More Canvas Mini-Courses

At More Canvas Consulting, our mission is built on the knowledge that specialized expertise must be paired with strategic intent.

Whether you are navigating complex data, pivoting your academic career, or growing a small business, success hinges on both clarity of vision and individual autonomy.

This is why we are offering focused, intensive mini-courses to engage directly with our community and extend our core services in consulting and strategic planning, coaching, and creative development in an accessible format. By leaning on the diverse strengths of our team, which spans high-level data analysis, research methods, creative branding, and entrepreneurial strategy, we equip you with frameworks that transcend basic skill development. Our goal is to empower you to define your own success, communicate your unique value with impact, and make data-driven or career decisions with confidence.

These courses are a direct investment in your ability to move from overwhelming complexity to strategic action, demonstrating exactly how More Canvas Consulting supports the development of professionals, small businesses, and non-profits alike.

Course 1

Data-Driven Storytelling

Learn how to craft compelling visualizations and informed narratives while making sense of your company’s data.

This intensive 4-session mini-course transforms how you think about, interpret, and present data. We’ll cover how to identify the specific research questions that matter to your business or project and craft visualizations that drive clear, impactful insights. 

Led by Natalie Miller, PhD from More Canvas Consulting, who brings expertise in research methods, perception, and communication, this program moves beyond technical tool training to strengthen how you think through the entire research pipeline. You'll learn to treat data visualization as a fundamental skill for strategic decision-making and compelling internal storytelling.

Course Goals

Generate High-Impact Insights: Understand how to formulate specific research questions that can be directly answered by your available data.

Master Visualization Strategy: Select the most relevant visualization and analysis techniques to clearly communicate your findings.

Ensure Data Integrity: Learn how to structure and prepare your data to align perfectly with your anticipated analytical and visual outcomes.

Equip for Action: Leave the course prepared to translate data insights into specific, actionable recommendations for your company or research process.

Course Information

    • Cohort 1: Mondays and Wednesdays, 5-6pm (12/1, 12/3, 12/8, 12/10)

    • Cohort 2: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5-6pm (12/2, 12/4, 12/9, 12/11)

    • Cohort 3: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1-2pm (12/2, 12/4, 12/9, 12/11)

    All sessions will be recorded and made available to registrants to watch at their convenience, if they are unable to attend live.

  • Participation in the course is only $100, granting you access to tailor-made materials built to support your professional development. With each course, resources will be provided and includes coaching as part of the process. This allows you to move immediately from visualization theory to hands-on application, ensuring you receive personalized guidance as you integrate powerful data narratives into your existing workflows.

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Course 2

The Intentional Expert

Designing Your Career for Autonomy & Impact

Transform Your Expertise into a High-Value Enterprise.

You have the specialized knowledge. Now, gain the strategy. Our "Intentional Expert" course is designed for high-level professionals ready to take a strategic, entrepreneurial, and sustainable approach to their careers.

We provide the coaching and branding expertise to define your unique path—whether that leads to executive leadership, a thriving consulting practice, or pioneering thought leadership.

Stop waiting for opportunities. Start designing them.

Course Description

Are you leveraging your specialized expertise to its full potential?

This intensive 3 to 4-session course provides the strategic framework necessary for highly educated academics, professionals, consultants, and leaders to seize control of their career trajectory and maximize their impact.

We move beyond traditional career ladder climbing to focus on personal strategy, premium branding, and sustainable productivity. Drawing on our team's experience in academia, coaching, creative branding, and small business development, we treat your professional life not as a predetermined path, but as a high-value enterprise ready for strategic growth.

Course Goals:

  • Establish a Strategic Identity: Clearly define and communicate your unique professional value proposition (your "Expert Brand").

  • Adopt an Entrepreneurial Mindset: Learn to view your expertise as a sustainable, diversified "Small Business" with multiple income and impact streams.

  • Achieve Sustainable Progress: Implement proven strategies for productivity, wellness, and self-coaching to navigate the demands of high-level professional life.

Course Information

    • Tuesdays 7pm - 8pm (1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10)

    All sessions will be recorded and made available to registrants to watch at their convenience, if they are unable to attend live.

  • Participation in the course is only $100, granting you access to tailor-made materials built to support your professional development. With each course, resources will be provided and includes coaching as part of the process. This allows you to move instantly from learning to application, ensuring you receive personalized support as you implement your new career strategies.

  • In addition to the core course structure and included in the course registration, we’ll also be hosting a roundtable tailored to academic professionals, thinking through translating your specific skillsets to industry and beyond:

    Title: Beyond the Ivory Tower: Making the Pivot to Industry and Entrepreneurship

    Format: 60-Minute Roundtable/Q&A

    Description: A specialized session for academics (PhD students, postdocs, and faculty) seeking to leverage their high-level skills outside of traditional academic settings. We will host a discussion on translating academic skills and knowledge for industry, non-profit, and consulting roles.

    Topics include:

    • De-jargonizing your CV and interview narratives.

    • Identifying the transferable value of research, teaching, and service.

    • Networking strategies for non-academic hiring.

    • Q&A on application materials and salary negotiation in new sectors.

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