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Sticky Frameworks, Life After Metrics, & Resilience: booking 2026 workshops

Workshops

My philosophy

Frameworks, Meet Feelings

Life is already complicated; don't make work any harder than it needs to be.

Most teams don’t need another framework duct-taped onto a broken system. They need space to step back and ask the only question that matters: What are we actually trying to do here?

After years of delivering workshops, I find I'm most fulfilled spending more time with each client, to ensure that we're actually moving the needle.

I draw from behavioral science, data storytelling, systems & design thinking, and emerging tech — transdisciplinary thinking that made my mentor, Chip Heath, proclaim "Karla Starr knows more about psychology than most PhDs."

To make the impact stick, engagements include practical digital tools and frameworks your team keeps using long after the workshop ends. Think less “inspiring afternoon,” more lasting shift in how decisions get made.

If you like the Heath Brothers’ clarity, but want it updated for modern complexity, human brains, and AI-era work, you’re in the right place. No academic fog. No corporate jargon. No legacy thinking for its own sake.

This year, remove the clutter between your team and real results.

Making Numbers Count

We're surrounded by numbers, but starved for meaning. In this workshop, I'll help your comms, marketing, data, analytics, or executive teams how to get their point across. Go from dread to joy.

  • Actionable frameworks
  • Behavioral science insights
  • A customized Notion workbook
  • Interactive materials
  • Personalized feedback
  • Real-world case studies
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Sticky Frameworks

What did I learn as Chip Heath's protege? How to make things stick. How to translate your ideas into memorable IP. How to turn your ideas into systems that people will share. I help people and organizations turn their disparate messages into a streamlined, reusable story.

  • Actionable frameworks
  • Behavioral science insights
  • A customized Notion workbook
  • Interactive materials
  • Personalized feedback
  • Real-world case studies
Client intake form

When Your Map is on Fire: Soft Skills for the Apocalypse

Drawing on research from evolution to system dynamics, I show how to survive and maintain momentum among sudden change. I've been reseaching these ideas for nearly 20 years, when I examined why some species survive mass extinction events in my debút book, Can You Learn to Be Lucky? Once again, nature and ecology are way ahead of the business world. This debuted as a keynote for the Chief Learning Officers conference, and has been adapted for organizations from financial planners to school board officials.

  • Actionable frameworks
  • Behavioral science insights
  • A customized Notion workbook
  • Interactive materials
  • Personalized feedback
  • Real-world case studies
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Life After Metrics

Years of teaching data communication has taught me how numbers lie. They're often politically-motivated bite-sized pieces of reality that pretend to be objective. In this workshop, I'll teach you how to look at entire systems and get the fundamental truth—with or without numbers.

  • Actionable frameworks
  • Behavioral science insights
  • A customized Notion workbook
  • Interactive materials
  • Personalized feedback
  • Real-world case studies
Client intake form

Process

Since writing the book, I've given online and in-person workshops to dozens of organizations. Here's an idea of my process and pricing:

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Book a discovery call at http://calendly.com/karlastarr, or email hello [at] kstarr.com if you can't find a time that works for you.

We'll discuss your organization's needs, which range from a brief one-hour virtual session on a concentrated topic (Using Numbers to Nudge: how data can motivate) to a full-day engagement with multiple follow-up visits. The kind of data used by each industry and organization are so fundamentally different that some personalization is needed to make any sort of dent. Over the years, I've found that my clients are most successful with at least one follow-up meeting.

Within a few days, I'll send a proposal with multiple pricing tiers for review. I try to work with each group's budget; online classes start at $6,000. Each workshop includes one round of revision for content approval and a Notion workbook for participants.

Find me at the intersection of communication and data. A sample of modules I've taught: Data Visualization, Motivation, Internal vs External Communication, Presentations, Working with White Papers, Journalism, Sticky Frameworks, and Business Storytelling.

We'll agree on delivery dates for assets, classes, and work on contract details. (And yes, all classes include information on AI tools—what works, what doesn't. The robots can help, but they can't replace us yet.)

Assets can include a video recording to have for your organization in the future. Because I've been told that my sessions are information-dense, many organizations find that a simple low-cost recording is beneficial to participants to review.

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