This is when her career veered towards an unexpected path. Alexis’ boss asked her to host a productivity workshop for her colleagues. Creating content for the workshop and figuring out how to distill her time management and productivity practices for colleagues to adopt in their own day-to-day work was a lightbulb moment for Alexis. She realized she could teach these skills to people professionally — and that she really enjoyed it. 

Little by little, in her free time, she built a coaching program to help professionals take back their time and untangle the chaos of the modern working world. “I want people to enjoy their lives as much as they can,” Alexis explains. “To use their time in a way that feels good to them.”

Alexis was in the early stages of her career pivot to coaching when someone from Udemy contacted her. They asked if she’d be interested in building a time management course for Udemy Business customers to share with their employees. Her workshops were about to reach a much larger audience. 

With five courses on Udemy, Alexis’s productivity and time management lessons have now reached nearly 180,000 global learners. “There’s no way I would’ve ever had that reach with running my one or two-person-sized business,” she says. Private one-on-one coaching isn’t practical for many workers, whether due to limited time, budget, or even trouble finding a coach. That’s why online learning is so powerful for both learners and instructors. It democratizes education for those eager to learn and allows instructors to share their expertise as far as the internet can go.