What People Say

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a deep dive into learning, reflecting

PSL is a deep dive into learning, reflecting what and how to affect an environment for every to be able to maximize contributions.

Elaine Bulloch - Sr. Mgr, Technical Program Manager
INTUIT

This workshop is a great opportunity

This workshop is a great opportunity to make you find the way to become a good problem solver leader and learn from the other, including yourself.

Olarn Ungumnuayporn - Scrum Master
ODDS Team

You will have fun along a challenging journey

It is intense, mentally draining for me. You get out of it, what you put into it. You will have fun along a challenging journey.

Declan Burns - Software Engineer
Electric Mind

the core of what I learned was relational in nature

While the name of the class include the term “leadership”, the core of what I learned was relational in nature. I think the real benefactors of this workshop will be those I love and care deeply about in my family and career.

Chris Johnson - Tech Lead
Heroku

Very unique and well prepared experiences

Very unique and well prepared experiences that can affect organizations in many good ways.

Narat S. - Team Lead
ODDS Team

Challenge the self-narratives you have on your own leadership

Challenge the self-narratives you have on your own leadership by practicing in a (desert) sand box environment.

Lyon C.
MongoDB

find its way into every facet of my life

It was potentially life changing and may find its way into every facet of my life.

Jesse White
Salesforce

It’s like having a turbocharger for problem-solving

This gives us an efficacy/capability power boost. It’s like having a turbocharger for problem-solving.

Flavio D. - Director
Starbucks Coffee

practical learning in the areas of systems thinking, awareness of assumptions, and critical thinking

This workshop provides practical learning in the areas of systems thinking, awareness of assumptions, and critical thinking. These topics are hard to apply well, and this workshop provides tools to do that.

Sarah Watkins - VP, Head of Delivery
iCrossing

continuously observe and act (if needed) to make an effective environment

When solving a problem, continuously observe and act (if needed) to make an effective environment.

Chris McInerney - Senior Delivery Manager
Intelliware

the tools and the practices to make meaningful, lasting change

I both learned new things and rediscovered learnings I’d forgotten. PSL give you the tools and the practices to make meaningful, lasting change in how you show up and how you lead.

Kristen Belcher - Organizational Change Coach

A week-long deep-dive into human interaction

A week-long deep-dive into human interaction and how I can influence, and be influenced by, what happens around me.

Allie Schott - Product Leader
CPower Energy

useful tools to navigate the chaos

It is an intense week of simulations and reflections. You will learn useful tools to navigate the chaos.

Pablo Lam - Senior Developer
Intelliware, Inc

is a safe place to experience and practice new ways of being

It is an opportunity to challenge yourself. It is a safe place to experience and practice new ways of being.

It is an intense week of simulations and reflections. You will learn useful tools to navigate the chaos.

 

Jeff Smathers

you’ll dive deep and learn about yourself, your team, and the people in your personal life

A workshop is not a conference. In a good conference, you may take away one valuable nugget each day. In the PSL workshop, you’ll dive deep and learn about yourself, your team, and the people in your personal life. The insights will keep coming long after the workshop finishes, and you will be changed.

Charlie Sweet - Delivery Manager
Baird

useful or very very useful for you in many ways

The workshop will be for sure useful or very very useful for you in many ways. Please make your chance to go.

Chanita Aur Abywibg - Agile Coach
ODDS

you experience the real situational problems solving

This is the workshop that makes you experience the real situational problems solving with people around the world. The invaluable experience!

Chonlasith Jucksriporn - Agile Coach
ODDS

The experiences are unique for everyone. Intense and fun

It was great. Learned a lot about myself and others. The experiences are unique for everyone. Intense and fun, highly recommended.

Michael Bajer - Engineering Manager
Knack

You should join

You should join.

Tao - Coach
ODDS

Powerful, Enlightening

Powerful, Enlightening.

Rao Garimella - Scientist
Los Alamos National Lab

great opportunity in your life to learn

Let’s go, this could be great opportunity in your life to learn.

Tavee Khunbida - Tech Lead
ODDS

It’s a journey, different for everyone

It’s a journey, different for everyone. You will learn lots of tools, but it depends on you.

Manuela Mercado - Sr. Developer
Intellisys D Corp

incredibly demanding and worth every minute

It was incredible, best workshop I’ve ever taken. It was incredibly demanding and worth every minute.

Michelle Webb - Sr. Project Manager
Baird

tools to become a more aware and empathetic

PSL has given me the tools to become a more aware and empathetic individual in life.

Rishabh Wason - Software Engineer
Heroku/Salesforce

PSL’s unique experiential approach is a profound way to learn

Leadership is for everyone. PSL’s unique experiential approach is a profound way to learn. I will be applying the models and tools I learned here for a long time.

Robert Title - Software Architect
Broad Institute of MIT + Harvard

immersive, grueling, but amazingly fun and rewarding

This is not a training class. It’s an immersive, grueling, but amazingly fun and rewarding boot camp that teaches you to apply a variety of tools to observe and respond to problems more effectively.

Caleb Crandall - Sr. Software Engineer in Test
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences

highly interactive workshop

PSL is an intensive, highly interactive workshop where experiential learning is used to teach tools for improving your team’s ability to solve problems.

Susan Jacobs - Sr. Engineering Manager
Broad Institute of MIT + Harvard

best workshop I have been to

It is the best workshop I have been to.

Rosanna Diaz - Sr HR
Intellisys D Corp

life-changing and intense!

The workshop is life-changing and intense!

Rodrigo Vaz - Principal Engineer
Salesforce

you will leave better.

No matter who you are, you will leave better.

Ryan Latta - Founder
Ryan Latta & Associates

most intensive and rewarding weeks of my life

It is one of the most intensive and rewarding weeks of my life. If you are ready and open to learn about yourself and to grow – this is the right course for you.

