At a Glance:
✓ 20+ Years Experience
✓ Operations & Leadership
✓ Strategic Thinking
✓ Learning Experience Design
✓ Visual Communication
✓ Adobe Creative Cloud
✓ AI Workflow Design
✓ Cross-Functional Collaboration
✓ Project & Program Management
I Enjoy...
✓ Making sense of the messy puzzle pieces
✓ Organizing and simplifying complex information
✓ Building systems people actually use
✓ Designing engaging learning experiences
✓ Develop strategy-centered solutions
✓ Making information easier to understand
✓ Creative storytelling through visual design
I am Jocelyn Little. This is my story...
I am a visual storyteller, creative translator, and the person people come to when they have something important to say and need it to look like it matters.
My path here wasn't straight. I grew up in Hilo, Hawaii, left the islands for UNLV, and graduated with a degree in Hotel Administration — then discovered in my final year that what I actually loved was design. That took me to MGM MIRAGE and a newly formed Diversity Education department, where I started as an intern, helped a three-person team grow into one running classes every month, and built myself a role that didn't exist before — operations, education, and creative production, because the work needed all three.
For over a decade since, I have done exactly that for a mission-driven organization serving first responders and those who sacrifice daily to serve others. I came in through the creative work and grew into running the operation — programs, projects, clients, systems, and the people who make them move. Translating complex ideas into experiences that reach the people who need them most is still the center of it. But the translation only matters if the thing actually gets built, delivered, and used.
That is what I do. I take what lives inside someone's vision — the idea they can feel but can't yet show — and I build the world around it. The design. The structure. The systems underneath that let it hold. With intention, with care, and with the Shokunin spirit: the relentless pursuit of getting it right.
Shiro is my maiden name. Naming this Shiro Collective is in honor of that — my name, my heritage, my family. Collective is the rest of it: I have never worked in one lane, and the value has always been in gathering the pieces and making them one thing.
Shiro Collective is where that work lives, and where I keep getting better at it.