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LaDale Lois Whaley, M.S.

Welcome to the Digital Portfolio of

Personal Brand Logo and Website [Designed by LaDale L. Whaley]

Thank you for visiting my digital portfolio. I am pleased to offer you a wealth of experience as a Creative Wellness professional with over 25 years of experience in the Wellness, Travel, graphic, and instructional design industries. As a creative expert, I specialize in designing and developing dynamic learning experiences and environments from concept to deployment.

CEO of

One Creative Cutie, LLC is a creative agency committed to cultivating enduring and mutually advantageous relationships with individuals and organizations who share our vision of establishing resilient visual brands, promoting mental well-being and wellness, and creating wellness events, programs, and opportunities that facilitate innovative and effective outcomes. We firmly believe that wellness serves as a foundation for captivating creativity that should be captivating, impactful, and accessible to all.

As the CEO, I invited you to choose One Creative Cutie, LLC as a partner who is dedicated to your success.

No Masterpiece was ever created by a LAzy Artist. [Unknown]

MORE ABOUT LADALE

I truly enjoy using my creative abilities to uplift people, helping them feel more confident, inspired, accomplished, find balance, and make learning a fun and engaging experience.

Over the past 25 years, I have worked with diverse clients throughout her professional journey, including trainees, faculty, and students. My expertise is creating engaging and impactful instructional and training materials and programs tailored to each client's needs.

As a seasoned designer, I am committed to leveraging my creativity to construct well-balanced visual presentations. My expertise lies in creating stable environments for creatives, building visually stable brands, and fostering opportunities for growth, innovation, and well-being for individuals. I prioritize cultivating a healthy creative environment that provides a diverse range of products, services, learning environments, resources, and technologies to deliver effective business, service, and learning experiences. My professional strengths encompass mental health and wellness, travel wellness, and designing, developing, implementing, and delivering instructional and training materials and programs that empower learners to realize their full potential.

Whether you are an individual, business, or organization, I am eager to collaborate with like-minded individuals and organizations who share my passion for creating innovative and effective products, services, and environments.

My service offerings focus on business creativity, mental health and wellness, wellness travel, creative training, design and coaching.

  • Creative Business Development: Guide entrepreneurs and businesses in transforming ideas into visual brands, launching digital products, and developing profitable online ventures through strategic design and creative direction.
  • Mental Health & Wellness Education: Provide mental health literacy training, emotional wellness coaching, and holistic wellness practices that help individuals recognize, understand, and address mental health challenges while building healthier lifestyles.
  • Wellness Travel Experiences: Curate transformative wellness travel opportunities that merge self-care journeys with income-generating possibilities, helping others turn their passion for travel into profitable ventures.
  • Creative Wellness Coaching: Offer personalized coaching and accountability support that combines creative expression with wellness practices to help clients unlock their potential and achieve holistic fulfillment.
  • Community Programs & Events: Host conferences, workshops, and retreats like the Unfinished Girl Conference that create safe spaces for healing, growth, and transformation while building supportive communities focused on mental health and wellness.
  • Program Development: Building educational programs focused on student engagement and success from concept to implementation.
  • Instructional Design: Providing clients with engaging content creation (SCORM) for positive learning experiences.
  • Graphic Design: Providing clients with creating all course graphics, workbooks, and supplemental material to support active learning.
  • Educational Technology: Training and Design of Education Technologies
  • Learning Environments: Building student focus LMS experiences
  • Creative Direction: Project Management for the Design, Development, and Implementation of your program.
  • Promotional Content: The creation of all promotional content for the program.
  • Guest Speaker: Webinar Presentations, Teaching or Training

Mental Health and Wellness

This 12-week program combines business training and wellness education. Participants engage in field trips, meditation, networking, one-on-one mentorship, and more.

Youth Focused Mental Health and Wellness Program

Program Design

Program Logo Designed by LaDale L Whaley

This program provides participants with the skills, tools, and principles of instructional design best practices to help them enhance their current course or create a new one from scratch. The goal is to help course creators foster an environment that promotes student success and enhances the learning experience for their students.

Script Sample Graphic Design 101: How to Master Visual Communication

How to Create an Engaging Online Learning Environment

Design Agency Partner

Sites created on the Thinkific platform

Former Whaley Media Enterprise site.
Created and Managed: https://hopeeducationexchange.thinkific.com
Site Map for the Staff Training Site
Site Created: https://georgia-s-school-4321.thinkific.com
Site Created: https://www.unihacker.net
Client eiFocus interactive form inside course player
Client eiFocus Thinkific course landing page.
Client Wealth Artictechs training course bundles.
Client IROK Career School course landing pages.
Client R & B Tax School course player.
Client R & B Tax Express Thinkific course landing page.

