Influence decisions and win without authority.

It’s getting a decision made when you can’t simply order it: you don’t control the budget, the team, or the final sign-off, so you have to make the case, line up support, and win over the person who does. It’s the core skill of getting things done across an organization. Naomi scores your real calls on exactly these habits and hands you one specific thing to do better next time.

Practice, plus honest feedback on how your ask actually landed. The hard part isn’t the theory; it’s noticing that you asked for too much at once, argued alone when a backer was right there, or never closed the one person who could approve it. Naomi reviews your recorded calls and flags those moments, so a vague goal like “be more influential” becomes a specific, repeatable change.

Making the ask too big to say yes to. You walk in wanting the full commitment, they stall, and the decision dies in “let’s revisit later.” A smaller, reversible first step with a date on it is far easier to approve. Naomi catches where your ask was bigger than the yes you needed.

Lead with what the decision does for them, keep the first ask small enough to approve on the spot, and ask directly what they’d need to see to say yes. Seniority responds to clarity and low risk more than to pressure. Naomi measures whether you made the ask easy to grant or left the room without a real answer.

That’s exactly who it’s for. Influencing without authority means the yes belongs to someone else, so the skill is making their yes easy and making sure they, not just the room, actually give it. Naomi coaches the spoken call where that happens, rather than the follow-up email.

A course teaches you frameworks in the abstract. Naomi coaches the call you actually had: it reviews your real conversation, shows you where the decision slipped away, and gives you one concrete change for next time. It’s the feedback loop a book can’t be, decision after decision.