PARUL SHUKLA
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Learning Experience Designer | Learning Program Manager

Learning should change what people do,
not only what they know.

I design learning experiences and lead programs that move people from understanding to application, adoption and measurable outcomes.

Learning Strategy AI Enablement Change & Adoption Program Delivery
Explore My Work
Portrait of Parul Shukla

ABOUT ME

Learning design meets program leadership.

I began my career managing complex programs and transformation initiatives, where success depended on bringing structure to ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, managing dependencies, and keeping delivery moving across teams and geographies.

Over time, I found myself increasingly drawn to the people side of transformation. A recurring challenge stood out: organizations invested in training, yet information delivered did not always translate into confident application, changed behavior, or sustained performance.

That insight shaped the next chapter of my career.

I moved deeper into learning experience design, facilitation, capability building, and practitioner communities, designing experiences around practice, reflection, feedback, and real-world application. More recently, that work expanded into Responsible AI and AI enablement, helping people build confidence around rapidly changing technology while connecting learning to practical business needs.

Today, I bring both sides of my experience together: learning design and program leadership. I work from the business need through design, delivery, adoption, and measurement, with one goal: helping people turn learning into action and action into meaningful impact.

Career evolution from program and transformation work through learning capability, learning ecosystems and AI enablement.
Career evolution at a glance

HOW I WORK

From business need to workplace application.

I use an iterative approach that connects business needs, learner experience, delivery, evidence and continuous improvement.

Circular continuous-improvement process showing Business Need, Analyze, Design, Pilot, Deliver, Measure, and Reflect and Improve.

What I Do

Four ways I help turn change into action.

I design learning around what people need to understand, practice and apply at work. I use adult learning principles, ADDIE, SAM and design thinking to simplify complex content, build meaningful practice and feedback, and connect learning to performance.

  • Blended learning journeys
  • Microlearning & self-paced e-learning
  • Instructor-led and virtual learning
  • Learning playbooks and facilitator guides
  • Learning activities and assessments
  • Performance support and job aids
  • Learning communications

I help organizations make change easier for people to understand and adopt. I use the ADKAR model (awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, reinforcement) alongside learning, communication and enablement to translate new processes and technologies into practical changes in how people work.

  • Change and adoption learning
  • Stakeholder and learner communications
  • Generative AI enablement
  • Responsible AI capability building
  • Agentic AI learning and facilitation
  • Adoption and reinforcement

I lead complex initiatives from intake and planning through execution, transition and service handover. My approach combines stakeholder and vendor alignment, risk and dependency management, ITIL-aligned change and service transition, executive reporting, and Agile or hybrid governance where it fits the work.

  • End-to-end project & program ownership
  • Stakeholder engagement & executive reporting
  • Vendor & internal team coordination against client SLAs
  • Risk, dependency & issue management
  • ITIL-aligned change & service transition management
  • Agile/hybrid delivery governance

I design learning ecosystems that keep people connected and learning beyond a formal program. I use community, communication, peer learning and knowledge sharing, microlearning and self-paced e-learning to sustain engagement and help learning spread across teams.

  • Learning community strategy
  • Peer and practitioner learning
  • Knowledge-sharing experiences
  • Engagement campaigns
  • Learning newsletters and communications
  • Continuous learning and reinforcement

Selected Work

Work that shows how I think, design and deliver.

Recreated five-week facilitation learner journey
Learning Experience Design • Representative Case Study
ROLELearning Experience Designer | Program Lead
IMPACT550+ facilitators developed

Facilitation Capability Journey

Representative case study showing how I approached a blended experience designed to move subject-matter experts from presenting content to facilitating learner-centered experiences.

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Recreated continuous learning community ecosystem
Learning Ecosystem & Engagement • Representative Case Study
ROLELearning Ecosystem & Community Lead
IMPACT~40 → 4,000+ practitioners

Scaling a Practitioner Learning Community

Representative case study showing how I approached a practitioner-led community designed to keep learning active beyond formal programs.

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Recreated Responsible AI Advisor learner journey
AI Capability Building • Representative Case Study
ROLELearning Program Lead | Facilitator
IMPACTPilot → enterprise rollout

Responsible AI Advisory Capability Journey

Representative case study showing how I translated complex SME expertise into a progressive, practice-based learning journey for advisory conversations.

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Recreated infrastructure project lifecycle
Project & Program Management
ROLEProject & Program Manager
SCALE250+ projects & programs

Infrastructure Services & Technology Transformation

End-to-end management of complex infrastructure delivery, migration, governance and transition across global client environments.

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Ideas & Insights

Writing about learning, facilitation and AI.

My throughline across this work: facilitation and design still matter more than the tools we use. AI is changing how people access information, not the harder work of building real understanding, judgment or confidence to apply it. A course can cover everything and still teach nothing if it never asks a learner to think, decide or practice. The same holds for facilitation: presenting content well is not the same as creating the conditions where people actually engage, question and own what they learn. As AI takes over more of the "coverage" work, the facilitator's job shifts further toward designing for participation, connection and application, the parts of learning that were never really about information in the first place.

What People Say

How others describe working with me.

Ownership with clarity
“Parul consistently demonstrated a strong sense of ownership and accountability... She managed stakeholders with maturity and confidence, navigated escalations calmly, and brought a thoughtful, learner-centric perspective to every initiative.”
Aparna Chakravorty
Former Manager / Mentor • Learning & Development
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AI program execution
“Parul handled program execution and operational ownership with calm focus and consistency... bringing reliability and clarity in a fast moving, sometimes ambiguous environment.”
Mahesh Narayan
AI Governance & Responsible AI • Responsible AI Advisor Program
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Facilitator enablement
“Her guidance was instrumental in helping me successfully deliver sessions to a global audience. She has a strong ability to enable facilitators, simplify complex concepts, and create engaging learning experiences.”
Vijaya Deepthi S
Facilitator Enablement
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Delivery at scale
“Parul has successfully led multiple large-scale infrastructure projects, ensuring timely delivery, seamless execution, and adherence to the highest quality standards.”
Mayur Paraswar
Information Technology Lead • Project Delivery
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Let’s Connect

Have a learning, change, AI adoption or complex program challenge?

Let’s talk about how I can help turn it into a clear path forward.

Portfolio note: Professional case studies describe my experience and outcomes. Representative visuals and samples are independently recreated for demonstration and exclude confidential, proprietary, client-identifying and former-employer materials.