The Prism Leadership Lab is designed for smart, capable professionals who already have strong expertise and want their communication to better reflect what they know and what they're capable of doing.

Members include emerging and established leaders, technical and subject-matter experts, entrepreneurs, and other professionals who need to communicate complex ideas, influence decisions, navigate challenging conversations, or strengthen their executive presence.

You don't need to arrive as a polished speaker or experienced leader. The Lab is designed to meet you where you are, with practical tools, individualized feedback, and plenty of opportunities to practice and grow alongside other professionals.

Absolutely. Many Lab members are already accomplished professionals and effective communicators. The goal isn't to start over. It's to expand your range.

You may already communicate extremely well in familiar situations but find that certain circumstances require something different: greater concision, stronger executive presence, more flexibility under pressure, a different approach to pushback, or the ability to connect with people who think and communicate very differently than you do.

Because the tools are behavioral and adaptable, you can work at your own level. The same technique might help one person build a brand-new skill while helping someone else make a small adjustment that significantly increases their impact.

And the Implementation Labs make this particularly valuable for experienced professionals. You can experiment with subtle changes, get expert feedback, and practice applying familiar skills in unfamiliar situations rather than simply learning more information.

No. Presentations and public speaking are part of the Lab, but most leadership communication happens long before anyone steps onto a stage.

We work on the communication behaviors you use in meetings, difficult conversations, feedback, networking, spontaneous questions, stakeholder discussions, interviews, and other everyday professional interactions where clarity, influence, and presence matter.

You'll also strengthen vocal and physical presence, organize your thinking more quickly, and learn to adapt your communication when the situation or audience changes.

The goal is to help you communicate more effectively wherever your expertise and leadership need to come through, whether you're speaking to one person, ten people, or a room of hundreds.

You can expect to become a more clear, flexible, and influential communicator, with a broader range of tools you can draw on when the stakes are high.

Over the course of the year, you'll strengthen your ability to organize and communicate complex ideas, speak with greater vocal and physical presence, adapt to different audiences, navigate pushback and difficult conversations, and stay more effective when you're under pressure or don't have time to prepare.

Just as importantly, you'll have repeated opportunities to practice these skills until they become easier to access naturally, instead of techniques you understand intellectually but forget to use when you actually need them.

Members have reported meaningful professional results, including promotions, increased business opportunities, greater leadership visibility, and a stronger professional network. Of course, no program can guarantee a particular career or financial outcome. What we can do is help you strengthen the communication behaviors that make it easier for other people to recognize your expertise, trust your leadership, and respond to your ideas.

The Prism Leadership Lab combines Leadership Communication, Executive Presence, and the brain-body skills that help you communicate effectively under pressure.

The 10 core Learning Lab topics are:

• The Brain-Science of Inspiring Engagement
• Complexity into Simplicity
• The Language of Leadership
• The Leader's Voice
• Flawless Feedback
• Networking and Small-Talk Skills
• The Influence and Charisma Dial
• The Authentic Expert
• Content Clarity
• Nervous to Purpose

Bonus: Purposeful Presenting (Offered periodically throughout the year.)

You'll build skills across clarity, influence, vocal and physical presence, feedback, professional connection, high-stakes communication, and working effectively with your own brain and body under pressure.

And you don't have to follow the curriculum in sequence. When you join, you'll have access to on-demand content from previous Learning Labs, and new resources will continue to be added throughout your membership. Live Q&A, Implementation Labs, and the Community Forum also give you opportunities to ask questions and get support on skills from across the program, not just the current month's topic.

The Lab is designed to be drop-in friendly. Come to live sessions when you can, and use the content library, replays, and Community Forum when you can't. The resources and ongoing practice opportunities make it easy to keep learning even when your schedule gets complicated.

Learning Labs are about learning. Each month, we'll explore a focused Leadership Communication or Executive Presence topic, introduce practical tools, and use interactive exercises to help you understand and experience how they work.

Implementation Labs are about doing. Rather than adding more information, we'll practice skills from current and previous Learning Labs through games, activities, practice conversations, and real-world scenarios. You'll get feedback, make adjustments, and try again.

That distinction is intentional. Understanding a communication technique is useful. Being able to access it naturally in a high-stakes moment takes repetition and practice. Implementation Labs are where knowing what to do starts becoming knowing how to do it.

I do. Every Learning Lab, Implementation Lab, and private consulting session is personally led by me, Mari Geasair.

That is intentional. Learning the tools matters, but skilled feedback becomes even more important when you're practicing and applying them. Communication patterns can be subtle, and an experienced eye and ear can spot small behaviors, identify what's getting in the way, and help you make adjustments in the moment.

You won't learn from me in one session and then be handed off to an associate for practice. I'm there for the learning, the repetition, the feedback, and the real-world application.

Your two private sessions give us a chance to focus specifically on you: how you currently communicate, where you want to grow, and which Leadership Communication and Executive Presence behaviors will make the biggest difference for your goals.

