Great leaders aren't born. They're made.
Isamana Solutions designs and facilitates impactful workshops for teams that need more than theory. Our facilitators are proven business leaders, not career facilitators, and every session is custom-built around your team's real scenarios. Bring that knowledge, mindset and spirit to your teams.
Three-Step Process to Success
Grounded in Experience
Every workshop is built from real-world scenarios, drawn from the facilitator's experience and from immersion work conducted with you, so the workshop is tailor-made for your needs.
Led by Practitioners, Not Career Trainers
Our facilitators are proven business leaders, not professional trainers. Your people learn from someone who has walked in their shoes, every time.
Built to Sustain
Sessions are designed around behavioral change that your teams carry back into their work the very next day, with ongoing support long after the session is over, including check-ins at 30 and 60 days.
- AbbVie
- Activision
- Brother International
- Clyde & Co
- Fujitsu
- Mediacom
- Tishman Speyer
Not sure if it's for your team?
See how our workshops fit learning initiatives, people leaders, talent leaders and sales leaders, and find your fit.
Course Catalog
Navigating Difficult Conversations
A 90-minute, expert-facilitated workshop that gives managers a repeatable framework for the conversations they avoid most.
View details →Cross-Cultural Communication
Built for global teams working across geographies and cultures or for client-facing employees working globally, this course will focus on how cross-cultural differences in communication style will impact the workplace.
View details →Inclusive Leadership
Leading inclusively is all about letting others feel welcomed, valued and appreciated. This session will ground leaders in the simplicity of that message and will give them tools to practice inclusion every day.
View details →Building Leadership for Women
A session specifically for women in leadership roles or training to be in a leadership role, inclusive of intersectional experiences.
View details →Selling for Professionals
Consultative selling that helps sellers listen more carefully, build confidence with prospects, and meet and exceed quota.
View details →Move Fast and Stay Calm
Teaches leaders and individual contributors to bring the best of a startup mindset into a corporate setting: curiosity, courage and ownership, with focus.
View details →Looking to Empower Your Team?
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Built for How Your Teams Learn
Whether you run a learning function, lead a team, or own culture across the organization, here is how our workshops fit.
Run cohorts and anchor learning events
Bring in a ready-made workshop to run structured cohorts, kick off a training push, or headline a themed learning week.
- Cohort-based leadership programs
- New-hire and manager onboarding kickoffs
- Themed weeks, summits, and all-hands events
Strengthen how your team works together
Give managers a shared framework for the conversations they've been avoiding, before small friction turns into turnover.
- Team offsites and retreats
- New-manager readiness
- Conflict and performance conversations
Running your own team? We can help you build the team culture that you want.
Reinforce culture
Pair a workshop with your ongoing culture & engagement initiatives to give the whole organization a consistent leadership language.
- Empower employees to embody your company's values
- Inclusive leadership initiatives
- Teach them the skills they need to succeed
Sharpen how your team sells and communicates
Combine consultative selling training with revenue enablement, led by a former Chief Revenue Officer.
- Annual sales kick-offs
- Improve how your sellers listen to prospects
- Cross-functional GTM alignment
Which workshop fits your team?
Pick the challenge that sounds most like yours.
Live, facilitated workshops built for real behavior change.
Every engagement will be scoped out and built by the facilitator who will partner with you to deliver a high-touch, easy boutique experience to help you meet your learning goals. Every engagement begins with a preliminary immersion call, followed by a content review call two weeks before the workshop. After the workshop, we check in with you at 30 and 60 days.
Browse the catalogue
All of our sessions can be delivered live or virtually, in 90 or 120 minute increments for up to 50 people.
Navigating Difficult Conversations
A 90-minute, expert-facilitated workshop that gives managers a repeatable framework for the conversations they avoid most.
View program overview →Cross-Cultural Communication
Built for global teams working across geographies and cultures or for client-facing employees working globally, this course will focus on how cross-cultural differences in communication style will impact the workplace.
View program overview →Inclusive Leadership
Leading inclusively is all about letting others feel welcomed, valued and appreciated. This session will ground leaders in the simplicity of that message and will give them tools to practice inclusion every day.
