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This 6-hour workshop will use prompts and step-by-step instructions to:

• Solve real scenarios (outbreaks, HACCP plans, recalls)
• Learn to break creative blocks using AI
• Shift from reactive to predictive safety
• Address AI ethics/reliability concerns

Key Takeaways:

1. Accelerate human creativity, don't replace it.
2. Predict risks more efficiently with large dataset parsing.
3. Implement immediate solutions with no-code tools.

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Knowing your team’s creative preferences will identify which stages energize them and which lead to stalled projects, burnout, and lack of oversight.

This 10-minute assessment guides you through 36 science-backed questions that will reveal your unique profile.

One you purchase this product, you'll be registered and emailed a link to take the exam. Once you're done, you'll get your results immediately. The results are pretty thorough, and describe your unique approach in detail.

You'll then know how to better integrate within your development teams, and which tasks will require outside help to keep you motivated. Knowing your preference is the fuel that will keep you going in the direction of success.

Cost is $110 per person.

If you want someone to administer the assessment and facilitate a workshop explain how to apply your preference to an active project, sign up for the "Creative Innovation for Teams" workshop.

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Wellbeing is a necessary skill in today's workforce. Employees who learn how to improve their wellbeing will help drive organizations to success. All that's required is learning a few essential principles. Like waypoints on a map, these principles mark key destinations to empower their total health and peak performance.

In this online program, employees will master the 8 principles to personal and professional wellbeing, such as:

1. Destination #1: Self-Worth = Organizational Worth
   • When individuals thrive, organizations succeed.
   • Personal wellbeing fuels engagement, innovation, and impact.

    

2. Destination #2: Wellbeing is a Competency
   • It’s not just about feeling good—it’s about developing sustainable habits.
   • Simple intentional actions is all it takes to enhance performance and resilience.

    

3. Destination #3: Remembering Self & Experiencing Self
   • Wellbeing is more than how you feel now—it’s how you interpret and remember experiences.
   • Shaping meaningful experiences creates long-term fulfillment.

    

4. Destination #4: The GET/SET Equation
   • What you GET (experiences) is influenced by what you SET (expectations).
   • Aligning expectations with reality drives motivation and success.

    

5. Destination #5: Gives & Gains
   • Wellbeing requires intentional resource allocation.
   • Balancing strengths with areas of growth ensures sustainable performance.

    

6. Destination #6: R.O.A.D. (Recognize, Orient, Activate, Drive)
   • Navigate wellbeing like a personal GPS.
   • Intentional habits and direction lead to peak performance.

    

7. Destination #7: Strengths & Wellbeing
   • Turning talents into on-demand strengths unlocks total health and performance.
   • Strengths are your superpowers—learn to use them when and where you need them.

    

8. Destination #8: Growing Forward
   • Taking the wheel to find a better way forward.
   • Pitstops along the way to refuel your road trips.

You also get access to proprietary assessment tools powered by Gallup^® Science.

Once completed, employees will get a printable certificate that proves they have what it takes to apply wellbeing as a competence.

This course is perfect for:

• Professionals seeking to enhance their workplace performance
• Leaders looking to build more resilient teams
• Organizations investing in employee development
• Anyone wanting to master the science of workplace wellbeing

Your wellbeing journey begins here. Join the thousands of professionals who have improved their work lives through this simple, accessible program.

Enroll now and transform your personal and professional wellbeing.

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Food companies understand the critical role of a robust food safety culture, yet many struggle with where to begin and how to effectively invest their resources. How do you bridge the gap between abstract safety goals and tangible, actionable strategies that resonate with both leadership and frontline teams?

