What does a Fractional Chief Learning Strategist do?
A fractional CLS provides senior-level learning strategy on a part-time or project basis — without the cost of a full-time executive hire. I work alongside your existing L&D team (or stand in for one you don’t have yet) to diagnose learning gaps, design curriculum architecture, align training investments to business outcomes, and build the systems that make AI adoption actually work.
How is AI Learning Architecture different from AI Training?
AI training delivers skills and information — how to use a tool, how to write a prompt, how to complete a workflow. AI learning architecture is the strategic layer upstream of that: what do people actually need to think differently? What learning sequence gets them there? What organizational conditions need to be in place for the training to stick? Architecture determines whether training produces compliance or competitive advantage.
Who is Clare Dygert?
Clare Dygert is an AI Learning Systems Architect and fractional Chief Learning Strategist with a career spanning corporate learning & development, higher education, K–12, nonprofit, and municipal government. She is a multiple Brandon Hall Gold Award winner, holds an MBA from Simon Business School at the University of Rochester, and is known for her work on transformational learning design, AI fluency, and the strategic architecture of organizational change. She is currently fractional Chief Learning Strategist at SweetRush and works with independent clients navigating AI adoption.
How do you work with your clients?
I use an iterative, collaborative approach and work holistically on your learning problem. We will work together to deeply understand your learners, your mission and business, and what success looks like to you.
My team is already doing training/coaching. How do you work with them?
No matter how the training function is happening in your organization, I will leave them better off than when I found them. I practice deep collaboration with you and your team, so that when the design work is done, we are all on exactly the same page for what next steps need to be taken and how to accomplish them. Depending on your needs, I can support the development phase of the work, oversee the creation of the assets we have planned for and lend a helping hand to your team as they carry out the work. Or I can source developers to help us bring the project to completion.
We are different. Have you ever done work for an organization like us? What industry verticals have you worked in?
In my long experience of doing this kind of work, I’ve partnered with all sorts of business in almost every industry vertical. But my true super power is deeply listening to you. I know the questions to ask, I know how to elevate your team, and in turn, elevate your work as an organization.
We are small. Money is tight. Can you still help us?
You bet I can. I want to be a part of the very good work you are doing in the world. I believe in your mission. Let me use my decades of experience to help you move your team to the next level.