Hortiki Training Institute Innovate, Execute, & Grow™

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Grow Innovation to Unlock Remarkable Productivity

Give Your Team the Tools Used by a 10-Year Science Enterprise

Are you seeking to enhance motivation and productivity on your team? Innovative thinking can do that and more! Based on strategies course creator and founder, Dr. Victoria LeBeaux used to grow her business from a small garden kit maker to a global, multi-industry, applied science company partnering with Fortune 100 companies, Innovate, Execute, & Grow™—gives busy teams a permanent framework to turn everyday curiosity into breakthrough operational output.

Start Your Journey to Remarkable Productivity
Team collaborating around a glass whiteboard, mapping ideas under The Greenhouse Agreement™.

A Decade of Hortiki Excellence

OPRAH DAILY · GOOD MORNING AMERICA · GOOD HOUSEKEEPING · GLAMOUR · MARIE CLAIRE · SHONDALAND · HOME AND GARDEN · COUNTRY LIVING · HOUSE BEAUTIFUL · TARGET SUPPLIER · 3x U.S. FEDERAL SCIENCE AWARD WINNER · AMAZON BUSINESS ACCELERATOR WINNER · VERIZON PARTNER · COMCAST RISE AWARD WINNER

The vision

What If Curiosity Became the Everyday Norm Across Your Team?

Breakthroughs don't just happen during multi-day retreats. They happen when small acts of everyday curiosity compound across the work your team already touches.

From Micro-Adjustments

What if your team felt safe to give a new tool a chance, simplify a routine form, or test a smoother workflow without pushback or fear of making a mistake?

To Strategic Breakthroughs

What if creative problem-solving opened up new product lines, unexpected partnerships, or cross-departmental efficiencies that heads-down execution misses?

Compounding Daily Inquiry

What if team members didn't wait for an annual call for ideas, but routinely asked “Just for fun, what if…?” in their everyday work?

Removing the Wall

What if innovation wasn't seen as a luxury or a distraction, but as the exact engine that keeps daily delivery fresh, efficient, and resilient?

Execution Immersed in Innovation™

The 8 Levers of Innovate, Execute, & Grow™

Course details

An 8-lever operational system that turns everyday curiosity into breakthrough output.

Lever 1: Orientation & Culture Foundation

The Greenhouse Agreement™ & Zero-Blame Baseline

Focus. Establishing Environmental Safety & a Zero-Blame Baseline

Brainstorming sessions are great, but they aren't enough to lead to remarkable unlocks in productivity for your team. In this lever, your team will discover the science behind why traditional “brainstorming” methods fail to lead to sustainable organizational shifts and uncover how this may be showing up currently in your organization. Then they will be introduced to a completely new and transformational way to make space for innovation—by building it into day-to-day organizational culture from the ground up.

Key features

The Greenhouse Agreement™ method of establishing permanent, routine safety for curiosity and innovative thinking while still maintaining—and even enhancing—daily operational productivity.

Outcome. Teams are better prepared to leverage the tools provided in this course, bringing an openness to the process as they discover this is not just “brainstorming business as usual,” but a real architectural reconstruction of how innovation can be incorporated into their day-to-day work.

Innovation Nation or Execution Station?

What's the balance?

Team energy spectrum

Balanced Execution & Creative Thinking Space

Where do you feel our team sits today? (Mark your spot above)

Why? ________________________________

What does being innovative at work mean to you?

  • Occasional Team Retreats
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  • Ideas are shared but few move forward
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  • Brainstorming Sessions with whiteboards and post-it notes
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  • Sharing ideas but not having resources to move them forward
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  • Surveys about ideas for the company
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  • Being “punished” for sharing an idea by being forced to lead a new project
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  • Seeing new projects come to life and moving the organization forward
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There are no wrong answers here. This is simply about giving us space to work smarter together.

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Lever 2: Protected Curiosity & Friction Extraction

Harnessing Real Friction & Non-Linear Curiosity

Focus. Harnessing Real Friction & Non-Linear Curiosity

When employees are forced to “be positive” in a retreat setting, they bring safe, incremental ideas. But people are naturally passionate about what frustrates them—broken tools, redundant tasks, and customer friction. Lever 2 disarms workplace cynicism by channeling real grievances into strategic diagnostic fuel, while protecting non-linear curiosity so teams uncover game-changing opportunities that standard meetings completely miss.

