The Pilot Lab
Where learning journeys take shape.
What happens in a pilot?
We explore a new skill or capability area
The structure may be lighter and more flexible
Participants help shape the experience through direct feedback
Insights inform future public courses
Pilots are collaborative by design. They allow us to build carefully and ensure new offerings are practical, reflective, and genuinely useful.
Pilots in Practice
Our first pilot cohorts in 2026 explored Big Picture Thinking and Decision Making in small, live groups.
Participant feedback directly shaped the tools, pacing, and embedding journey that now define our regular course offerings.
The Pilot Lab continues that spirit of thoughtful experimentation… building carefully before scaling.
What’s Next?
We expect to launch new pilots of Mastering Empathetic Techniques and Clear, Simple Communications later this year.
Topics are always developing. The Pilot Lab is where we test ideas before bringing them into the broader Academy catalog.
If you’re curious about future skills and enjoy being part of something in its early stages, we’d love to keep you informed.
Upcoming Pilots (expected in Q4 2026)
Mastering Empathetic Techniques
Most people are good at the easy conversations. This pilot is for the other kind: the ones where someone says "fine" and clearly isn't, where feedback doesn't land, or where a team keeps circling the same friction. Mastering Empathetic Techniques treats empathy as a skill made up of specific, practiced behaviors, and gives you the tools to use them under real pressure: helping people feel heard, working through resistance, and building the kind of trust that lets a team surface problems before they compound.
Clear, Simple Communications
A key idea, a critical decision, a hard update: when the message is genuinely clear, it does more work than a longer version ever could. It lands in seconds, and the room moves with it instead of asking for it to be repeated. Clear, Simple Communication is built around distilling a message down to what matters, structuring it so the point lands fast, and adjusting for whoever is actually listening, from an executive to a technical team. Participants practice frameworks for organizing complex information and build the judgment to know which one fits the moment.
If you’re looking for a live course you can join now, explore our current offerings here.
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