About Us
Where Learning, Innovation, and Motivation Meet!Advancing Careers
Learnovation ®, LLC is the best at Career GAP analysis helping providers and individuals obtain or coach on the skills, knowledge, and abilities needed for reaching target jobs and advancing careers.
You can count on our expertise in instructional design, today’s workforce, student dynamics, millennials, at-risk populations, outcomes assessments, and career management to help individuals and communities economically and emotionally thrive.
Learnovation®, LLC is known for its ability to integrate knowledge, skills, and abilities, tools, and technologies measures with job readiness, academic readiness, soft skills, and performance standards.
We address job readiness, workplace engagement and gainful employment, with personal expertise in:
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at-risk youth
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reentry
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outcomes assessment
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curriculum development
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mapping the Department of Labor’s standards to both national curriculum standards and DOE standards.
We believe the holistic approach allows us to support both– staff, teachers and administration in preparing and inspiring students for career and academic success.
We Believe…
We believe in the development of the individual. Institutions, organizations, agencies, and individuals come to us in that delta moment when they are ready to change. We partner with them as they are developing and documenting their knowledge, skills, abilities, tools, technologies, education, and rare talents in the pursuit of gainful employment. Our understanding and special talent in instructional design and learning make us exceptional at developing and measuring outcomes and accountability.
Our Values & Impact
Our Focus
- Learnovation believes in the holistic approach to individuals. The individual must embrace personal change to assist them in both soft and technical skills
- Learnovation understands that not all people learn in the same way – innovation is require in the instructional design of materials and approaches to learning
- Our instructional design is about impacting BEHAVIOR
- We teach PROCESS like no one else in the industry
- We are recognize as an EXPERT in the career portfolio process
We Impact INDIVIDUALS
- Covering a wide range of demographics: tribal members, veterans, adult students, high school students, college students, at-risk-youth, agency clients/customers, and industry employees
- We focus on those individuals facing a personal delta in their lives
- We help them manage/ control the change process
We Impact ORGANIZATIONS
- Not-for-profits, government agencies, education, corporate (hospitality, technology, manufacturing, agriculture, green industries)
- Provide measured success for organizations AND individual
- Facilitating individual in order to make money, save money, or grow leadership
Anna Graf Williams, PhD
Anna Graf Williams is the founder and president of Learnovation, LLC. For 21 years she’s focused her passion on inspiring individuals to take charge of their own careers, and in assisting institutions, agencies, and employers to integrate gainful employment strategies and measurable well-being into their programs. Dr. Anna continues to champion Career Portfolios as the way to demonstrate skills and abilities—always focusing on closing career gaps and valuing transferable skills.
Dr. Anna’s dynamic career includes higher education administrator, restaurant manager, entrepreneur, and farmer. She understands and commands the “process of success” where there is always more than one way to reach a career goal—the path may be through college degrees; through the stacking of courses, certifications, service and experience; or a combination of all of these.
Never content to sit in a classroom after making full-professor at the university over 20 years ago, Dr. Anna has channeled her love of people, innovation and learning, and her entrepreneurial spirit, into Learnovation. Committed to helping people work on themselves while serving others she wraps career and economic science with the NEW education model.
Education & Background
Dr. Anna received a Bachelor of Science in Human Resources & Family Studies from the University of Illinois. She earned masters degrees in Restaurant Hotel Institutional Management and Education, and a PhD in Educational Administration from Purdue University.
The Goal...
“To inspire people to focus their own careers, using their well-being to engage and knowledge, skills, abilities & rare talents to have the lives they want to live!”
Featured Products
Career Portfolio Books
- Creating Your Career Portfolio At-A-Glance Guide for Students, 4ed.
- Creating Your Career Portfolio At-A-Glance Guide for Dietitians 2ed.
- Creating Your Career Portfolio At-A-Glance Guide BASICS
- Creating Your Career Portfolio At-A-Glance Guide for Professionals
- Career Transitions- Transferable Skills Workbook, 2ed.
- College Prep Portfolio Workbook, 2ed.
- Career Portfolio Workbook for Dietitians, 2ed.
Life Skills Pamphlet Series
- Workforce
- Reentry
- Financial Literacy
- Parenting
- Wellness & Nutrition
- Study Skills
Boot Camps
- College Boot Camp
- Job Camp