Key features

  • The Frustration Engine: Guided frameworks that turn workplace complaints and daily pet peeves into powerful innovation targets.
  • The Drop-In Study Hall Protocol: A low-pressure, unreviewed pre-work format that allows employees to explore non-linear curiosity without fear of looking foolish or facing manager judgment.
  • Anonymized Digital Prioritization: A digital voting system that selects top team priorities without face-to-face rejection or discarded ideas.

Outcome. Skeptical and resistant team members are subversively engaged, turning their complaints into constructive progress. Managers gain a safe, repeatable method to let teams explore without fearing lost time or chaotic meetings.

Space to Imagine & Getting Real About Work

Where innovation is really needed

Part A · Private Curiosity Journal

What is a hobby, interest, or topic you love outside of work?

What makes that thing so satisfying, fun, or well-designed?

What is a routine experience that you would love to redesign and how would you design it?

Part B · Friction Wall

Broken Tools
What clunky work process or tool frustrates you? Wasted Energy
What repetitive task feels like a drain on your focus? Customer Friction
What customer or client complaint are you tired of hearing?

180° Flip

Map one annoyance to its opposite experience teams would love to create.

We tend to be quite passionate about what we don't like—let's channel that energy into design fuel.

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Lever 3: Curiosity in Execution

Expansive Solution Mechanics (“What COULD We Do?”)

Focus. Expansive Solution Mechanics (“What COULD We Do?”)

Stepping into solution thinking doesn't mean putting on hard hats or shrinking your vision to fit today's budget. Lever 3 applies curiosity to broad execution possibilities—exploring wild, high-altitude ways to solve identified pain points without forcing immediate project plans or stressing over logistics. If real-world limits come up, they are captured on the Constraint Board for Lever 5, keeping the team free to dream big about what's possible.

Key features

  • The Expansive Solution Canvas: A structured dialogue tool for building ambitious solution concepts while welcoming practical realist inputs.
  • The Lever 5 Parking Protocol: A safety mechanism that logs hard limits (budgets, legal, staffing) onto a dedicated board so execution worries don't kill high-level vision.
  • Micro-Huddle & Solo AI Flexibility: Self-organized paths allowing individuals or small sub-teams to continue developing passionate ideas alongside an AI co-thinker.

Outcome. Teams generate expansive, game-changing solution concepts without the panic of immediate project planning or premature budget shutdown.

What COULD We Do About This?

Exploring the possibilities

The Big Issue: ________________________________

If money, time, and tech were no object, how would we solve or create or reimagine this?

What is a radical, unexpected approach that would transform this experience?

If you were designing this from 30 years into the future, what do you imagine it would look like?

Park Your Worries Here

Hear a budget, legal, or staffing fear during this session? Write it here to revisit in Lever 5. Don't let it kill the big vision now!

Dream big first. We will tackle the hard real-world limits together in Lever 5.

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Lever 4: Shared Connections & Synergies

Eliminating Siloed Workload Overlap & Macro Portfolio Synergy

Focus. Eliminating Siloed Workload Overlap & Macro Portfolio Synergy

Teams are often exhausted not from a lack of ambition, but because they are running dozens of isolated initiatives that compete for the same time, budget, and energy. In Lever 4, your team steps back to look across active projects and Lever 3 solution concepts, discovering underlying connections so that one well-designed move can serve three organizational goals simultaneously.

Key features

  • The Portfolio Synergy Mapping Process: A visual mapping framework for identifying hidden structural overlaps across scattered departmental initiatives.
  • The Multiplier Action Design: A strategy for combining redundant projects into single high-leverage moves that multiply output with shared effort.

Outcome. Workload friction drops significantly as teams eliminate duplicate work, combine overlapping initiatives, and multiply the ROI of existing operational effort.

