Week 1 Welcome & Introductions

Hello, everyone! I am Kate Hansen, and I am based in the greater Charlotte area — on the South Carolina side of the North and South Carolina border.

I work for Novant Health, where I design education for remote teams within our Population Health space. My learners are a wonderful mix: non-clinical specialists, clinical staff, Social Workers, and Dietitians — all of whom primarily interact with patients by phone. My day-to-day involves building courses, resources, and training experiences that help those team members feel confident and competent in the work they do every single day.

I joined this cohort because AI has already proven to be a genuine efficiency tool in my workflow, and I want to go deeper. Specifically, I am hoping to learn how to leverage AI functions within Articulate to create education that is more engaging, more realistic, and more closely tied to the actual tasks my learners are practicing. I want my courses to feel less like training and more like preparation.

And because the bonus question was clearly the most important one: I share my home with Bootsy, a breathtaking three-legged Great Pyrenees who has never once let a missing limb slow her down, and Linda — a Bengal cat named after my favorite aunt — who is exactly as glamorous as that origin story suggests.

Bootsy

Linda