This class is for mid-career professionals — typically five to fifteen years in — who are good at what they do but find they're not being taken as seriously as their experience warrants. If you've been told you're "technically strong" but keep watching less capable colleagues get heard first, this is built for you.

Over six sessions we work on the specific things that make experienced professionals sound junior. Over-explaining. Hedging. Burying the decision at the end of a long build-up. Going quiet when someone senior pushes back. These are habits, not deficiencies, and they're fixable.

What we cover:

Decision-first communication — leading with your conclusion rather than walking people through your entire thought process. Cutting hedging and over-qualification from how you speak and write. Holding your position in meetings when challenged, without becoming combative. Disagreeing upward — the specific structures that let you push back on a senior person and stay credible. Executive presence — pace, pause, voice, and what you do with silence.

Sessions are practical rather than theoretical. You bring real situations from your own work — a meeting that went badly, a review coming up, a conversation you've been avoiding — and we work on those directly. Every session includes live practice and specific feedback rather than general advice.

No preparation needed before the first session. Bring one situation you'd like to handle better.

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