The Food Safety Culture Design Workshop is a dynamic, 4-hour virtual session designed to provide you with a clear roadmap. This hands-on experience will guide you through the essential dimensions of your business that are crucial for cultivating a strong food safety culture:

• Mission & Vision: Define a compelling purpose for food safety within your organization.
• People: Learn how to motivate, incentivize, train, and reward your employees and vendors effectively.
• Consistency: Establish repeatable processes that ensure high food safety standards.
• Adaptability: Develop the agility to painlessly adjust to evolving regulatory requirements, new technologies, and scientific advancements.
• Hazards & Risk Awareness: Proactively anticipate and mitigate potential risks and catastrophic events.

What You'll Achieve:

By the end of this workshop, your team will have:

• A clearly defined mission and vision for your company's food safety culture.
• Strategies to anticipate risks and prevent potential catastrophes.
• The ability to painlessly adjust to changes in regulatory requirements, technology, and scientific advancements.
• Methods to effectively motivate, incentivize, train, and reward employees and vendors.
• A personalized, actionable strategy to avoid painful recalls and publicity nightmares.

Workshop Details:

We recommend limiting team size to 20 participants to ensure an interactive and impactful session. Each participant will receive a comprehensive workbook that becomes your personalized guide to implementing your new food safety culture strategy.

Your facilitator, Richard Fleming, is a renowned food safety culture consultant and creative innovation expert. Richard's science-backed approaches have driven improvements in safety, efficiency, and profit for industry leaders such as Starbucks, Costco, Hershey, and Kerry Foods.

Ready to Build a Stronger Food Safety Future?

Once you purchase the workshop, you'll receive a scheduler to easily coordinate the best day and timeframe for your virtual session.

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Are you ready to elevate your management skills to foster a workplace environment that encourages open communication, transparency, and innovation?

"Foster a Speak-Up Culture" is an 8-week program that will new managers with tools and strategies to build a culture of trust and continuous improvement.

Course Overview
This course includes four powerful culture-building tools:

1. A "Speak-Up Survey" that lets managers gauge the likelihood employees will intervene when needed.
2. 20 minutes of short-form videos that teach managers why employees don't speak up (and how to fix it).
3. An email series with on-the-job activities that will convert knowledge into skill within 10-20 minutes per week.
4. A post assessment to demonstrate the effectiveness of the program and show how much your team has improved.

Key Learning Objectives

In less than 15 minutes per day, you'll engage your team in activities that align with your current business goals while simultaneously building a culture of trust, organizational success, productivity, and employee morale. Discover how embracing feedback and diverse perspectives drives innovation.

Build Trust and Psychological Safety
Discover effective techniques to create a safe and supportive environment, where employees feel comfortable sharing their thoughts and opinions. Cultivate trust and demonstrate leadership qualities that inspire loyalty and dedication from your team.

Communicate More Effectively
Master skills to express your expectations clearly, provide constructive feedback, and resolve conflicts with tact and empathy.

Overcome Challenges
Address common obstacles that may hinder a Speak-Up Culture from thriving and learn how to effectively manage resistance and skepticism from various stakeholders.

Nurturing a Culture of Inclusivity:
Explore methods to promote diversity and inclusivity, ensuring that every employee's voice is heard and respected regardless of their background or position.

Encouraging Innovation and Continuous Improvement:
Discover how a Speak-Up Culture can be the breeding ground for innovation and creative problem-solving. Learn to harness the collective intelligence of your team to drive constant improvement and stay ahead of the competition.

Course Format
After purchasing, you will receive a link to a Culture Assessment Tool that measures the likelihood that your current culture will take proactive action and speak up when they witness a potential disaster. Once you get your Speak-Up Score and complete some short videos to familiarize you with the process, we trigger the email sequence: regular instructions for activities designed to improve your team's culture so that employees address problems as they arise. These emails take less than 10 minutes to read, and the activities are integrated into your daily work, requiring no downtime or separate, dedicated learning because it happens on the job.

Ideal Audience
This program is ideal for a wide range of leadership roles, including:

• New managers (store managers, plant managers, district managers)
• Supervisors
• QA directors
• Team leads
• Other front-line and mid-line leadership positions

Conclusion
In today's rapidly evolving corporate landscape, this is more than a "nice-to-have": it's a strategic necessity for any successful organization. Invest in your professional growth as a manager and in the growth and development of your team.

