50 years of
COMBINED EXPERIENCE
We have the know-how you need.
Empowering Adults.
Transforming Systems.
Dynamic Learning Alliance was founded by a team of experienced education and adult learning professionals with a shared passion for human-centered design that creates lasting change.
With decades of collective experience in instructional innovation, professional development, and community engagement, our team brings a deep understanding of how adults learn, grow, and lead.
We specialize in designing responsive, inclusive learning that empowers individuals while strengthening the systems they serve from families and classrooms to corporate teams.
Human
Centered
Learning
Our mission is to deliver innovative learning experiences and personalized strengths-based support that foster personal and professional growth. We aim to create inclusive, learner-centered environments that allow individuals to speak their truth, thrive and unleash their full potential.
Crafting
Lasting
Change
We believe in the power of education to enact meaningful change. By collaborating with individuals, parents, early childhood providers, schools and organizations, we bolster personalized learning and development, ensuring that every learner is equipped with the skills necessary in today's dynamic landscape.
What Guides Us
Our programming is grounded in a rich blend of evidence-based frameworks that center human development, agency, and authentic learning.
Focus | How adults learn best.
Description | Emphasizes self-direction, relevance to real-life tasks, and the importance of personal experience.
How we apply it | We build co-agency into every offering—allowing adults to set meaningful goals, apply learning immediately, and reflect on personal relevance.
Adult Learning Theory
Malcolm Knowles
Focus | Designing inclusive and accessible learning for all.
Description | A research-based framework that provides multiple means of engagement, representation, and expression to support learners.
How we apply it | We create flexible materials and methods that support different learning needs, strengths, and contexts.
Universal Design for Learning
CAST
Focus | Leading and sustaining transformational change.
Description | This model outlines eight essential steps for implementing effective change within organizations or systems.
How we apply it | This model guides how we pace rollout, build buy-in, and help leaders foster momentum and culture change.
Kotter's Change Management
John Knotter
Focus | Learning as a process of reflection and perspective change.
Description | Encourages critical reflection on beliefs, values, and assumptions, helping learners revise and expand their worldviews.
How we apply it: Our learning experiences are structured to support shifts in mindset, build empathy, and foster deeper self-awareness.
Transformative Learning Theory
Jack Mezirow
Focus | Designing solutions based on empathy and user experience.
Description | A creative problem-solving approach that involves deep ideation, prototyping, and co-creation with the people you’re designing for.
How we apply it | Every learning experience is designed in partnership with our stakeholders ensuring relevance, trust, and sustainability.
Executive Function
Center on the Developing Child
Harvard
Focus | Understanding the conditions necessary for successful change in individuals and systems.
Description | Knoster’s model outlines five key elements required for sustainable change.
How we apply it | We use this model to assess readiness and guide implementation planning to ensure that every stakeholder group has what they need.
Model for Complex Change
Mary Lippitt
Focus | Learning through doing and reflecting.
Description | Involves a cycle of concrete experience, reflection, conceptualization, and experimentation.
How we apply it | We embed hands-on practice, active engagement, and real-world application into every experience.
Experiential Learning Theory
David Kolb
Focus | Whole-person development.
Description | Promotes development of five core competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.
How we apply it | We integrate SEL practices into child development programs nurturing environments where emotional well-being and learning go hand-in-hand
Social & Emotional Learning
CASEL
Focus | Structuring effective instruction for learning retention and mastery.
Description | Gagné’s model identifies nine instructional events that align with cognitive processes.
How we apply it: This model informs how we structure individual virtual learning and content modules for engagement, clarity, reflection and practice.
Gagné’s Theory of Instruction
Malcolm Knowles
Founder
Hello! My Name is Brittany Miller
My journey to this work is deeply personal. As a woman with ADHD who went undiagnosed until adulthood, I spent much of my childhood & adolescence struggling with executive functions and it impacted every aspect of my life.
My experience with the frustration, the shame, and the ultimate clarity is what drives my passion today. As a mother of 2 young daughters, I want to shift the narrative on how we understand ourselves and the behavior of our children and those around us from misunderstanding the struggles to addressing the root causes with strategies and systems that grow the brain, enhance our relationships, equip us for self-advocacy, and improve our mental wellbeing.
Prior to launching DLA, I was a Research Scholar for 12 years at NC State University developing and facilitating professional development, coaching and online courses for educators, leaders, and parents on the topics of executive function, self regulation, and learner independence in districts across North Carolina and reached over 40,000 individuals worldwide.
All my personal and professional experience has given me a unique perspective on how to create a compassionate, strengths-based approach to learning and development in childhood, adolescence & adulthood. Informed by research, and grounded in reality.
