TRAINING
Learn to frame a project before the first gate.
Most project training teaches you to manage a project once it exists. Ours teaches you to define it first, so it reaches approval with a clear purpose and a team behind it. Join an open cohort, or bring a course in-house so your whole team starts projects the same way.
OPEN COHORT
Opportunity Framing Practitioner
A live, nine-week cohort for project leaders, consultants, sponsors and facilitators who shape projects before they start. You bring one real project and work on it every week. By the end you have a finished frame for it, a method you can repeat, and the confidence to run the session yourself.
9 weeks
9 lessons and a capstone
PATH
4 phases · 12 steps · 11 tools
Nov 2026
next cohort starts
WHO IT'S FOR
The accidental facilitator
A project or study manager told to "run a workshop" next month.
The independent consultant
Wants a framing method to use with their own clients.
The governance owner
VP Projects or PMO lead who needs projects to reach the gate ready to decide.
THE METHOD
PATH: four phases, always in this order
P
Prepare
The right people, the right information and a session designed around the decision.
A
Analyze
Clarify the opportunity, define value and set the boundaries.
T
Target
Agree what success looks like, sequence the decisions and screen real options.
H
Handle
A roadmap to the next gate with key deliverables, dates, a stakeholders map and actions.
IN-HOUSE COURSES
Train your team on the process they actually use
Each course uses your phase names, your templates and your current projects. In person or online.
PMOS AND PROJECT TEAMS
Private framing cohort
The Practitioner program for 6 to 10 people from one organization, using your own projects as the cases and illustrative examples. Your team leaves with frames for its live projects and one shared way of starting the next ones.
Or: block seats in the open cohort