Team Learning
When everything’s changing, we help your team find its footing—and its voice.
Reorgs, RIFs, AI mandates. New expectations, new processes, new performance expectations. There are lots of good reasons for teams to lose sleep right now. We know—we hear about them all the time in our coaching sessions and group programs. Which means we also know that too many teams are operating from a place of fear: afraid to share their perspective, afraid of making the wrong move, afraid of everything.
But you can’t afford to let your team stay passive, waiting for permission to do its job. You need a team that rises to this moment—one that holds its own in tough partner conversations, brings clarity to complex problem spaces, and builds powerful relationships that get things done.
You need a team that can be bold in the face of change.
That's where we come in. Our team learning programs combine training in the crucial skills today’s cross-functional teams need with supportive coaching that helps people break out of fear, reconnect with their values, and build real self-trust.
Our programs will help your team navigate the power structures and business incentives that shape your organization—and then use that knowledge to drive true strategy, align disparate stakeholders, and ship products that serve real people.
What it looks likE
We’ll work with you to custom-design an engagement that fits how your team works. Here are a few of our recent engagements.
Teaching designers at a Fortune 50 company how to stop people-pleasing and start driving partner conversations.
Helping a growing agency to level up its design and product leaders through multi-month coaching and learning cohorts.
Training designers and researchers at a Fortune 100 software company on storytelling skills that build influence and alignment
Facilitating offsites for design leaders at a B2B SaaS scaleup needing to decide its AI adoption strategy—fast
what we offer
Workshops
Build the leadership skills your org needs right now. From one-hour sessions to year-long programs
Team coaching
Build trust, work through challenges, and level up—together. From 1-day resets to 12-month retainers.
Keynotes
We deliver engaging talks for all-hands and special events—virtually or in person.
Facilitation
Get the most out of your next offsite or retreat with custom-designed sessions and expert facilitation.
On-demand courses
Enroll your whole team in one of our on-demand courses: Team Up or Storytelling for Public Speaking.
Leadership cohorts
Bring your emerging leaders together to learn the essential skills for managing up, down, and across.
what clients say
“Active Voice has been an invaluable addition to our learning and development program. The sessions are tailored to our challenges and continuously informed by feedback. Each session is immediately relevant and highly applicable across levels… building the resilience to partner strategically with the business is no easy feat. Our attendees rave about the courses, attendance rates are consistently high, and feedback is reliably stellar… We can’t recommend Active Voice enough.”
—Jess Greco, VP, product experience design, Mastercard
WHAT your team will LEARN
impact
“Relevant.” “Real.” “Empowering.” Those are just a few of the ways people describe our sessions. Work with us, and your team will be able to:
Show up with a bold perspective—even in moments of increased pressure and uncertainty
Build and sustain a healthy culture through turbulent times
Understand and navigate complex and shifting power dynamics
Build productive stakeholder relationships—without being a pushover
Frame conversations and tell stories in ways that build influence and move your agenda forward
core topics
Leadership and management skills
Developing leadership styles, values, and strengths
Building confidence and self-trust
Managing stress and building resilience
Coaching your team
Fostering team trust and safety
Establishing team priorities
Organizational and cross-functional skills
Navigating organizational change
Power mapping and systems analysis
Building effective partner relationships
Driving cross-functional conversations and projects
Building alignment and shared success
Communication power skills
Having hard conversations and navigating conflict
Giving performance feedback and setting expectations
Storytelling for influence and impact
what participants say
“I had a difficult conversation with a colleague last week that I am 100% sure I would not have been able to have if not for that workshop. Having the tools to get it started made something that is never going to be easy somehow easier.”
”Communicate through Conflict” session attendee
“Phenomenal! The content, the workbook, were all incredibly insightful and helpful. This was by far the best speaker series I have attended. Overall very impressed and felt this was a super valuable session.”
”Lead Your Way” session attendee
“I already started applying Sara’s framework and saw the impact I was having in my day-to-day work. I feel more empowered to expand on my ideas and persuade now that I know what tools I need to use to succeed.”
”Storytelling for Designers” program participant
who we work with
Let’s talk about your team
Since 2020, we’ve coached thousands of designers, researchers, content folks, product managers, and countless others working in and around UX. We’d love for your team to be next. Tell us a little about your team and needs, and we’ll get right back to you.
Hey there! We’re Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Jen Dionisio—the team behind Active Voice. We’re UX leaders turned professional coaches, trainers, and facilitators. Learn more about us.