Connecting the Dots Across Our Work

Finding hidden links between active projects

Active projects

  • Team goals
  • Current initiatives
  • Departmental work

Synergy Bridge

Lever 3 concepts

  • New solution ideas
  • Shared assets
  • Multiplier moves

Which two projects are trying to solve the exact same communication or data problem?

What single tool, process, or asset could support multiple teams at once?

How can we combine these efforts so we work less, but achieve more?

Workload friction drops when we stop working in isolated silos.

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Lever 5: Turning Limits into Strengths

Constraint Interrogation & Workaround Re-Engineering

Focus. Constraint Interrogation & Workaround Re-Engineering

NOW real-world boundaries enter the spotlight—not to kill the big ideas from Stages 3 and 4, but to force clever operational workarounds. Tight budgets, strict regulations, limited staffing, and aggressive deadlines are unparked from the Constraint Board. Teams apply the Constraint Interrogation Protocol (What DO we have? Who owns the asset? Can we rent/borrow? What if the limit IS the feature?) to turn rigid obstacles into competitive design advantages.

Key features

  • The Constraint Interrogation Protocol: A 5-step systematic method for dismantling budget, timeline, and regulatory barriers.
  • The Workaround Re-Engineering Matrix: A step-by-step tool for converting impossible proposals into lightweight, high-margin operational models.

Outcome. Teams stop viewing operational limitations as excuses for stagnation and instead develop the skill to innovate through constraints.

Execution Immersed in Innovation™

Engineering clever solutions through hard limits

  1. 01 · The Barriers — State exact barriers to bringing radical ideas to life.
  2. 02 · The Needs — What solutions would make the barriers disappear?
  3. 03 · What Solutions — What can we do or what do we have to meet the needs?
  4. 04 · The Impossible — What can't we do and why?
  5. 05 · Innovating Around the Impossible — A radical thought to unlock the impossible.

Tight limits force our sharpest creativity.

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Lever 6: The Priority Filter

Prioritizing for Category-Defining Unlocks

Focus. Prioritizing for Category-Defining Unlocks (The Transformative Priority Matrix)

Traditional teams default to “low-hanging fruit”—safe, easy tweaks that yield minor results. Lever 6 evaluates opportunities based on their Transformative Unlock Factor: Which move levels us up so significantly that our current operational worries disappear? Objections are logged neutrally on a side board so fear never dictates priority.

Key features

  • The Transformative Priority Matrix: A 3-dimension evaluation tool balancing Level of Unlock, Financial/Time Impact, and Execution Friction.
  • The Side-Board Objection Protocol: A facilitation rule that logs risk objections neutrally to validate speakers without allowing risk paranoia to kill high-leverage moves.

Outcome. Teams stop wasting energy on incremental tweaks and align around 1–2 category-defining breakthroughs that move the whole organization forward.

Finding Our Biggest Unlocks

Filtering ideas by their power to level up our team

Long-Term Strategic Bets Transformative Focus Skip / Re-evaluate Quick Fixes

Aim for the moves that reshape what work looks like.

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Lever 7: Ecosystem & Micro-Exploration

Ecosystem Architectural Pillars & Applied Micro-Exploration

Focus. Ecosystem Architectural Pillars & Applied Micro-Exploration

Rather than generating a simple calendar to-do list, Lever 7 maps out the macro ecosystem required for a transformational dream to exist (“What must be TRUE across talent, distribution, brand, and audience?”). Then, teams apply creative curiosity directly to granular execution touchpoints—turning routine logistics (like sponsor tables) into 4x revenue drivers.

Key features

  • Ecosystem Backward Architecture: A structural framework mapping out the macro pillars (Talent, Distribution, Accolades, Audience) needed to support a transformed reality.
  • Applied Micro-Exploration Engine: Deep-dive “what-if” protocols for re-imagining granular operational touchpoints.

Outcome. Massive, dream-level initiatives are broken down into clear architectural pillars, while routine execution steps are transformed into high-leverage value drivers.

The Applied Micro-Unlock Canvas

Activating curiosity on key details

The Big Idea
Talent Distribution Quality/Brand Audience
Pick one small detail in this plan you are curious about. Activate your curiosity and interrogation levers. What would it look like to “Do The Most” here? What would be the outcome?

