Whatever you do, don’t look her in the eye.

Our favourite place is where inventive learning design, the science of human cognition and aesthetic delights collide, influencing behaviour and accelerating performance one hypnotic stare* at a time.

*Learning solutions may not involve hypnosis

  • Our Core Team

Our people are highly skilled professionals in the learning and development industry. They are specialists in custom elearning design and general L&D delivery, covering project management, instructional design, graphic design, audio visual production, UX, VR specialists, copy editing and Learning Management System architecture.

If you’re interested in joining our team, partnering with us or simply connecting to share ideas over a coffee, make sure you contact us or follow us on LinkedIn.

BUT WHAT’S IN A
LEARNING HOOK?

Meet Some of our team

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Brenden Carter

Creative Director & GM

Brenden Carter

Creative Director & GM

A highly qualified and experienced adult education and elearning professional, Brenden brings an in depth understanding of our clients’ and learners’ needs.

Little known fact: Guest starred in the 80s TV show Chances - no googling!

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Justin Cruickshank

Design & Production Manager

Justin Cruickshank

Design & Production Manager

Justin's unique background in video and digital production, journalism, and workplace safety adds depth to the team's collective technical and creative expertise.

Little known fact: Gets it all done without the aid of coffee, never had a cup in his life.

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Brendan Lewis

Lead Developer / Project Manager

Brendan Lewis

Lead Developer / Project Manager

Brendan’s thorough technical proficiency in all elearning-critical technologies forms our team’s production backbone.

Little known fact: Owns more suits than the rest of the team combined.

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Kat Milazzo

Lead Learning Designer

Kat Milazzo

Lead Learning Designer

Whether designing large-scale public emergency evacuation programs, or writing interactive solutions for online mental health initiatives, Katrina brings to her work a deep faith in the transformative power of good learning, a thorough understanding of the importance of good design, strong technical ability and adaptability, and the ability to bring order to even the most chaotic project.

Little known fact: Is pretty handy with a needle and thread, and loves any opportunity for a costume party.

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Tanzia Coughlan

Learning Designer / Project Manager

Tanzia Coughlan

Learning Designer / Project Manager

Tanzia's years of corporate experience as a technical trainer has helped her understand the importance of simple, interactive learning design.

Little known fact: Was once part of a World-Championship-winning team in Irish dancing.

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Brian O’Dwyer

Learning Designer / Project Manager

Brian O’Dwyer

Learning Designer / Project Manager

Brian has 20+ years’ experience in knowledge and information design, providing instructional design solutions in corporate, government and NGO environments. Brian is a passionate communicator whose grasp of visual, verbal, and technical communication allows him to interact on multiple levels and translate business needs into creative and engaging content for internal and external customers.

Little known fact: In his spare time, Brian plays drums and has recorded/produced over 50 albums.

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Andrew Douglas

Graphic & Web Designer

Andrew Douglas

Graphic & Web Designer

With an initial 10 years in IT then switching career trajectory to design, Andrew combines precision with creativity always looking at what's 'new' and looking for ways to combine it into communication.

Little known fact: Andrew is only the hands of the operation. The brains belong to a small, belligerent cat named Tyra.

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Shane Cubis

Writer / Copy Editor

Shane Cubis

Writer / Copy Editor

With a background in magazine and comedy writing, plus a school-teaching qualification, Shane always aims for clarity in his work. Especially when he's trying to make you laugh, teach you something or spill Hollywood gossip.

Little known fact: Shane used that teaching qualification for 13 non-consecutive days in the classroom.

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Robyn Bourchier

Administrator / Accounts Payable Manager

Robyn Bourchier

Administrator / Accounts Payable Manager

Robyn ensures our production team can focus on the ‘learning and performance stuff’ via her smooth administration and financial acumen.

Little known fact: She has watched more episodes of any show you have watched; Stan and Netflix is simply not enough!

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David Berketa

Senior Learning Designer

David Berketa

Senior Learning Designer

David is an award-winning Instructional Designer / Multimedia Designer with over 15 years of experience in creating digital and paper-based training for clients around Australia and internationally. He also has over 25 years of experience in animation, video, user experience design, graphic design and web design.

