Six students, and what changed at work
In their words, with the numbers they tracked themselves. Names and companies are shared with permission.
My release notes went from something support forwarded back with questions to something customers actually open.
Release note open rate went from 9 to 23 percent in six weeks.
Maya Okafor
Product manager
Fernway Payments, Atlanta, Georgia
Writing that gets read
I used to write four pages and still get asked what I wanted. Now the ask is the first line and the answer comes back in a day.
Design doc approvals dropped from about a week to two days.
Jonah Weiss
Engineering manager
Tallgrass Health, Kansas City, Missouri
The decision memo
The group of six mattered more than I expected. Five people reading my draft by Friday is a deadline I actually kept.
Her quarterly update went from 1,340 words to 890, and the whole company read it.
Alma Reyes
Design lead
Northbeam Studio, San Diego, California
Writing that gets read
I stopped hiding behind 30 slides. Our last board meeting was one page and a real conversation.
Board meetings went from two hours to 70 minutes.
Tom Brandt
Founder
Harlow Freight, Columbus, Ohio
Speaking without slides
Priya taught me to lead with the one number that matters. My reviews got shorter and people started asking real follow-up questions.
Her weekly metrics email is now read by three times as many managers.
Ines Duarte
Data analyst
Cobalt Grocers, Denver, Colorado
Storytelling with data
Owen's cutting pass is now how our whole team reviews RFCs.
RFC reviews now finish in one round instead of three.
Sam Whitlock
Senior engineer
Relay Robotics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Writing for engineers
Most students say the group of six is why they finished
In our last three cohorts, 91 percent of students handed in all six drafts. The Friday read-through is a small deadline, but it is a real one.
The next cohort of Writing that gets read starts October 20
Forty seats, a group of six, line edits on every draft. Applications take five minutes and most students expense it.
Live cohort courses in writing and speaking for people who do it at work. Small groups, line edits, six weeks at a time.
Taught live from Chicago, Austin, Portland and Seattle
Lyceum