Professional Development

Ask about our one-on-one professional development coaching! We tailor a program explicitly for your needs. Recent session topics include:

  • Networking for Introverts: Develop achievable strategies and goals for networking, whether at specified networking events or learning skills for approaching people in any setting.

  • Resume Bootcamp: Have your resume or CV fully assessed, then work together to improve your content, presentation, and layout.

  • Taming Social Media: Evaluate your social media presence and develop a goal-based strategy while learning tips and tricks to automate for maximum presence with minimum effort.

Group Workshops

Availble online or in-person. Book the entire class for personalized content.

  • Instructor Kimberly Colburn

    Practice your communication skills and get comfortable presenting on- and off- screen through fun, low-stakes improvisational games.

    Become familiar with techniques and tools for:

    • Comfortably speaking and interacting in group settings

    • Team building

    • Collaborating with others

    • Preparation for speaking and warming up

    • Camera awareness

  • Instructor Kimberly Colburn

    There is nothing more inspiring than a bold idea delivered by a great speaker. Ideas, effectively packaged and delivered, can change the world. Utilizing the TED talk format, the goal of this workshop is to learn about how to use storytelling to make your ideas resonate, and in turn, become memorable.

  • Instructor Julia Lederer

    Take a workshop with an award-winning playwright and copywriter who will give you new insight into the critical core skill of writing, - boosting your communication and your confidence.

  • Instructor Bree Sherry

    Learn from a professional stage manager the tips and tricks to get organized and be able to anticipate the needs in any room.

    Los Angeles based, travel costs outside apply

  • Instructor: Casey Stangl

    Creativity is in great demand but often short supply. How do we foster creativity in workplace environments that are either fully remote or consist of a workforce in a state of change? This workshop offers a variety of techniques and exercises designed to quickly create a safe space in which colleagues learn trust each other and are encouraged to take risks. Outcomes include a tool kit for team building and collaborating as a group to face challenges and find solutions.

  • Instructor Caroline McGraw

    Everyone you meet has a story that informs their behavior—even if you don’t know it. Who’s on the other end of that phone call, or the other side of the conference table? What motivates your target customer? Using methods from playwriting and screenwriting, this workshop will guide you through the imaginative process of creating a fictional character from scratch. We’ll help your team cultivate rapport and build empathy, emotional intelligence and understanding for everyone they encounter over the course of a workday.

  • To lead in the modern world requires empathy and compassion for others and for oneself. Explore the relationship between identity and power as they share personal examples of when they felt empowered/disempowered, and when they may have contributed to these feelings in others in order to facilitate a greater understanding of equity.

    Travel costs outside Toronto apply for in-person

Games

Skill and Team Building Games

Team-building games are currently online, contact as for in-person options. Games run between 30-60 minutes and will be adapted to fit your particular team needs.

  • Primary skill: Resource management

    Secondary skill: Communication

    Getting the right resources to the right place with the right people is a challenge for any one person, and it can be even harder when working as a team. Teams are thrown a number of curveballs as they have to find each other and work together to create the perfect set-up for a party.

  • Primary skill: Negotiation skills

    Secondary skills: Organization, People management

    Sharing information to achieve a goal while not giving away trade secrets is at the core of most business transactions. Can you get people to agree without having all of the pieces of information? Can you organize and motivate people to your maximum advantage? Can you get your Ducks in Row?

  • Primary skill: Taking Initiative

    Secondary skill: Critical thinking, Communication

    In life, people don’t always tell you what the rules are in every situation. Does your team struggle to navigate through difficult scenarios to come to a solution? Do you feel like people are asking to be micromanaged instead of taking the initiative to figure it out themselves? This game plops people right in the middle with no explanation and asks the team to work together to figure out what the game is asking them to do.

  • Share information and fun facts in a game setting. An adult form of the children’s game “Telephone”, one participant is charged wih sharing information with the team, and then the breakout rooms are mixed up and participants must pieceve together what they know. Will you get all he deets and be able to pass the quiz? Try it and find out! This is a great option for folks who enjoy trivia, but don’t want a traditonal Trivia Night quiz format.