*Price is per license.

What Do I Get?

Watch this short explainer video to see what the program looks like and what happens after you purchase:

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Tell Unforgettable Stories

Even on a tight deadline.

No matter your skill at storytelling, having a consistent, repeatable writing process will save you weeks of development time. In just a few sessions, you'll you'll discover a clear, step-by-step approach to using stories in your training programs that will lead to real behavior change and skill adoption.

What You'll Get

• Discover the Story in Any Objective: For any industry, for any audience, you’ll be able to find and craft a story that subtly but effectively teaches any learning objective.
• Interactive, Collaborative Learning: Engage in live, hands-on coworking sessions with guidance from Sage Academy founder, Richard Fleming. He can answer any storytelling question you have, and you'll have direct access to his approach.
• Exclusive Course Materials: Full access to our corresponding online course that delves deeper into key storytelling principles.
• Comprehensive Workbook: A 28-page template to help you create and recreate your stories, anytime you need to.
• Networking Opportunities: Join a private Discord channel with other instructional designers and industry leaers for collaborative support, shared resources, and continued inspiration.

Learning objectives have their own language, and that language is different from how you create stories. With this cohort session, you'll get the "Rosetta Stone" to convert your training objectives into compelling stories.

Included in Your Purchase:

1. Direct consultation by Sage Academy founder Richard Fleming. ($2,500)
2. Full access to our comprehensive online storytelling course. ($497)
3. A detailed, 28-page workbook to guide your story creation. ($199)
4. Membership in an exclusive Discord channel with industry peers. ($300)
5. Personalized, written feedback on your project. ($10,000)
6. One-on-One, Personalized Coaching Session for an additional hour. ($500)
7. Certificate of Completion to showcase your newly acquired storytelling expertise. ($199)
8. Exclusive Access to webinars that delve into advanced storytelling techniques. ($499)
9. Bonus templates that will streamline your story design process. ($199)
10. A complete, compelling story, ready for use.

This is $15,000 of value for only $2995.

Learn Tactics From an Industry Leader

Richard is a published expert on storytelling as a learning modality, and he's had an illustrious career making narrative and documentary films, working in advertising (including a Super Bowl commercial), and producing training videos that have used the same process you'll learn to win three consecutive Brandon Hall Awards.

Next Session Starts: Week of March 24, 2025

*Scheduling and additional details will be provided after purchase - such as Zoom links, calendar of events and assignments, and credentials for full access to our online storytelling course. You can view the full syllabus here.*

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Without an understanding of what motivates your learner, it is impossible to cross the chasm from knowledge to results. Through effective learning design that focuses on intrinsic motivation, you can build training that will create lasting behavior change among your team.

In this facilitated cohort, you will learn how to integrate universal, intrinsic motivators into your training and learning programs.

What you get:

1. Effective approaches to integrating universal motivators into learning design.
2. A reusable learner’s guide to refer to anytime you need.
3. Three guided Zoom sessions with the heads of Sage Media and Sage Academy.
4. Access to a private Slack channel to extend your learning while collaborating with your cohort.
5. A final Capstone project that reflects effective, motivation-centric learning design.

Total time investment: About 5 hours

Cohort timeframe: April 1 - April 12

Even though these sessions are virtual, enrollment is limited to no more than 16 students.

Additional details will be sent via email following purchase. Be sure to whitelist Sage Academy so you don't miss any messages!

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What If You Could Make Every Training Session As Engaging As A Netflix Series? This Course Offers A Systematic Method That Turns Any Learning Objective Into A Compelling Story Your Audience Will Actually Remember.

Are you tired of watching learners' eyes glaze over during your training sessions? If you're a learning designer, corporate trainer, or educator who struggles to make your content stick, this course will show you the approach we've used with clients like Starbucks, Hershey, and Microsoft to create award-winning training programs.

