I'm Connor.

Educator, entrepreneur, amateur data scientist, and nerd.

I help organizations navigate the intersection of work, learning, and technology through consulting and curriculum development. I've spent 6 years in the classroom and 8 years in edu consulting and EdTech — building curriculum, running workshops, and figuring out how to make complex ideas stick for young adult learners and career professionals.

After the classroom, I led curriculum at America Needs You, where the programming I built continues to reach 1,000+ first-generation college students and 70 schools each month. From there, my work expanded to designing learning experiences for companies such as Ramp, Snapchat, Niantic, and Solana. Most recently, I was Director of Learning at Reddy, building AI-powered training simulations for Fortune 100 companies that returned a 3.5x ROI for our clients.

Now I'm the founder of CBK Learning, where my team and I help organizations build AI game plans and create training that their people will actually remember and enjoy. I've been a daily AI user since ChatGPT 3.5 dropped in November 2022 — not because I'm a hype guy, but because I'm a design-thinking nerd who wants to understand what these tools can actually do and where they fall short.

When I'm not building curriculum or running AI workshops, I'm designing Dungeons & Dragons campaigns for my friends.

I believe art, data, games, and beauty can teach us things we could not otherwise learn, which drives all the work that I do.

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What I do

Technology changes. Learning doesn't. I help organizations tell the difference.

AI Training & Implementation

I help teams move from scattered AI experiments to a clear, shared game plan. Workshops, coaching, strategy sessions, and full implementation plans — all built around your people and your actual work.

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Learning Experience Design

I capture your team's expertise and turn it into training people actually remember. Curriculum, courses, onboarding — designed for the people who dread training the most.

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Who I've worked with

Snapchat Google Ramp Niantic Solana IMG / Endeavor NYC Dept. of Education

My approach

Three rules I work by.

I've been researching and experimenting with AI since day one. These are the principles I've landed on — for myself and for the teams I work with.

01

AI should expand your skill set, not just speed things up.

If all AI does is make you faster at the same work, you're leaving the best part on the table. I help teams do things they couldn't do before — not just do the same things quicker.

02

You need to co-work with AI by trusting it at the right times.

AI makes it easy to automate decisions without questioning them. Same data, same defaults, same blind spots — scaled across your whole organization. I teach teams when to trust their tools, when to push back, and how to tell the difference.

03

Your experts should be in the driver's seat, not someone else's algorithm.

AI companies build for thousands of customers — not for your team, your values, or your objectives. If you just go along with the defaults, you're leaving real gains on the floor and outsourcing your judgment to people who've never met your people. I help your team build their own frameworks so the people who know your work best are the ones shaping how AI fits into it.

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