Jeffrey 'Jet' Holt, M.Ed. — Instructional Designer & Technical Trainer

I Find the Gap.
I Build the Bridge.
I Get People Across.

Curriculum design, technical instruction, and performance training — for organizations that can't afford to keep doing it the way that isn't working.

Credentials & Qualifications
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M.Ed. Career & Technical Education Western Michigan University — 4.0 GPA
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Federally Authorized OSHA Trainer General Industry & Construction (29 CFR 1910 & 1926)
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CAD Instructor SolidWorks · CATIA · AutoCAD · Inventor · Chief Architect
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Lean Six Sigma Green Belt ROI-focused training design
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20+ Years Industrial Experience Toyota · Subaru · Calhoun ISD · Penn Foster
20+ Years Training Experience
$500K Annual Savings — Toyota
40+ OSHA Programs Built
3 Championship Teams Coached

The gap between knowing and doing is where I live.

Most training fails before it starts. The content is built for the subject, not the learner. The instructor knows the material but not the room. The gap between what people know and what they need to do stays wide — and the organization pays for it quietly, in errors, inefficiency, and turnover.

I close that gap. I've done it for automotive manufacturers, electrical apprenticeship programs, community colleges, corporate training departments, CAD and technical design teams, and championship athletic programs. The domain changes. The result doesn't.

And as a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, I don't just build training — I build training you can measure, with ROI you can defend to leadership.

📊 LSSGB — Training You Can Measure
"How do you know so much? Is there anything you haven't done?"

That's the question I get asked most. The answer: I've never stopped being a student of how people learn. Every domain I've worked in taught me something the others couldn't.

The subject was never the hard part. The gap always was.

Three Ways to Work With Me

Whether you need someone in the room, a course built from scratch, or the full package — the process starts the same way: find the gap.

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Teach It

I show up, read the room, and deliver instruction that lands. Whether it's a 16-hour skilled trades course, a CAD certification program, or an OSHA safety training — your people leave knowing something they didn't before, and able to use it.

$1,500/day
Two-day minimum for travel engagements
Travel expenses billed at cost
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Both

The full package. I diagnose, design, and deliver. You hand me the problem. I hand you back a trained workforce. This is the highest-impact engagement — and the one that produces the most measurable ROI.

Scope-based engagement
Let's talk about your gap

A Few Things I've Built and Delivered

The same methodology. Wildly different domains. Same result every time.

eLearning Conversion
Toyota Motor Engineering North America

Converted legacy manufacturing training to eLearning — saving an estimated $500,000 annually in delivery costs. During production, discovered a missing capability in Camtasia (TechSmith) and reverse-engineered a workaround. After sharing the solution with TechSmith, they built it into the software as a native "Reverse Clip" feature — now used by eLearning developers worldwide.

Curriculum Redesign · B2B
Ford Motor Company Trades Certificate Program

Rewrote and modernized Ford Motor Company's skilled trades curriculum — originally developed in 1933 — into a contemporary certificate program for active Ford tradespeople. Delivered through Penn Foster College as a B2B workforce development initiative, giving workers a structured pathway to advance their skills without leaving the floor.

Platform Development
FAST Safety Solutions

Designed and built a complete OSHA compliance training platform — 40+ written programs and forms for general industry and construction. Offline-capable. Veteran-owned. Visit FASTSafetySolutions.com →

High School CTE Instruction
Calhoun Intermediate School District

Career and Technical Education CAD instructor — SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Chief Architect, and more. Designed and delivered hands-on technical curriculum for high school students entering skilled trades and engineering pathways.

College-Level Instruction · 10+ Years
Penn Foster College

Online CAD and skilled trades instructor serving college students across the country and around the world — SolidWorks, CATIA, Inventor, AutoCAD, and technical design. Adapting complex technical content for a global, asynchronous learner population.

Corporate Training
Subaru of America / ONE10 Marketing

Senior Training Manager for a national automotive training program serving thousands of dealership personnel across the U.S. — designing, managing, and delivering training at scale.

Athletic Coaching
Soccer, Tennis & The Amazing Race

Multiple championship teams coached across three different sports and competition formats. Same instructional methodology. Different field. The gap between knowing and performing is universal.

SAFETY: A People First Approach to Compliance

A 10-book series covering OSHA's Top 10 violations — written by a federally authorized OSHA trainer with 20+ years of industrial safety experience. Not a legal manual. Not a checklist. A practical, human-centered guide to building a safety culture that actually works.

Each book covers one of OSHA's most cited violations — from Fall Protection to Hazard Communication — written for the people doing the work, not just the people managing compliance.

10-Book Series — Topics Include
  • Fall Protection
  • Hazard Communication
  • Respiratory Protection
  • Lockout/Tagout
  • Powered Industrial Trucks
  • Machine Guarding
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Electrical Safety
  • Walking/Working Surfaces
  • Emergency Action Plans
Written by Jeffrey 'Jet' Holt, M.Ed. · Federally Authorized OSHA Trainer · Available on Amazon KDP
The Methodology

"I take what's complex — technical systems, safety protocols, engineering processes, athletic strategy — and build the training that actually transfers it."

The subject changes. The approach doesn't. I look at the situation, evaluate the gaps, and see how to improve them systematically. That's not a niche. That's a system that works anywhere people need to learn something that matters.

Let's Talk About Your Gap

Whether you need a course built, an instructor in the room, or someone to tell you why your current training isn't working — the conversation starts here.

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