Live sessions for the people who run the room: trainers, HR teams, managers and educators. The weekly sessions are free. Workshops and previews carry the price shown on each card. Every session is online, and you practice the move during the hour instead of just hearing about it. Free sessions give registrants a 48-hour replay.
Who it's for: Trainers, HR teams, managers and educators who run live sessions on Zoom or a similar platform.
A working session on designing and running live online sessions people remember. McKinley covers how to open a room, structure the hour and keep people taking part from start to finish. Seats are limited.
Story That Sticks: Teach With Humor Without Losing Authority
Format: Online (Zoom). $25.
Who it's for: Trainers, facilitators and managers who want humor to help a session instead of undercutting it.
Humor that teaches, builds trust and keeps the room with you. McKinley shows how to use a light story to make a point stick without losing your authority, and you try one on a small group.
Who it's for: Managers and team leads who need their team using AI safely and productively.
A working session to get your team using AI safely and productively. You build a plan you can take to your own team, with the host on hand for questions.
Keep It Real: Stand-Up Skills for Trainers and Managers
Format: Online (Zoom). $125.
Who it's for: Trainers and managers who want to be trusted in front of a room, in person or online.
Be the trainer people trust. This session works on spontaneity, presence and listening under pressure, with practice during the hour instead of slides. Seats are limited.
Preview: Turn What You Know Into a Course, The Cohort Version
Format: Online (Zoom). $12.
Who it's for: Subject experts, trainers and consultants who want to turn what they know into a course.
A short preview of the four-week cohort that turns your expertise into a course. You see how the weeks run and what you finish with, then decide if the cohort fits.
Who it's for: Trainers, HR teams and educators who want to see the certification path for virtual facilitators before committing.
A short preview of the certification path for virtual facilitators. You see what the path covers and how it is structured, and you leave knowing whether it fits the work you do.
Story That Sticks: Teach With Humor Without Losing Authority
Format: Online (Zoom). $25.
Who it's for: Trainers, facilitators and managers who want humor to help a session instead of undercutting it.
Humor that teaches, builds trust and keeps the room with you. McKinley shows how to use a light story to make a point stick without losing your authority, and you try one on a small group.
Keep It Real: Stand-Up Skills for Trainers and Managers
Format: Online (Zoom). $125.
Who it's for: Trainers and managers who want to be trusted in front of a room, in person or online.
Be the trainer people trust. This session works on spontaneity, presence and listening under pressure, with practice during the hour instead of slides. Seats are limited.
Who it's for: Trainers, HR teams, managers and educators who run live sessions on Zoom or a similar platform.
A working session on designing and running live online sessions people remember. McKinley covers how to open a room, structure the hour and keep people taking part from start to finish. Seats are limited.
Keep It Real: Stand-Up Skills for Trainers and Managers
Format: Online (Zoom). $125.
Who it's for: Trainers and managers who want to be trusted in front of a room, in person or online.
Be the trainer people trust. This session works on spontaneity, presence and listening under pressure, with practice during the hour instead of slides. Seats are limited.
Story That Sticks: Teach With Humor Without Losing Authority
Format: Online (Zoom). $25.
Who it's for: Trainers, facilitators and managers who want humor to help a session instead of undercutting it.
Humor that teaches, builds trust and keeps the room with you. McKinley shows how to use a light story to make a point stick without losing your authority, and you try one on a small group.
Who it's for: Trainers, HR teams, managers and educators who run live sessions on Zoom or a similar platform.
A working session on designing and running live online sessions people remember. McKinley covers how to open a room, structure the hour and keep people taking part from start to finish. Seats are limited.
Preview: Turn What You Know Into a Course, The Cohort Version
Format: Online (Zoom). $12.
Who it's for: Subject experts, trainers and consultants who want to turn what they know into a course.
A short preview of the four-week cohort that turns your expertise into a course. You see how the weeks run and what you finish with, then decide if the cohort fits.
Who it's for: Trainers, HR teams and educators who want to see the certification path for virtual facilitators before committing.
A short preview of the certification path for virtual facilitators. You see what the path covers and how it is structured, and you leave knowing whether it fits the work you do.
Who it's for: Managers and team leads who need their team using AI safely and productively.
A working session to get your team using AI safely and productively. You build a plan you can take to your own team, with the host on hand for questions.
Run the Room Online: Live Facilitation Training, 4 Weeks
Format: Online (Zoom). Four sessions, Wednesdays Jan 6, 13, 20 and 27, 12:00 to 1:30 PM PT. Founding seat $850, standard $1,200.
Who it's for: Managers, trainers, HR leads and educators who run live sessions and want them to land.
Four live sessions over four weeks. Open a session so people commit, get the quiet ones talking, and close with decisions that hold. You bring a real session and rebuild it week by week.
Build the Material: Turn What You Know Into a Session
Format: Online (Zoom). Four sessions, Thursdays Jan 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2:00 to 3:30 PM PT. Founding seat $950, standard $1,400.
Who it's for: Experts whose knowledge lives in their head and who need material somebody else can run.
Four live sessions that turn what you know into material somebody else could pick up and run. You cut a real deck roughly in half and defend every slide you kept.
Where Sessions Break: Silence, Conflict and Tech Failures
Format: Online (Zoom). Two sessions, Fridays Jan 8 and 15, 10:00 to 11:30 AM PT. Founding seat $450, standard $650.
Who it's for: Facilitators and trainers who want to recover when a room goes quiet, tense or technical.
Two live sessions on the moments that decide whether people come back. Practice real failure scenarios in front of the group and leave with a written plan for your own room.
The Legal Side of Training: Consent, Access and Records
Format: Online (Zoom). Two sessions, Tuesdays Jan 12 and 19, 1:00 to 2:30 PM PT. Founding seat $550, standard $750.
Who it's for: Trainers, HR teams and facilitators who record, document or run mandatory sessions.
Two live sessions on recording consent, accessibility, documentation and what you owe when conduct comes up in a training room. Education, not legal advice for your situation.
Keep It Real: Stand-Up Skills for Trainers and Managers
Format: Online (Zoom). $125.
Who it's for: Trainers and managers who want to be trusted in front of a room, in person or online.
Be the trainer people trust. This session works on spontaneity, presence and listening under pressure, with practice during the hour instead of slides. Seats are limited.
Turn What You Know Into a Course or Community, With AI
Format: Online (Zoom). $12.
Who it's for: Experts, trainers and community builders who want a first course or community plan built with AI.
Draft a four-session course outline, a one-page offer and a welcome message in one hour. You use AI as a drafting partner and leave with material you can edit and use.
Before you register
Recording. For free sessions, teaching segments are recorded. Live Q&A and practice segments are off the record. The replay goes only to registrants, stays up for 48 hours, then is deleted. Chat is not shared.
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