Showcased Work

Portfolio featured as apart of Adobe Sparks Inspiration Gallery
Skills
Experienced with Mac and Windows platforms.

Programs of Knowledge:

  • Adobe Captivate
  • Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, DreamWeaver, Premier Pro, Flash Pro, Animate, Acrobat DC, Muse, Fuse, Color, Spark Post, Spark Video, Spark Page, Premier Rush CC, Lightroom CC and After Effects
  • Microsoft: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, Skype for Business, Sway, and Planner
  • Articulate 360: Storyline 360, Rise 360, Review 360
  • Apple: iMove, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Garageband, iTunes U, Final Cut Pro, and iBook Author
  • TechSmith: Camptasia, ReLay, Snagit, Jing and Screencast.com
  • LMS Systems: Thinkific, Kajabi, Blackboard, Desire2Learn/Brightspace, eCollege, Moodle, Schoology, and WebCT
  • Academic Technology: BlueJeans, Edublogs, Ensemble, Mediasite, Respondus, Qualtrics, Zoom, and Comic Life
  • Other Technology: Dropbox, Google Apps, Prezi, Vimeo, Wordpress, YouTube, Go!Animate, Coroflot, Wordle, and Zoom
  • RealizeIt
  • ScreenFlow
Knowledge

Education

  • Walden University | Doctoral Student - Educational Technology - 2022
  • Full Sail University | Master of Science - Education Media Design and Technology - 2011
  • University of Toledo | Bachelor of Arts - Interdisiplinary Studies - 2007
  • Davis College | Associate of Applied -Business - Graphic Design - 1999
Professional Development

Certifications

Adobe Education Exchange

Issued by Adobe Education. The bearer of this badge has completed a critical thinking and creativity course regarding the process of creativity for all disciplines and educational subjects. The bearer of this badge leverages their skills to foster creativity into the education process and teaching and learning practice to prepare students with 21st Century skills.
Issued by Adobe Education. The bearer of this badge has completed 3 hours of professional learning in a critical thinking and creativity course called Design your Creative Class or Course. They have completed all the assignments and will leverage their skills to foster creativity in the education process and teaching and learning practice to prepare students with 21st Century skills.
Issued by Adobe Education. The bearer of this badge has completed a course called Design your Creative Course about instructional design for creativity in any discipline. They have completed all the assignments and will leverage their skills to foster creativity in the education process and teaching and learning practice to prepare students with 21st Century skills.
Issued by Adobe Education. The bearer of this badge has demonstrated mastery of the learning objectives of the Adobe Education Exchange course, Teaching Online Masterclass
Education Media Design and Technology

Action Research Project

Beyond the Four Walls: Creating a Blended Classroom with Technology - Full Sail University, Winter Park, FL

While teaching for ITT Technical Institute in 2010, I was faced with the growing need for innovative ideas for teaching design in the classroom. My design students were all eager to learn; however, our resources were limited. Therefore, I decided to use my Action Research Project for my Master Program to explore methods for improving learning outcomes, retention, and overall student engagement.

The course located below was created as an element used for my research during my Masters program. While teaching as ITT, my students did not have access to an LMS and limited access to academic technology. Therefore, I implemented the use of free technology into my classroom to conduct my research.

The Research and Project Results

Full Sail University - Winter Park, FL

Tools for Project Management

Notion

Notion is used to plan, organize, and collect data, ideas, and content.

Infinity

Infinity Project Management software is used to track projects and business.

Additioinal Project Management Tools Include

  • Google Suite
  • Trello
  • Slack
  • Dropbox
  • MailChimp
  • Eventbrite
eLearning Authoring Tools

Articulate RISE 360

Screen Shots of Course Development Project

Adobe Captivate

Adobe Captivate master slides and theme created to develop faculty and student training videos, tutorial, and software simulations.
Faculty Development

Faculty Training

iTunes U Training Course

iTunes U course created for the University of Memphis Teaching & Learning Center to assist faculty and staff with using the iTunes U services.

Faculty Orientation Program Outline - Course Map

Full Project Outline of Course

Purpose of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Faculty Orientation Program

The purpose for the Faculty Development Program was to enhance the teaching and learning experience that would result in student success. By participating in the program, the University of Tennessee Health Science (UTHSC) faculty would discover concepts, methods, technology and best practices necessary to enhance the UTHSC learning environment.

