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Team Learning
We teach the essential leadership skills every team needs right now—skills to help them cope with change, step into leadership, and take ownership of their careers.
Contact us to discuss programming for your team.
Build a more intentional leadership practice that puts people first. We offer in-house programming in a variety of formats: keynotes for speaker series, workshops, team and group coaching, and retreat facilitation.
Our focus areas include:
Read on for details about our current offerings.
Self-leadership
We help people discover who they are and how they lead. Because the best leaders lead like themselves—not someone else.
Current offerings
Lead with values
Uncover your leadership values, gain confidence in your strengths, and establish the growth areas that are most meaningful to you right now.
Own your career path
Learn how to set and stay connected to meaningful career goals—so you have a clear path forward, even in uncertain times.
Self-advocate with confidence
Learn how to speak up for your needs, champion your ideas, and set healthy boundaries at work.
Lead your way
Let go of perfectionism and impostor syndrome and learn to embrace—and share—your most powerful point of view.
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“Active Voice has been an invaluable addition to our CX&Design community’s 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, Director of product experience design, head of learning & development for Mastercard’s CX&Design Guild
Powerful communication
We help teams build stronger partnerships, handle conflict more gracefully, and speak up with more confidence. Because everyone deserves to be heard and valued.
Current offerings
Coaching skills for managers and leads
How to help yourself and your team face challenges with clarity, compassion, and courage.
Build better relationships
Foster greater trust and connection with cross-functional partners, stakeholders, and peers using tried-and-true communication techniques.
Communicate through conflict
Learn how to face conflict with grace and accountability, and make difficult conversations a bit easier—and a lot more successful.
Storytelling for designers
Learn how simple storytelling techniques can build influence, boost your confidence, and help you show up to any conversation with more presence.
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“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. The conversation absolutely needed to happen, but having the tools to get it started (and having had the ability to have a mock difficult conversation) made something that is never going to be easy somehow easier.”
—”Communicate through conflict” workshop attendee
Stress management and burnout prevention
We help teams work through chronic stress—so they can beat burnout and cynicism, and find new confidence in hard times.
Current offerings
Hit reset: How to process stress and find focus in stormy times Learn the signs of chronic stress, workplace trauma, and burnout—and gain practical tools for processing stress and supporting one another through uncertain times.
Get unstuck
Learn tools to stop spinning, find new possibilities when things feel impossible, and move forward from any challenge.
Supportive leadership for difficult times
Learn to recognize non-obvious signs of team stress, respond in ways that help everyone stay calm and present, and provide support to your team without adding to your plate.
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“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
Team trust and connection
We help teams build trust, cope with change, and work through rough patches in healthy, humane ways. Because people grow and excel when they feel safe, supported, and connected.
Current offerings
Team coaching
Build a strong foundation, rebound from challenges, and level up—together. In team coaching, a certified coach facilitates team sessions designed to increase connection, collaboration, and momentum over 4-6 months.
Team reset session
Rebuild trust and re-establish your team’s identity and sense of purpose after a rough patch, reorg, or other organizational change.
Offsite and retreat facilitation
Let us build an inclusive, engaging, and productive program for your next company offsite, leadership retreat, or strategy session.
Contact us to request full program information and discuss your needs.
More praise for our programs
“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.”
“Sara’s talk about working through and leading through crisis and trauma was invaluable and empowering. It provided tools and tactics to me, as a people leader and coworker, to help others through difficult situations both at work and outside of work.”
“It was such a good session. It really felt both inspiring and practical (a hard balance!) and made me feel reinvigorated to lead more intentionally. Phenomenal presenters!”
“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.”