AI-Powered Coaching

You're not stuck because you lack skill.
You're stuck because the rules are different for you
and no one will say it out loud.

The conversations. The power dynamics.
The moments where your career actually gets decided.

Not theory. Not generic advice.
Real talk. Real strategy. No sugarcoating.

15 Topics Covered Standard + ENRICH Editions Available 24/7 Individual & Org Licensing
If this sounds familiar

This was built for you.

This isn't a performance issue.
This is a strategy gap.

What this actually is

On-demand coaching for the
moments that matter most.

Not once a week. Not after the fact. Right when you need it.

1
Pick your situation

Feedback conversation. Bias in the room. Difficult boss. High-stakes meeting. There's a companion built for exactly where you are.

2
Open the right companion

Each one is built on a specific framework -- not generic advice. You get strategy that accounts for your actual situation.

3
Get clear direct strategy

No fluff. No overcomplication. You walk away knowing exactly what to do and how to do it. Right now, not next week.

What changes

Before and after.

Before

  • Overthinking every conversation
  • Second-guessing yourself after the fact
  • Doing great work that goes unnoticed
  • Feeling like everyone else knows something you don't

After

  • Walking into conversations with clarity
  • Knowing exactly what to say and when
  • Protecting your reputation and positioning strategically
  • Moving with confidence instead of hesitation
Why this works

Because most career advice is too late and too general.

You don't need another framework to memorize. You need clarity in the moment, language that actually fits the situation, and strategy that accounts for how things really work.

That's what these companions are built for.

Standard vs. ENRICH -- Same moment. Different context.

Every topic has two editions. Standard gives you real-time workplace strategy you can apply immediately. ENRICH goes deeper -- built for professionals whose Ethnicity, Nationality, Race, Identity, Culture, or Heritage marks them as outsiders in institutions not built for them.

Standard is strategic. ENRICH is surgical.
Because sometimes the issue isn't just the moment. It's the system around it.

FeatureStandardENRICH E
Core frameworksYesYes
ENRICH Outsider lens--Deep integration
Racial dynamics coaching--Central focus
Scholar referencesGeneralENRICH scholars
System prompt depth10,000+ chars15,000+ chars
VignettesUniversalENRICH-specific
Price (individual)$147$147

Meet Your Companions

Each one built for a specific type of moment. No app download. No login -- just your access code and you're in.

01

Microaggression at Work

How To Deal With Microaggression at Work
The Strategist Standard
The Strategist

Your strategic thinking partner for decoding and responding to microaggressions without losing professional capital. Grounded in the DEAR framework and Duane's 5-step response protocol.

  • DEAR framework coaching
  • Real-time scenario practice
  • Documentation strategies

$147  •  One-time access

The Outsider's Edge ENRICH
The Outsider's Edge

For ENRICH professionals navigating microaggressions compounded by race, ethnicity, and systemic exclusion. Goes beyond tactics -- addresses the cumulative toll and the identity costs mainstream advice ignores.

  • Racial battle fatigue frameworks
  • Identity-preserving response strategies
  • Collective and community tools

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

02

Emotional Intelligence at Work

Develop Your Emotional Intelligence at Work
The EI Coach Standard
The EI Coach

A coaching companion for developing emotional intelligence across five domains: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills -- in workplace context.

  • Emotion regulation techniques
  • High-stakes conversation prep
  • EI gap identification

$147  •  One-time access

The Tax Collector ENRICH
The Tax Collector

Named for the emotional tax ENRICH professionals pay daily. Coaches you through EI development while acknowledging that managing your emotions in a system not built for you is a different kind of labor.

  • Emotional tax awareness and management
  • Code-switching costs and strategies
  • Authentic self-expression at work

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

03

Giving and Receiving Feedback

Feedback: Giving & Receiving
The Feedback Coach Standard
The Feedback Coach

Master the full feedback loop -- giving honest, constructive feedback upward, downward, and laterally, and receiving feedback without defensiveness or capitulation.

  • Feedback framing and delivery
  • Receiving feedback strategically
  • Difficult feedback scenarios

$147  •  One-time access

The Insider ENRICH
The Insider

Decodes the hidden feedback dynamics ENRICH professionals face -- feedback withheld, feedback delivered through bias, and the silence that signals you've been written off.

  • Biased feedback recognition
  • Soliciting feedback across power lines
  • Silence as feedback -- reading the room

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

04

Self-Awareness and Communication

How Self-Awareness Leads to Effective Communication
The Mirror Standard
The Mirror

Helps you see yourself as others see you -- your blind spots, communication patterns, and the gap between your intent and your impact.

  • Communication style analysis
  • Intent vs. impact exploration
  • Blind spot identification

$147  •  One-time access

The Real Mirror ENRICH
The Real Mirror

Self-awareness without erasure. Helps ENRICH professionals see themselves clearly without internalizing the distorted image that biased institutions project onto them.

