Nyla Spooner
Learning Designer, Inter IKEA Systems
Nyla Spooner is a Learning Designer at Inter IKEA Systems, BV and Co-Founder at DESIGNxHUMANITY (DxH), where she and the DxH team work together to create a learn-by-doing ecosystem for BIPOC learning and development professionals. Having worked in various industries from Tech to Retail, she has a wide scope of experience developing learning experiences for large organizations.Nyla is also the host of the popular L&D podcast, “I’m New Here”. Born and raised in Houston, Texas Nyla now lives in The Netherlands, but always remembers that real change-makers come from the third coast.
Latest from Nyla Spooner
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Being Strategic About Learning by Doing
Design by Humanity, or DxH, is a design collective andapprenticeship program that works to upskill people of color and mentor theirgrowth in L&D careers. Through volunteer projects and an immersive designboot camp, DxH provides creative services to nonprofits seeking learningexperiences designed from an anti-racist perspective. In this session, we will discuss how new learning designerscan lead by example and learn by doing. By examining the intersection oflearning and doing at DxH, session attendees will get a firsthand look at howvolunteering with an organization like DxH isn’t about “doing work forfree.” Experiential learning can happen in a number of ways. We…

