Button School

Write for your tech job and get buy-in.

Glovo

Adobe

Etsy

Apple

Google

Meltem Naz Kaso

UX Researcher (ex-Glovo) and Career Coach

Nevan Scott

Product Designer and Design Educator - Head of education at Button School

Boost your written communication skills to get buy-in.

Write killer emails, Slack messages, and presentations

Keep your team, clients, and stakeholders informed so you can do your best work without getting burned out.

Engage your audience

Build a personal brand that will allow you and your team to grow.

Lead the conversation

Sell your ideas, manage up, gain buy-in, and increase your impact. Sharpen your skills via hands-on exercises, deep dives, scripts, and more

Co-founder of Maven (a16z, First Round)

Anthropic

Atlassian

DoorDash

Wes Kao

Co-founder of Maven. Co-founder of altMBA. Followed by 300k+ operators in tech

Cohort 11 (May)

Cohort 12 (July)

Update: The May cohort is sold out, but the July cohort is now open for enrollment. Over 2,000 tech operators have taken this course. If you've been thinking about joining, I'd love to see you in class.___If you're a high performer, you likely got to where you are because of your raw talent and ability to execute.But now that your scope has grown, your ability to increase impact depends on how well you influence others.No one teaches you how to do this beyond the basics...Until now.In this 2-day intensive course, you will learn practical ways to:<ul><li>Influence stakeholders to get buy-in</li><li>Prevent avoidable back-and-forth, friction, pushback</li><li>Write/speak more clearly and concisely</li><li>Pitch your ideas to increase chances of getting a yes</li><li>Appeal to impatient executives with high expectations</li></ul>During the course, you will drink from the firehose.You won't become a different person overnight. But my goal is to help you dramatically improve your competence and confidence in a condensed period of time.You and your team can move faster. You can prevent avoidable friction.You can accomplish more of what you want--and have more fun in the process.

Strong communication is a force multiplier

Present to your CEO to maximize highly-visible moments

Managing up in day-to-day interactions

Frame your ideas and give the right amount of context in any situation

Identify ways to improve your own writing

Influence up and sideways to get things done

There's a difference between "I know this" vs "I do this."  This course is for operators who are strong and want to get even sharper.

You are open-minded and intellectually honest

This is not for you if you want a slower-paced course over several weeks. This is a 2-day intensive designed for busy operators.

You are looking for a condensed, intensive experience

This is not for you if you expect to become excellent in communication overnight. You will need to practice ongoing to build muscle memory.

You will continue practicing after the course

Senior individual contributors (ICs). Marketing leads, PMs, engineers, program managers, UX designers, etc. Minimum 3+ years of experience.

People managers and leaders (heads of, team leads, directors). You run a team and have to get buy-in upwards and x-functionally.

Teams who want shared language so you can move faster, give feedback faster, have shared expectations, and persuade folks outside your team.

You’ll learn practical tools, frameworks, and hacks that you can use right away to:

Founder of Leadership Lab, ex-Amazon

Leadership Lab

Amazon

The Wharton School

Myra Deshmukh

Ex-Amazon Leader, Communication Coach, and Highly-Rated Facilitator

May 2026 Cohort

Sept 2026 Cohort

If you’ve ever been told to “get to the point,” felt your ideas were strong but your delivery wasn’t landing, or dreaded being put on the spot in meetings—this course is for you.In 4 weeks, you’ll build a repeatable executive communication skillset: organize your thinking, write and speak with intention, and deliver confident messages that stick—whether you’re sending an email, presenting to leadership, or answering a tough question in real time. You’ll also learn how to use AI to sharpen your message without losing your voice or critical thinking.Participants consistently say they’re using these tools immediately at work and have improved confidence, clearer feedback from peers and managers, and better responses in meetings. Scroll down for verbatims!Over four weeks, we’ll focus on both what you say and how you say it, then practice until it becomes second nature.Each week includes:<ul><li>90 minutes of live training + learning labs for personalized feedback</li><li>Real workplace scenarios and low-risk practice that doesn't impact your work performance</li><li>Weekly challenges to build the habit</li><li>AI prompts you’ll actually use</li><li>1:1 coaching</li></ul>

Executive communication, without the overthinking.

Turn your ideas into clear, structured messages that land

Feel confident speaking up in meetings (yes, even those unexpected questions!)

