How to help your team (and yourself) face challenges with clarity, compassion, and courage
ONLINE WORKSHOP
12 - 2:30pm ET
You schedule design reviews, but no one wants to share their work. You see major strategic potential in a team member, but they keep getting stuck in rabbit holes. Or maybe you’re beginning to worry about budget cuts hitting your org—so you start pressuring your team to overwork to prove its worth.
Each of these leadership challenges has a shared root: Fear. And when we’re afraid, we tend to hide—from the problem, and from each other.
That’s where coaching comes in. Coaching isn’t just mentorship or advice. It’s a thought-provoking process that pulls back the veil and helps people face their needs and worries from a place of curiosity and strength. This workshop will give you an introduction to some of the most powerful coaching skills design and tech leaders can use to empower their teams and grow their practices.
What you’ll learn
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn:
How to ask powerful questions that help others get unstuck and unlock fresh insight
Listening skills that help you get to the heart of a person’s challenges or frustrations
Tools for helping people reframe their challenges and move forward
Techniques for making 1:1s more impactful and less draining
Methods for coaching yourself through challenging times
You’ll leave with new skills you can apply right away in 1:1s, team meetings, and anywhere you want to kickstart your team’s growth.
Who it’s for
This workshop is for formal and informal team leaders, including managers, leads, and senior ICs. Coaching skills can benefit anyone responsible for mentoring, supporting the growth of team members, or giving feedback (or hopes to be in the future).
“It really helped me see how helpful it was to be heard without someone trying to solve a problem. Academically, I understood that it's good to listen… but FEELING it in practice just drove it home.”
—Workshop attendee
Reserve your seat
- Individual registration: $229
- Team registration: Save 15% on orders of three or more (use code TEAM at checkout)
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About your facilitators
Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a certified leadership coach, author, and keynote speaker dedicated to changing design and tech for good. She’s the founder of Active Voice, a company dedicated to helping people step into their power, speak up for justice, and build more courageous leadership practices in their organizations.
Her most recent book, Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech, was named one of the best tech books of the year by Wired. She’s also the author of Design for Real Life (with Eric Meyer) and Content Everywhere, and has spoken on more than 100 stages on four continents (and of course, countless Zoom calls).
Jen Dionisio is a certified transformation coach, content strategy consultant, and educator. Her experience spans the tech, higher ed, and nonprofit industries. Her years of management experience include scaling up a content strategy practice from 5 people to 25 people, supporting the career growth of her reports and mentees, managing managers, and helping new managers establish a leadership style authentic to their values and core strengths. She's also a former professor at Drexel University and the University of the Arts. As a coach and facilitator working with Active Voice, Jen helps people launch new chapters of their lives with intention and purpose.