Learning strategy and design
Professional learning, programme design and learning experiences for educators, leaders and organisations.
NickPraulinsLearning designer and facilitator
Learning, communication and the occasional good idea.
I’m a Stockholm-based learning strategist, facilitator and educational consultant working across education, organisations and communication.
For almost twenty years, my work has focused on how people learn, how organisations communicate and how ideas become practice. I’ve worked across Australia, South Africa, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden as a teacher, school leader, learning designer, content strategist and facilitator.
Today, I co-lead The Nordic Learning Company and continue to work selectively with organisations on learning, communication and content strategy.
The Nordic Learning Company
I’m co-founder of The Nordic Learning Company, a Stockholm-based learning organisation working with schools, educators, leaders and organisations across Europe.
We design and facilitate professional learning, leadership development and learning experiences informed by research and pan-Nordic educational practices.
My work there spans learning strategy, programme design, educational consulting and facilitation. It brings together almost twenty years in education and school leadership with my later work in communication, content and organisational learning.
Selected work
- Learning strategy
The Nordic Learning Company
Co-founder · Learning strategy · Programme design · Facilitation
Professional learning and development for schools, educators, leaders and organisations across Europe.
My work includes learning strategy, programme design, educational consulting and facilitation, with a particular focus on practical learning that people can use in the reality of their work.
- Content and communication
JobCloud
Content strategy · Brand · Editorial · Communication
I work with JobCloud, Switzerland’s leading digital recruitment company and the company behind jobs.ch and jobup.ch.
Since 2024, my work has spanned content strategy, editorial development, brand communication and strategic communications projects, with a particular focus on turning complex labour-market, career and organisational topics into useful content.
- Facilitation
Professional learning across Europe
Course design · Teacher development · Facilitation
Since 2024, I’ve designed and facilitated multi-day professional development for educators from across Europe.
The work covers areas including wellbeing, mental health, AI-pedagogy, leadership and change management, and brings together programme design with live facilitation for international groups with different school contexts, languages and levels of experience.
- Mental health education
Let’s Be Real
Co-founder · Mental health education · Schools
I co-founded Let’s Be Real to help international schools take a more practical and informed approach to young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
Our work included staff training, student and parent workshops, and broader support for schools looking to strengthen how they approach wellbeing and mental health.
Twenty years across education, leadership and learning design
I started teaching in Australia in 2006.
Since then, my work has taken me through schools and organisations in Australia, South Africa, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden.
I’ve worked in classroom teaching, instructional design, eLearning, marketing, and school leadership. I later spent seven years as Head of Primary at Phorms Frankfurt City Campus, alongside a period with regional responsibility across three schools.
Those years gave me a practical education in how organisations actually work: how people respond to change, how culture develops, where communication breaks down and how systems affect the people working inside them.
Alongside education, I kept moving into communication and design. I worked in instructional design in South Africa, led school marketing, and later moved into content strategy and strategic brand communication with JobCloud in Switzerland.
Today those areas no longer feel separate. They inform how I design learning, facilitate groups, advise organisations and shape communication.
What I work on
Facilitation
Workshops, leadership sessions and collaborative processes designed around participation, reflection and useful outcomes.
Educational consulting
School leadership, professional learning, organisational development and the practical realities of educational change.
Content and communication strategy
Editorial strategy, brand communication and complex content, including work in the changing landscape of AI and search.
Let’s talk.
I work selectively with organisations and people on projects involving learning, communication, education and facilitation.
It’s currently daytime in Stockholm, and I usually reply within a day.