For more than 45 years, we’ve taught consultants, leaders, managers, HR professionals, and changemakers how to create trust, accountability, partnership, and real collaboration. Through our flagship workshops: Flawless Consulting®, Leader As Convener®, and Empowered at Work, more than a million people have learned practical methods for influencing without authority, leading without control, and accelerating trust at work and in community.

Not theory. Not leadership hype.
Practical skills that change the way people work together.

Three workshops. One throughline: better conversations create better organizations.

Flawless Consulting®

Influence Without Authority. Results That Stick.

Over 1 million professionals use Flawless Consulting to turn expertise into real influence — even without direct authority. Stop managing resistance. Learn to work with it.

Build Your Influence

Leader as Convener

Leadership for the Way People Actually Work Now

Command-and-control leadership is losing its grip. Leader As Convener gives you a practical model for building accountability and commitment through conversation — not control.

Explore the Model

Empowered at Work

From Powerless to Purposeful — at Every Level

Real engagement starts when people feel accountable — not managed. Empowered at Work gives teams the skills and mindset to shift from passive to powerful, and make it last.

Start the Shift

Public Workshops & Events

Designed Learning’s public workshops and events help people build the relational skills needed to create trust, lead meaningful conversations, and influence change. From virtual public workshops to special gatherings and masterclasses, our highly participatory learning experiences help participants strengthen their ability to consult, convene, lead, and create accountability in their organizations and communities.

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Meet the Founder - Peter Block
Meet the Founder

Peter Block

Peter Block is an author, consultant, and citizen, of Cincinnati, Ohio. His work is about empowerment, stewardship, chosen accountability and the reconciliation of community.

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