A live online workshop for individuals
A live workshop on communication and influence, for anyone whose work runs through people. Customers, clients, a business you are building, a sales or service conversation, the interview, the meeting where you need someone to say yes.
Some people just seem to be good with people. It isn't a personality you were born with. It's a set of moves, and you can get better at them, the same way you can learn the business fundamentals behind starting and growing something of your own.
You've had the conversation that went sideways.
You've thought of the perfect thing to say about four hours too late.
You've watched someone walk into a room and have everyone turn toward them, and wondered what exactly they were doing that you weren't.
They're doing specific things. Most people pick them up slowly, by accident, over about fifteen years of getting it wrong. You can learn them on a Tuesday night.
What you'll learn
01
People are deciding two separate things about you before you finish your first sentence: whether you're warm, and whether you're capable. Most of us only manage one of those. You'll learn which signals move which read, and what to do when you can tell you've come in on the wrong foot.
02
The customer is annoyed before you've said a word. Your roommate is already defensive. Your manager has already decided. There's a sequence for this, so you're not improvising while your heart rate climbs.
03
The raise. The referral. The sale. The favor. Most people either don't ask at all, or ask in a way that makes it easy to say no. There's a version that lands as helpful instead of pushy, and there's a line you shouldn't cross. You'll learn both.
Why these are the skills that pay
People get promoted for handling the customer nobody else wanted to handle. For being the one the manager trusts with the hard shift. For walking into a room where something is being decided and changing it.
These skills sit underneath tips, referrals, repeat customers, commission, who gets picked, and who gets asked back, because people give more to people they trust and enjoy.
And here's the part worth sitting with. The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 found that workers can expect about 39% of their existing skill sets to be transformed or become outdated between 2025 and 2030. In the same report, empathy and active listening, leadership and social influence, and service orientation all sit among the core skills that hold their value.
You'll have to relearn a lot of things over the next ten years. This isn't one of them.
Why I built this for individuals and not only for companies →
This is for you if
What you get
Live, in a small group where everyone is seen and heard.
Practice out loud. About half the session. You'll try the moves on real people and be a bit clumsy at first, which is exactly the point. Everyone in the room is in the same boat, and that's what makes it work.
A workbook for before, during, and after. A little to do ahead of time so you arrive with your own material, pages to write in during the workshop, and prompts for afterward. Yours to keep, built to be written in rather than filed away.
A practice and application sheet. Two weeks of small, specific things to try in real conversations after the workshop. The workshop is the easy part. This is the part that makes it stick.
Delivered digitally. Everything arrives by email, the workbook ahead of the date, so you can print whatever you would rather write on by hand.
A guide for your coach. This one matters. Skills like these hold much better when someone's checking in on you, so you get a short guide written for whoever that person is. A manager, a mentor, a supervisor, a friend who's good at this. You hand it to them. It tells them what you learned and how to ask about it in a way that helps. You don't have to do the after part alone.
Twenty minutes one-to-one with me. Free. Booked after the workshop, on whatever you're genuinely stuck on. It's a coaching session, with no sales pitch.
What I won't tell you
I won't tell you what you'll earn. I can't separate one workshop from everything else going on in your life, and anyone who puts a number on that is making it up.
I won't tell you this makes you charismatic. It makes you competent, which lasts longer and travels further.
And I won't teach you closing tactics or pressure techniques. The whole idea here is influence that still works after the other person notices you're doing it.
The dates
Both sessions cover the same ground, capped small on purpose. You will practice out loud, so it cannot be a webinar with three hundred people in it.
Tuesday 3 November 2026
6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Arizona time
Weekday evening, after work.
Good With People: the foundation
Live, not recorded
Saturday 14 November 2026
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Arizona time
Same session on a Saturday morning. Nothing to rearrange at work.
Good With People: the foundation
Live, not recorded
Neither date works? Good With People and the other six workshops now run on a regular weekly schedule: Wednesday mornings, Saturday mornings, and Tuesday evenings, November through February. See the full pattern and register for any topic on the dates page, or book a private session if none of the times fit your week as a business owner.
Questions first? hello@nextready.studio
The regular schedule
Starting in November, all seven workshops run on a repeating weekly pattern through February, so entrepreneurs and small-business owners can plan around a real job, a launch, or a season, instead of waiting on one-off dates.
Wed
Rotates through First Moves, Find the Real Problem, Know Your Customer, and What's a Business Model, Anyway? First up: Wed 4 Nov.
Sat
Rotates through Good With People, Daily Influence and Negotiation, and Moments That Stick. First up: Sat 7 Nov.
Tue
One evening slot that works straight through every topic before repeating. First up: Tue 3 Nov.
November, for example, looks like this:
No sessions the week of Thanksgiving (November 24 to 28).