Little known fact: He plays Catan - Sheep for wheat, anyone?

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There's so much more...

Production & Design

There's so much more...

Production & Design

Beyond our lead team, our extensive network of learning design and production partners allow us the flexibility to target the right skills at the right time to meet your needs while also delivering on volume and national roll-outs.

If you're one of those scarily high achieving learning designers, writers, visual narrators, animators, UX designers or front-end development gurus, make sure you reach out to us as you will probably fit right in (or at the least, we can enjoy getting to know one another!).

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Martin Hultén-Ashauer

Full-Stack Developer

Martin Hultén-Ashauer

Full-Stack Developer

Löksås ipsum vidsträckt där denna på icke sig, som plats precis sax stig plats hav ännu, gör dimma att är därmed hela. Både vidsträckt kan som ingalunda gör se färdväg dunge hwila hav, rännil smultron mjuka verkligen tre redan sjö sig därmed smultron groda, oss som groda så händer gamla från åker ska.

Little known fact: Has circumnavigated Tasmania in a sailboat at least twice.

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Darren Chaitman

Learning Designer

Darren Chaitman

Learning Designer

In the past, Darren was forced to sit through lots of bad training programs and elearning courses. “There must be a better way,” he cried to himself in anguish. In that moment, his resolve hardened. He knew he must go on to create high quality learning solutions to shield others from what he had experienced.

Little-known fact: Has been known to compete in serious Scrabble tournaments.

The new Induction course is nothing short of absolutely superb. Beautifully laid out, informative and interactive. Any new starter would feel completely welcomed and part of the team from Day 1.Roslyn Fischer
Energy Australia
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Our level of expertise and team dynamics provides you workflows that are unparalleled in the elearning industry, product development that stands the test of time, learning design that has flair and educational rigour, and above all else, we listen to our audience (it’s a no brainer really, as our aim is for them to listen to us!).

  • Let’s Connect

Our Solutions

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INDUSTRY ELEARNING

Elearning solutions for industry and organisations

INDUSTRY ELEARNING

Our elearning solutions cover:
- Compliance
- Induction
- Leadership
- Safety
- Cyber Security
- Mental Health
- Sales
- Products
- And much more

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VIDEO AND ANIMATION

We produce video content with end-to-end options from script to delivery. Interactive videos, 2D and 3D animation, live action video production.

VIDEO AND ANIMATION

We produce video content with end-to-end options from script to delivery. Interactive videos, 2D and 3D animation, live action video production.

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Our WeCARE365 elearning solutions enable managers to lead more mentally healthy teams.

WeCARE365

WeCARE365’s aim is to grow mentally healthy cultures at work – everywhere. All WeCARE programs are designed by The Learning Hook and use a mix of elearning, nudge videos, spaced learning, job aids and much more. Get in touch for a demo of WeCARE Manager, WeCARE (for all), WeCARE Psych Safety, and our WeCARE Momentum portal.

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Practise. Compete. Track. Explore. Addict. Perform.

GAME ON. LET'S PLAY.

Let us inspire your people to become proactive about learning, embedding skills on-demand. Let’s also capture all we need to measure performance or identify the performance gaps.

Game On is an award winning platform (best product training solution) which uses activities, badges, leader boards and quizzes to get people playing and performing…

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DIGITAL DOJO LEARNING PLATFORM

Platforms for learning campaigns

DIGITAL DOJO LEARNING PLATFORM

Digital DOJO Learning Portal supports learning campaigns through the curation of content, micro-learning moments, forums, channels and categories, delivering learning and performance support to your organisation, when needed.

It’s an LMS/CMS with heart and soul…

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CHANGE FITNESS PROGRAM

Adaptable people outperform

CHANGE FITNESS PROGRAM

Our people are dealing with an ever increasing amount of ‘change fatigue’.

What is your organisation doing about it?

We can help through our blended Change Fitness program…