Welcome CMIA Attendees!

If you attended our conference session, THANK YOU! If you scanned a QR code someone showed you at the conference, THANK THEM!

We love helping technical professionals improve their leadership skills, because we just can’t stand crappy, ineffective leadership. That’s why we’re giving away a FREE live version of our Leadership Essentials Workshop for up to six participants worth nearly $1500!

Get A Free Leadership Workshop

Use the form below to join our email community and receive a chance to win the workshop described above. We know things get hectic after a conference, so you have until January 30th to sign up. Be sure to use the form below so we can track your eligibility. One lucky winner will be selected on January 31. We’ll contact the winner to coordinate workshop details. Invite five friends, include your co-workers, or keep us all to yourself—the winner gets to choose.

Even if you don’t win, you’ll receive weekly email updates that include:

  • leadership insights, thoughts, and stories

  • the latest from our podcast

  • news and offers about future leadership workshop offerings

Frequently Asked Questions

  • There are many venues and improv programs that play off the phrase “laugh out loud.” Lead Out Loud is both a play on words (Lead) and an homage homage to improv comedy (Out Loud).

  • Yes! But also no! Our framework is modular and designed to be delivered in a hybrid format. You will get the most value out of all in-person lessons, but if you have a distributed team or limited budget, we recommend the first lesson of each module be in-person and the remaining lessons can be conducted remotely.

  • Because our program is modular, we can customize workshops to the needs of your team. That means we can engage with you for as long or as little as needed.

    Each lesson is designed to be about an hour. Each module contains three lessons. We recommend spacing out each lesson so participants have a chance to absorb and practice what they experience between sessions.

  • Absolutely! Lead Out Loud workshops are conducted in cohorts. Each cohort has 5-6 people in it. For larger teams, we can conduct each module with multiple cohorts.

  • The idea of failing fast is to find what doesn’t work as quickly as possible so you can invest in what does work.

    Software developers use a project management methodology called Agile to break down work into small chunks called “sprints.” Each sprint is usually very short—a week or two—and intended to bring a new feature to life based on customer needs. By breaking down work into these sprints, if something isn’t right—doesn’t work, not what the customer wanted, etc.—the only time lost is however long the sprint was. Rather than scrapping an entire project worth of work, the team can pivot and fix what failed with minimal losses.