Change won’t wait.
Help your people design through it using the same process that Fortune 500 companies use to build their digital products.
The Challenge
Change is everywhere. Reorganizations, hybrid isolation, career uncertainty, and a rising expectation that work should mean something. The real question isn’t whether your people face change. It’s whether they design through it, or simply react to it.
Traditional development teaches employees how to do the job. It rarely teaches them how to intentionally design a career and life that supports it. That gap shows up as disengagement, burnout, and quiet quitting — the exact outcomes L&D is asked to move, often with programs that don’t stick and are hard to measure. Life Design closes that gap with a structured, human-centered method and built-in measurement.
What L&D is up against
Disengagement that standard training simply doesn’t reach
Burnout and well-being erosion across the workforce
Mid-career professionals stalling or quietly leaving
Skills programs that fade without reinforcement or application
Generic wellness perks that feel impersonal and go unused
Development spend that’s difficult to tie to real outcomes
Human-centered design applied to the whole person.
A structured, action-oriented method that takes the design process technology teams use at Fortune 500 companies and aims it straight at human lives.
The loop participants learn to run
01: Explore
Rate current satisfaction across all five life areas.
02: Prototype
Design small, low-risk experiments to test without massive change.
Across five life areas
Career
Work that fits values & skills
Health
Physical & mental wellness
03: Reflect
Identify what works, keep what fits, iterate if necessary.
Relationships
Connection with others & self
Finances
Monetary resources, savings & debt
Hobbies
Play, flow & fulfillment
The Business Case
Life Design earns the engagement of a program people actually want, and moves the outcomes leading research ties to financial return.
“This put me back on track with my health, finances, friendships, and job. It was an eye opener.”
Workshop participant · Fortune 25 healthcare enterprise
Let’s design your rollout.
What this rollout provides.
Experience: 25+ years of Fortune 500 UX design practice behind every exercise.
Safe space: Honest reflection happens in a neutral space outside the managerial reporting line.
Consistency: The same high-quality experience across every cohort, every time.
Measurement: Structured pre/post surveys that grow your outcomes evidence base with every run.
How to deploy
Let’s chat!
Please email me at shannon@shannon-brown.com, and we can arrange a time to discuss the best approach for your organization.