  • Identity-affirming self-assessment
  • Internalized bias recognition
  • Authentic presence in white spaces

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

05

Being the Adult in the Room

How To Be The Adult In The Room
The Adult Standard
The Adult

Coaches you to maintain professional composure, lead with maturity, and model the behavior you wish others would demonstrate -- even when the room is immature, reactive, or hostile.

  • De-escalation strategies
  • Emotional regulation under pressure
  • Modeling behavior upward

$147  •  One-time access

The Room ENRICH
The Room

Being the adult in a room where you're not expected to be there at all is a different assignment. Coaches ENRICH professionals on maintaining authority and presence in spaces not designed to receive them.

  • Authority in hostile environments
  • Presence without permission-seeking
  • Strategic composure under racial pressure

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

06

Coaching Intervention Strategies

Coaching Intervention Strategies
The Coach Standard
The Coach

Develops your capacity to intervene effectively -- coaching difficult employees, redirecting unproductive behavior, and managing performance conversations with clarity and accountability.

  • Coaching vs. managing distinction
  • Intervention conversation planning
  • Performance coaching frameworks

$147  •  One-time access

The Authority ENRICH
The Authority

Coaching and authority don't come automatically when you're an ENRICH professional. Coaches on establishing credibility and intervening without your authority being questioned at every turn.

  • Establishing authority as an outsider
  • Managing challenged credibility
  • Intervention across racial power dynamics

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

07

Effective Listening

The Effective Listening Masterclass
The Listener Standard
The Listener

Builds the listening skills that separate effective leaders from reactive ones. Hearing is what's best for you. Listening is what's best for us. This companion makes that distinction actionable.

  • Active vs. passive listening
  • Listening across power dynamics
  • Nonverbal and silence literacy

$147  •  One-time access

The Decoder ENRICH
The Decoder

ENRICH professionals must listen on multiple frequencies at once -- what's said, what's meant, what's coded, and what's weaponized. Develops the listening intelligence that keeps you strategically ahead.

  • Code-switching and coded language
  • Reading organizational subtext
  • Strategic listening as survival and power

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

08

Leading Up While Standing Out

Leading Up While Standing Out: The 17 Keys
The Navigator Standard
The Navigator

The flagship companion. Built on the full 17 Keys framework, The Navigator coaches you through the complete landscape of upward influence, strategic visibility, and career advancement.

  • All 17 Keys -- interactive coaching
  • Boss relationship strategy
  • Upward influence and visibility

$147  •  One-time access

The Outsider's Edge ENRICH
The Outsider's Edge

The most comprehensive companion in the suite. Applies all 17 Keys through the ENRICH Outsider lens -- built for professionals playing three-dimensional chess in systems designed for someone else.

  • 17 Keys x ENRICH Outsider framework
  • Navigating exclusion without assimilation
  • Building legacy as an outsider-turned-leader

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

09

Unconscious Bias at Work

Unconscious Bias at Work
The Blind Spot Standard
The Lens

Sharpens your ability to recognize, name, and respond to unconscious bias in yourself and in others -- without defensiveness and without letting the conversation derail into conflict.

  • Bias type identification
  • Intervention without escalation
  • Building bias-aware teams

$147  •  One-time access

The Lens ENRICH
The Blind Spot

Unconscious bias is not a neutral experience when you're on the receiving end of it daily. Coaches ENRICH professionals on naming what others can't see -- and building the documentation and strategy to address it.

  • Living inside others' blind spots
  • Evidence-based bias documentation
  • Systemic bias vs. individual bias navigation

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

10

Your First Leadership Role

Leadership & Management Skills for New Managers
The New Manager Standard
The New Manager

For the newly promoted. Makes the real transition -- from doing the work yourself to getting it done through other people -- and helps you manage the two relationships that decide your fate: your boss and your team.

  • The shift from doing to leading
  • The Five Levels of Leadership
  • Leading up, across, and down at once

$147  •  One-time access

The Only ENRICH
The Only

Becoming a manager while being the first or only one who looks like you to hold the title on your team -- a narrower band of acceptable behavior, less benefit of the doubt, and no one ahead of you to model it.

  • Separating a real gap from biased "too much" reads
  • Authority built on clarity, not borrowed likability
  • Winning the sponsorship peers get automatically

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

11

Building an Inclusive Workplace

Leading an Inclusive Work Environment
The Architect Standard
The Architect

Moves inclusion past theater -- the training day, the heritage-month email -- to the promotion data, meeting dynamics, and exit interviews that tell the real story. For leaders who want belonging that holds.

  • Diversity vs. inclusion vs. belonging
  • Spotting the DINO problem -- Diversity In Name Only
  • Measuring who speaks, advances, and stays

$147  •  One-time access

The Door ENRICH
The Door

You know how the room felt from the outside, because you were on it. Now you have enough position to shape whether other people belong -- without carrying the whole load yourself.