View program overview →Building Leadership for Women
A session specifically for women in leadership roles or training to be in a leadership role, inclusive of intersectional experiences.
View program overview →Selling for Professionals
A sales-specific session built on consultative selling and active listening, drawn from Jorge's own years leading sales teams.
View program overview →Move Fast and Stay Calm
Teaches leaders and individual contributors to bring the best of a startup mindset into a corporate setting: curiosity, courage and ownership, with focus.
View program overview →Why Isamana Solutions?
Real-world experience
Every scenario is drawn from real, frontline situations, not case studies. You'll learn from someone who's felt the same pain points and remedied them.
Actionable material
We believe that training solutions aren't just boxes to tick. Learning content is focused on practical action that can be immediately applied in the real world.
Start-up mentality
When employees feel invested, they feel motivated. Our entrepreneurial style of facilitation teaches teams how to make a fast-paced, start-up mentality part of their daily routine.
Navigating Difficult Conversations
A 90-minute, facilitated workshop that gives managers a repeatable framework for the conversations they avoid most: long-simmering performance issues, interpersonal conflict, and feedback that might upset or disengage someone.
What this workshop covers
Built for frontline and mid-level managers who know a conversation needs to happen and keep finding reasons to put it off. The session gives them a framework they can use the same week.
- 90-minute live session
- Up to 50 participants
- Preliminary immersion call
- Content review call two weeks before the workshop
Objectives & Deliverables
- Build strategies for addressing avoidance and risks
- Stress-test your curiosity skills and learn how to recall those skills during tense moments
- Practice difficult discussions using the Isamana framework
Program overview
Four targeted elements built for the real conversations frontline managers face every day.
How We Got Here: Understanding Difficult Conversations
We will start the session by demonstrating strategies for discovering why avoidance happens and what the risks are for both having and avoiding difficult conversations.
Performance and Accountability Discussions
The session will focus specifically on performance and accountability, with a repeatable framework that addresses underperformance directly, sets clear expectations, and documentation that sustains change.
Mastering Curiosity Conversations
Curiosity takes practice. With relatable examples to properly practice asking impactful questions, participants will learn to listen rather than respond and to reinforce the micro-habit of genuinely listening.
Delivering Feedback That Lands
The session will conclude with candid, useful techniques for providing feedback that change behavior without damaging the relationship.
Want this for your team?
Every workshop is scoped and built around what your team is actually dealing with.
Cross-Cultural Communication
Sometimes when you're working cross cultures, yes means yes, and sometimes it means a lot more. Sometimes eye contact is strong and shows engagement. Other times, it's rude and awkward. What makes sense where? That's what this workshop will teach your teams and your leaders. Whether they're working internally or client-facing, we'll teach them how to understand different facets of cross-cultural communication and how to not let cultural differences get in the way of success.
What this workshop covers
Built for global and hybrid teams who need a shared, practical framework for working across cultural gaps, not just an awareness session.
- 90-minute live session
- Up to 50 participants
- Preliminary immersion call
- Content review call two weeks before the workshop
Objectives & Deliverables
- Develop cultural awareness, belonging, and cross-regional understanding of your global teams
- Build feedback and communication strategies for cross-cultural and regional insights and perspective
Program overview
Four elements built for teams working across geographies, time zones, and cultural norms.
Reading Communication Styles Across Cultures
What gets lost in translation often has nothing to do with language. Direct versus indirect, high-context versus low-context, and the many differences that have nothing to do with vocabulary.
Navigating Hierarchy and Authority
Expectations of leadership and of the team culture, such as the flow of decision-making, shift from region to region.
Building Trust Across Distance
Practical habits for building rapport with colleagues you rarely see face to face.
Adapting Feedback and Recognition
How praise, criticism, and recognition land differently depending on cultural context, and how to adjust without losing authenticity.
Want this for your team?
Every workshop is scoped and built around what your team is actually dealing with.
Inclusive Leadership
A workshop session on effective inclusive leadership, grounded in self-awareness and in understanding how each member of your team wants to be led.
What this workshop covers
Built for managers who want to move past a one-size-fits-all leadership style toward something built around flexible leadership that fits the unique individuals on their team.
