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Say the Hard Thing

(and build your credibility)

The framework that turns a risk everyone waves off into a business case they can't ignore — in 90 minutes.

Live 90-minute workshop · Wednesday, August 5th 11:30a-1:00 PM PST

1.5 PDUs · Replay included

^{30-day "use a script or your money back" guarantee · Only 40 live seats}

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They nod.

Then nothing happens.

Does this sound familiar?

You get nods in the meeting — and watch nothing happen the second it's over
You're handing over real information in a form your stakeholders can't actually process, so it never becomes a decision
You feel like the tire light on the dashboard: right every time, ignored every time

You've tried saying it louder. You've tried saying it sooner. More data, more urgency, more meetings.

So you start to wonder if it's you: Not senior enough, not persuasive enough, not confident enough to make them listen.

It isn't any of that.

It's not you.

It's the language.

You've been raising real risks in the one language guaranteed to get waved off: project-speak.

Here's what they won't say out loud: a nod isn't agreement. It's how people end a topic. You didn't get buy-in — you got permission to stop talking. The information went in, but it never turned into a decision anyone felt responsible for.

The decision makers don't think of your project as project work.

To them it's just work.

Work is movable. Do it today, do it tomorrow, reorder it, why not? So when you defend the plan with project logic, they don't hear risk. They hear a PM being precious about their own schedule.

The fix isn't more nerve. It's translation.

Stop defending the plan.

Translate the consequence.

The shift that changes the room.

Once you're translating the consequence instead of defending the plan, the dynamic flips. You'll have a repeatable way to:

Win real alignment with the people in the room — a shared understanding, not a courtesy nod
Come across as the strategic leader — the one who saw it early and made it easy to act on
Lay the stakes in front of the stakeholders with the same formula every time, so you're not reinventing it under pressure
Hand the decision back to the people who own it — so the risk stops being yours to carry alone

Stop being the person pleading to be believed, and become the person who framed the choice so clearly that not deciding is now their problem, not yours.

What's included in this workshop

What you get	Value
The 90-minute live workshop + live Q&A	$649
The PM-Jargon → Business Translation table Printable. Keep it by your monitor.	$49
6 word-for-word conversation scripts	$49
The FACT Framework Builder One-page pre-conversation framework.	$99
The full replay, yours to keep	$49
1.5 PDUs (Power Skills)	Included
Total value	$895
Today	$149

You're getting the whole system for less than the cost of one hour of coaching.

The "Say It or It's Free" Guarantee

Come to the workshop. Use one script in a real conversation. If you don't walk out with words you'd actually say — and a hard conversation that finally lands — email me within 30 days and I'll refund every dollar. You keep the scripts and the replay either way.

Live 90-minute workshop · Wednesday, August 5th 11:30a-1:00 PM PST · 1.5 PDUs · Replay included · 30-day guarantee

In 90 minutes, you'll be able to:

Translate any project risk into the language the business tracks — the date, the money, the customer
Walk into the hard conversation with the words already written down, instead of rehearsing for a week and never having it
Name scope creep, a fake deadline, or a stalled decision without it turning into drama
Re-raise something you got ignored on — and have it land this time

Stop fumbling for words and start leading

Right now	After the workshop
Rehearsing the conversation for a week and never actually having it	Having the conversation — because the framework makes the outcome predictable instead of scary
Sitting on the risk, or raising it and getting waved off	Naming it in terms the decision-maker feels — and it lands
"It's a dependency on the critical path…"	"If we move this, we pay for it twice and delivery moves 3 weeks"
Letting misalignment linger because it feels safer than addressing it	Step‑by‑step approach to surface issues early and reduce drama later

Hear from people who've worked with Kate before:

"What I get is language, stories, and encouragement from people who’ve actually done the hard things."

Stephanie, Sr Project Manager

"I went from spending hours pre-planning and agonizing before a meeting, to just 15 minutes leveraging the techniques I learned."

Dawn, Sr Director

Who's teaching this?

I'm Kate Anderson — co-host of PM Happy Hour, and a coach who works through these exact situations with project managers every single week. This is the coaching I've given to hundreds of Project Managers, distilled into 90 minutes, with a set of scripts you can use the next day.

FAQ

I can't make it live! Is there a replay?

Is this just soft-skills theory?

What if I'm not that confident speaking up?

Will it actually work for MY situation?

Do I get PDUs?

When exactly is it (and what if the time doesn't work)??

Can I expense this / get a receipt?

Be the one who says the hard thing.

You already do the hard part — you see it coming before anyone else in the room. Come get the framework to make them see it too.

^{Live 90-minute workshop
Wednesday, August 5th 11:30a-1:00 PM PST
1.5 PDUs · Replay included · 30-day guarantee}