Selected work / Learning design

EY-Parthenon Academy

Competency-based learning pathways

01

Context & my role

EY-Parthenon (EY's strategy pillar, joined via acquisition) had no unified internal academy.

EY-Parthenon needed its first academy after joining EY post M&A. Strategy practice spans entry-level IC to Partner, with very different competency requirements at each rank.

Learning paths
8
ILT courses
64
Program delivery
1.5 years

Target audience

Individual contributors through partners in the EY-Parthenon strategy practice.

My role & approach

  • Lead instructional designer, with other 3 IDs, 1 PM, 1 BP
  • Led the creation of the rank × skill set mapping taxonomy
  • Guided SMEs (partners, senior managers) to author content according to the structure set up rather than chase one-off requests.
02

Map role to L1 & L2 competencies

Role × competency coverage across Individual contributor, Workstream leader, Project leader, and Client advisor.

Teaming, managing, and leading

  • Leading high performance teams
  • Personal development
  • Project management
  • Conflict management
  • DEI

Problem solving

  • Data / business modelling
  • Data collection, processing, analysis
  • Multiple L2 skills
  • Foundational analyses & frameworks

Communication

  • Overarching principles of effective comms
  • Written communication
  • Verbal communication
  • Impact, presence, and style

Entrepreneurism and client acumen

  • Business development
  • Value / client centricity
Original role-competency coverage matrix showing four competency areas and which sub-skills apply to individual contributors, workstream leaders, project leaders, and client advisors; white cells are not in scope
Role × competency coverage
03

Define skills/topics for each competency

Communication examples from the rank × topic mapping:

Individual contributor

  • Slide Writing Foundations
  • Applying Slide Writing Principles
  • Storyboarding Foundations
  • Overview of presentations at EY-P
  • Participating in client presentations

Workstream leader

  • Reviewing and Refining Slide Writing
  • Applying Storyboarding Principles
  • Contributing to client presentations
  • Leading internal presentations
  • Designing and leading client workshops

Project leader

  • Advanced Slide Writing Techniques
  • Advanced Storyboarding Techniques
  • Designing and leading client presentations
  • Refining Presence, Style and Delivery
Original communication curriculum matrix mapping written and verbal communication topics to individual contributor, workstream leader, and project leader roles
Written & verbal communication / Full skills and topics matrix
04

Map course progression on a two-year span

0–3 months

  • Communication Strategy at EY-P ★
  • Intro. to EY-P written Comm Framework
  • Slide building foundations
  • Slide writing foundations ★
  • Visual displays of info: quantitative data ★
  • PPT + ThinkCell + SlideFox ★
  • Introduction to presentations at EY-P

1st year

  • Slide Building in practice
  • Value-added note taking
  • Presentations: Participating in client presentations ★

2nd+ years

  • Applying slide writing principles
  • Visual displays of info: qualitative data ★
  • Principles of effective storyboarding ★
  • Business development (introduction to BD)

Anytime

  • Writing essentials
  • Writing emails that work
Original course progression map grouping communication and business development courses into 0–3 months, first year, second-plus years, and anytime
Course progression / 0–3 months, 1st year, 2nd+ years, anytime
05

Outcomes

An operating taxonomy for the practice

  • 8 learning paths, 64 ILT courses, 1.5 years
  • Skillset–rank mapping became the operating taxonomy for the practice
View the original work samples / Slides 7–10