Before
The 1:1 where your strongest engineer has checked out, and the manager talks about sprint velocity.
After
The manager names it in the first two minutes: “You have been quiet for a month. What changed?”
Masterclass · 1 day
The Conversations Engineers Avoid
Your managers and tech leads stop postponing the feedback, the pushback, and the conflict that is quietly costing you your best people, and hold those conversations within a week of walking out.
Not on the honor system: seven days later, each participant reports back in the Engineering Leaders Slack, in front of their three matched peers. That is how we know it happened.
12,900 CZK per seat · from 150,000 CZK in-house
Trusted by
Not for
- HR generalists and non-technical managers.
- Certificate collectors.
- Anyone hoping to sit quietly through a theory day. Every participant speaks, every participant gets pushed.
Who it is for
- Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, Staff and Principal Engineers.
- Senior engineers your CTO is about to promote.
- Anyone whose technical judgment is right but whose message keeps dying in the room.
The program
5 modules, every one a real scene, practiced live.
The feedback you keep postponing
The conversation happens this week, and the person leaves knowing exactly where they stand.
The architecture fight
Disagreements get a decision date instead of a comment thread. Chronic waffling kills more roadmaps than wrong calls do.
Saying no upward
Your leads shift from order-takers to peers in the room where the roadmap is set. The one Marian lived through Mews Series C.
Feedback in writing
Your async channels stop generating conflicts your meetings then have to clean up.
Influence without the title
Your senior ICs move decisions instead of waiting for authority they will never get.
From where you are, to where you walk out.
Before
Two seniors dig in on an architecture decision, the thread hits 60 comments, nothing ships.
After
A structured disagreement with a decision date, a named owner, and both seniors still talking to each other.
Before
The tech debt conversation the lead has drafted in their head for a quarter.
After
A tradeoff pitch the CEO can act on, framed in delivery risk, not in engineering pain.
Before
Code review comments that demoralize the junior, so the reviewer silently fixes things instead.
After
Written feedback the junior learns from, and a junior who pushes back when the comment is wrong.
Before
“We should talk about your performance” postponed for the third sprint in a row.
After
The conversation happens this week, with a concrete example and a concrete next step.
What you walk out able to do.
- Open an underperformance conversation in under two minutes without softening it into noise.
- Turn an architecture disagreement into a decision with a date, instead of a thread that outlives the quarter.
- Say no to a product deadline and have the PM leave the room with more trust in you, not less.
- Give critical code review feedback in writing that teaches instead of wounds, and defend a standard without pulling rank.
- Pitch tech debt to a business owner in their numbers, not yours.
- Move a decision you have no authority over, using evidence the room respects.
- Name your wanted outcome before any hard conversation, and check afterwards whether you got it.
Format
Format and price.
- Half-day to one-day masterclass. Runs in Czech or English.
- Scenes drawn from 3,400+ mentoring sessions with 300+ leaders, anonymized.
- A scored rubric your manager sees, plus a 15-minute manager debrief.
- 12 months inside the 2,000+ leader community, and hand-picked peer matching with three same-role peers.
- The seven-day witnessed check-in: you report the conversation you held, in front of your peers.
Open-enrollment seat12,900 CZK per seat
In-house cohortfrom 150,000 CZK in-house
Company yearly leadership programMasterclass access from the Team subscription
Prices in CZK, excl. VAT. Published, not on request.
Faculty
Our Lecturing Masterminds
Our team is unique. We are not consultants selling academic theories or empty certificates. They have built multiple unicorn companies and helped organizations scale from startups to scale-ups to established corporates.
In-house cohorts
Tailored Leadership Training for Your Ambitions
No two organizations are the same. That is why our learning designers have crafted a selection of sessions focused on the key challenges faced by today's leaders. We work together to customize these sessions specifically to your needs. Our experts do the heavy lifting throughout the process and craft the program that is just right for your organization.
What nobody else offers
The parts a competitor cannot copy in a quarter.
01
Engineering-specific conflicts.
Nobody trains the architecture debate, the tech debt prioritization, the code review feedback. The six competitor programs touch none of them.
02
Influence without authority.
Staff engineers and tech leads own outcomes without owning people; the staff-track roles get nothing elsewhere.
03
Async and written conflict.
Everyone teaches synchronous only. We train the written version too: code review, Slack, PR threads.
04
Persuasion for a skeptical technical room.
Evidence-first argument: what data moves an engineering audience, when to stop arguing and escalate.
05
The room you can’t copy.
A training vendor can copy the syllabus. They cannot copy the room: 12 months in the ELC Slack, seats at the next two meetups, and the witnessed check-in.
“A training vendor can copy the syllabus. They cannot copy the room.”
Proof, honestly labeled
What we can stand behind today.
- Companies that trained their managers with us: Rohlík, Košík, Mews, Kiwi.com, Česká spořitelna, Trezor, and Apify. Rated 9.3/10 across 21 reviews.
- Marian’s own “no” delivered upward at Mews mid Series C, while the org grew 8 to 80 teams and the roadmap kept shipping. Module 3 is that conversation, replayed.
- For comparison: High Tech Institute’s communication course rates 8.9/10 and costs 2,290 EUR, with zero engineering scenarios.
The 9.3/10 and those logos come from our leadership programs across these companies, not from this masterclass alone. A verbatim alumni line about a real feedback conversation lands here once one is sourced with permission; we leave the slot rather than invent a quote.
The Conversations Engineers Avoid
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