Manage stakeholders and leaders more effectively

Push back, disagree, and give feedback with clarity and respect

Build credibility and visibility, earn trust faster

Learn the best ways to use AI for communication

Mid to senior level individual contributors or managers (5-15 years of experience) who are communicating with stakeholders &amp; leaders

Anyone who has received feedback to speak up more, communicate more clearly, and/or gets lots of feedback rounds on their writing

Technical roles (software engineers, PMs, data analysts) looking to better represent their work and earn trust with stakeholders

Upgrade your executive presence. Communicate like a leader. Influence outcomes that get you seen, heard, and promoted.

Product & Strategy Exec @LinkedIn @PwC

LinkedIn

Harvard Business Review

Joselle Deocampo-Gautam

Product & AI Strategy @LinkedIn, PwC, Deloitte. Executive coach & advisor

Marketing Executive, Brand Builder

LendingClub

Amber Carroll

Marketing Executive | Digital Transformation Leader | Brand Builder

Cohort 4

Cohort 5

If you want to lead, your communication has to reflect it.Everyone is learning AI. Few are learning the skill that actually differentiates leaders and gets them promoted.AI can build your decks.It can analyze your data.However, AI can't✖️ Give you executive presence✖️ Command respect in a high-stakes meeting ✖️Navigate politics in real time ✖️ Maneuver at executive altitude in real-timeThese are all on you.If you’ve ever walked out of a meeting thinking “I had the right ideas, but I didn’t land them”, then you know exactly what we mean.The higher you rise, the less it’s about what you know or how fast you deliver.What sets you apart is the ability to communicate ideas so clearly they move people, and so decisively they deliver outcomes.That’s the gap this course will help you close. In three live sessions and daily exercises, you’ll build the communication habits and strategic frameworks leaders use to earn trust, shape decisions, and drive outcomes.

AI levels the field. Executive Communication sets you apart. Learn it here.

Upgrade your executive presence

Communicate like a Leader

Be recognized as a Top 1% Leader

Navigate with Influence 

Lead with a story

Practice real scenarios

Strategic Operators Ready to LeadYou’re the one who gets it done. Now you want your voice to shape direction not just execute the work.

Emerging Executives at an Inflection PointYou’ve stepped into a bigger seat or you’re about to. Show up with presence and distinction.

High Achieving Professionals in TransitionYou’re not just job-seeking, you’re ready to lead. Sharpen how you show up &amp; land your next role.

Global Leader - Amazon, Apple, Microsoft

Amazon Kindle

Xbox

IMDb

Amazon Music

Robin Burrowes

Global Marketing Leader and Workshop Instructor

Cohort 1

Most professionals were never taught how to write for business. So their best ideas get buried, misread, or ignored because the structure is weak, not the thinking.That’s what stalls careers.If your writing is unclear, your ideas don’t get approved. You get overlooked. You lose influence, especially when you are not in the room.And the bar just got higher.Async teams. Global organizations. Short attention spans. If you do not win attention in the first few lines, you lose.In 2026, writing is how work gets done.This is also the skill AI cannot replace. It is the skill that makes your AI outputs sharper, more persuasive, and actually usable.In this workshop, you will learn how to fix your writing fast:<ul><li>Master the Pyramid Principle, used by companies like Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft to turn ideas into decisions</li><li>Apply it live to your own document, so you leave with something immediately stronger and a process you can reuse every time</li></ul>You will not just learn the framework. You will use it.By the end, your writing will be clearer, faster, and far harder to ignore.

Clear Writing in the Age of AI

Product Managers who know that authoritative writing is the gap between where they are and where they want to be in their career

Solo operators and career professionals who have expertise but lack the writing tools and narrative structure to make others see it

Mid-career professionals who are smart, have good ideas, but whose writing makes them sound junior - and keep getting overlooked as a result

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Executives and senior leaders who set strategy, lead teams, and drive organizational outcomes.

Broad professional audience — content relevant across many roles and functions.

Startup founders building new businesses, from MVP to scale.

Executive communication — presenting to boards, writing memos, running all-hands, and high-stakes messaging.

Developing leadership skills — inspiring teams, building culture, navigating organizational complexity, and driving results through others.

Write for your tech job and get buy-in.

What you'll learn

Why this topic matters

You'll learn from

Meltem Naz Kaso

Nevan Scott