  • Pricing and bounding the diversity tax
  • Sponsoring, not just mentoring
  • Inclusion built into structures that outlast you

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

12

Leading Through Change

Leading the Human Side of Organizational Change
The Change Agent Standard
The Change Agent

Most change efforts fail not because the plan was wrong, but because the human side was ignored. Moves your people through the change curve and turns your loudest resistors into your most credible advocates.

  • Why people resist loss, not change
  • Diagnosing the specific loss
  • Converting resistors into advocates

$147  •  One-time access

The Ground Shifts ENRICH
The Ground Shifts

When the ground shifts, it shifts under you harder -- less tenure, less sponsorship, less political cover. Reorgs and layoffs do not fall evenly, so this reads the signals early and helps you use the churn.

  • Why change puts you at higher risk
  • Reading a reorg before it decides
  • Using churn as doors re-form

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

13

Delegation Done Right

Preventing Employee Mismanagement Through Effective Delegation
The Delegator Standard
The Delegator

There are two ways to mismanage a person: hold on too tight, or let go too soon. Lives in the narrow space between micromanaging and abdicating, and stops reverse delegation before the problem lands back on your desk.

  • The line between micromanaging and abdicating
  • Situational Leadership by readiness
  • Stopping reverse delegation

$147  •  One-time access

The Multiplier ENRICH
The Multiplier

Delegation is harder when your authority to delegate is questioned and a report's mistake reflects on you more harshly. Escapes the double bind and builds a visibly high-performing team as the argument for your leadership.

  • Over-control vs. a real readiness gap
  • Escaping the offloading/bottleneck double bind
  • A high-performing team as your case

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

14

The Strategic Layer of Leading Up

Leading Up To Lead Down: The Strategic Layer
The Chemist Standard
The Chemist

The strategic intelligence beneath the 17 Keys: how to build genuine chemistry with your boss, read the power structure around you, and get into the inner circle -- one micro-interaction at a time.

  • The boss relationship as your #1 asset
  • Moving through the LMX phases
  • Drawing your Ecosystem Map

$147  •  One-time access

The Right Hand ENRICH
The Right Hand

The inner circle self-replicates by similarity -- people trust those who remind them of themselves. You are, by definition, different, so chemistry that forms on its own for peers has to be built deliberately by you.

  • Homophily and network exclusion
  • Building chemistry on purpose
  • Coalitions and external credibility

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

15

Making Your Work Visible

Make Your Accomplishments Visible -- Key 11 of the 17 Keys
The Spotlight Standard
The Spotlight

Good work does not speak for itself -- it whispers, while mediocrity with a microphone gets the promotion. Teaches the reframe between bragging and accomplishment, so you control the narrative before someone else writes a smaller one.

  • Why hard work only whispers
  • The bragging vs. accomplishment reframe
  • Controlling your own narrative

$147  •  One-time access

The Invisible ENRICH
The Invisible

You have watched someone else take credit for work you led and built. In institutions built for someone else, good work whispers -- this resolves the double bind and the modesty-norm conflict so your contributions get named.

  • The agentic penalty and double bind
  • Success Attribution Asymmetry
  • The Visibility Bypass and expert positioning

$297$147  •  Same price. Deeper lens.

Get the Strategy You Need -- When You Actually Need It

Own a single companion for life, subscribe for all-access, or license for your whole organization. Stop guessing your way through your career. Coupons available for ENRICH community, ERG groups, and nonprofits.

We reduced ENRICH edition pricing to match Standard. The ENRICH editions are more complex and more deeply researched -- but the professionals they were built for already carry enough extra costs. Price shouldn't be one of them.

Individual

Own One, or Join for All

Single Standard Companion • own for life$147
Single ENRICH Companion • own for life$147
Membership — all-access while subscribed
Standard Membership • all 15 Standard$49/mo
or $490/yr
ENRICH Membership • all 15 ENRICH$49/mo
or $490/yr
All-Access Membership • all 30, both editions$79/mo
or $790/yr
Small Business

Annual License, Up to 25 Users

Single Standard Companion$1,497/yr
Full Standard Suite -- All 15$5,997/yr
ENRICH Suite -- All 15$5,997/yr
Complete Bundle -- All 30$9,997/yr
Mid-Market

Annual License, Up to 100 Users

Single Standard Companion$4,997/yr
Full Standard Suite -- All 15$19,997/yr
ENRICH Suite -- All 15$19,997/yr
Complete Bundle -- All 30$34,997/yr

Questions about organizational licensing? Contact Duane directly.

Single companions: use the Launch button on any companion above to check out through its gate screen. Memberships: pick a plan above -- after checkout, open any companion, choose "Have a membership? Sign in with your email," and enter the email you used.

Bring This Strategy to Your Entire Team

DKA Companions are available for organizational licensing -- ERGs, leadership development programs, onboarding, and DEI initiatives. Used by AIG, Bellevue Hospital, National Grid, Port Authority of NY/NJ, and more.

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