Christie Crocket - Delivery Manager
Intelliware

An immersive and introspective journey

An immersive and introspective journey that uncovers insights about how interact with others and ourselves, and ultimately how can all become better leaders.

Dave Manley - Delivery Manager
Intelliware

the course connects the idea to the realities of leadership and teamwork.

PSL is an experiential workshop. While there are plenty of new models and readings provided, the course connects the idea to the realities of leadership and teamwork.

Brandon Shoop

only limited by one’s willingness to participate

The most dynamic relationship modeling workshop that I have experienced where learning is only limited by one’s willingness to participate.

Matt Kirilov, Agile Coach
Cerber Coaching

this workshop will guide you to true leadership

This workshop will change the way you think about approaching your work and the relationships with your colleagues. Leadership isn’t a title and this workshop will guide you to true leadership. If you’re unsure if it’s for you, it is.

Nick Nisi, Staff Software Engineer
C2FO

an opportunity to learn more about ways of approaching problems (and yourself!)

This workshop is an opportunity to learn more about ways of approaching problems (and yourself!) than should be possible in a week.

Pavel Brodsky, Engineering Manager
Forter

grow a more human world

Learn about yourself, learn how to learn about others, grow a more human world.

Nate Hylan, Director of Product Management
Broad Institute of MIT + Harvard

focusing your teamwork out, and in

PSL helps by focusing your teamwork out, and in. It gives you new tools and insights for self improvement and being a better leader.

Chantelle Gallagher, Sr. Business Analyst
Intelliware

designed to challenge you and your concept of leadership

PSL is a workshop designed to challenge you and your concept of leadership in a way that is centered in empathy and growth.

Evan Youngblood, VP, Customer Experience
C2FO

time and energy to learn and grow

PSL is for people who have the time and energy to learn and grow. It provides a space to practice and experience leadership, along with mental models and a vocabulary to make sense of it.

Elizabeth Zagroba, Quality Lead

Problem-solving leadership means creating an environment

Problem-solving leadership means creating an environment where everyone can contribute creatively. We practiced being in that kind of environment, and constantly creating it for each other.

Jessica Kerr, Symmanthecist/Engineering Manager of Developer Relations
Jessitron, LLC/honeycomb.io

Experiential learning guided by real-deal experts

Experiential learning guided by real-deal experts who have read all the books and know what good looks like in the real world.

Megan Paré, Product Insights Manager
Broad Institute of MIT + Harvard

the 10th anniversary of when I attended this and not a day goes by where an ‘aha!’ moment doesn’t bubble up to the surface

We’re coming up on the 10th anniversary of when I attended this and not a day goes by where an ‘aha!’ moment doesn’t bubble up to the surface. If you’re looking for an experience where a bunch of talking head experts will fill you with great ideas over PowerPoint, look elsewhere. If you want an experience that’ll push your boundaries of thinking, this is for you.

Jason Little - Founder
Lean Change

It helped me discover many faulty assumptions about myself as well as several epiphanies

I was lucky enough to go in 2000. It helped me discover many faulty assumptions about myself as well as several epiphanies about why I was good in some areas of my career.

Jon Bach - Director, Core Product
eBay

Still learning nine years later

Nine years later, I’m still learning from my PSL experience. I received valuable insights into my own behaviours as a leader. I have used those insights many times over the past nine years. Every time I look back, I learn new things or am reminded. PSL was the best investment in my personal growth, and I would recommend it to anyone.

Jo Perold - Director
Faethm

deep reflection

PSL provides time and space for deep reflection on your personal impact on the ability of teams to collaborate.

Erika Lenz - Agile Leadership Coach
Erika Lenz LLC

exercise based learning experience

PSL is an exercise based learning experience where you meet fantastic people while learning how to create environments where all team members can contribute creatively.

Dylan Stanfield - Product Manager
C2FO

wealth of personal awareness

It provided me with a wealth of personal awareness of how my leadership style affects my teams’ working environment.

Jeff Preager - Delivery Manager
Intelliware

what’s great about it

It will be uncomfortable and that is exactly what’s great about it.

Zuza - Sr. Agile Coach
Spotify

unique opportunity

PSL is a unique opportunity to practice leadership in a safe and supportive environment with fantastic and diverse people. You get what you put in. You will learn new things about yourself there … or later.

Marcin Floryan
Spotify

opportunity to deeply explore

This workshop gives an opportunity to deeply explore different facets of leadership and yourself.

Matthew Carlson - Sr. Consultant
Industrial Logic

the most experiential learning

By far the most experiential learning I’ve attended where you get to decide your learning. Your perception of leadership will be enhanced.

Barry Tandy - Value Stream Orchestrator
Sauce Labs

draw out insights

Esther and Don have saint-like patience and the best poker faces in the business. Their ability to observe and help draw out insights is so valuable compared to facilitators who just plain give information. Thank you!

Olivia Beins - Group Product Manager
C2FO

look beyond the surface

PSL will teach you how to look beyond the surface level and deeply analyze group behaviors, leading to a more cohesive and well formed team.

Olivia Beins - Group Product Manager
C2FO

months to process and put into use

PSL is transformative. It will take months to process and put into use all that I learned.

Dave Rooney - Agile Coach
Ross Video

transformation experience

A transformation experience. I think I will realize how much I learned over the coming months.

Jordan Simpson - Principal Software Engineer
Merative

Brilliantly designed

Brilliantly designed and unexpected.

Shelia Ramsey - Test Automation Engineering Manager
Merative

Mind bending experience

Mind bending experience that will make you more conscious about strengths and learning opportunities as a leader.

Kiero Guerra-Peña
Intellysis

important six days

It will be the most important six days of your professional life.

Aaron Nordyke - Engineering Director
C2FO