With Cogent Language

For growing know-how that works, your own experience is the best ground. And so, your experience is the basis for all our programs. Choose projects you've worked on, past and present, successful and not. Then, grow your own know-how from them and from 6 great paradigms, guided by our Project Know-how Panorama™.

Add live coaching and collaboration if you like.  We have lots of ways to grow your own – choose from the ones below those that are best for you!

By Our Project Know-how Panorama™ 

 It's the big picture of today's project know-how on one page – a comprehensive map of the global practice in pdf format for early career professionals.

What can you do with it?

• Model your own current know-how in terms of project team purpose, paradigm, and key constructs 
• Zoom in to any purpose you'd like to explore. Or any construct, linked to a curated video playlist.
• Zoom out for AI coaching trained on any of the 6 great paradigms of Project Know-how – Agile, Plan-driven ("Waterfall"), Kaizen, Design, Business, and Systems 
• Help your teams achieve their purposes by identifying needed know-how, nurturing it via human and AI coaching, and applying it collaboratively at the gemba
• Grow your own know-how, from past projects, for current and future projects, at your own pace

By Our Solo Program "Grow Your Own"

• Start where you are, curate and grow know-how from your projects, for your projects, at your own pace
• Bring your own projects and our short course "Grow Your Own Solo" will show you how
• As context, you'll get a big picture mapping of today's project practice, our Project Know-how Panorama™
• Grow your know-how from 6 paradigms, with AI guidance and guardrails for each
• Enjoy 60 days of Q&A, caring, and sharing in our online commumity "Grow Your Own Together"
• $10.00 USD

By Our Group Coaching Programs

• No talking-head videos, no textbook, no cookie-cutter tasks
• Situated, experiential learning – Bring your own projects!
• Get 20 hours of live coaching, case study, and collaboration 
• Start where you are in either of two programs! You'll get the "big picture" - fast - in a Project Know-how Panorama™.  
• There, you can map, plan, and track your own know-how, and contribute more to what your teams need.
• After the program, use the panorama as a kanban board to keep growing your know-how going forward. 

By Our Online Community "Grow Your Own Together"

• Membership included with any paid program above
• Bring Your Own Projects – "BYOP" –  to share or get answers to your questions 
• Chat with others growing their own project know-how

• Hosted by Cogent Language principal, Dan Clapper
•  20+ years experience supporting early career professionals
•  Stanford University Phi Beta Kappa Graduate
• MA, MS, MEd (and neighbor of Steve Jobs!) 
• Consultant to Fortune #1 firm, for 10+ years
•  Led design of instruction in Asia, Americas, Europe, Africa
• PMP (2007- )
• Agile Hybrid Project Pro (2023- )

By Our Free AI Coaching on 6 Great Paradigms

• Bring Your Own Projects (BYOP) to discuss with an AI coach.  Because your own experience is the best ground for growing project know-how.
• Get coaching on your projects from any of 6 project know-how paradigms: Agile, Plan-driven, Kaizen, Design, Systems, or Business
• That's right, We have 6 different Project Know-how AI coaches, one for each paradigm 
• Still just toddlers, but they are learning very fast! 
• And so can you! 

By Our Free Video Blog "Project Constructs" 

• BYOP and get pertinent videos on constructs, the "seeds" of project know-how
• Curated by project team purpose and paradigm 
• Each construct linked to playlist of high-quality video