We'll look at your individual patterns across areas such as voice, physical presence, language, clarity, and communication under pressure. From there, we'll identify specific strengths to build on, behaviors to strengthen, and Lab resources that are particularly relevant to you.

These sessions can also be used to work through a real communication challenge, prepare for an important professional moment, or get focused feedback on a skill you're actively developing.

Think of the group Lab as your ongoing learning and practice environment, with the private sessions giving you two opportunities to zoom in on exactly what you need.

Not an issue. We have your back.

The Prism Leadership Lab is designed for busy professionals, and almost no one makes every live session. The year-long format gives you plenty of opportunities to learn, practice, and stay engaged even when work, travel, or life gets in the way.

You'll have access to Learning Lab replays, extensive on-demand resources, the private online community, and occasional pop-up sessions for additional review and Q&A. Implementation Labs also draw on tools from throughout the year, not just that month's Learning Lab, so skills and concepts keep coming back into the room. Missing one meeting doesn't mean you've missed your chance to learn, practice, or get feedback on an important skill.

Come when you can. Use the resources that are most useful to you. The goal is meaningful, sustainable development without creating another source of unnecessary pressure.

Jump in! The Prism Leadership Lab is designed for rolling enrollment, so you don't need to wait for a new cohort or a particular month to get started.

Each Learning Lab focuses on a distinct communication skill, so you can begin wherever we are in the curriculum. You'll also receive a private consulting session to help identify your priorities, get oriented to the Lab, and choose the resources that will be most useful to you right away.

And you won't be expected to somehow "catch up." Implementation Labs revisit skills from throughout the year, Learning Lab replays and on-demand resources are available throughout your membership, and your 12 months begins when you join.

There is no wrong month to start. Start with what you need now, and build from there.

The Prism Leadership Lab is a 12-month membership for $1,950. Your 12 months begin when you join, so you can enroll throughout the year without losing any time in the program.

Monthly payment plans are available through our partners, Klarna and Afterpay. To see current options and details, select Klarna or Afterpay at checkout, then click Learn More.

Your membership includes 10 Learning Labs, 10 Implementation Labs, two private consulting sessions with me, access to the private online community, and the complete library of on-demand resources and Learning Lab replays.

Most professional development gives you more information. The Prism Leadership Lab is designed to help you change what you can actually do.

You'll absolutely learn new ideas, frameworks, and techniques. But understanding a communication skill and being able to use it naturally when you're under pressure are two very different things. That's why the Lab combines interactive learning with repeated practice, individualized expert feedback, and opportunities to apply the same skills across different situations throughout the year.

Many leadership communication programs are built around identifying personality types or communication-style preferences and then teaching you how to navigate the differences. Those models can provide useful insight. The Lab takes a different approach: we build core behavioral strengths you can adapt across communication styles, personalities, and neurodiversity. Instead of needing to diagnose the person in front of you, you develop a broader range of communication behaviors and learn how to adjust them based on what you're observing in the moment.

The content also draws from a broad range of disciplines. We combine Leadership Communication and Executive Presence with neuroscience, physiology, psychology, social science, voice and speech training, and performance techniques. That lets us work with both what you communicate and the human behaviors that affect how your communication is experienced.

And because this happens over a full year, you have time to experiment with small changes, notice what works, get feedback, practice again, and gradually make new behaviors your own.

The goal isn't to leave you knowing more about communication. It's to help you become more skillful at communicating when it actually matters.

Toastmasters and the Prism Leadership Lab both provide opportunities to strengthen communication skills, but they use very different learning models. 

Toastmasters is built around a peer-led club structure, with members practicing through activities such as prepared speeches, meeting roles, and feedback from other members. The Prism Leadership Lab is an expert-led development program focused on building specific Leadership Communication and Executive Presence behaviors you can apply across a wide range of professional situations.  

One of the biggest differences is the feedback. Peer feedback is naturally only as specific, practical, and accurate as the experience and skill of the person giving it. In a peer-to-peer model, that can vary from person to person, meeting to meeting, and club to club. You may receive an exceptionally useful observation one week and feedback that is less relevant to what you actually need the next.

In the Prism Leadership Lab, every Learning Lab and Implementation Lab is personally led by me. With more than 25 years of experience working with communication behavior, voice, presence, and performance, I know what to watch and listen for. I can identify subtle patterns, distinguish a symptom from the behavior actually creating it, and give you specific adjustments you can immediately practice and refine.

The Lab also goes well beyond prepared speaking. You'll work on meetings, difficult conversations, feedback, stakeholder interactions, unexpected questions, presentations, and other high-stakes professional moments.

The two can complement each other very well. Toastmasters can provide additional opportunities to speak and practice. The Prism Leadership Lab gives you targeted tools, seasoned expert observation, and specific behavioral feedback so you know what to practice and how to make it better.