Talent Development Menu
COACHING & CONSULTING | BOOTCAMPS | COURSES | TRAINING PROGRAMS
A la carte | $100/HOUR
MINDSET COACHING
RECOMMENDED FOR SENIORS
Tackle stubborn mindset challenges and integrate holistic storytelling approaches into your creative process and daily life. Use your insights to improve self trust, confidence, deep listening skills, and prevent burnout or imposter syndrome before they take hold.
CREATIVE STRATEGY
RECOMMENDED FOR TRAINEES
Develop personal brand stories to improve your assertiveness, communication, boundary setting, and clarify your alignment with the studio or project.
Use a combination of storytelling structure and enneagram to improve your ability to analyze challenging situations and assess a solution that has a balance of emotional and logical consideration. For example, developing custom strategies for work projects such as using storytelling to identify bias, navigating conflict between team members, or improving communication between artists and non-artists.
STORY & DESIGN CONSULTING
RECOMMENDED FOR DIRECTORS
Using Dan Harmon’s story circle and Enneagram I analyze your project to clarify your story’s theme and structure. Based on the project needs, I provide specific solutions and iterate options to improve thematic arcs, story concepts, fictional worlds, characters, art direction, and costume design.
Weave your personal brand story and project narrative together with confidence to elevate pitching presentations and project marketing concepts.
INCLUSIVE WORKFLOWS
RECOMMENDED FOR MID-TIERS
Explore your creative process in a non-judgmental space to assess the impact of your context, personality, and lifestyle on your process. Identify recurring sources of burnout or creative block and fill knowledge gaps to set more realistic goals and timelines.
Investigate your learning style and lifestyle needs to co-create customized exercises, and develop step by step approaches to help you make progress towards your goals.
3 day full day intensives | $5,000
HUMAN-FIRST STORYTELLING
RECOMMENDED FOR MID-TIERS
Learn an efficient process for drawing story inspiration from life to drive more nuanced storytelling. Gain new perspective on the role of creator and tools and share your thoughts in a facilitated group discussion around the practical and ethical use of AI to support authentic human stories.
BIAS AWARENESS
RECOMMENDED FOR JUNIORS
Dive into a series of personal story exercises to identify how your personal motivations and context drive your choices. Explore seeing your story from another point of view and share insights in a group discussion to troubleshoot how to lower bias in communication and craft.
DESIGN DIRECTION
RECOMMENDED FOR JUNIORS
Create personal and professional story-driven design concepts that resonate using intuitive approaches and research techniques. Learn how to weave psychology into your research approaches to connect with your audiences and elevate your visual subtext.
WORK FROM HOME PRACTICE
RECOMMENDED FOR SENIORS
Reset your working environment, routines, and workflows using story-driven strategies. Helping you gain back precious bandwidth and stabilize your productivity at home. Build on the same approaches by leveraging them to tackle creative block, help you gain fresh perspective and develop more sustainable approaches so you can stay in flow state longer.
6 months, meet weekly | $13,000
ART & NARRATIVE COLLAB
RECOMMENDED FOR JUNIORS
Improve communication and develop more efficient collaborative workflows between Narrative and Art/Design departments by helping your teams build deeper comprehension of both processes.
Through a combination of shadowing workshops, team workflow pitches and breakout groups, both teams will collaboratively work on a light original story pitch. Workshops are complemented by insights from producers and artist/writer hybrid individuals, and artist and writer partnerships.
CREATIVE WORKFLOWS
RECOMMENDED FOR DIRECTORS
Learn more about the common challenges and insightful adaptations of underrepresented creatives. Workshop specific departmental workflows as a group to create more inclusive solutions and pitch them to guest artists from each underrepresented group for feedback. Refine your strategies and workshop barriers to implementation.
With special group panel talks to build deeper comprehension of their needs and strengths. Inclusivity focuses include: neurodivergence, mental health struggles, diverse cultural backgrounds, non-native English speakers, physical disability, and remote workers.
CREW JOURNEYS & CULTURE
RECOMMENDED FOR SENIORS
Use storytelling approaches to develop thoughtful crew journeys. From recruiting to onboarding and beyond. Weave in core values and powerful communication approaches to develop an environment of trust and safety in your studio culture.
16 weeks, meets daily | $64,000
ARTIST TRAINEE PROGRAM
FOR ENTREE LEVEL TRAINEES
Bridging Communication between Corporate and Creative using craft skill building, original IP development exercises, brand identity creation, and mindset trainings. Leveraging a blend of storytelling techniques and psychology approaches to build communication skills, pitching skills, feedback skills, design skills, safe and empowering culture, and sustainable workflows
58 weeks | $224,000
FULL SUITE OF PROGRAMS
RECOMMENDED FOR ALL EXPERIENCE LEVELS
Combine all the talent development offerings over a 58 week timeline. Includes analysis of current studio values, goals, initiatives, and trends across departments to customize trainings or bespoke solutions.Offboarding support provides transition documents to guide future leadership, improving their ability to maintain progress; includes schedules, client/crew profiles, progress tracking docs, studio research and trends analysis summaries, and one week of focused leadership training sessions.
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