4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Need help tailoring your communication so it lands better? Get the tools and feedback to communicate confidently and effectively.
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Need help tailoring your communication so it lands better? Get the tools and feedback to communicate confidently and effectively.
Retail, marketing, product & L&D Leader
Course overview
This 4-week course strengthens your professional communication skills through practical tools and proven techniques —whether you're writing emails, leading meetings, or navigating tough conversations. If you’ve been told to speak up more, be more concise, or find yourself dreading on-the-spot questions, this course is for you. You’ll walk away with simple, repeatable frameworks and real-world practice to make these skills second nature.
Each week, you'll get:
• 90 minutes of live instruction (plus replays)
• Hands-on practice with real workplace scenarios
• Weekly challenges to apply the learning
• Optional office hours for personalized feedback
You’ll learn practical tools that you can use right away to:
• Turn your ideas into clear, structured messages that get results
• Feel confident speaking up in meetings (yes, even those unexpected questions!)
• Write emails that people actually read and respond to
• Speak up and push back with clarity and respect
• Influence across teams and levels
We will review frameworks and best practices to improve both WHAT you say and HOW you say it. We will apply these concepts to written communication (emails, Slacks, business updates) and verbal (meetings, presentations, ad hoc conversations). *Note: this is not a doc writing course, but you can apply all of the frameworks to your doc!
Why this course is different:
This course leverages Myra’s Amazon leadership in Retail Marketing and Learning & Development. She has authored countless docs and trained thousands in effective writing, communication, and influencing without authority. Her retail/tech expertise, irreverent humor, and desire to not waste any time create an engaging, impactful learning experience.
Come for your own development, stay for the great connections and learnings, and leave with a changed perspective on communication. Grab a spot today!
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Mid to senior level individual contributors or managers (e.g. L5 and L6 at Amazon) who are constantly communicating with stakeholders
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Anyone who has received feedback to speak up more, communicate more clearly, and/or gets lots of feedback rounds on their writing
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Learners who think in systems, who like frameworks and structure, and are willing to adapt them to make step changes in their communication
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It's not for passive learners who are looking for quick tricks or minimal effort to be better communicators
Frameworks to tackle any situation
These enable you to structure any communication clearly and persuasively and tailor your message to your audience (from execs to peers)
Feedback, self-awareness, and confidence
That will enable you to focus on the things that matter and speak up in meetings and say what you really mean
Tips and tricks on real-world situations
Practical ways to adapt these frameworks to real-life scenarios and the most challenging situations
Time savings
Spend less time drafting, editing, and re-working your communications by adopting these frameworks consistently
Live sessions
Learn directly from Myra Deshmukh in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Learner Guide
A guide with the most critical frameworks and practice examples to help you implement and refer to back in your day-to-day
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
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Senior Product Manager, Amazon
Publicis workshop participant
Director, Amazon
Lead of Amazon's Grocery Talent Academy
Amazon workshop participant
L6 Manager, Amazon
Myra is the founder of the Leadership Lab and spent 17 years at Amazon & Gap
Myra is the founder of the Leadership Lab, providing workshops, trainings, and 1:1 coaching to companies and individuals. A core focus of the Leadership Lab is Communication Skills. Myra believes if you had to invest in one skill to drive your career forward, it would be communication.
Myra has over 17 years of experience in marketing, content strategy, product launches, and learning & development at Amazon and the Gap. Specifically, Myra gleans insights from her 10+ years at Amazon
where she led high-performing teams through ambiguous and
ever-evolving circumstances, hired, performance-managed,
promoted, and coached hundreds of professionals as a manager
and an interview bar raiser, wrote and presented hundreds of docs, and taught thousands on how to write
better, communicate more effectively, and influence without
authority.
When she realized her Amazon org needed more hands-on training to write better docs and influence more effectively, she stood up a L&D team to do just that. Her approach is rooted in cutting the fluff and providing
practical, easy-to-implement ways to apply learning and see
noticeable results. The employee demand and satisfaction spoke to
the effectiveness of this approach. She is excited to now bring this to
more people and organizations!
Join an upcoming cohort
Oct 2025 Cohort
$599
Dates
Payment Deadline
3-4 hours per week
Fridays - Oct 3, 10, 17, and 24
12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
Live sessions with Myra (recordings available)
Fridays - Oct 10, 17, 24
11:00am - 12:00pm
Office Hours & Feedback Sessions with Myra (optional)
Weekly Homework Challenges
1-2 hours per week
Week of Oct 27
Final Feedback Sessions
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
Join an upcoming cohort
Oct 2025 Cohort
$599
Dates
Payment Deadline