About

Managing People

How do you honor your hopes (and manage your fears) as you move into management? Stepping into team leadership unlocks a broader impact that lies beyond your work as an individual, yet introduces highly complex relationships, conversations and responsibilities that are now part of your job. This comprehensive, 3 course certificate is designed to simplify successful management practices and help you to navigate these responsibilities with skill, confidence and ease.

You will learn to:

  • Understand and practice ways to delegate, share feedback, clarify expectations, set boundaries and encourage accountability.
  • Navigate and transform relationships and communicate effectively with your team, peers and leaders.
  • Inspire, motivate and build an engaged and inclusive team culture.
  • Identify and commit to specific practices and mindsets that empower you to thrive as a manager.
  • Define your unique, whole-hearted management style.

Who Should Register?

  • Emerging professionals who want to level up and scale their impact in the workplace.
  • Current managers who struggle with team dynamics and collaborative results.
  • Leaders who dislike conflict and avoid difficult conversations.
  • People who crave authenticity as they develop their own leadership style.

You Will Learn to:

  • Understand and practice ways to delegate, share feedback, clarify expectations, set boundaries and encourage accountability.
  • Navigate and transform relationships and communicate effectively with your team, peers and leaders.
  • Inspire, motivate, and build an engaged and inclusive team culture.
  • Identify and commit to specific practices and mindsets that empower you to thrive as a manager.
  • Define your unique, whole-hearted management style.

Who Should Register?

  • Young professionals who want to level up and scale their impact in the workplace.
  • Current managers who struggle with team dynamics and collaborative results.
  • Leaders who dislike conflict and avoid difficult conversations.
  • People who crave authenticity as they develop their own leadership style.

Price: $3000

Join the Waitlist

You'll be at the top of our list the next time this course is offered!Ā 

Dates & Time to Completion

Aug. 2025.

15 weeks.

No online work or meeting Thanksgiving week.

Class Format

Online content.

1 weekly class on Zoom on Tuesdays,Ā 4-5:30 p.m. (Pacific Time).

Requirements

1.5-2 hours of coursework per week.

1 assignment due each week.

For each 5 week course, attend 4 of the 5 Zoom classes.

Priority Registration Deadline

RegistrationĀ will open again soon. Join the mailing list to be notified.Ā 

Meet Your Instructor

Barbara Visser

As a leadership coach, Barbara offers an encouraging presence that supports her clients to gain clarity, stay motivated and commit to choices and actions that honor who they are becoming as a person and a professional. She brings 20 years' experience in a corporate technology environment, having navigated complex roles and career growth at Microsoft while becoming a parent and raising children. Her career expertise bridges executive communication, employee engagement, program management, nonprofit fundraising and event planning. She attained her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential through the International Coaching Federation and has coached more than 350 people over the last five years. She is also an Objectives and Key Results (OKR) expert and a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM). One of her proudest accomplishments is becoming a certified birth doula as a side-gig early in her career.

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