A studio of one principal,
a network of senior craftspeople,
and zero interest in pitching.
Twenty years in learning design.
Ten running this studio.
Bonnie Budd, EdD, founded Course Kitchen in 2016 after leading teams and design projects inside higher ed and corporate L&D — at universities and Fortune 500 learning teams. The studio exists because she got tired of watching big agencies bill enterprise rates for junior work.
Today Course Kitchen ships courses for clients who care more about learner outcomes than slide counts. Every project is led by Bonnie. The bench (motion designers, voice talent, accessibility auditors, LMS engineers) is hand-picked, senior, and contracted in only when the project calls for it.
Outside the studio: faculty appointments in instructional design, occasional conference talks, an embarrassingly large cookbook collection.
Four operating principles
that actually show up in the work.
Senior people only
Every line of script, every screen, every line of code is written by someone with at least a decade of experience. No juniors learning on your dime.
Code we’d ship for ourselves
Clean SCORM, semantic HTML, documented build files. If we wouldn’t be proud to inherit it, we don’t ship it to you.
Estimates we honor
Fixed-fee whenever possible. If scope changes, we tell you before we touch the work — no surprise invoices, ever.
Accessibility by default
WCAG 2.2 AA is the floor, not the ceiling. We design for screen readers, keyboard users, and cognitive load from day one — not as a remediation pass.
The studio,
year by year.
- 2016
Course Kitchen founded
Solo studio launches with first three executive leadership programs for Analog Devices.
- 2018
First global engagement
On-site learning analysis for Groupon in the Phillipines. Shipped on time, became a repeat-client relationship with contracting agency, Learning Tribes.
- 2023
First degree programs
Two fully online Master of Science degree programs for Bryant University designed and built over 18 months with tenured faculty and on-campus developers.
- 2024
80+ courses shipped, zero missed deadlines
Studio expands into rescue-and-rebuild engagements for inherited courses that need triage.
- 2026
Currently booking Q3 / Q4
Limited slots for new project-based engagements and embedded retainers.
Want to talk shop?
Dr. Budd reads every email.
Whether you’ve got a course that needs to ship, a program that needs rescuing, or just a question about instructional design, we’d genuinely like to hear from you.