- 90-minute live session
- Up to 50 participants
- Preliminary immersion call
- Content review call two weeks before the workshop
Objectives & Deliverables
- Identify your leadership lens
- Establish skills for flexible leadership
- Create a strategy for psychological safety for your team
Program overview
Four elements built around self-awareness, understanding how each person on a team wants to be led, and tools for becoming a more agile leader.
Understanding Your Own Leadership Lens
Reveal the blind spots and defaults that shape how you lead without you realizing it.
Learning How Each Person Wants to Be Led
Moving past a one-size-fits-all leadership style to something built around the individual.
Creating Psychological Safety
Practical habits that make it safe for a team to disagree, ask questions, and admit mistakes.
Leading Through Difference
Turning varied perspectives and backgrounds into a genuine advantage, not a management challenge.
Want this for your team?
Every workshop is scoped and built around what your team is actually dealing with.
Building Leadership for Women
A session specifically for women in leadership roles or training to be in a leadership role, inclusive of intersectional experiences.
What this workshop covers
This will be an active session, designed to equip individuals with practical language to confront resistance, strategies for building allies and problem-solving, and a framework for mentorship and succession planning.
- 90-minute live session
- Up to 25 participants
- Full session recording included
- Content review two weeks before the workshop
Objectives & Deliverables
- Identify your default leadership style
- Build your toolkit for navigating challenges and barriers
- Create an inclusive plan for mentorship and succession planning
Program overview
Four modules covering self-reflection on your leadership style, navigating the expectations placed on women in leadership, confronting obstructive behavior, and mentorship.
Understanding Your Blind Spots and Default Leadership Style
Reveal the blind spots and defaults that shape how you lead, and how common bias patterns affect women in leadership.
Navigating Stereotypes and Managing Expectations
Build strategies for operating within biased expectations, and actively reshape those expectations without burning out or losing authenticity.
Solving Problems and Confronting Barriers
Respond to undermining behavior and structural obstacles without becoming defensive or isolated.
Meaningful Mentorship: Keeping the Door Open
You've gotten yourself in the door, and now it's time to keep the door open for others. Shift towards active responsibility for the women coming up behind you, irrespective of differences.
Want this for your team?
Every workshop is scoped and built around what your team is actually dealing with.
Move Fast and Stay Calm
Startups move fast because their people ask questions, take risks and own outcomes. Your leaders and individual contributors can bring that mindset into a corporate setting, even if they've never worked at a startup. This session shows them how to move quickly while staying calm, without losing focus on the details and objectives that matter.
What this workshop covers
The session focuses on how corporate employees can attain the best parts of a startup mindset while keeping the focus and stability they already bring. What are the best parts of a startup mindset? Curiosity. Courage. Ownership.
Ideal for any leader, manager or individual contributor who needs the ability to step into new situations more fearlessly, whether an intrapreneur or someone tasked with opening a new market.
- 120-minute live session
- Up to 50 participants
- Preliminary immersion call
- Content review call two weeks before the workshop
Objectives & Deliverables
- Learn how to maintain independence of thought and the value it gives an individual within a large organization
- Identify which objectives matter for individual and team success, and learn how to strategize toward meeting those goals
- Master the art of staying calm in a crisis
Program overview
Four modules that build on one another: asking better questions, acting with courage, taking ownership, and staying focused on what matters most.
Curiosity
Oftentimes, individuals in the corporate space have learned that if you ask questions, you get stuck with the work. This module will challenge that thinking and allow them to be fearless when asking questions.
Courage
Feeding off of the fearlessness in module one, the Courage module will focus on other concerns employees may have when it comes to starting new projects or leading initiatives, and how they can overcome those fears.
Ownership
Now that courage is understood, Ownership will focus on responsibility and thinking beyond one's individual career.
Staying Focused
The pitfall of moving quickly is that you lose sight of what matters most. This module will help participants learn what they should focus on within their day-to-day so that their newfound mindset helps them meet organizational and team goals.
Want this for your team?
Every workshop is scoped and built around what your team is actually dealing with.