The rotation continues through February. Every date is on the dates page, with a Register button on each. If none of the fixed times fit your week, book a private session instead.
Before you register
It's live. On Zoom, on the date you choose. Not a recording. If you can't make it live, this isn't the right buy.
Refunds. Full refund up to 48 hours before your session. Just email me, no explanation needed. Inside 48 hours, or if something comes up and you can't make it, I'll move you to a later date instead, up to six months out. No refund once the session has started.
If I cancel. This runs with a minimum of five people. If I cancel or reschedule for any reason, you pick: a later date or a full refund.
Recording. I record the teaching parts only. Practice conversations and breakouts are never recorded. I won't use your name, face, or voice anywhere public without asking you first.
Your coaching session. Twenty minutes, free, yours to book within 90 days.
Need something? Captions, materials in another format, anything at all: email hello@nextready.studio at least five days out and I'll sort it.
I am Gina Wilt. I hold an EdD in Educational Leadership and Innovation and an MBA, and I spent my career designing professional learning for working adults, as university faculty and then as a director of professional learning, where much of the work was teaching educators how to teach. I am also a certified whole person life coach and Maxwell Leadership coach. I run customer-facing businesses here in Phoenix, which means I am not teaching this from a textbook. I use it on a Saturday, with a real customer, like you do. More about me →
Whether I am standing in a restaurant or on a call with twelve people, the design is the same: a deliberate sequence, real practice out loud, and an artifact you keep. All three workshops →
A separate line for teenagers and young adults (project-based work on building capability early) is in development. If that is what you are looking for, say so in the form and I will let you know when it opens.
Also available · optional
Some people have a specific thing sitting on them: a pricing conversation they are dreading, a client they cannot read, a pitch in two weeks. For that, forty minutes on a call is worth more than a workshop.
Registration
Pick a date, fill in a few quick fields, and pay on the next screen. I send the joining link, the workbook, and a note about booking your twenty minutes one to one the same day.
All seven workshops and every date → · Prefer one to one? Book a private session →
Questions
What a workshop is like, whether this is the sort of thing you can learn, and what happens if the date stops working for you. If something is still unclear, email me and I will tell you whether it is worth registering.
It is $39, live online, in a small group. This page registers you for any of the seven workshops: four on business fundamentals (starting, finding the real problem, knowing your customer, or the business model) and three on communication and influence (Good With People, Daily Influence and Negotiation, Moments That Stick). Prefer one on one instead? A private session on any single topic is $45. You also get twenty free minutes one-to-one with me afterwards. See what each one covers →
Yes, and so are the business fundamentals it pairs with. It looks like a personality because the people who are good at it do it without visible effort. Underneath it is a set of specific moves: how you open, what you listen for, what you say when someone is unhappy. Finding a real problem worth solving or knowing who your customer really is works the same way. Both are skills, not traits, and entrepreneurs and small-business owners can get better at either the same way they get better at anything they practice.
Good With People runs Tuesday 3 November at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday 14 November at 9:00 a.m. Arizona time. From November, all seven workshops run on a regular weekly schedule (Wednesday mornings, Saturday mornings, and Tuesday evenings) through February. Register and I will email you the next date for the topic you picked. If none of that works, ask about a private session instead.
No. It is a small group, and everyone talks. You will practice out loud on situations that come up for you, which is uncomfortable for about four minutes and then it is fine.
No. This is built for entrepreneurs and small-business owners at any stage, whether you are testing an idea, running a side hustle alongside a day job, or growing something you already started. The moves work in a sales conversation, a vendor negotiation, a pitch, or a hiring conversation, as well as behind a counter.
A workbook you use before, during and after the workshop, a practice and application sheet with two weeks of practice, a short guide you can hand to someone who is willing to coach you, and twenty minutes of my time one-to-one on whatever you want to work on. Everything is delivered digitally, so you can print what you would rather write on.
It is $45 for forty minutes, one to one, by video or phone. You bring one real decision or situation your business or side hustle is facing right now (a pricing conversation, a client negotiation, a hire you are unsure about), and we work through it together. You get written notes and next steps afterwards. Want that on an ongoing basis instead of a single session? That is coaching.
It is a one-to-one, $45 session on any single topic from the seven, scheduled around you instead of a fixed class time. Pick “Private session” in the form below and give me three date and time options that could work; I will confirm one and send the joining details.
Yes to both. Register and say so, and I will send an invoice. And if $39 is genuinely in the way, email me. I would rather you were in the room.
Full refund up to 48 hours before. After that I will move you to a later session any time you ask, at no charge and with no explanation needed.
Still not sure? Email hello@nextready.studio or call 480.542.7434. I answer my own email, usually the same day, and I will tell you straight if this is not the right fit.