To improve your thinking, you have to learn to see it.

These classes come out of fifteen years of working directly with the people who make high-stakes decisions. The research, and the thousands of candid conversations about accidents, near misses, and unintended consequences.

From my research, I see that people have far more capacity to understand and improve their own thinking than traditional professional education was designed to develop. That’s why Cognificent exists. When our decisions impact other people, trying harder or feeling sure isn’t the answer. It’s about our thinking quality, which we haven’t been taught to recognize.

And it has become an urgent need, the part that matters most. Our work moves faster now and arrives in forms the status-quo procedures were never meant to handle. More of the job falls outside what any procedure can reach.

That’s what these classes are for. You’ll see your own thinking with higher resolution, and you’ll see things in your work you didn’t see before.

My threshold for offering any class is whether I’d want to take it even if it didn’t count for CPE credit.