Most people were never taught how to communicate well.
This course helps you recognize your communication patterns, understand how your style shifts under stress, and respond with clarity and confidence.
A 12-month, on-demand course.
$395
Why Communication Skills Matter
We communicate all day, every day.
How clearly you share ideas, give direction, solve problems, and work with others determines your effectiveness. If you can’t communicate well, it limits your impact…no matter how capable you are.
Communication is the skill that brings all of your other talents forward. Yet most people were never taught how to do it well.
Without the ability to recognize what’s happening, manage your response, and adjust in the moment, communication breaks down. Misunderstandings increase. Tension builds. Trust erodes.
The good news is that communication is a skill—and it can be strengthened with practice.
Understanding your communication style is the foundation for clear, confident communication.
The Three Core Skills of Elevated Communication
Communication Awareness
Understand your communication style, recognize your strengths and blind spots, and learn how to flex your approach with different people.
Communicating Under Stress
Develop the ability to communicate effectively when pressure is high so stress doesn’t derail your conversations or relationships.
Interpersonal Communication
Strengthen listening, address tensions early, and navigate difficult conversations in ways that build trust and strengthen relationships.
How The Program Works
This program combines short video lessons, reading, and practical exercises to help you strengthen your communication skills.
Each module introduces a key concept and provides tools you can apply immediately in your work, conversations, and relationships.
You’ll learn the ideas, practice the skills, and build habits that support clear, confident communication.
Video Lessons
Video lessons introduce each concept and demonstrate the strategies, tools, and techniques you’ll use to strengthen your communication skills.
Reading
Short reading selections deepen your understanding of the communication styles, skills, and practices introduced in each module.
Practice
Practice exercises and worksheets help you expand self-awareness, apply the tools in real situations, and build lasting communication skills.
Inside the Master Your Communication Style Program
Each module builds on the previous one, helping you develop the skills needed to communicate clearly, collaborate effectively, and build trust.
The course is designed to be taken in sequence for the strongest results. You can also return to specific modules or focus on areas most relevant to you as needed.
Phase 1
Foundations of Elevated Communication
1. Understand Your Communication Style
Expand your self-awareness and understanding of others, as you get to know the communication styles. Learn to identify your needs, motivations, talents, and areas for growth.
2. Create a Daily Practice
Learn how to activate the ideas you learn through intentional practices that support your ability to build new skills and positive habits. Understand the sciences that make behavioral change easier.
3. Communicate at Your Best Under Stress
Learn to recognize the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that “tell” you when you’re communicating from your style under stress. Use your "tells" to help you be more intentional about what you say and do when the pressure is on.
4. Move Out of Stress
Learn how to break free from the cycles of stress and instill daily practices that release heavy emotions. Develop daily rituals so you can stay calm during times of high stress.
Phase 2
Refining Your Communication Style
5. Elevate Your Listening Skills
Become aware of your listening habits and instill intentional practices that support genuine listening. Discover how to expand your empathy and listen to understand, so you can communicate more effectively and cultivate trust.
6. Optimize Your Strengths
Discover how to hone your style’s strengths so you can communicate more effectively, reduce stress, and build stronger relationships.
7. Address Your Weaknesses
Learn how to build the necessary skills to turn your style’s weaknesses into strengths so you can communicate at your best, deepen connections, and build trust.
8. Renew Your Energy!
Instill daily practices to renew your physical, emotional, and mental energy so you can communicate from your healthiest style expression, create a positive impact, and experience more happiness and peace.
Phase 3
Building Strong Relationships
9. Flex Your Style
Learn how to flex your style to bridge the style gaps and tensions that make communicating with certain people more challenging. Discover how to build productive relationships with every communication style.
10. Build Trusted Relationships
Learn to take responsibility for what you say and do and the impact you have on others. Discover how critical it is to communicate above the line in order to build trust. Build a daily practice to elevate your expression and accountability.
11. Clear the Air
Learn to recognize the impact you have on others and take responsibility for the interpersonal tensions you create. Make it a habit to resolve issues while they are small before they grow and erode trust.
12. Resolve Conflicts
Develop the ability to effectively handle difficult conversations and resolve conflict in ways that have the potential to deepen your relationships and trust. Learn how to intentionally prepare and reach agreements
What You'll Walk Away With
By the end of the program, you'll be able to:
Understand your communication style, strengths, and blind spots
Recognize when stress is shaping your reactions and reset before it derails conversations
Communicate more clearly and intentionally under pressure
Listen in ways that build trust and understanding
Adapt your communication style with different personalities
Navigate difficult conversations with greater confidence
Build stronger, more trusted professional relationships
Who This Program Is Designed For
This course helps you communicate more effectively, manage stress, and build stronger relationships in your work and everyday life.
This program may be a strong fit if you want to:
Communicate more clearly and confidently
Navigate difficult conversations more effectively
Build trusted relationships personally and professionally
Work more effectively with different communication styles
Stay calm under pressure and communicate at your best
Lead discussions toward clear solutions and decisions
Enroll in the Program
Master Your Communication Style
Self-Study Program
Develop the awareness, habits, and communication skills that help you communicate clearly, navigate difficult conversations, and build stronger professional relationships.
Through structured lessons, practical exercises, and real-world applications, this program helps you turn communication insights into skills you can use every day at work.
What’s Included
✔ 6 hours of expert-led video training across 12 structured modules
✔ Practical tools and exercises to apply the skills immediately
✔ Downloadable worksheets to deepen reflection and practice
✔ Self-paced learning so you can move through the program on your schedule
✔ Lifetime access to all course materials
Program Investment
Meet Maryanne O’Brien
Maryanne O’Brien is the author of The Elevated Communicator: How to Master Your Style and Strengthen Well-Being at Work.
She has spent her career helping leaders and teams improve communication within Fortune 100 companies and growing small businesses. For more than 15 years, she has been educating, training, and coaching professionals to communicate more consciously, strengthen well-being at work, and build the trust that allows teams and organizations to thrive.
Her work focuses on helping people understand their communication style, manage stress more effectively, and develop the practical skills that transform the way they express themselves and relate to others.
Through this program, Maryanne shares the core principles and practices she has used with leaders and teams to help professionals communicate with greater clarity, confidence, and impact.
FAQs
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Yes! Your employer can register you for the program. There are tips for doing so here.
Or you can enroll yourself and submit your emailed receipt to your employer for reimbursement.
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You receive a full year subscription to our on demand training program with enrollment, so you can continue to revisit the lessons and deepen your understanding and practice.
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Yes. If you’re interested in receiving some coaching to support as you work through the program let’s talk about your needs. You can schedule a time for us to connect here.
You may also want to look into joining our Master Your Communication Style program, which incorporate live classes and coaching sessions, along with an online program you can access on demand.
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Yes, we offer 10% for teams of 10-49 and 15% for 50+. If you’d like to enroll your team, let’s talk and we’ll get you all set up!
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Yes! We offer a 20% discount for non-profits. All you need to do is share the name of your organization and request the code here.
