The Course Kitchen team includes freelance learning and development professionals with exceptionally diverse professional and academic backgrounds. This richness allows us to serve clients from varying sectors and with varying needs.
New and aspiring learning designers: Our team is always growing, and we love to coach and mentor less-experienced learning designers. At Course Kitchen, we develop learning experiences and learning designers. Send us your resume if you’d like to shadow an upcoming project.
Dr. Bonnie Budd
Founder and Principal

Dr. Budd created Course Kitchen in 2016 to provide organizations with access to the best learning and development professionals in the field. She serves as the primary point of contact for clients as a consultant, designer, developer, and project manager, and she has never been happier! Over the last ten years (give or take), she helped to launch and improve learning design initiatives in academic, financial, healthcare, and research organizations. She is committed to the continuous improvement of learning experiences whenever and wherever they occur.
Professional Background
Education
Personal

Along with her husband, stepson, and puppies Piper and Timber, Dr. Budd spends a lot of time in her quiet backyard overlooking beautiful conservation land in the Blackstone Valley of Massachusetts. She loves to cook, especially with friends willing to tackle really complicated dishes, a joy she discovered upon starting
Neighbor Dinners in St Louis. She owns a banjo with dreams of knowing how to play it someday, but so far it just looks pretty in the living room.
You can connect with Dr. Budd via LinkedIn, on Twitter @drbonniebudd, or via email at bonnie@coursekitchen.com.
Leslie Marquez, MEd
Senior Designer and Learning Consultant
With a Master’s Degree in eLearning Technology and Design and more than a decade of experience in corporate training and eLearning, Leslie is uniquely qualified to analyze your training needs and design a plan that works for you. Her passion for eLearning technology and ‘can-do’ attitude helps make any project run smoothly. She has designed engaging and effective training in many different industries including healthcare informatics, IT, sales and services enablement, government contracting, and higher education. Leslie is able to seamlessly transform content from in-person modules to interactive and challenging online formats that make learning fun. Connect with Leslie at leslie@coursekitchen.com.
Susan Nabonne-Beck
Senior Programmer and Accessibility Specialist
Susan is an experienced learning and development professional with a broad range of expertise. Her expertise is in developing AAA-compliant, fully accessible online experiences for all learners. She has deep skills programming in the latest versions of Articulate and Adobe learning suites, as well as Vyond and a variety of other tools. Connect with Susan at susan@coursekitchen.com.
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