Designing live sessions that lead to work #4
If you're a coach, trainer or consultant like I am, you know the problem was never the work. It's proving the work to someone who hasn't experienced it yet.
I've been there. Exhausted from writing about my work for nothing, sending DMs, cancelling empty sessions. Pitching so hard and going nowhere, until I realised I was trying to force being good at something I'm not. I'm not good at pitching. I'm good at doing.
So I turned the doing into the pitch itself.
An hour of live work, with people in the room doing it with you, is the strongest proof you have. It's also the one thing a buyer can't get anywhere else.
If you already run sessions, you'll know the other half of this. The hour goes well, people are engaged, they say thank you and mean it. Then nothing moves.
This session is that hour, run on you. Sixty minutes, a Kolab board, and your own sessions on it inside the first two minutes. Not a case study, not a slide deck.
What you'll walk away with
A clear read on why your sessions stop at thank you, in your words and everyone else's. You'll put what happened after your last session onto a live board alongside other practitioners, and watch what the room has in common.
My comments on your actual situation. The share-and-comment stretch is the longest part of the hour and it's the part people come back for.
A firsthand experience of a designed session, not a slide deck about facilitation. This is the method I teach, run on you, which is the point.
What people said after the first session
"Thank you, this was brilliant!"
"I learned that my teams' problems are perhaps universal. Quite comforting."
"I'm learning how you lead workshops, I love the dynamic and timing you follow."
Who it's for
Coaches, trainers and consultants who run live sessions, or are about to, and want the hour to lead somewhere.
Not for anyone looking for help filling the room. No ads, no funnels, no audience-building. I'll show you what to do once people are in.
About Carolina Poll
Led distributed design teams of up to 19 people across Europe for four years — designers from 19 countries, spread across Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, London, Helsinki, Paris, India, with one shared hour in the day. The feedback she heard more than once: how she made the team feel like a team. That doesn't happen by accident.
Strategic designer and workshop facilitator with 18 years of experience. Miro MVP. 180+ templates published on Miroverse, used by 7,000+ teams worldwide. Part of Miro's first AI creators cohort. Demoed an AI-powered template at Miro Canvas 2026, London.