Team

Brad Eastman, Principal and Instructional Designer
Brad Eastman, M.Ed., Ph.D., has been involved in teaching and instructional design for over twenty years. He has worked on projects for BC Hydro, BC Water and Waste Association, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, and the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing at UBC, in addition to a number of other projects. As a member of the LeadOn Training Solutions team of consultants, he developed courseware for Cisco Systems' worldwide Systems Engineers ACCELERATE training program in the area of Storage Area Networks.

Brad has done presentations on best practices for online instructors, knowledge management, and building online communities of practice. At the Distance Education and Technology department of the University of British Columbia where he worked as project manager for several years, Brad managed the work of course authors, graphic designers and web programmers to build, launch and revise new online courses. Brad was part of a team responsible for designing and teaching course materials for the Croatian Academic & Research Network’s new “Certificate in the Management of E-Learning.”

Brad has taught for a number of post-secondary institutions, and is a regular instructor in Athabasca University's Centre for Distance Education, teaching courses in Distance Education and Introductory Project Management.


Susana Spandier, Senior Consultant

Susana Spandier is an educator and trainer with more than twenty years of experience in teaching school-age learners, young adults, and teachers themselves. Her teaching career began early in her life when, as a member of the company of the National Ballet of Canada, she ran her own classical ballet school. She subsequently chose to specialize in the educational field, adding a Cambridge University teaching qualification to her Diploma in Theatre and Dance (Ryerson University) and BA in Physiology (Dalhousie). She has taught English as a Second Language (ESL) both overseas and in Canada, as well as business and computer education and orientation programs for newcomers to Canada.

Susana directed course curriculum and teachers at Harborside College, Vancouver, and Richmond International High School and College, for several years. She has also trained high school teachers on the use of classroom language instructional technology and developed proprietary curriculum for private language school companies in Korea, Japan and China.

From 2008 to 2012, Susana took a hiatus from curriculum and teaching work to operate a service business providing transportation, casework management, social support and caregiving to seniors and people with disabilities in the Vancouver area. This work led her to also volunteer as a support group leader with the Alzheimer’s Society of BC. In 2013 she returned to the educational field, and has recently conducted teacher trainer and curriculum development for schools, literacy projects and public health initiatives in Lesotho, Uganda and Jamaica.