Big visions need solid architectural pillars—and clever micro-details make them unforgettable.

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Lever 8: Team Integration & Rhythm

Team Reflection, Identity & Cultural Integration

Focus. Meta-Level Reflection, Evolved Identity & Ongoing Operational Rhythm

Lever 8 decouples from specific project deliverables to focus on the team's human transformation. The team reflects on their journey, celebrates stepping out of polite silence into psychological safety, and establishes an ongoing operational rhythm for pulling these 8 levers continuously in daily work.

Key features

  • The Meta-Level Experiential Retrospective: A guided reflection framework evaluating how the team's identity, trust, and communication have evolved.
  • The Continuous Skill Rhythm Protocol: Guidelines for integrating the 8 levers into weekly standups, monthly planning, and quarterly reviews.

Outcome. Teams leave not just with an expanded horizon of energized work, but as a deeply aligned, psychologically safe unit equipped to continuously innovate.

A Culture of Execution Immersed in Innovation

Committing to Curiosity

Team reflection

What was the most surprising thing we learned about how we work together?

How would you describe the level of safety you feel to use the levers in this training?

Standing weekly rhythm

Team commitment

We have more exciting work ahead than when we started—and we have the exact tools to handle it.

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Lever 1 of 8

Permanent Post-Training Asset

The Unlock Toolbox™

The Wrench in Your Team's Back Pocket

Training workshops end, but operational challenges happen every week. What happens when teams hit unexpected walls, internal doubts stall progress, and momentum slows months after a course finishes? The Unlock Toolbox™ is a permanent library of 26 action cards designed to help teams unlock productivity using quick actions that reintroduce innovation frameworks when they are most needed.

Features: 26 bite-sized, practical action cards covering specific operational bottlenecks (e.g., "When nobody says what they really think", "When we hit a wall", "When we have ideas but no direction").

Outcomes: The core mindsets of the program become permanent operational habits. Uncomfortable team dynamics—quiet skepticism, or conflicting priorities—don’t have to turn into permanent blocks. Teams have the tools they need to reintroduce fun and productive innovation frameworks that keep engagement high and progress on track.

Future-Forward AI Integration

The AI Flex Kit™

AI Integrated Into Every Step of Modern Work

AI is becoming a fully integrated tool across all facets of work and is a powerful tool for Unlocking Remarkable Productivity. The AI Flex Kit™ weaves AI directly into all eight stages of the framework as a continuous co-thinking engine, giving your team a flexible, disciplined approach to collaborating with technology safely.

Features:

  • Stage-Specific Steering Guidelines: “How to Use AI” guides tailored to each phase of the 8-stage methodology.
  • Dual Curiosity/Execution Guardrails: Clear protocols for flexing AI between expansive creative leaps and strict factual verification.
  • 24/7 Solo Thinking Partner: Asynchronous AI prompts for Study Hall reflection, allowing team members to explore non-linear ideas privately at their own pace.

Outcomes: Teams master a balanced, future-forward way of working—leveraging AI to make rapid strategic leaps from raw ideas to execution modeling in minutes, while maintaining rigorous guardrails to audit budget constraints, operational math, and unverified assumptions before committing company resources.

A decade of transformation

Built Inside a 10-Year Science Enterprise

Dr. Victoria LeBeaux — warehouse operations on the left, executive office on the right.

“Unlock.” It’s the single best word to describe what happened when I stopped treating innovation as a temporary retreat topic and started using it as an operational rhythm.

For years, I followed standard corporate training: enjoy a brief brainstorming session, get back to “real work,” set SMART goals, and grind through execution. That path gave me non-stop work and eventual burnout. It was only when tactical pressure forced me to step back that real transformation occurred. By giving myself permission to apply expansive, curious thinking to every phase of work—from routine admin to complex climate-tech inventions—something remarkable unlocked. I began seeing exponential synergy: ways to leverage a single investment across multiple initiatives, cross-pollinate tools and skills between separate projects, and move big ideas forward without burning out.

