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About Believe Learning
We are a learning design and culture development practice
We partner with leaders and organizations to design learning environments and workplace cultures where people can do their best work—especially in moments of complexity, change, or strain.
Our work brings together learning design, facilitation, and emotionally intelligent leadership practices to help organizations strengthen clarity, trust, and shared responsibility—without losing sight of the human experience.
HOW WE APPROACH THE WORK
At Believe Learning, we understand that organizations don’t struggle because people lack commitment or effort.
They struggle when the conditions shaping behavior—expectations, communication, emotional climate, and systems—are misaligned or unsustainable.
Our work focuses on designing and facilitating learning experiences that help leaders and teams:
- Slow down and make sense of what’s really happening
- Build practical capacity for navigating emotion, tension, and change
- Strengthen everyday practices that shape culture over time
We believe meaningful change happens not through quick fixes, but through intentional learning, reflection, and practice—embedded into the real work people are already doing.
WHAT THIS WORK LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE
Organizations work with Believe Learning when they want support that goes beyond surface-level strategies.
Our partnerships often include:
- Organizational learning design that builds leadership and team capacity over time
- Facilitated conversations and sessions that increase clarity, trust, and alignment
- Leadership development grounded in emotional intelligence, decision-making, and communication
- Support during transition or growth, when culture, expectations, and roles are shifting
Sometimes this work includes coaching.
Often it includes workshops, retreats, or multi-session learning arcs.
Always, it is grounded in the belief that how people experience the work shapes what they are able to do within it.
WHAT GUIDES OUR WORK
Several principles anchor everything we design and facilitate:
- Humans and systems are deeply interconnected. Sustainable change requires attention to both.
- Well-being and performance reinforce one another. Healthy cultures make high-quality work possible.
- Learning is experiential. People learn best when reflection, emotion, and application are intentionally designed.
- Culture lives in everyday moments. Meetings, feedback, decisions, and responses to challenge matter more than mission statements.
Meet Our Founder
Michelle Gill
Founder & CEO
Organizational Learning Designer & Senior Facilitator
Believe Learning was founded by Michelle Gill, an organizational learning designer and senior facilitator with deep expertise in how people learn, lead, and respond under pressure.
Michelle brings experience across K–12 education, nonprofits, higher education, and mission-driven organizations. Her background bridges research and real-world practice, allowing her to design learning experiences that are grounded, practical, and responsive to the realities leaders face.
As Founder & CEO, Michelle leads the vision, learning design, and facilitation work at Believe Learning, partnering closely with organizations to support thoughtful, sustainable growth.
OUR ASSOCIATES
Believe Learning collaborates with experienced associates to extend the depth and reach of our work.
Moira Murphy
Associate Facilitator & Consultant (PK–12)
Moira Murphy partners with Believe Learning as an associate facilitator and consultant, supporting PK–12 schools and districts. She brings deep experience in instructional leadership, professional learning, and working alongside educators to translate research into meaningful classroom and schoolwide practices.
Our associate model allows us to meet the needs of complex projects while maintaining alignment in values, quality, and approach.
WHO WE PARTNER WITH
Believe Learning works with:
- Schools and school districts
- Nonprofit and mission-driven organizations
- Public- and private-sector organizations seeking to strengthen leadership, culture, and learning
- Leadership teams navigating growth, transition, or cultural repair
- Organizations seeking to move beyond compliance toward coherence—especially where people, pressure, and complexity intersect
If your organization is navigating people challenges alongside high expectations and real constraints, this work is designed for that space.
Build a Thriving Organization
Strong learning environments and healthy cultures are built intentionally—over time, through practice.
If you’re interested in exploring how this work could support your organization, we welcome the conversation.