Learn excellent communication.
Become more clear, compelling and creative
with our events and materials.
The more you know, the harder it is to explain.
Learn techniques to talk about complexity without being complicated.
Invest in yourself with workshops in technical communication.
Expand your career options, write grants and pitches, recruit the best collaborators, and change the conversation with the public. Great ideas don't speak for themselves.
We take the best content out there and distill it into custom interactive workshops. Learn efficiently through theory, practice, and individualized feedback. We've worked with over 500 Ph.D. students, medical students, faculty, entrepreneurs and professionals to help them talk about their work and why it matters. What can we help you explain? Book a workshop and level up your skills.
Clear
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Structuring presentation
Craft presentations with purpose.
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Public speaking
Learn how to talk confidently and naturally when it matters most.
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Storytelling
Science communication 101: turn your research into a story.
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Team communication
How you talk about a question is half its solution.
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Clear thinking made visible
Graphic design for researchers: make figures, graphs, posters, and slides.
Compelling
Creative
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Innovation thinking
Creative thinking is a skill you can learn.
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International design
Designing for people you don’t know is harder than it looks.
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Getting jobs outside academia
How to talk about yourself in a resume and interview, and networking for people who hate networking.
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Manage your assumptions
Behind every bad decision is a wrong assumption. Learn how to spot them.
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Pitching ideas
Behind every idea is a story. Find it and distill it.
About us
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Ardon Shorr
Ardon’s workshops have appeared at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, AAAS, and SXSWedu. He holds a Ph.D. in biology from Carnegie Mellon University where he teaches science communication.
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Mark Whiting
Mark is a postdoc at Stanford and has led design workshops around the world for 10 years.
Pricing
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Individual event
Choose a topic and we will present a workshop, or give a talk about it.
$1000 per event
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Event bundle
Need more events?
We can bundel together topics, or repeate events.$900 per event
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Many events
If you need more times and customization, this option is for you.
$800 per event
Join our clients
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This content took me four years to figure out the hard way!
Postdoctoral Fellow
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You tackled issues head on that let us know that you didn't think of our participation as scholars without salient issues related to gender and trans-disciplinary work.
Graduate student
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A rigorous description and formalization of important concepts
Ph.D. candidate