Six dimensions
Scored 1–5 · 30 points total
Pipeline Ownership
End-to-end responsibility for the learning data pipeline — intake and strategy through design, delivery, and iteration.
AI Tool Fluency
Configuring, directing, and maintaining the AI agents that assist the work — as an operator, not a passenger.
Strategic CLO Partnership
Working relationship with the CLO or L&D executive — translating business priorities into the learning portfolio and back.
ID Development
Growing the practice of other instructional designers — review, mentorship, and raising the team's standard.
Measurement Practice
Instrumenting programs for evidence — defining what gets measured, running the analysis, acting on what it shows.
Systems Thinking
Seeing the learning function as one system — where a change in intake, tooling, or measurement moves everything downstream.
Three tiers of practice
Emerging ID
Strong craft in design and delivery. The pipeline and strategic work sit elsewhere — for now.
Developing Micro-CLO
Operating parts of the pipeline and some of the strategic relationship — usually without the role definition to match.
Operating as Micro-CLO
The full role, in practice — whether or not the org chart has caught up.
The White Paper · WP–01
The full argument, in one document.
The diagnostic case, the six-dimension framework with behavioral anchors, the three tiers, and what a Micro-CLO role definition looks like inside a real org chart.
Your details go to the ELG list — no third parties. Organization size feeds the benchmarking dataset behind the framework.