRAVEL GROUP

“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Winter multiple times over the past ten years, and each experience has been a highlight of my career. Winter is not just an incredible problem solver—her creativity truly shines through in everything she does. You can see it not just in the clever solutions she comes up with, but also in the beautiful visuals and learning modules she designs.

When you partner with Winter on a project, you can have 100% confidence that she will deliver exactly what she promises—and then exceed your expectations by a mile. Truly, her work always blows me away. What’s more, working with her is simply a joy. She is proactive, communicative, and fun to collaborate with. She always meets her deadlines, and her positive energy makes every project a delight. I can’t recommend her highly enough!”

Kellie Petruzzelli
GONG

“We had the opportunity to work with Winter during a transition into a new learning management system. We have a large amount of content with a lot of complexities since we build materials for PreK-12 as well as adult learners. Winter was highly recommended by our new system’s implementation team and we had a very positive experience working with her. She not only helped us navigate the ins and outs of our new tools, but worked with us to land on the best way to build the different types of courses we need for the different audiences.”

Emily Neder

PROJECT LEAD THE WAY

“Working with Winter on our LMS landing page redesign was an absolute pleasure. She brought innovative ideas and a vision to the project that exceeded my expectations. Her creativity, eye for detail and communication made the process smooth and very enjoyable. I look forward to the opportunity to collaborate with her again in the future.”

Sherilyn Jordan
VERUS GLOBAL

“Working with Winter has been a pleasure and highly productive experience for us. Winter has outstanding design and programming skills (a CSS wizard) that really accelerated our build time, as well as modernizing and polishing our site design through the development of customized snippets. She helped us make the online courses more engaging and impactful and the home page to be more visually powerful and compelling. Winter is easy to work with, and she can read between the lines as we discussed design goals and challenges. My team and I highly recommend her for design work, especially within the Thought Industries platform.”

Sam Spiegel

COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES

“Working with Winter has been an absolute delight. She seamlessly integrates into our team, making her feel like a true part of our work. She has an incredible knack for building relationships with ease, and her approach is both thought-provoking and supportive. Winter doesn’t just provide feedback; she gives invaluable expertise, guidance, and insights that have significantly enhanced our projects. She consistently comes to meetings prepared to share ideas, creative workarounds, and technological ways to make our vision come true.

Her communication skills are exceptional, and she consistently delivers high-quality work with impressive speed and attention to detail. The quality of her content is unmatched. Her deliverables are always of the highest standard, and we couldn’t be happier with the results. Winter is truly a game-changer for our team and we recommend her to anyone who wants an efficient, smart, creative, and thoughtful partner.”

Renee Murray RN, BSN, FNE-CSA, BA

CAMDEN COALITION

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SOME OF THE BRANDS I’VE WORKED WITH*

*I am bound by non-disclosure agreements with several clients, which prevent me from publicly sharing details of our professional relationship.