The conversations. The power dynamics.
The moments where your career actually gets decided.
Not theory. Not generic advice.
Real talk. Real strategy. No sugarcoating.
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.
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.
Each one built for a specific type of moment. No app download. No login -- just your access code and you're in.
Standard
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.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
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.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
A coaching companion for developing emotional intelligence across five domains: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills -- in workplace context.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
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.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
Master the full feedback loop -- giving honest, constructive feedback upward, downward, and laterally, and receiving feedback without defensiveness or capitulation.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
Decodes the hidden feedback dynamics ENRICH professionals face -- feedback withheld, feedback delivered through bias, and the silence that signals you've been written off.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
Helps you see yourself as others see you -- your blind spots, communication patterns, and the gap between your intent and your impact.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
Self-awareness without erasure. Helps ENRICH professionals see themselves clearly without internalizing the distorted image that biased institutions project onto them.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
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.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
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.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
Develops your capacity to intervene effectively -- coaching difficult employees, redirecting unproductive behavior, and managing performance conversations with clarity and accountability.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
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.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
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.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
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.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
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.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
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.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
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.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
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.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
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.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
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.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
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.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
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.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
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.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
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.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
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.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
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.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
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.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
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.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
Standard
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.
$147 • One-time access
ENRICH
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.
$147 • Same price. Deeper lens.
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.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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.
What they are, how private they are, which edition to choose, and how access works.
A coaching tool for one specific kind of moment, built on my frameworks. There are 15 topics, each in a Standard and an ENRICH edition, so 30 companions in all: microaggression, feedback, emotional intelligence, delegation, visibility, your first leadership role and more.
It answers exactly as I would. Same directness, same positions, same habit of going after the question underneath the one you asked. It is like having me available 24/7: insight into what is really going on, awareness of your own part in it, advice on what to do next, and coaching through the conversation you have been dreading.
Every reply ends with three short cards. The Read says what is really going on. The Move says what to do. The Principle says why it works. No download and no app. Just your access code and a browser. See all 30.
ChatGPT gives you something close to the average of the internet, and the average of the internet is mostly the advice that already did not work for you. "Assume positive intent." "Speak up more." "Bring your whole self."
My companions give you me. My positions, my frameworks, the way I read a situation: the 17 Keys, the HBWE framework, the ENRICH lens and, in the ENRICH editions, the research on identity, bias and power behind my books. So you get the parts the average will never say. I will not tell you to assume positive intent. I will ask whether this is the first time or the fifth, what happened in between, and what part you played in it.
Ask ChatGPT and you get an answer. Ask mine and you get my answer.
No. This is strategy. The companions are leadership strategy tools, not therapy, counseling or legal advice, and I am an organizational consultant and coach, not a therapist or an attorney.
If what you need right now is to be heard and looked after, a good therapist will serve you better than I can. If your situation is affecting your health, see a doctor or a licensed professional. If what you need is to change an outcome at work, that is my job.
Yes, it is private, and that holds no matter who paid for it.
Your conversation is used only to generate the replies in that session. Nothing you type is stored or retained after the session ends, so there is no transcript sitting anywhere for anyone to read. Not me, not your manager, not HR. You will see that stated on the screen before you begin.
That includes access your employer arranged for you, through an EAP, a coaching benefit, an ERG or a company license. Your organization pays for access. It never gets your conversations, because once you close the session they no longer exist.
Even so, describe the situation rather than typing a colleague's full name. That is a good habit with any tool, and the advice comes out exactly the same.
They cost the same, $147 each, so price is not the deciding factor.
Choose Standard when you need straight workplace strategy for the situation in front of you. Choose ENRICH when identity is part of what is going on: you are the only one, you suspect the same behavior from someone else would be read differently, or bias is in the room and nobody will say so.
If you have already caught yourself asking "would this be happening if I looked different?", you have your answer.
One companion: $147, one-time, yours for life. Buy it from the companion's own screen and your access code arrives by email. Enter it there and you are in.
Membership: all 15 Standard companions, or all 15 ENRICH companions, for $49 a month or $490 a year. All 30, both editions, for $79 a month or $790 a year. Open any companion and sign in with the email you paid with.
Organizations: annual licenses, from $1,497 a year for a single companion for up to 25 users. The full price list is in the pricing table above. Discount codes exist for the ENRICH community, ERGs and nonprofits. Email me and ask.
Use a companion for the moment: the email you have to send tonight, the meeting tomorrow at nine, the conversation you want to rehearse three times before you have it for real.
Book coaching when the problem has been running for months, when your job is genuinely at stake, or when you need someone to push back on you in real time. A companion will tell you what I think. In a session I can also hear how you say it, and notice what you leave out.
Yes. It is AI, and it only knows what you tell it. It gives you strategy and frameworks, not guarantees, and every workplace has facts it cannot see.
Treat what it says the way you would treat advice from someone sharp who has only heard your side of the story. Test it against what you know. Which, while we are being honest, is exactly how you should treat advice from me.
Yes, and you should. Take your Behavioral Assessment Profile, then bring your key scores into the companion that matches the problem and ask what they mean for the situation you are in right now. The report tells you where you stand. The companion helps you decide what to do about it this week.
More questions about bias at work, feedback, coaching and the books? See the full FAQ.
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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