Full
Decathlon Team Practice

Let’s tame the team rollercoaster. Harness your team’s collective emotional intelligence through focused micro-skill development.

Join us to elevate empathy in your workplace.

Elevate Your Team's Empathy

Streamline Interpersonal Dynamics. Enhance Cohesion. Champion Empathy.

  • A common language and practice around empathy and compassion

  • Individuals to be seen and heard

  • Refresher of emotional intelligence work done before (ie. Team loves Brené Brown books / work)

  • Better ways to connect with one another

  • Improved communicating between levels

  • Improved handling of rapid growth, new hierarchy, and power dynamics

  • Support people leaders that desire to improve their interpersonal skills

Proof is in the Practice

  • Empowering the Ages

    “That could not have gone better from my perspective -- wow. Thank you! Just exactly the right info, SO valuable for the work, so well tailored to this group, presented in a really accessible way. I could tell it was REALLY landing with the group (despite our one volunteer's strong desire for handouts ahead of time!) It was awesome, start to finish.”
    - Megan Tracy Benson (Cofounder & Deputy Director)

  • fhi360

    "You connected with my heart's language".
    - translated from Spanish to English, from a participant.

    More details of this empathy practice here.

  • GCI Health Meeting

    GCI Health

    "I so appreciated your ability to flex with us as we all navigated this new territory together!"
    - Eleanor Petigrow (Global Chief Growth Officer)

  • Pupil Labs

    “I really think the concept of 'baggage' helped the team connect and find common language. It also encouraged people to be more open/authentic and knowing that they would be supported in communicating personal or professional baggage and challenges.”
    - Will Patera`(Co-Founder at Pupil Labs)

  • Nationwide Insurance

    Nationwide Insurance

    “The work Shelton contributed to is the foundation of some our innovation organization’s most promising opportunities to commercialize against. Shelton personally played the role of designer but wore many hats including empathy coach, researcher, and facilitator of insight mapping activities.”
    - Marcus Hitt (Associate Vice President, Corporate Strategy)

  • Verusen

    “We loved hearing from Shelton D. at the Empathy Lab for the 2️⃣nd year in a row during #blackhistorymonth! Thanks for your time Shelton 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏼👏”
    - Verusen LinkedIn

Chart depicting a sample 6-week practice where Empathy Decathlon micro-skills are practiced each week.

Our Framework and Methodology

It all starts with Discovery! What is it that your team is doing to cultivate an empathetic culture and what goals and gaps might be present that we can help improve, remove, or celebrate. All practices will utilize the interactive Empathy Decathlon framework.

  • 6 week minimum course

  • Investment starting at $10,000

  • 1 Discovery session with 5-8 practices

  • Includes Empathy Decathlon Playbook for each participant

  • Concludes with 3 Empathy Standups that integrate and handoff the practice

  • Surveys conducted pre, mid, and post surveys show progress, gaps, and engagement over time

  • Office hours held for all participants throughout the practice