Collaborative Communication
Master the skills and systems behind effective communication—so your team stops spinning and starts solving.
Miscommunication isn’t just frustrating—it’s expensive. Whether it’s a missed deadline, a derailed project, or a misunderstood decision, the ripple effects of unclear messaging can stall progress across an entire organization. This program equips teams and leaders with the skills, structure, and emotional intelligence needed to communicate clearly—even when the conversation is hard, complex, or high-stakes.
Combining empathy-driven insight with practical tools, Collaborative Communication helps you reduce friction, align expectations, and accelerate problem-solving—whether you’re navigating cross-functional priorities or just trying to get a direct answer in Slack.
Program Elements
Keynote Presentation
This energizing keynote challenges the myth that communication is “soft” work. You’ll learn how small shifts in how you message, listen, and align can radically improve team effectiveness and morale. Andrea weaves together neuroscience, systems thinking, and relatable stories to show why clear communication isn’t a nice-to-have—it’s your competitive edge.
Workshop Series
This series builds practical communication skills that give your team clear, actionable strategies for reducing friction, improving alignment, and communicating across differences—whether that’s between departments, hierarchies, or individuals. Participants leave with tools they can apply immediately to feedback, meetings, decision-making, and day-to-day collaboration.
Advisory Sessions
These small-group sessions create space for your leaders to workshop real communication challenges. Whether it’s navigating a team conflict, rewriting a key announcement, or redesigning internal comms workflows, Andrea brings outside perspective and practical support to help your team apply what they’re learning in real time.
Workshop Session Descriptions
week 1
Choosing the Right Channel
How do you decide whether something should be a meeting, an email, or something else?
Communication isn’t just about what you say—it’s about how you deliver it. This session helps teams select the most effective channels for different types of messages, based on urgency, complexity, and emotional tone. We’ll explore how misused channels create friction and how the right ones can build momentum.
week 2
Crafting Messages for Clarity
How can we make sure we understand each other the first time?
Clarity doesn’t happen by accident—it’s designed. In this session, you’ll learn how to simplify syntax, avoid abstraction, and adapt your language to your audience. Perfect for cross-functional teams who speak different “professional dialects,” this session helps reduce cognitive overhead and increase shared understanding.
week 3
Predicting Perspectives with Empathy
How can we tailor our messages for different audiences?
Empathy gives us the ability to create a hypothesis in how our message might be received. This session focuses on considering the perspective of other people using emotional regulation, attunement, and tone—skills that help messages land without triggering unnecessary conflict or disengagement. You’ll walk away with tools for reducing defensiveness and building trust.
week 4
Finding Alignment
How can we move forward even when we disagree?
Misalignment often masquerades as laziness, incompetence, or drama. This session shows you how to spot early signs of disconnect and build systems that surface confusion before it derails projects. You’ll learn how to reduce false consensus and use structured check-ins to drive clarity across roles and priorities.
week 5
Communicating with Purpose
How can we communicate to get the outcome or action we want?
Great communicators start with the end in mind. This session helps teams clarify their intent before hitting send—so requests are followed, decisions stick, and meetings don’t turn into rehash sessions. We’ll cover techniques for setting expectations and guiding responses clearly and respectfully.
week 6
Making Clarity a Habit
How can we communicate effectively without micromanaging every message?
This final session helps your team codify what they’ve learned into rituals, tools, and shared norms. Whether it’s updating documentation, evolving meeting culture, or improving async check-ins, you’ll walk away with a plan to embed clarity into the rhythm of your organization.
Ready to Reduce miscommunication and move faster?
Collaboration shouldn’t feel like guesswork. Whether your team is scaling fast, navigating cross-functional complexity, or just tired of messages getting lost in translation, this program gives you a framework to make clarity a shared standard—not a personal superpower.
Let’s build communication systems that help your people focus, align, and thrive.