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Expertise Translation

How to turn tacit knowledge, expert judgment, and hard-won experience into clear language, repeatable practices, decision tools, and shared ways of working.

ESSAY 001Jul 26, 2026Expertise Translation

Why Expertise Becomes Invisible

Experts rarely fail because they lack knowledge. They fail because their best judgment becomes automatic and stays trapped inside their own thinking. Learn why expertise becomes invisible and what organizations can do to make it visible.

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ESSAY 002Jun 15, 2026Expertise Translation

What Is Expertise Translation?

Learn what expertise translation is, why traditional documentation fails, and how organizations can convert expert judgment into repeatable knowledge that survives growth, turnover, and AI adoption.

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About the author

Shannon D. Smith

CPTD · TRAINER · SPEAKER

Shannon helps organizations translate critical know-how into shared language, decision tools, and transferable ways of working — with graduate degrees in Instructional Design & Technology and Industrial-Organizational Psychology, and a CPTD credential.

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A weekly excavation of expertise, work, and human potential. Each post is a find: a pattern, a blind spot, or a mechanism pulled from the sediment of expert work, and named so you can use it.

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