Learning Experiences to take your teams from good to great
Communication & Presence Workshops
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Lead With Clarity
Your leadership moment’s coming, and all eyes will be on you. Learn and practice with your colleagues how to get ready and lead the room with clarity and confidence.
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Spotlight Storytelling
A well-timed story can do what even the clearest of explanations can’t. Learn how to use narrative to connect with your audience, transfer an important message, and become a memorable speaker.
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Executive Presence Cues
Before people pay attention to what you say, they first notice what you don’t say. Learn how to fine-tune the signals that make you you and how others trust you and what you want to share with them.
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Slides That Speak
Every slide is a decision. Learn how to design visuals that guide attention, sharpen your argument with visuals, and deliver your message with added clarity.
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Go Unscripted
The question you didn’t see coming. The meeting that turns to you. Most of what we say is never planned. This is the practice gym for those moments. Your team leaves ready to speak unprepared.
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Small Talk, Big Moves
Small Talk gets a bad rap. We need to reframe Small Talk as a vetting process to find people who can actually help you achieve your goals. It’s a hit or miss and that’s okay!
Team Collaboration Workshops
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Team Communication Skills
How a team communicates with each other is indicative of how the team works together. Work on one, and you work on the other. And from it come a team that is dynamic, innovative, and resilant.
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Lead Within Complexity
When everything’s moving and nothing’s clear, how you define and talk about the problem you’re solving is critical. Learn to lead through complexity without oversimplifying it.
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Feedback Loops
Feedback isn’t a chore: it’s a system to enhance critical thinking. Learn how to build a culture where reflection drives action, not just awareness.
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The New Accountability
Let’s redefine accountability not as a virtue but as a feedback loop that keeps us improving imperfect systems, so we can get work done without burning out.
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Convince Without Control
Influence without power games. Learn how to get alignment without pushing, positioning, or playing politics. Instead, persuade with reason and build a reputation for being a team player.
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Own Hard Conversations
You can’t lead dynamic teams without friction. Practice calling colleagues in with compassion, without dodging, sugarcoating, or blowing up. Build a culture of trust.
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Trust Under Pressure
To collaborate effectively, we need to establish and maintain not transactional but meaningful relationships. Let’s break down what it means to be trustworthy to know how to establish and repair trust.
Let’s talk.
Share with me your team goals.
Then, we can discuss how we can work together to achieve them.
Our clients
How We Run Workshops at InStride
We don’t lecture. We lead learning with your people, and with your culture in mind.
Our workshops are built for smart, fast-moving teams who need to communicate clearly, lead strategically, and make decisions under pressure. We create space for honest dialogue, grounded practice, and meaningful progress—without wasting time or energy.
Every session is designed and facilitated by seasoned experts who’ve led countless workshops at top-tier tech companies and coached leaders to go from good to great. We tailor the experience to your goals and guide teams through tension, insight, and alignment—together.
Preview
Before we teach your team, we align with stakeholders and senior leaders. We facilitate a fast-paced preview to ensure the material resonates with your culture and goals—and earns buy-in from the top.
Engagement
Then we deliver the workshop. Participants test-drive frameworks, build real skills through practice, and get peer + facilitator feedback they can use right away.
Feedback
From evaluations, post-workshop debriefs, we further customize and tweak the content and delivery to better meet the teams’ needs. From there, we roll out the workshop to the entire organization or set our sights on the next goal.
Whether you’re upleveling communication skills company-wide or sharpening a leadership team’s edge, we tailor everything to your culture, your pace, and your people.
Workshops are fast-moving, fun, and insightfully challenging, so your team doesn’t just learn.
They lead.
Workshop Testimonials
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“Michael created a safe space for us to exercise our ability to engage our vulnerabilities, and in the process, support each other in a genuine way, a phenomenon rarely seen in corporate America.”
Chelsea Davis
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“I've just completed Michael's two-day workshop. In just those two days, he was able to help me and my colleagues drastically improve both our delivery and structure of our presentations. He taught us how to craft the message of our story for a specific audience and desired affect. He gave us some great tools for organizing our story that will help it resonate and reduce the amount of time we need to spend thinking about structure. He helped us build upon our authentic voice with strong delivery skills."
Patrick Bayer
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“Michael conducted a truly informative and hands-on workshop for our Team. This gave me a uniquely tailored coaching session on the art of storytelling in front of an audience. Michael understands the art of communication and can lead a class of design professionals in understanding a very important skill set.”
Gaurav Gupte
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“ Michael was a great teacher through the day and the exercises he gave us were all well thought to help us build upon our skills while enjoying the process. I highly recommend him for your presentation and interview skills coaching needs. ”
Brandusa Bularca