What began nearly a decade ago with simple, locally made eco-friendly gardening kits has intentionally evolved into a multi-division applied science company encompassing award-winning STEM education, science-inspired media, climate-tech, SaaS compliance services, and global social impact initiatives.

Innovate, Execute, & Grow™ is the exact framework born from that journey. If you are ready for an Unlock in your own organization, I warmly invite you to give your team the permission, tools, and operational systems to experience your own transformation today.

— Dr. Victoria LeBeaux
Founder & Course Creator, The Hortiki Training Institute

Social proof

Trusted by Enterprise Leaders, Universities, and Summits

“Victoria was an excellent addition to our recent Entrepreneurship Event! She opened up her actual process for our audience of entrepreneurs, providing real world examples from the tools she uses to her business structure. Her actionable advice and positive attitude truly energized the room.”

— Maggie Gallagher, Verizon

“As an organizer, I couldn’t have asked for a better speaker experience. Victoria was communicative, professional, and a joy to work with — she made the process effortless from start to finish. Our students left more knowledgeable and prepared to start their journey.”

— Cheryl Presswood, Georgia State University

“Victoria LeBeaux delivers presentations with strategic vision and genuine passion that resonated with our audiences. Her ability to foster engagement and inspire action through innovative approaches makes her an exceptional speaker. She leaves attendees energized and equipped with practical takeaways.”

— Mark Robinson, 2025 Atlanta Sustainability Summit Organizer

Enterprise proof & research data

The Science of Workplace Innovation & Real Corporate Breakthroughs

Amazon & Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The challenge. Amazon faced internal data infrastructure bottlenecks threatening core e-commerce deployment.

The innovation shift. Leadership asked: “What if we built a standardized, self-service infrastructure platform—and what if external developers could use it too?”

The unlock. That execution inquiry birthed Amazon Web Services—a business unit generating over $90 billion in annual revenue.

3M & The 15% Protected Exploration Policy

The challenge. Maintaining continuous product innovation across traditional industrial manufacturing lines.

The innovation shift. 3M allowed engineers to dedicate 15% of working time to explore side projects outside core deliverables.

The unlock. Spencer Silver’s low-tack adhesive and Art Fry’s hymnbook workaround created Post-it Notes, now a multi-billion-dollar product category.

Google & The 20% Time Program

The challenge. Preventing developer stagnation while scaling global search infrastructure.

The innovation shift. Engineers spent 20% of their time on initiatives they believed would benefit Google most.

The unlock. This protected room yielded Gmail, Google News, and Google AdSense—the platform behind foundational ad revenue.

56%

Operational efficiency

Of business managers report that workplace inquiry and problem-solving drive greater operational efficiency across daily workflows (SAS Curiosity@Work).1

31 pts

Leadership disconnect

While 83% of C-suite executives believe innovation is encouraged, only 52% of individual contributors agree (SurveyMonkey).2

$322B

Burnout & friction cost

Annual cost in lost global productivity attributed to burnout, rigid execution friction, and unmanageable workloads (Gallup & WHO).3

$8.8T

Global disengagement

Economic loss worldwide caused by disengaged workers who lack autonomy and creative agency (Gallup).4

Sustainability and Social Impact

Built Green on 100% renewable edge infrastructure and 5% of profits are donated through Hortiki's 5% pledge to nonprofit organizations helping communities grow.

Program packages & facilitation

Now accepting enrollments for 2027

Self-Guided Team Program

$2,500 base + $250 per seat

Includes 12-month access to:

  • The core curriculum, Execution Immersed in Innovation™: The 8 Innovation Levers to Unlock Remarkable Productivity
  • Digital Workbooks
  • The Unlock Toolbox™: 26 Action Cards to address stagnation in real time
  • The AI Flex Kit™
  • Private Online Team Workspace
  • The 360° Innovation-to-Productivity Suite™

High Touch Virtual Facilitation Add-On Recommended

+ $4,800 add-on

Live virtual facilitation led directly by course creator Dr. Victoria LeBeaux. Includes:

  • Pre-Session Review of Your Team’s Diagnostic
  • 1-on-1 Internal Facilitator Prep (60 min)
  • Virtual 90-Minute Closing Workshop
  • Virtual Follow-Up Progress Review and Q&A Session (60 min)

Year-End Enrollment Bonus Bundle

Order by December 15, 2026 to unlock the Hortiki Team Culture & Expansion Pack

  1. The “Waste to Wonder™” Leader’s Video Masterclass

    Targeted video training for managers on addressing low buy-in, overcoming team pushback, and responding to daily complaints with a Waste to Wonder™ mindset.

