Skill Up Labs:

Connect first. Learn together. Practice with intention.
Each Lab is designed to spark understanding, build shared language, and generate practical skills your team can apply immediately.

“Employees who FLOURISH…

—emotionally, socially and with purpose—don’t just survive work. They elevate it: delivering 13% higher profitability, 20% more innovation, 25% lower turnover intent. The data is clear: well-being isn’t HR’s job. It’s the CEO’s growth strategy.”

-McKinsey Health Institute 2025

Each Lab Includes

  • 90-minute workshop (in-person or virtual)

  • 1-hour purpose + planning session to align goals, outcomes, and context

  • 1-hour debrief + next steps session to translate insights into action

  • Pre- and post-workshop communication + surveys to prepare participants and capture impact

  • Individualized action steps that sustain learning beyond the session

  • At least two practical tools or frameworks tailored to your context

  • A research-informed learning experience that is grounded, relevant, and accessible

  • An inclusive, interactive environment for courageous dialogue and skill building

  • A foundation for culture-building that supports long-term organizational growth

Pricing

$1,000 per Lab

Skill Up Month: four weekly labs. $3,500

Leadership and Culture Development Day: Half Day 2 labs $1800 | Full Day 4 labs $3,500

A Year of Skills: one lab per month. $10,000

Navigating Change Lab

  • What are the key components to navigating change successfully?

  • Change is happening and employee engagement is directly tied to how well change is navigated within an organization. This lab gives the shared language and tools to cultivate pride and motivation during change.

Personal Values Lab

  • Do we really know each other without knowing each other’s values?

  • This lab has participants identify two personal values and shape behaviors around them.

Organizational Purpose Lab

  • How do our personal values intersect with the organization’s purpose?

  • This lab shares the why and helps participants connect to and communicate the purpose.

Empathetic Listening Lab

  • When in conflict how do we listen to communicate empathy, even if we don’t agree?

  • This lab equips participants with key phrases and a method for listening that centers the speaker.

Building Trust Lab

  • How can we build trust with an understanding that ‘People are the Source’?

  • This lab uses specific behaviors and attitudes that shape trusting relationships and climate.

Communication in Conflict Lab

  • How do we productively work through conflict?

  • Practicing tough conversations with key phrases and tools is what this lab is all about.

Feedback Communication Lab

  • Are we ready to give feedback? Are we ready to receive feedback?

  • Accountability is a necessary part of healthy, innovative workplaces. This lab prepares participants for the inevitable giving and receiving of feedback.

Celebration and Recognition Lab

  • How often do we stop to celebrate and recognize?

  • In this lab, look at research behind the benefits of recognizing and celebrating wins with intention and craft an action plan for your team.

Connection and Play Lab

  • Does your team regularly laugh together?

  • Collaboration starts with knowing each other. This lab sets aside the time to hear each other’s stories and be playful and curious together.

Vulnerability in Leadership Lab

  • Are incorrect stories which elicit fear and anxiety commonplace in your organization?

  • This lab identifies what vulnerability in the work place is and is not to act as a starting point for communicating with more transparency.

Labs heavily based on the work of Brené Brown and the work of Lorne Rubis’ 10 Elements of Adaptive Cultures

“When we consider the additional influence of great managers on their teams, manager training and development may be one of the most effective “wellbeing initiatives” employers can invest in.”

Gallop State of the Global Workplace

2025 Report

“Decision makers are not investing in upskilling or the necessary culture change efforts to support performance. The threat of irrelevance is the biggest shame trigger at work, and it’s leading folks across industries to armor up and resist learning, thereby ensuring irrelevance. The lack of investment combined with the resistance to learning is creating deep and unnecessary anxiety and exhaustion at every level.”

Brené Brown in Strong Ground 2025