Active Voice | Training & Coaching for Tech & Design Leaders

You’ve tried waiting, worrying, and wondering what’s next for design and tech. What if you claimed your power instead?
Short talks. Big ideas. A free event featuring 5 speakers who’ve faced the uncertainty in design and UX—and found ways to turn it into the best work of their lives.
It’s our future. Let’s design it. Don’t miss the hype-free conference for people finding their path through design and UX industry change.
“Every course, event, and workshop produced by Active Voice has been of the highest quality.”
— Power Shift participant and Throughline conference attendee
Ready to set bold goals and healthy boundaries?
Our private coaching will help you tap into your strengths, reconnect with your values, and make bold moves for your career and life. One-time sessions or 3-month packages available.
Level up your leadership skills—from the inside out.
Build self-trust in Power Shift, our 9-week group program. Join our next Protect Yourself from ADHD Burnout workshop. Or join an on-demand course anytime: Team Up for manager skills, or Storytelling for Public Speaking.
Let’s design the learning program your team needs right now.
Learn how to navigate change and uncertainty, influence stakeholders, and build relationships. Our engagements range from one-hour keynotes to year-long cohorts.
More hope. Less hype. That’s what you’ll get at Throughline events.
This conference and event series is all about writing design’s next chapter. Join us at our next event to see what happens when design steps up instead of shrinking back.
What our clients say
“Active Voice has been an exceptional partner to our Design org during a key moment of change. Sara helped our managers move from uncertainty to action and brought something that’s genuinely rare: real talk delivered with kindness and empathy. It honestly is such a gift to have that kind of partnership when your team needs it most.”
—Amy Thibodeau, Chief Design Officer, Gusto
“In past org shifts I’ve felt passive, powerless, and stranded. But this time around, Jen, Sara, and the Power Shift community and resources are helping me find the places I do have power: to support and hold space for the people around me [and] to share my vision for how I’d like to show up as a leader.”
—Allison Huang, product and service design lead
“Active Voice has been an invaluable addition to our learning and development program. The sessions are tailored to our challenges and continuously informed by feedback. Each session is immediately relevant and highly applicable… We can’t recommend Active Voice enough.”
—Jess Greco, VP, Mastercard
“Power Shift transformed my approach to leadership. Thanks to Jen and Sara’s coaching, I pushed through my self-limiting beliefs as an immigrant to uncover the kind of leader I am. I now lead with a stronger sense of clarity and trust in my own values.”
—Tiffy Riel, product manager
“At my last review, my manager praised me for delegating and giving others the opportunity to step up and grow. This is the first time I've been recognized for doing less instead of more! Sara’s coaching helped me learn how to better prioritize, focus on the most impactful activities, and let go of custody of problems.”
—Mariné Palamutyan, UX research manager
“As a direct result of my participation, I am a more confident and concise communicator at work, as an author, and even in my personal interactions. I can’t say enough about how impactful this experience has been for me!”
—Natalie Dunbar, principal content designer
“The supportive (and fun!) community and strong, empathetic guidance from Sara and Jen have inspired me to embrace my authentic leadership style. I feel much more clear about my values and how I will stay true to them.”
—Shani Jayant, principal designer and researcher
“Active Voice gave me space to be vulnerable and find not just affirmation in my experiences, but support and feedback to help me grow and better navigate my professional life. I gained a lot of perspective with Sara and our group about where my inner critic comes from and how to stand up to it.”
—Theo Karatzas, content design manager
“I can’t express enough gratitude for Sara and Jen’s approach to coaching managers to become transformative leaders… I was immediately able to take what I learned and start having the authentic conversations I always wanted to have, but felt too awkward to initiate.”
—Jake Mitchell, product design manager
“The most valuable result of the Active Voice group for me was the shift in mindset. I went in thinking that I was going to learn how to be a leader, but left knowing that I needed to trust the leader I already was.”
—Niveen Sayeed, founder and research leader
“Team Up is one of the most immediately useful trainings I’ve taken as a leader... Whether you’re managing others or leading cross-functionally, this training offers practical, thoughtful techniques for building trust, coaching with confidence, and navigating conflict with greater clarity and ease.”
—Gemma Petrie, principal researcher, Mozilla
“This small but mighty team of coaches helped me move through burnout, coming out the other side with powerful tools for empowered leadership and self-actualization. If I could shout it from the rooftops, I’d encourage everyone to take a program or get some one-on-one coaching from Sara and Jen.”
—Angie King, head of content
“I feel less anxious when I’m thinking about my work—especially in the context of what’s happening in my domain now. There are a lot of things that I internalized as my fault… thinking about my inner critic and my strengths in a more objective way has been really helpful in terms of figuring out what’s fiction and what’s not, and learning to be kinder to myself.”
—Asia Hoe, senior product designer