Every session is designed and led by Ashley, built around real practice, and shaped around your objectives. Tell me the gap you’re trying to close, what your team looks like when it’s working, and how much time you have. I’ll share some recommendations.
Hooked from Hello
Craft a message that grabs attention, structure it so it makes sense, and deliver it in a way that keeps people listening.
For anyone who shares ideas and wants them to land. Open strong, think clearly on your feet, and come across the way you want to come across.
Presence Under Pressure
Accepting an offer. Yes, and. Taking what someone gives you and making it better.
The improv skills, taught as communication skills. Trust, collaboration, and treating a change of plan as something useful rather than a problem. For everything you didn’t prepare for: the unexpected question, the half-finished idea, and the meeting that goes somewhere else. Harvard Business Review on why this works.
From Presentation to Facilitation
Most corporate learning teams aren’t L&D people. They were great SMEs who turned out to be natural teachers.
This gives them the technical skills to be even better. Also for anyone who runs discussion-heavy meetings and onsites and needs the room working rather than listening. Room awareness, discussion flow, and getting a group to an outcome.
It’s almost never a language problem
Nobody leaves a meeting remembering how fluent someone was.
For teams presenting in a language that’s not their primary one, and for anyone explaining their work across cultures and functions. Not a grammar class, and nobody corrects an accent. The confidence is buildable without better English.
Real material, real coaching
Everyone presents the thing they’re actually about to present.
Their deck, their meeting, and their pitch. Everyone presents and everyone gets feedback: what already works gets named so they keep doing it, and we work through the rest in the room. You learn as much from watching everyone else go, and teams rarely see each other present, so it builds a shared language and the willingness to take a risk in front of each other. I have run it for engineers, designers, marketing, security, and people and places teams. Runs on its own or alongside a workshop.
That’s up to you. Here is what each amount of time actually buys. Longer sessions are more reps, not more slides.
With more people, the attention per person goes down but the interaction doesn’t. I move it into breakouts: small groups still practice, still get live coaching, still ask the specific question they came with. They work through real scenarios, debrief how they would actually use it, try it on each other, and leave with a plan to use it again. Tell me the headcount and I’ll tell you what shape it takes.
Real practice, breakouts, and live coaching. Cameras on. Best in groups small enough that everyone gets airtime.
The format with the most impact and the biggest rooms. The more people in the room, the more it becomes a performance and the less individual coaching there is. Worth deciding which you want.
Some people together in a room, others dialing in across time zones. Genuinely hard to run well. Delivered across every region for a global team.
Teams I work with are global, and plenty of the people in the room are presenting in their second language, or their sixth. The confidence problem there is real, and it usually gets misdiagnosed as a fluency problem.
Nobody leaves a meeting remembering how fluent someone was. They remember how the person made them feel and what they took away. We work on the anxiety directly, and on the fact that the simplest message is almost always the one people repeat afterward. That part is buildable, and it doesn’t require better English.
“Many of the ideas we brainstormed together in the morning were immediately implemented the very same day, and were well received by attendees, even those for whom US English wasn’t their first language.”
Senior HRBP, WeWork
From Presentation to Facilitation
Custom experience design and heavily tailored programs are built from scratch for a specific team and a specific problem. If your own facilitators should be delivering this rather than waiting on one person’s calendar, that’s the train-the-trainer route.
Tell me who the team is and what you want them doing differently. I build the session around those answers, and then read the room on the day.
