Work is better when people trust each other, have a say, and feel responsible for what happens next. Our workshops are about how we get there.
Three distinct approaches. One shared belief: relationships are the delivery system of anything you are trying to accomplish. No matter what your work is.
Explore the solutions ↓Get your expertise heard, trusted, and implemented. Build authentic partnerships, navigate resistance, and influence without relying on authority.
Explore Flawless Consulting →Transform the way people gather, connect, and create together. Build belonging, participation, commitment, and shared ownership.
Explore Leader As Convener →Create cultures where people act with greater agency, take ownership, strengthen trust, and contribute more fully to the work they care about.
Explore Empowered at Work →Organizations often invest heavily in strategy, expertise, technology, and process—and still struggle to create real commitment.
Designed Learning focuses on the conversations and relationships beneath the work: how we partner, how we gather, how we respond to resistance, how we exercise choice, and how we take responsibility for what we are creating together.
Is someone a pain in the butt to work with? We wish we could change them for you. We can’t. What we can do is help you turn their resistance into valuable information.
Our workshops are experiential by design. Participants practice the work, reflect on their own patterns, and leave with approaches they can use immediately.
So does your willingness to be yourself.
Flawless Consulting® is built on a simple idea: authenticity is your most powerful tool for creating change. Say what you see. Be clear about what you want. Pay attention to what’s happening between you and the other person—not just the problem you were brought in to solve.
The work is learning to build relationships where there is enough trust for the truth to be spoken, resistance to be understood, and real commitment to become possible.
Every time we gather, we have a choice about the kind of world we create.
Most gatherings are designed to get people somewhere—to an answer, a decision, a plan.
Leader As Convener® asks something different: What if how we gather matters as much as what we get done?
Convening is the practice of creating a room where people can show up as themselves, speak what matters, discover the gifts already present, and take responsibility for what they want to create together.
Rooted in Peter Block’s work on community, the Six Conversations That Matter® offer a different way to gather—one built on possibility, ownership, dissent, commitment, gifts, and invitation.
Move from blame and dependency toward agency, ownership, and positive accountability.
People disengage when they experience work as something happening to them. Leaders become exhausted when they feel responsible for carrying everything themselves.
Empowered at Work invites leaders and individual contributors alike to rethink their relationship to responsibility, authority, trust, and contribution—and recognize the choices available to them even when circumstances are imperfect.
The three solutions reinforce one another, but each begins from a different place.
Your people need to influence without authority, work more effectively with internal or external clients, navigate resistance, or get their expertise used.
Consult →Meetings feel transactional, people are disconnected, change requires greater buy-in, or you want stronger belonging and shared ownership.
Convene →Blame, dependency, disengagement, or overmanagement are getting in the way of people acting with agency and contributing fully.
Empower →Designed Learning experiences can meet individuals, teams, and organizations wherever they are in their learning journey.
Immersive learning experiences facilitated with your people, in your organization or community.
Highly interactive live experiences designed for distributed and global teams.
Join learners from different organizations and practice alongside a diverse community.
Partner with Designed Learning to connect the work directly to your organization’s context and needs.
Learning becomes meaningful when it changes how we show up in real situations. Coaching and consulting help individuals and teams continue practicing the work after the formal learning experience ends.
Apply the principles in your real work and strengthen your ability to show up as a trusted partner.
Build a community of practice where participants reflect, experiment, and learn from one another.
Partner with a Designed Learning consultant to explore the underlying dimensions of an organizational challenge and determine how to move forward.
Tell us what is happening in your organization. We’ll help you think through which Designed Learning experience—or combination of experiences—can best support the change you want to create.
