Your team already has the judgment. This is the day they learn to land it.
A high-energy, on-your-feet session that teaches quality teams to communicate risk in a language decision-makers act on.
QA professionals are S or C behavioral styles.
Wired for precision, process, and getting it right before they speak. The engineers and PMs they brief are mostly D and I styles, wired for speed, momentum, and the headline first.
That mismatch is not a skills problem and it is not a caring problem. It is a translation problem, and it is trainable in a day.
Two things they could not reliably do on Monday.
Hold the room under pushback
Your team practises the moment it usually loses: a senior leader challenges the finding and the room turns. They learn to answer without getting defensive, without retreating into detail, and without conceding a risk that has not actually been addressed.
Deliver a recommendation, not a report
Coverage data and defect counts answer what the team did. Leadership needs to know what to do. Your team leaves able to close with a recommendation and an ask, so the meeting produces a decision instead of a follow-up thread.
Getting a quality leader to open with business impact rather than test results is a longer piece of work. That one usually starts with one person, not a room. Ask me about it on the call.
Nobody has ever called this a training day.
Team-building that builds spirit, forces collaboration, and improves how the group works together. Learning that feels a lot more like playing.
Game-based learning
No lecture, no slide marathon. Concepts land through interactive play and stick because the team used them.
On your feet
Chairs get abandoned. Teams race to buzz in and work real challenges standing up.
Prizes throughout
Giveaways run all day. Rewards for winning rounds, nailing a role play, and standout collaboration.
Role play with real scenarios
Step into each DISC style and work the conversations your team actually has, in real time.
Table against table
Competition built to test skill and knowledge and keep the energy high through the afternoon.
Collect beads, win prizes
Beads are handed out on the spot for clever contributions and sharp solutions. Most beads takes the big prize.
What changes after the room empties.
From findings to decisions
Your team learns to frame quality insight in the language of the person hearing it, so critical risks get acted on instead of acknowledged and deprioritized.
Behavioral intelligence, not personality labels
DISC gives your team a working system for reading how developers, PMs, and engineering leaders take in information and make decisions under time pressure.
Influence without authority
Quality rarely has direct authority over the release decision. This is the communication strategy that moves stakeholders without a reporting line.
Strategic partner positioning
Your team stops being read as a testing function and starts being read as the people whose judgment shapes what ships.
How the session runs.
- Length
- Half-day or full-day
- Delivery
- Onsite preferred, virtual by exception
- Group size
- Minimum 10 participants
- Built for
- QA, quality engineering, and the leaders they brief
Included
- Individual DISC assessments for every participant
- A 30-minute one-to-one coaching session for every attendee after the training
- A team report showing how your quality function operates as a whole
- Branded participant workbook
- Leadership debrief after the session
Scope and investment depend on group size, format, and how much follow-through you want after the session. We work that out on the call.
Amazing! Her genuine passion oozes from her. From start to finish, she challenged the team, emphasizing the importance of quality and its relation to the team - unlocking customer value. If you haven't booked her, what are you waiting for - do it NOW!
Erika was inspirational. She left us wanting more. Her presentation was specific to our needs as QA. It addressed and gave amazing solutions for concerns we face daily around people and process, all while being extremely motivating. I am recharged! I would highly recommend Erika for your next QA or corporate team event.
When it comes to Quality, Erika just gets it.
Erika showed us what it meant to be a team.
Thirty minutes on your team, and a straight answer.
We will look at where quality insight is getting logged instead of acted on, what that is costing you in delivery and incident load, and whether a workshop actually moves it. If it does not, I will tell you that.