ZQ Onboarding Academy

When new orthopedic sales reps need to build clinical credibility and selling readiness quickly, I designed a structured onboarding experience that builds clinical and selling readiness with a consistent, scalable journey.

    • Accelerated new hire readiness and path to confidence by 87.5%

    • Integrating role-specific pathways, skills assessments, and real-world application to ensure rapid field impact and sustained performance

    • Consistent onboarding framework

    • Stronger early performance signals from standardized tools

  • Challenge:
    New sales reps entered a highly complex selling environment where clinical and product knowledge were essential from day one. Regional training practices varied, ramp times stretched out to a full year, and the experience was inconsistent.

    Goal:
    Create a unified onboarding experience that accelerated confidence, standardized readiness milestones, and equipped sales reps to add value quicker.

    • Structured journey: phased onboarding mapped to the competencies needed to be effective on a sales team

    • Blended experience: self-paced digital modules, live workshops, clinical immersion activities, and mentor touchpoints

    • Behavior focus: scenario practice, feedback loops, and job-aid reinforcement

    • Discover: Partnered with sales leaders to identify the competencies required in an effective sales rep

    • Design: Map topics to competencies and design an 8-week blended learning program (4 weeks self-paced and virtual instructor lead sessions, and 4 weeks of intensive in-person hands-on workshops and industry expert labs

    • Pilot: Tested with select reps, refined pacing and difficulty

    • Scale: Rolled out across the full sales organization

    • Instructional Designer and learning architect for the entire program structure

    • Assessment and evaluation strategy

    • Design of 500+ pieces of content in the form of eLearning modules, formative assessments, field guides, facilitator guides, webinar agendas, learner guides, resource guides, presentations, activities and more

    • Scenario writing and gamification strategy

    • Analytics and measurement of outcomes

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