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Free: Read the Room Guide & Mini-Course

Transform the way your team communicates.

Every conversation has a structure—patterns of behavior that either move the group forward or keep it stuck. When you learn to read these patterns, you can change the outcome.

Our “Read the Room” guide introduces you to the fundamentals of Structural Dynamics: the four action stances (Move, Follow, Oppose, Bystand), how to recognize them in real time, and how to use this awareness to navigate high-stakes conversations.

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Books by Marsha Acker

Build Your Model for Leading Change

A Guided Workbook to Catalyze Clarity and Confidence in Leading Yourself and Others

In our complex and ever-evolving world, change is inevitable. But knowing how to lead change is a different matter entirely.

This full-color, seven-chapter, 336-page workbook is designed to help you uncover and develop your own actionable model for leading change. It’s not a book you read once—it’s a life’s work exploration.

What You'll Discover:

“This workbook takes you through the steps of first recognizing the models you currently use in life and work, and then offers you a roadmap to creating your own model for leadership—or anything else you might want to create.”

The Art and Science of Facilitation

How to Lead Effective Collaboration with Agile Teams

Have you ever felt unsure how to help a team that was spinning in circles? Or wanted to flee a room with a high-conflict group?

While sticky notes, dot voting, and gathering people around a whiteboard are all helpful activities, they can only take us so far. This book introduces the Five Guiding Principles of the Facilitation Stance—a groundbreaking approach to moving teams forward, even when things get tough.

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