Research shows that people forget 90% of what they learn within a week unless it's presented in a memorable way. If you want a design process that easily writes stories that are emotionally engaging, relevant to your training, and actually stick with your audience so that they take action, this is the course for you.

Storytelling for Learning Designers is the only systematic framework like it, transforming dry, forgettable training content into powerful narratives that drive real behavior change.

Problems This Course Solves:

• Boring presentations - Your systematic approach transforms dry training content into engaging narratives.
• Lack of engagement - The Core Premise methodology ensures emotional connection with learners.
• Information overload - Your framework helps simplify complex concepts through story metaphors.
• Inconsistent messaging - The structured approach ensures coherent, focused storytelling.
• Poor storytelling structure - Your clear plot development process (Normal World → Inciting Event → Tipping Point → Test → Conclusion) provides solid structure.
• Audience mismatch - The workbook emphasizes understanding learner motivations and needs.
• Time constraints - Your systematic framework allows for efficient story creation.
• Measuring impact - The Core Premise focus ensures stories have clear learning objectives and measurable outcomes.

Why This Works When Other Methods Fail

❌ Most training fails because it's just an information dump.
✅ Our method engages both hearts and minds.

❌ Traditional training provides no incentive.
✅ Our Core Premise method ensures one clear, memorable message learners remember and act on.

❌ Generic storytelling advice doesn't work for learning contexts or global audiences.
✅ Every technique is specifically designed for behavioral outcomes, regardless of where your audience is from.

Perfect For:

• Corporate Trainers who need to make compliance training engaging
• Learning & Development Professionals building leadership programs
• Educational Designers creating online courses, especially with social-emotional learning (SEL)
• Consultants who want to make their stakeholder presentations unforgettable
• HR Leaders communicating culture and values
• Anyone who needs to teach complex concepts in memorable ways

What You Get:

✅ 28-page fillable workbook that will save you weeks of development
✅ Engaging video tutorials that walk you through how to tell great stories
✅ Real-world examples from successful corporate training programs

What You'll Master:

Module 1: Foundation Building

• Craft laser-focused learning objectives using the ABCD Method
• Identify the exact behavior change you want to create
• Eliminate the #1 mistake that makes training forgettable

Module 2: Core Premise Design

• Discover the moral that drives your story
• Choose between inspirational, happy endings or cautionary, tragic outcome
• Create the conflict that supports your learning objective without coming off preachy or insincere

Module 3: Story Architecture

• Develop compelling metaphors that make abstract concepts concrete
• Design protagonists your learners will actually care about
• Build antagonists that create meaningful stakes

Module 4: Plot Development

• Master the 5-point plot structure that never fails
• Create obstacles that build tension without derailing your message
• Use causality to make every scene meaningful

Module 5: Bringing It All Together

• Write your first draft using the Pomodoro technique
• Edit with the three-phase revision process
• Test and refine until your story is bulletproof

Don't Let Another Training Session Fall Flat

Every day that passes is another day your learners forget what you're trying to teach them. Your expertise deserves better delivery.

Join hundreds of learning professionals who've transformed their training with storytelling.

"I've never experience e-learning on an emotional level. This was as captivating as watching Stranger Things." - Lily R., Organizational Development and Talent Acquisition

"This framework completely changed how I approach corporate training. Our safety compliance scores went up 40% after I started using these storytelling techniques." - Sarah M., Corporate Trainer

"I thought I was a good presenter before this course. I realize now I was just sharing information. This course helped me create stories that drove real impact." - David L., Learning Designer

"This should be shown to ALL employees…especially marketing." - Hasreena H., Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Manager

Ready To Transform Your Training Forever?

[ENROLL NOW - $497]

Course includes lifetime updates and access

Questions? Email us at support@sage.academy or call (720) 722-2982

Your learners deserve training they'll actually remember. Give it to them.

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