With Cogent Language

For growing project know-how that works, one's own experience is the best ground. And so, your experience is the basis for all of our programs. At Cogent Language, it's all about you.

From your own experience, even just a little, you can grow your own project know-how, and learn how to keep growing it.  Our programs will show you how – by a strategic mapping of the project field, by six great perspectives on it, each with its own AI expert, by the definitive PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) quality improvement cycle, and by our 20+ years of experience in global consulting and early career coaching in Asia and the Americas. 

Below are the programs we offer to start 2025 – with collaboration, live coaching, case study, or without. Look them over and choose the ones that fit you best. Because growing project know-how should be all about you.

Project Know-how Panorama™

• The big picture of project know-how, on a single page
• Huge, pre-made map, in pdf format, of today's global practice
• More than 80 actionable project constructs that help teams achieve the 8 purposes they have in every project, organized by 6 great perspectives on project know-how
• Each construct relates a team purpose to a way to achieve it, and to a perspective from which the way makes sense
• Zoom in to any construct for a link to a curated video playlist
• Zoom out for AI coaching on any of the six great perspectives

AI Coaching 

• Free advice, based on 6 great global perspectives on project know-how: Agile, Plan-driven, Kaizen, Design, Systems, or Business. 
• Bring your own projects to discuss with an AI coach.  Because your own experience is the best ground for growing your know-how.
• We have 6 different AI coaches, one for each perspective  
• Thery are still just toddlers, but they are learning very fast! 
• And so can you! 

Grow Your Own Know-how

• In our "Grow Your Own" program, start where you are, and grow know-how from your projects, at your own pace, for your career
• As context and story board, you get a big picture map of today's project practice, our Project Know-how Panorama™
• Bring your own projects - troubled and trophy.
• From them, learn how to grow your own by our short course  ("Solo") and by AI coaching on six perspectives on project know-how
• Enjoy 60 days of chat-based Q&A, and, if you like, caring, and sharing in our online community "Grow Your Own Together"
• $10.00 USD

Live 1:1 Coaching  

• Learning opportunities on the project know-how you want now
• In collaboration with Cogent Language principal, Dan Clapper 
• PMP (2007- ); Agile Hybrid Project Pro (2023- )
•  20+ years experience coaching early career professionals in Asia, Americas
• Consultant to Fortune #1 company for 10+ years
• Award-winning programs designed for top global schools, US gov't agencies
• MA, MEd, MS (Cybernetic Systems) 
•  Stanford University grad, Phi Beta Kappa 
• Silicon Valley/SF Bay Area roots; neighbor of Steve Jobs

Group Coaching

• It's all about you, singular and plural!
• 20 hours of live coaching, case study, and collaboration
• Start where you are, in your own workplace, projects and practice!
• Bring your own projects, troubled, trophy, past and/or present
• Get the big picture of the global practice - fast! 
• Nurture your team work and collaboration skills 
• No talking-head videos, textbooks, or cookie-cutter tasks! 
• Map, plan, track, and grow your own know-how
• Contribute more to what your teams need in 2025
• New sessions begin in April

 Video Playlists  

• Free video library on the seeds of know-how: project constructs
• Constructs curated by project team purpose and perspective  
• Each construct links to playlist of high-quality videos 
• Study videos you need for your practice!