Make your expertise go further

For individuals

Get recognized for your work

For organizations

Put your team's expertise to greater use

In complex organizations, specialists, generalists and leaders bring different knowledge, priorities and perspectives to the same work. Connecting those perspectives helps ideas gain support, strengthens decisions and makes expertise more valuable across the organization

I work with professionals and teams on communication and influence—and with L&D partners on learning experiences that make new capabilities useful at work

Communication & influence Learning experience design

Communication & influence

Build your influence⁠—or your team's

Focused 1:1 coaching and practical team workshops to help people make stronger recommendations, navigate stakeholder conversations and influence decisions

For yourself

Have an important recommendation, decision or conversation coming up?

Bring the real challenge. We'll work on the argument, the audience and how to make your case

3 sessions to greater influence

Three private 75-minute online sessions, focused on your actual proposal, presentation, initiative or stakeholder challenge

You'll leave with focused feedback, practical preparation and approaches you can use again

$1,800USD · Complete engagement

Get your employer to sponsor it

Use this customizable request in your annual review or professional development conversation. It connects the investment to a real team priority

Read the manager request

Replace the brackets with your own business objective, project and deadline before sending

Ask about 1:1 sessions

For your team

Need your team's expertise to have more influence across the organization?

Workshops, coaching and facilitated sessions designed around the actual situations your people face

What we can work on

Make recommendations leaders can act on
Strengthen stakeholder conversations across functions
Bring different perspectives together around decisions and change
Build capabilities through practical, participatory experiences

Workshops and coaching are shaped around the business situations your team needs to handle, with scope and delivery agreed before the project starts

Ask about team workshops or coaching

Learning experience design

Get support for your L&D team

Designing a workshop or developing a learning program?

I can design and facilitate an experience, strengthen an existing program, or work alongside your team when you need additional expertise, a fresh perspective or extra design capacity

A request for training can point to a particular skill, a need for practice or feedback, or a constraint in the work itself. Looking closely at the context helps us choose and test a useful response before the full build

Ways to work together

Design and facilitate a workshop

A custom, participatory experience built around a business goal, with activities, materials and optional delivery

Design or strengthen a learning program

From focused review and design direction to learning architecture, prototyping and co-design with your team

Bring Design Thinking to your L&D team

Before You Build the Training is a hands-on workshop for investigating assumptions, generating options and testing ideas early

Typical scopes and starting fees

Indicative USD starting fees for defined engagements

Focused learning-design reviewFrom $3,500: A bounded discovery and review engagement with findings, a recommended direction and next steps—not a complete program build
Custom workshop design and deliveryFrom $6,500: A custom half-day virtual workshop, including agreed discovery, design, participant materials and first delivery
Before You Build the TrainingFrom $5,000: A facilitated half-day Design Thinking workshop for an L&D team, tailored to its project constraints
Learning program design partnershipFrom $10,000: Collaborative architecture, experience design and early prototyping for a larger initiative, scoped to the required deliverables

The final proposal follows a focused discussion of the challenge, audience, existing materials, delivery format and level of design work. Additional sessions, extensive revisions, travel and production are scoped separately

Ask about a learning design project

Meet Stephanie

I like complex ideas and the people behind them

Stephanie Hammer, smiling in a grey blazer

Connect with me on LinkedIn

I'm Stephanie Hammer. I have a soft spot for people who know an extraordinary amount about something—scientists, engineers, financial specialists and other experts. I love getting into the details, asking questions and figuring things out together

I'm also a teacher at heart, and a very visual thinker. I believe that good communication is much more learnable than people realize. There are principles, structures and ways of seeing things that make complex ideas easier to communicate. Give me a complex problem and there's a good chance we'll end up drawing something!

Selected clients

Roche · Genentech · HUGO BOSS · Stahl B.V. · Navistar

More about my background and learning-design work

I spent more than 25 years in international business and communication, including 15 years living in Europe. That experience showed me how differently people can see the same situation—and what becomes possible when those perspectives connect

My learning-design practice grew out of workshops and development programs I built for my own clients. Combining that work with Design Thinking and systems thinking led me to help L&D teams shape better design decisions and build more participatory experiences. I've also facilitated Design Thinking workshops for learning professionals through ATD Nebraska

Certified Design Thinking Coach · Hasso Plattner Institute / HPI d-school, Germany

MSc · London School of Economics & Political Science

BA · Bryn Mawr College

Author · Architects of Electronic Trading (Wiley)

Work with me

Let's put your great ideas to work

A recommendation that needs support, a workshop worth participating in, or a learning experience people can use—I bring strategic thinking, thoughtful design and hands-on collaboration to help you make it happen

Let's work together

Free AI prompt resource

Before you ask AI to write that email

Give it proven communication principles and real workplace examples—not just a request to polish your wording

Before AI could write emails, I taught professionals to write messages that got decisions, secured support and helped people work together. I created 22 templates for applying those principles to everyday situations

Recently I dusted off the guide and paired it with a prompt based on the same receiver-centered principles. The technology has changed. The principles haven't

Use both when a message needs to influence a decision, gain support or help someone take the next step

Read the AI prompt

Use this prompt with your attached guide to focus AI on the receiver, your intended outcome and a clear next step

Read the 22 email templatesOpen the PDF

Use them together

Attach the PDF to an AI conversation, paste the prompt into the same chat, then explain who you're writing to and what you need them to do, think or decide

The PDF gives AI reference material for that conversation, not permanent model training. Share only information you're permitted to upload

Interested in AI-assisted communication support at scale?

I'm developing Throoli, an AI-powered presentation coach for Subject Matter Experts, currently in beta

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