Keynotes · Workshops · Executive Coaching

Real leadership, taught by someone who wrote the manual on what not to do.

Gonzalo Figueroa spent twenty years building high-performance teams — then wrote a satirical bestseller about the opposite, just to make the lesson unforgettable. Now he brings both the humor and the substance to your stage, your offsite, or your leadership team.

Gonzalo Figueroa

Three ways to work together.

From a single stage to a year-long coaching engagement.

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Keynote Speaking

A 45–60 minute stage talk built from the book — the funniest way your leadership offsite will ever confront its own habits. Built for conferences, all-hands, and annual kickoffs.

45–60 minIn-person or virtual
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Team Workshop

Half-day or full-day, on-site or remote. Choose any of the 12 curriculum modules below, or run the complete program across a multi-week series.

Half or full dayUp to 200 people
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Executive Coaching

1:1 engagements for leaders who recognized a little too much of themselves in chapter 7. Structured over 3, 6, or 12 months.

1:1, monthly3–12 month terms
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The Curriculum

12 modules. One book. Zero parallel universes.

Every chapter of How to be a BAD Manager has a real-world counterpart. Click a module to see what it flips.

Guest Facilitator Cristine Figueroa, MS HRM
Cristine Figueroa
MS, HRM · Founder, Practeezy HR Consulting
An Expansion Of The Program

Now Discover What Your Team Does Best.

Every module above is built to stop bad habits. Pair it with a CliftonStrengths® (StrengthsFinder) engagement led by Cristine Figueroa, MS HRM — twenty-plus years in the HR trenches, now turned into a practical, strengths-based playbook for how your leaders actually work best.

Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach 20+ Years in HR MS, HRM Certified Life Coach
  • Individual & team CliftonStrengths® assessments, fully debriefed
  • Half-day facilitated strengths-mapping workshop for your team
  • Manager playbooks for leading through strengths, not weaknesses
  • Conflict-resolution coaching grounded in two decades of real HR casework
pairs naturally with "Empowerment Over Control" and "Recognition That Works"
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How an engagement comes together.

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Discovery Call

30 minutes to understand your team, your goals, and which chapters hit closest to home.

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Custom Curriculum

We pick the modules — or write new ones — that match what your leaders actually need.

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Delivery

On-site or virtual. Every session pairs the book's satire with practical, immediately usable tools.

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Follow-Up

Takeaway worksheets and a 30-day check-in so the lessons outlast the workshop high.

What teams say after.

Sample feedback — illustrative, replace with real client quotes at launch.

"We ran the Ambiguity module with our entire eng org. Three weeks later our sprint planning actually works."

— VP Engineering, Series C startup

"Gonzalo made 200 managers laugh at themselves in the first ten minutes, then quietly changed how they run 1:1s."

— Head of People, mid-market SaaS
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Let's find the right format.

Tell us about your team and timeline — we'll follow up within one business day with availability and a proposal.

Response Time
Within 1 business day
Formats
In-person or virtual, worldwide
Booking Window
Currently scheduling Q4 2026
Also Ask About
Bulk book orders & Strengths Finder training with Cristine Figueroa