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What are you trying to change, build, or understand?

The Open Practice Academy helps people and organizations turn what they value into how they actually work.

Services

CONSULTING

Make sense of complex challenges, uncover what’s really getting in the way, and build a thoughtful path from where you are to where you want to go.

TEACHING & TRAINING

Create meaningful learning experiences that help people understand, practice, question, and apply rather than simply sit through another presentation.

WEBSITE REVIEW & REFRESH

Turn a website that feels outdated, confusing, or no longer quite like you into a clearer, more accessible, intentional reflection of your work.

COACHING

Bring the messy idea, difficult decision, or half-formed possibility, and we’ll create the space to think it through together.

FRACTIONAL & SPECIALIST

Bring experienced, specialized capacity into your team or project when you need sustained expertise without another full-time position.

SPEAKING

Bring a thoughtful, candid, and deeply human perspective to conversations about openness, learning, leadership, care, technology, and the systems we create together.

CREATING & BUILDING

Turn the thing you’ve been imagining into something people can actually use, experience, learn from, or participate in.

CAREER NARRATIVE SERVICES

Make sense of a career that doesn’t fit neatly into boxes and tell the story of your experience, strengths, and direction in a way that actually sounds like you.

WRITING

Commission original writing, research-informed thought leadership, educational content, or collaborative writing that makes complex ideas accessible without flattening them.

Need a thinking partner, not a full project?

Specialist Support gives you time with a specialist, live sessions or ongoing async support, whether you're already working with us or just need expertise on something specific.

What TOPA can help with

TOPA offers flexible support across several connected areas of practice:

Leadership and Organizational Change

Leadership development, change management, organizational culture, coaching conversations, decision-making frameworks, and human-scale team design.

Instructional Design & Curriculum

Course design, learning outcomes, module structure, lesson writing, assessment alignment, learner experience, accessibility, and curriculum development.

EdTech & Canvas/LMS Support

Canvas course organization, LMS structure, templates, tool selection, digital learning workflows, accessibility basics, and user-friendly learning environments.

Open Education

Open educational resources, Creative Commons licensing, open pedagogy, OER adoption, resource discovery, faculty support, and open education program design.

Professional Development

Workshops, webinars, learning pathways, communities of practice, open office hours, facilitator guides, and staff or faculty learning experiences.

Documentation & Knowledge Organization

Internal guides, onboarding resources, workflows, SOPs, toolkits, resource libraries, process maps, and knowledge-sharing systems.

The work behind the work

TOPA is built on the belief that learning, documentation, and support systems should be clear, accessible, sustainable, and humane. Good educational work is not just about content. It is about helping people understand what matters, where to begin, how to keep going, and how to make the work usable for the people it is meant to serve.That is the work of open practice.

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