Nate Pienkowski, PhD

Strengthening L&D teams.

I help learning leaders build high-performing L&D teams with quality systems, procedures, and upskilling programs.

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Approach

How I help you accomplish this.

This work is about embedding lasting capability in your team, so the quality of what you produce holds up over time and at scale.

01

Equipping non-trainers to deliver training that holds up.

When the people delivering — or diagnosing, or running the whole cycle — aren't L&D specialists (managers, champions, super-users), they need structure that carries the expertise for them. I build that structure.

02

Strengthening your L&D team's capability.

When the goal is improving what your build team produces — quality, durability, outcomes that hold up — I work with them on methodology, frameworks, and the decisions that separate training that works from training that just gets shipped.

03

Bringing AI into L&D with rigor.

When you want AI in your function but the path isn't obvious, I help integrate it — into the methodology, into the team's workflow, into what they're capable of producing — without the magical thinking that's everywhere right now.

How we work together

Four delivery modes.

Sized to fit your situation — with a strong bias toward leverage and reuse.

01
Design.
Bespoke methodology, system, or program designed for the situation.
02
Train.
Workshops, courses, and programs that build the team's skills directly.
03
Equip.
Productized templates, frameworks, and tools your team runs themselves.
04
Advise.
Ongoing counsel and direction without direct execution.
Impact

What this work has produced.

Stood up global COVID vaccine communications.

When WHO needed to educate health workers worldwide on new approvals and protocols in 2020, the Immunization Academy was the platform.

27%

Improvement in immunization service delivery.

Nigeria field evaluation comparing clinics using the Immunization Academy against those that didn't.

Equipped Ukraine's health workers in wartime.

When war broke out in 2022 and the health system began to fail, the Immunization Academy was rapidly localized into Ukrainian.

1M

Users across nearly every country.

Through the Immunization Academy platform.

Fastest product uptake ever in its category.

Sales training for a pharmaceutical CAR-T cancer therapy launch.

40×

More learners reached.

WHO AFRO's Mid-Level Managers program grew from ~40 trained per year to 13,000+ across the African continent in eight years.

Recognition

Six Brandon Hall Group awards, 2022–2025.

Four Gold, two Silver.

2022
2022 — Best Use of Mobile Learning
2022
2022 — Best Certification Program
2022
2022 — Best Results of a Learning Program
2024
2024 — Best Competencies & Skill Development
2024
2024 — Best Custom Content
2025
2025 — Best Learning Program Supporting Change Transformation
Clients

Clients and earned trust.

Gates Foundation
WHO
UNICEF
Merck
J&J
Abbott
Baxter
IBM
Google
Intuit
Marriott
Mars
Lowe's
KIND
Farmers

Working a hard L&D problem?

I'd like to hear about it.