Selling for Professionals
Whether it's about being more confident when working with prospects or about listening more carefully to make sure you're focusing on the correct features, Isamana Solutions will teach your sellers the keys to success and personal growth that will make it easier for them to meet and exceed sales quota.
What this workshop covers
Built for sales teams who want a practical, repeatable selling approach, not another motivational sales talk.
- 90-minute live session
- Up to 50 participants
- Preliminary immersion call
- Content review call two weeks before the workshop
Objectives & Deliverables
- Practice listening to learn more often when speaking to clients and prospects
- Master a discovery conversation that will feel authentic and yield results
- Internalize negotiation basics, including creating levers and currency in a negotiation
Program overview
Four elements pairing consultative selling and practical listening skills with negotiation.
Consultative Selling Fundamentals
Selling as a partner solving a problem, not a vendor pushing a product.
Active Listening in Sales Conversations
A practical walkthrough of active listening in sales conversations: hearing what prospects say and what they leave unsaid, confirming it back, and using it to understand their metrics, decision process, pain, and who is really championing the deal.
Running the Discovery Conversation
How to ask the questions that actually uncover pain, urgency, and budget instead of just checking boxes.
Negotiating and Closing
How to create currency and find the levers in a deal: understanding what each side values, trading on it instead of discounting, and moving to a close through genuine value and clear next steps rather than artificial urgency.
Want this for your team?
Every workshop is scoped and built around what your team is actually dealing with.
Training companies have existed for decades. Very few of them deliver lasting change.
The reason is simple: most training companies bring in career coaches and facilitators, not career leaders and doers.
Career coaches and facilitators with tired scripts
Training experts will come in and deliver a workshop that they've delivered countless times. It'll be powerful and may even be helpful, but it won't deliver lasting change because the session won't be tailored to your company's specific context.
Career leaders and doers with a solution for you
We're not training experts. We're experts who train. We've built and led teams. We've coached direct reports. We've worked with clients. We've closed sales. We've hit quotas and we know what it feels like to miss KPIs. And we know how to train. We won't come in and deliver a tired workshop. We'll sit with you, learn about your needs and deliver a tailor-made workshop specific to your needs.
AI-generated materials
We've been in the learning space a long time and we know what's going on out there. Many communication and leadership training companies now lean on artificial intelligence to write their decks, scripts, and workbooks. We get it, it's easy. But why pay for something that you could get yourself through AI?
Created by humans for humans
We won't use AI to write out our scripts or to decide on our content. We'll lean on our own human experience and your employees will feel that difference from day one. AI in learning design is a modern reality, but the human experience is what makes for lasting impact. People remember people, not AI jumble. Whether we see you in-person or virtually, you will always be learning from another human being's experience and expertise.
Put your team in the room with people who've actually done it.
Isamana Solutions puts your team in a room with doers and strategic leaders, to help them find what success looks like for them, not a template of what it's supposed to look like.
See if it's a fit
Fifteen minutes is enough to know whether this approach matches what your team is actually up against.
Meet the Co-Founders
We design and facilitate impactful workshops for teams that need more than theory. Our facilitators are proven business leaders, not career facilitators, and every session is custom-built around your team's real scenarios.
Jorge Vargas on The Growth Wizards Podcast: “How to merge sales and client service to transform revenue growth.”
Listen on Apple PodcastsLeadership development that sticks.
Grounded in experience
Every workshop is built from real-world scenarios and from immersion work with your team, so it is tailored to what you actually face.
Led by practitioners
Our facilitators are business leaders, not professional trainers. Your people learn from someone who has walked in their shoes.
Built to stick
Sessions are designed around behavior change that your teams carry back into their work the very next day.
Let's talk about your team.
Tell us what your managers are working through and we'll shape a workshop around it.
Let's talk about your team.
Tell us a bit about what you're working through, and we'll follow up directly.
Book time directly
Pick a slot that works for you and we'll talk it through live. Prefer email? Write to jvargas@isamanasolutions.com.
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We review your note
We read what you shared so the first conversation starts from your situation, not a script.
We follow up directly
We reply to you directly by email.
We scope your session
If it's a fit, we start with an immersion call so your workshop is built around what your team is actually dealing with.
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