Course Design Hot Seat with Vanina

Hosted by Vanina Schick

Fri, May 15, 2026

4:30 PM UTC (1 hour)

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Find Your Course-Market Fit (or how to sell without selling)
Vanina Schick
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What you'll learn

What Makes A Course Successful. Or not.

Successful courses are underpinned by a repeatable set of strategic decisions: problem, audience, outcomes, credibility.

Common Failure Patterns

A course is like any product. You can't just build it and expect they'll come.

Open Q&A on Course-Market-Fit

My workshop participants get a live review, but all are welcome to watch & learn. Unlimited open Q&A.

Why this topic matters

Participants from my workshop "Design An Expert Course (...)" get in the hot seat to present the course hypotheses they developed with my course strategy frameworks. I evaluate them live, and you see in real time what makes a course opportunity strong, or fail to land. All welcome to watch, learn and bring questions.

You'll learn from

Vanina Schick

Product Marketing Leader I Qual Research Expert I Course Design Consultant

As VP Marketing at Maven, I studied why some courses sell while equally qualified experts stall. The answer is not content, and not audience. It's a set of foundational decisions: what problem to solve, for whom, and why you're clearly credible to help.

Before Maven, I co-founded a design research practice applying ethnographic methods to innovation projects for Fortune 500 companies. Before that, I was founding Marketer at one of Europe's biggest peer-to-peer marketplaces. Before all that, I was an Art Director in luxury advertising.

Today, I use my cross-disciplinary toolkit to help experts develop a course that will expand both your influence and income.

Former VP marketing at Maven

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