Faculty Development For eLearning

Participantion is often a challenge for Faculty Professional Development. Therefore, it is important to create elements that engage the attention and excitement of the faculty to encourage participation in the course, workshop, or training. Below is a sample video used to demonstrate a method of enhancing the anticipation for an upcoming course.

Professional Development Graphic Created in Adobe Post

Faculty Development Course

Sample faculty development course created in the Schoology LMS.
Teaching Resources
Course Announcements
Student Assignment Examples
Examples Created During Live Demonstration of Assignments
Infographics
Presentations

Interactive Presentations

The following buttons will lead you to an interactive presentation design, developed and presented for various Faculty Development/ Professional Development workshop.

Student Engagement

Curriculum Development

A Lesson On Color Theory

The following lesson is a Color Theory Worksheet. This worksheet is apart of the Color Theory Module design to develop the students skill and knowledge for mixing and recognizing colors. This worksheet was designed to walk students through the process of creating color mixtures using acrylic paints, however, it can also be completed digitally. During this hand's on lab, students were instructed to mix the paints to create colors and paint the color wheel following the directions on the worksheet. Once students have successfully completed the worksheet, they were assigned a final project requiring them to create an original color wheel incorporating the skills practiced during the lab.

The images above represent the Teachers Key for the Color Theory Worksheet

Adobe Kuler (Adobe Color CC)

This video was created to introduction students to Adobe Kuler (Now Adobe Color CC). After completing the hands on lab, during which the students mixed the colors by hand. We then began to use Adobe Color CC to explore digitally mixing colors to create color schemes to use in their design work.

User Design
XD Daily Challenge - Layout (Movie Webpage)

XD ONLINE COURSE

First Stage: User Experience Course Design

User experience for a demonstration designed to incorporate a virtual environment into a course using, RealizeIt, Unity and Adobe Charater Animate.

XD MOBILE Quiz

Sample user experience quiz created with Adobe XD.

XD Web design

First Stage: Web Site Prototype

User experience layout of portfolio web site design created using Adobe XD.

Second Stage: Web Site Design Shell

Created using Adobe Muse

Prototype Design

Sample student assignment submission portal.
Videos
Video Editing

DIGITAL STORY TELLING

Music by the Smooth Jazz Saxophone Orchestra - India Aire Smooth Jazz Triute.

Graphic Design

BRANDING DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN

Print Design

Event Publications Created using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS

WEB DESIGN

Photo Editing and Enhancement

Photography/ Photo Enhancing

Random Photography

Photo Editing

Photo Editing and Enhancements with Adobe Photoshop.
Vector Graphics

Logo Design

Logo Design Created using Adobe Illustrator
Print Design

Illustration

Flyers Created using Adobe Illustrator.
Rapid Visualization

Drawing

Marker Rendering using Prismacolor Markers and Pencils
Video Production

Video Editing

Social Media

Design & Management

3D Design

Character Design

Created with Adobe Fuse
Virtual Design

Virtual World

Virtual Island: game environment created with Unity
Contact Me

Email

ladalelwhaley@iCloud.com

LinkedIn Profile

Thank you for your time!

And one more thing....
Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose. ~Unknown
CREATED BY
LaDale L. Whaley, M.S.

Credits:

Created with images by stokkete - "Laptop on a bright yellow desk" • StockPhotoPro - "Creative office" • Pexels - "apple computer desk" • Negativespace - "computer macbook tablet" • stevepb - "books student study" • FirmBee - "office flowers apple" • Unsplash - "workstation office business" • TheDigitalArtist - "project management planning business" • Domenico Loia - "Taking notes" • FirmBee - "office freelancer computer" • Pexels - "browser computer depth of field" • markusspiske - "office home office creative" • kellogg - "Colors" • rawpixel - "adult art artist" • moritz320 - "photograph record camera" • fancycrave1 - "office home glasses" • arnoost_com - "notebook macbook apple" • coffeebeanworks - "web design facebook facebook page" • LyraBelacqua-Sally - "nikon camera lens" • Pexels - "apple books desk" • kaboompics - "pencil pencils black pencils" • AlexanderStein - "colored pencils pens crayons" • fill - "camera handcam lens" • geralt - "human google pinterest" • dangquocbuu - "laptop at night laptop night" • 422737 - "spider monkey email letters"