Before
Your best architect presents the new platform and the room checks Slack by slide 4.
After
The same architect opens with the one claim the room repeats at the bar afterwards.
Masterclass · 1 day + a real stage
Own the Room
Your engineer steps off a real stage in front of 100 to 120 engineering leaders, and the exact people you want to hire walk out knowing your company’s name.
12,900 CZK per seat · from 150,000 CZK in-house
Trusted by
Not for
- Professional DevRel or conference-circuit speakers who already have a reel and a stage calendar.
- Salespeople looking for pitch training. This is technical credibility on stage.
- Anyone who wants a certificate to file. The output is a delivered talk, not a PDF.
Who it is for
- Staff engineers, tech leads, and engineering managers your company wants visible.
- Senior engineers who carry deep knowledge but freeze when the audience is bigger than their standup.
- CTOs and VPs buying seats to turn their best technical people into company ambassadors who pull talent in.
The program
4 modules, ending on a real stage.
The talk nobody remembers
Compress the whole talk into one claim and rebuild the deck around it, live. It stops being a feature tour and becomes an argument.
Technical credibility, out loud
Voice, pause, and body work on camera in short reps. The delivery finally matches the depth, proven by before/after recording.
The ambassador move
Thread the company’s mission through a genuinely technical talk with no “we’re hiring” slide. The talk does the recruiting.
The real stage
Full dress rehearsal with Q&A under fire, pass/fail. Stage-ready keeps the date; then deliver to 100 to 120 leaders with pro video and photo.
From where you are, to where you walk out.
Before
Company sponsors a meetup, puts a logo on screen, gets zero candidates.
After
Your engineer is the talk of the evening, and the follow-up DMs land in your hiring pipeline.
Before
A candidate googles your engineering team and finds a careers page and one blog post from 2023.
After
They find a professional video of your staff engineer on stage in front of 120 leaders.
Before
Your CTO is the only public face of engineering; every talk request lands on their calendar.
After
3 more people in the org can take a stage, and the CTO stops being the bottleneck.
Before
The talk is a 40-slide feature tour nobody asked for.
After
The talk is a story with one message, and the mission rides inside it without sounding like a recruiting ad.
What you walk out able to do.
- Deliver a talk built around one message, testable by whether a listener can repeat it the next day.
- Cut a 40-slide technical deck to the 10 slides that carry the argument, and defend every cut.
- Hold a pause on stage for 3 seconds without filling it, on camera.
- Weave your company’s mission into a technical talk so it lands as conviction, not as an ad.
- Answer a hostile or off-topic question from a senior leader without losing the room.
- Take a real stage slot at an ELC meetup with 100 to 120 engineering leaders in the room.
- Walk away with professional video and photos of that talk, usable the same week.
Format
Format and price.
- Masterclass, one day, plus a confirmed ELC stage date picked at signup.
- A 1-on-1 mentoring session on your specific talk, fear, and career move.
- The stage date is earned, not bought: the dress rehearsal is pass/fail. Not stage-ready means a full refund, no slot.
- Graduates keep a repeat slot within 12 months, an alumni speaker index listing, and a griller seat at the next cohort.
- The strongest graduate talk of the year gets a showcase slot at the annual Engineering Leaders Conference.
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
An audience of the people you want to hire.
100 to 120 engineering leaders. A TEDx crowd claps and goes home; no competitor puts your engineer in front of the demographic that hires engineers.
02
A stage date with published capacity, and a gate that keeps it honest.
24 stage dates a year, your date booked when your seat is. The pass/fail dress rehearsal prevents pay-to-play.
03
Professional video, photo, and social footprint included.
One seat covers the talk, the footage, and the room. Assets for speaker and company, usable the same week.
04
Feedback from operators, not from a coach.
The dress rehearsal and Q&A grilling come from people who ran engineering orgs for a living.
05
Alumni compound, they don’t graduate away.
A repeat slot, a griller seat, an alumni speaker index, and a conference showcase, inside the 2,000+ member community.
“The output here is a delivered talk, not a PDF.”
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.
- 120+ engineering leaders in the room at every monthly ELC meetup, 12 meetups a year.
- 500+ attendees at the 2026 Engineering Leaders Conference, speakers from Netflix and Stripe, covered by Czech Television.
- Marian books the stages this masterclass trains you for: 6 ELC conferences shipped.
The 9.3/10 from Academy courses comes from other programs; Own the Room starts its own scoreboard at cohort one. There is no graduate hiring case study yet, and we will not invent one, the first graduate’s hiring-pipeline numbers publish within 30 days of the talk.
Own the Room
Seats are limited to keep every room interactive. Register, or book a private cohort for your team.
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