Amy Vidor

Learning and Development Evangelist

Amy Vidor, PhD is a Learning & Development Evangelist at Synthesia, where she researches emerging learning trends and helps organizations apply AI to learning at scale. With 15 years of experience across the public and private sectors, she has advised high-growth technology companies, government agencies, and higher education institutions on modernizing how people build skills and capability. Her work focuses on translating complex expertise into practical, scalable learning and examining how AI is reshaping development, performance, and the future of work.

Latest blog posts by Amy Vidor

An L&D Strategy Isn’t Enough. You Need a Roadmap.

An L&D strategy defines what matters. A roadmap defines what happens next. Most teams have one. Few have both. Without a roadmap, strategy doesn’t translate into execution. This guide shows how to design an L&D strategy and turn it into a roadmap using a five-phase approach (assess, align, design, deploy, measure) that connects business priorities to measurable impact. Read more

Your L&D Tech Stack Doesn’t Need More Tools

L&D often owns tools for content creation and delivery, while relying on other systems across the organization, like survey tools, intranets, and shared workspaces. Employees have always had different places they could go to learn. Now, AI has made it easier to access that learning in the flow of work. With this shift in mind, it’s worth revisiting your tech stack strategy so you can assess what adds value and what doesn’t. Read more

Video-Based Training: How It Works and When to Use It

Video training helps people build knowledge and skills through explanation, demonstration, and guided review. In this guide, we look at how it works, when to use it, and what makes video-based training effective in practice. Read more

Employee Onboarding Process at Scale: A 90-Day Operating Model

A scalable onboarding process needs more than a checklist. This guide gives you a 90-day onboarding operating model with clear ownership across HR, IT, and managers, plus stage checkpoints that keep every cohort consistent. You’ll also learn how to add a video-first delivery layer that reduces message drift across teams, regions, and time zones, with links to the detailed checklist and execution resources. Read more

AI in Instructional Design: How IDs Are Using AI in 2026

AI is now embedded across many instructional design workflows. Most teams have figured out content production. The bigger opportunity is in evaluation, using the capacity AI creates to actually measure whether learning is changing behavior. Read more

Facilitating Role Play at Work (With Scenarios + Debriefs)

Role play builds skill fastest when the practice feels real and the debrief is consistent. This guide gives L&D teams a facilitation approach, ready-to-run workplace scenarios, and debrief prompts that help managers practice feedback, accountability, and performance conversations, then retry with clearer standards. Read more