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Your QA Team Is Technically Right. 
Are They Being Heard?

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Communication Gap That's Costing You

3 out of 4 testers are either S (Steady) or C (Conscientious) style communicators

Personality of Testers Report 2024

Did You Know?

3 out of 4 QA professionals are S or C behavioral styles — wired for precision, process, and getting it right before speaking up. The Developers and PMs they need to influence are mostly D and I styles — wired for speed, momentum, and the headline first.

That mismatch is why QA findings get deprioritized. Not because leadership doesn't care about quality, but because the findings aren't landing in a language that moves them.

Speak with Quality™ gives your team the behavioral intelligence to close that gap — so your insights drive decisions instead of getting buried.

Meet Your trainer

Erika Chestnut

Erika Chestnut spent 20+ years leading quality and engineering teams inside fast-moving tech organizations. She's been the Head of QA who caught the risk, documented the evidence, and still watched leadership deprioritize it; because she hadn't yet learned how to make it land.

Speak with Quality™ is the workshop she built from that experience. As a certified D I S C facilitator and Maxwell-Certified Leadership Consultant, Erika teaches QA teams the behavioral intelligence she had to learn the hard way — so they stop being the team that flags problems and start being the team that shapes outcomes.

Meet your trainer - Erika Chestnut
People Keys DISC Certified
Maxwell DISC Consultant
Maxwell Excecutive Program Leader
Certified High Flow Coach

Your QA team doesn't have an execution problem. They have an influence problem. Speak with Quality™ closes the gap between being technically right and being organizationally heard.

Insights and Tools

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Transform Your Team

To Speak with Quality

Most QA teams are wired for thoroughness; they build complete cases, document every risk, and present findings in full. Most of the stakeholders they need to move are wired for speed — they want the headline, the risk level, and the ask in thirty seconds.

Speak with Quality™ teaches your Quality leaders and team to recognize that gap in real time and bridge it — without compromising rigor or accuracy. The result is a QA team that doesn't just find problems. They drive the decisions that prevent them.

Key Benefits of

Speaking with Quality

From Findings to Decisions Your team learns to frame quality insights in the language of their audience, so critical risks get acted on instead of acknowledged and deprioritized.

Behavioral Intelligence, Not Personality Labels DISC gives your team a working system for reading how developers, PMs, and engineering leaders process information and make decisions.

Influence Without AuthorityQA rarely has direct authority over product decisions. Speak with Quality™ teaches the communication strategies that build trust and move stakeholders without a reporting line.

Strategic Partner Positioning Your team stops operating as a testing function and starts being seen as an indispensable quality partner that shapes product direction.

Upskill your people in key areas but make it FUN!

Upskill your people in key areas but make it
FUN

Enhancing Quality with DISC Insights

Participate in FUN and ENGAGING team-building activities that bolster team spirit, stimulate collaboration, encourage team strategy, improve team synergy and so much more...

Here's what you can expect :

Get ready for a blast of energy and a whole lot of fun!

Our workshops are designed to keep you moving, interacting, and connecting in ways that will stick. So, let's dive into a day where learning feels more like playing, and every moment is packed with excitement

Why Choose Us?

Quality is at the core of who we are.

Speak with Quality™ was built by someone who lived the problem it solves.

 

Erika Chestnut spent over two decades inside the QA and engineering teams she now develops. She knows what it feels like to be the most technically informed person in the room and still leave without your recommendation being acted on.

This isn't a generic communication workshop adapted for QA. Every scenario, every role play, and every tool inside Speak with Quality™ was built for the specific dynamics QA teams navigate — the sprint review standoff, the risk conversation with a D-style VP, the post-mortem where QA was right and nobody listened.

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Are You Ready?

Transform your Team

Your QA team is already doing exceptional work. Book a discovery call to find out how Speak with Quality™ gives them the behavioral tools to make that work impossible to ignore.

Half-day and full-day formats available. Virtual and onsite. Up to 25 participants. DISC assessments and branded workbook included.

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