A senior leader is wrong in a meeting.
A junior person in the room knows it.
The junior person looks at their laptop. Someone shifts in their chair. The most senior voice keeps talking. Three people will mention it in Slack after. Nobody will mention it now. That ten seconds is the entire problem.
You have already paid for that ten seconds this quarter.
You paid for it in the launch that shipped with the obvious flaw nobody flagged. You paid for it in the strategy offsite where the real disagreement happened in the parking lot. You paid for it in the resignation letter from the person who stopped trying to be heard six months ago.
Your team is not missing intelligence. They are missing the muscle to use it in front of each other, in real time, while someone more senior is watching.
That muscle is trainable. It is not trainable in a slide deck.
“We compared And Scene to another vendor who I wholeheartedly believe is one of the best programs available. Our participants who went through both training courses shared that they wildly preferred And Scene.”
Therese Dickerson · SVP, Director of Learning & Development · Bank of Hawaii
Bank of Hawaii ran a head-to-head against a program Therese herself called one of the best available. Her people came back and told her they preferred ours. That is the bar we are working at.
The Method
Applied improvisation.
The methodology, not the comedy show.
Applied improvisation is the discipline behind how high-stakes teams listen, adapt, and build on each other under pressure. Google, PepsiCo, and McKinsey use it inside their leadership programs for a reason. We are not those clients' vendor. We are pointing at the category so you know what you are looking at.
Three things happen in the room.
Listening past the first sentence.
Most professionals are queueing their response by word four. The room makes that habit visible, then makes it expensive, then trains it out.
Building on a partner's idea instead of replacing it.
The default move in most rooms is to wait for an opening and pitch your own version. We train the harder move, which is making someone else's idea land better than they could alone.
Making the call without the data you wanted.
Decisiveness as a muscle, not a personality trait. Reorgs, lost deals, board questions nobody prepared for. The room rehearses the recovery, not the script.
The room is genuinely funny. That is the mechanism, not a side effect. Skeptical professionals do not change behavior because a slide tells them to. They change behavior when they are loose enough to try something new, fail in front of their colleagues, laugh about it, and try again.
The laughter is the door. The behavior change is the room.
A few questions before you keep scrolling.
When was the last time your senior team practiced listening without already drafting their reply?
When was the last time a manager publicly changed their mind in front of their direct reports, and it landed as strength instead of weakness?
When was the last time someone on your team made a confident decision with incomplete information and the room backed them instead of second-guessing?
If you can name the date, you probably do not need us yet. If you cannot, that is the gap we fill.
Core Workshops
Five workshops.
One methodology underneath.
Pick where your team is bleeding. Standard session is four hours. Multi-day intensives available for leadership cohorts and offsites. Hover any workshop to see what the room produces.
How groups think together when no single person owns the answer. The substrate everything else runs on.
Leading when the plan changes mid-sentence. Holding direction without flattening the room.
Producing options before you commit to one. Most teams skip this step and pay for it later.
Reorgs, mergers, role shifts. Not change management theory. Change behavior reps.
Reading the room, holding the room, and recovering when the question you prepared for is not the question you got.
Customized for Every Level
Four tiers. Because a VP and a new manager need different reps.
We do not run the same room for every tier. A Foundation cohort and a Producer cohort do not get the same workshop with a different title page.
[ ENTER CARL + LANCE ]
You are not hiring a company. You are hiring the people in the room.
Carl brings years of experience in performance, facilitation, and corporate training. His background in improv and directing gives every session its energy, structure, and the kind of facilitation that makes rooms full of skeptics lean in instead of check out.
Lance operates at the intersection of brand strategy, creative direction, and business development. He ensures every And Scene engagement is tailored to the client's culture, objectives, and organizational reality. The programs are custom because Lance builds them that way.
Sample Session
What a standard 4-hour session looks like
Standard 4-hour overview/sampling session for groups of 10-15 participants
Investment
Investment.
The number on the call is the number that stands.
A four-module pilot cohort for fifteen people is $36,000. Each additional cohort after that is $26,000 (program design is built once, then reused). A full sales-org or leadership rollout of three cohorts lands around $88,000. This is our founding-client rate. We are holding it for our first five corporate logos and will retire it after that. We do not discount to win the deal. We would rather walk away than train a room that is not bought in. If that range is the wrong altitude for your budget conversation, tell us in the first email and we will say so quickly.
The next time a senior person is wrong,
somebody should say so.
The honest next step is a thirty-minute call with Lance or Carl. Bring your hardest question about why this would not work inside your org. We will either give you a real answer or tell you we are not the right fit.
And scene.