  2. Quarterly Executive Audio Hotline

    Submit sticky team challenges or situation questions through the portal to receive personalized audio voice notes and transcripts from Dr. LeBeaux (1 per quarter).

  3. Team Audio Insight & Executive Slide Synthesizer

    Team members share 3-minute reflections; a dedicated tool generates summaries with data visualizations for executive reporting.

  4. 52 Weekly “Curiosity & Purpose” Icebreaker & Stat Cards

    Signature weekly icebreaker questions paired with science-backed stats on innovation and curiosity.

  5. The Hortiki Celebration & Hospitality Kit

    Printable Certificates of Completion, voteable Team Award Certificates, and the Hortiki Innovation Hospitality Playbook.

Split invoices available to meet P-card limits.

Facilitator quick-start guide, open participant workbooks, prompt cards, and the workspace on a laptop.

Start Your Journey to Remarkable Productivity

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Frequently asked questions

Everything You Need to Know Before Enrolling

Is this just about brainstorming with a whiteboard?

No. Whiteboard brainstorming without execution mechanics leads to ideation fatigue. Innovate, Execute, & Grow™ focuses on Execution Immersed in Innovation™—teaching teams how to systematically interrogate constraints, filter ideas based on business outcomes (time, money, capacity), and build weekly 15-minute action rhythms.

How long does the program take, and can we use a flexible execution cadence?

Yes. Recommended pacing is 1 lever per session across 8 levers (about 8 weeks), but teams can accelerate, compress, or stretch delivery to meet project deadlines and retreat schedules.

How much preparation is required for internal team facilitators?

Zero prior facilitation training is required. Each 60-minute module includes guided video overviews, step-by-step facilitator prompts, and structured workbook exercises. Facilitators can even rotate among team members each week.

Can we pay by corporate purchase order or Net-30 invoice?

Yes. We support credit card, ACH, corporate purchase orders, and Net-30 invoicing. Use Get Instant Quote to download an official quote PDF with PO number and internal reference fields for your records.

What exactly is included in the $4,800 High Touch Virtual Facilitation Add-On?

The High Touch Virtual Facilitation Add-On is a complete multi-touchpoint executive engagement led directly by Dr. Victoria LeBeaux. It includes a pre-session diagnostic audit of your team's slider data, a 1-on-1 prep sync for your internal lead, the live 60–90 minute interactive workshop (virtual or in-person), and a 30-day follow-up progress review to re-assess team momentum—plus full 8-lever platform & operating system and workbook access for all participants.

How does P-Card / Credit Card splitting work for our procurement limits?

Split invoices available to meet P-card limits. The enrollment form notes when an order may exceed a common $5,000 single-transaction ceiling (including tax). You can still check out by card if your card allows it, request split charges when each charge fits, or download an Instant Quote for Net-30.

How does tax exemption work?

Check Tax Exempt Organization on the quote form to set tax to 0%. Attach your certificate when paying. Otherwise we apply 6% DC sales tax to taxable line items in the live breakdown and PDF quote.

How do we book the live session?

Choose the High Touch Virtual Facilitation Add-On and pick an open time. That time is held when you continue to the card page. If payment is not finished, the time opens again after two days. For an in-person Custom Experience, download a quote—travel is quoted separately.

Is employee data safe?

Yes. No individual employee accounts are required on this sales page. Teams access the platform later using secure, anonymous Team Codes, and diagnostic data is stored in aggregate. For vendor IT questions, email contact@hortiki.com.

When does the training take place?

You choose the course start date on the quote form. The first available date is January 11, 2027. Team login details are emailed before that date, not on the day you pay.