DialogLab
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Built for structured leadership development

Better leaders.
Without the offsite invoice.

Rehearse difficult conversations in private, no colleagues, trainers, or peers watching. Repeat any scenario until you feel confident, with coaching on every reply.

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Up to 3 free sessions - no signup requiredFor rollouts across your management team.

Methodological foundation

Built on proven leadership science

Practice built on proven methods: every session draws on established leadership, communication, and coaching approaches, with structured feedback managers can act on.

15+ proven frameworks across 4 disciplines

Individualized feedback analysis

Concrete feedback after every practice: what landed, what to adjust, and phrasing for the next conversation.

Consistent evaluation

The same six-dimension rubric every session, comparable across managers and teams.

Transparent progress tracking

Scores, trends, and skill profiles, ready for People teams and L&D reporting.

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The case for change

Managers think they're coaching.
Teams often disagree.

20

50%

of managers say they give weekly feedback

Only 20% of employees strongly agree, Gallup's largest gap between how managers think they lead and how teams experience it.

Gallup, 2024

42%

of turnover is preventable

Departing employees say their manager or company could have kept them.

Gallup

70%

of team engagement comes down to the manager

Gallup studied 2.7 million employees across 112,000 teams. Not perks, mission statements, or the brand on the wall. The direct manager is how people experience work.

Gallup

15+ proven frameworks3 difficulty levelsVoice or text

Scenario

Raise requestZoom 1:1Defensive feedback

Practice conversation

Live
I'd start by naming what I noticed and asking how they see the situation.

Employee

"Okay… I wasn't expecting this today. Can you walk me through what you mean?"

Ask a coach

Session evaluation

8

This session

+1.2 vs avg

Clarity8
Empathy7
Frameworks9

See it in action

Structured leadership development in practice.

Generate a realistic case, talk it through alone with a simulated employee, then get structured feedback, the core experience pilot partners use today.

  • Private practice, only you and the simulation, no audience
  • Repeat any scenario until the conversation feels ready
  • Structured feedback and scores after every session

Why audio practice

Hard conversations happen out loud - practice should too.

Typing a perfect answer in a chat box is not the same as saying it to a real person. DialogLab lets managers speak their response, get transcribed, and rehearse under the same pressure as a live 1:1 - tone, pauses, and all.

Prefer typing? Text input is always available. Most managers start with voice because it feels closer to the real meeting.

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Speak it before you live it

  • Real conversations are spoken

    Feedback, conflict, and negotiation land differently when you say them aloud. Audio practice builds muscle memory for the moment - not just the wording.

  • Tone and pacing matter

    The same sentence can land as clarity or aggression depending on how you deliver it. Speaking forces you to notice pace, pauses, and hedging before a high-stakes room.

  • Practice in private

    Between meetings or before the call, rehearse alone, without colleagues or trainers watching. Repeat until it feels natural.

24/7Practice on demand - in private, on your schedule, before the 1:1 or whenever you need another rep.

What we offer

Close the gap before it hits your P&L

A private space for managers to rehearse the conversations that matter, repeat scenarios until confident, with feedback on every reply.

  • Individualized feedback analysis on every reply
  • Consistent evaluation on six leadership dimensions
  • Transparent progress tracking with charts and session history
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Why it matters

Bad leadership is expensive.You already know it.

For CHROs and Heads of People, the challenge is scaling manager skill across hundreds of leaders, with on-demand practice that fits how companies actually roll out L&D.

Leadership training that doesn't transfer

Workshops get applause. Monday's tough 1:1 doesn't match the deck. Skills fade without practice.

Coaching that doesn't scale

Coaches reach a few leaders. Most managers - where leadership actually happens - stay underserved.

The cost nobody puts on the slide

Attrition, disengagement, and slow decisions compound. It hits the P&L - buried in turnover and productivity.

Platform

Core features

Everything your managers need to rehearse hard conversations - scalable, measurable, and always on.

Situation, goal, setup, typical issue, and persona combine into cases your managers actually face - not generic role-play in a conference room.

The solution

Structured leadership development that meets leaders where they are

Private, on-demand rehearsal, not awkward role-play in front of peers. Run a guided session before a tough feedback meeting or a reorg conversation, and repeat until you're ready.

  • ✓On-demand practice for managers, from pilot cohort to broader rollout
  • ✓Consistent methodology via your framework library - you control the standard
  • ✓Measurable readiness: scenarios mirror your culture, policies, and typical issues
  • ✓Complements coaching & L&D - fills the gap between workshop and Monday morning

What changes for the business

Lower cost per manager touchpoint
Replace a fraction of travel-heavy programs with high-frequency micro-practice.
Fewer "surprise" escalations
Managers rehearse raises, performance, conflict, and remote-policy conversations before they land in your inbox.
Culture you can operationalize
Embed how your company expects leaders to communicate - not a vendor's generic script.

Designed with enterprise use cases in mind

Structured leadership development your C-suite will understand

Currently available for selected pilot partners. Position it to your CFO as cost avoidance: turnover, grievances, and execution drag. Position it to your CEO as speed: managers who can hold the conversation today, not after Q3's offsite. You own the content, scenarios and frameworks evolve with your organization.

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For rollouts across your management team.

For People & HR teams

Made for company-wide rollout, from pilot cohort to scale, without adding headcount.

  • Chief People Officer / CHRO
  • VP People Operations & Employee Experience
  • Head of Learning & Leadership Development
  • HR Business Partners scaling manager excellence

Pilot with a business unit. Expand when managers ask for more sessions - because it's the first L&D tool they don't try to skip. Configure scenarios and dimensions

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See the experience your managers will get

Generate a practice scenario in seconds. DialogLab is currently available for selected pilot partners, this is the same practice experience pilot cohorts receive, with your scenarios, your frameworks, your standards. Built by Kristina Mostovaia, a digital leader focused on remote teams and manager excellence.

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Up to 3 free sessions - no signup requiredFor rollouts across your management team.