From small day-to-day 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?
Hortiki Training Institute · Program overview
Give Your Team the Tools Used by a 10-Year Science Enterprise to Unlock Remarkable Productivity
Just for fun, what if?
Created inside Hortiki, this 7-week program gives busy teams a practical framework to turn everyday curiosity into breakthrough operational output.
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.
To major strategic breakthroughs
What if curiosity opened up new product lines, unexpected partnerships, or cross-departmental efficiencies that heads-down execution misses?
Compounding micro-acts of curiosity
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?
No wall between thinking and doing
What if curiosity wasn't seen as a luxury or a distraction, but as the engine that keeps daily delivery fresh, efficient, and resilient?
The Hortiki toggle
The 6-Step Growth Framework
How Hortiki toggles between expansive curiosity and disciplined execution to turn a big vision into weekly momentum.
1
Protected Curiosity
Create an unconstrained space where execution, budgets, and immediate logistics are locked out of the room, so teams can ask “Just for fun, what if?” without a premature shutdown.
2
Curiosity in Execution
Apply curiosity directly to the work: “What would it actually take to bring this to life?” Explore a bold path instead of defaulting to the usual limits.
3
Portfolio Synergies
Look across active projects and ask, “If we do this one bigger thing, what else does it unlock?” One effort can serve several goals and save time, money, and energy.
4
Constraint Interrogation
Bring the real constraints back in, not to kill the idea, but to re-engineer it. Question the budget, the timeline, and the tools until a workable path shows up.
5
The Priority Filter
Filter the expanded vision with three questions: Does this save time, save money, or unlock major future capacity? Keep the top moves and safely park the rest.
6
The Execution Bridge
Park the big vision in a clean brain dump, then isolate the single smallest action to complete this week.
Platform and tools
Built for Real Collaboration, with a Privacy Shield
This is not another passive video player. It is a working space your team uses together.
- No employee accounts on this sales page. Before the course starts, we email the team login details. People enter with a team code. Survey answers are stored as group totals, not as individual files.
- Interactive tools. Live versions of the Parking Spot, Decision Filter, and Portfolio Mapper sit in the browser workspace.
- An executive progress report. Short diagnostic sliders before and after the program create a summary leadership and finance can read.
- A prompt vault. Prompt cards help the team use AI as a creative amplifier in each module, without putting private company data into a public tool.
How it is hosted
Built Green & Grounded in Social Impact
Environmental responsibility includes how the training itself is delivered.
Energy on demand
The site draws computing power when someone is using it, instead of running an idle server all day.
Closer delivery
Pages are served from a location near the team, so the data has a shorter trip.
Renewable infrastructure
The network behind the site is powered by 100% renewable energy.
The Hortiki 5% Pledge
Five percent of program profits are donated to community environmental and education work.
Seven weeks
What each week produces
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| Week | Module | What the team leaves with |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Setting Up the Workplace Canopy | Anonymous team diagnostic baseline and team ground rules |
| Week 2 | Step 1: Protected Curiosity | An expansive “what if” map, with execution locked out |
| Week 3 | Step 2: Curiosity in Execution | “What would it take?” models and AI prompt cards |
| Week 4 | Step 3: Portfolio Synergies | A cross-project map and a plan for shared effort |
| Week 5 | Step 4: Constraint Interrogation | Budget and timeline obstacles rewritten as workarounds |
| Week 6 | Step 5: The Priority Filter | A time, money, and capacity matrix, plus a top-three list |
| Week 7 | Step 6: The Execution Bridge | The smallest next step, and a 15-minute weekly sync |
Pricing
Clear, Transparent Pricing
Reserve a 2027 delivery date before December 31, 2026 to lock in this pricing and the launch bonuses.
Year-end launch package
Orders placed by December 31, 2026
- The complete 7-week Grow Innovation team license and workbooks
- Bonus: a 30-minute facilitator strategy call with Dr. Victoria LeBeaux
- Bonus: the Hortiki enterprise AI prompt library and execution vault
- Bonus: an executive progress report
- Bonus: 12 months of digital toolbox and template updates
- A full refund if you cancel at least 14 days before the start date
Team Program
$2,500 + $250 / person
Best for an internal lead running the seven weekly sessions, with guided video and a digital workbook.
Recommended
Guided Facilitation
Team price + $4,800
Adds a live 60–90 minute kickoff or closing workshop with Dr. Victoria LeBeaux. Choose an open virtual time on the form, then pay. Travel for an in-person visit is extra. The kit and the live session can be billed as two invoices.
Custom Experience
From $7,500 + travel
For a department launch, a retreat, or a workshop with more than one team. Download a quote from the form. The starting price is $7,500 plus travel. A call is optional.
Questions
Practical answers for buyers
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.
Can we pay by purchase order or invoice?
You can pay by card on this page and download the quote as a PDF for your purchasing office. If the office must pay by invoice or purchase order, email that PDF to contact@hortiki.com. Net 30 applies to invoices. Card payment does not wait on that email.
How does tax exemption work?
Check the tax-exempt box and attach the certificate. The no-tax card page opens right away. On that page, set the seat quantity to the number of people on the quote. You can change the quantity before you pay.
How do we book the live session?
Choose Guided Facilitation and pick an open time. That time is the virtual session. It is held when you continue to the card page. If payment is not finished, the time opens again after two days. A call is optional and does not block payment.
Is employee data collected here?
This page does not create an employee account. The later login is a team code, emailed before the course begins. Diagnostic answers are stored as group totals.
About
Where this training comes from
Washington, DC
Curiosity, practiced for ten years.
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Hortiki Training Institute is the social impact division of Hortiki, an ecosystem science company in Washington, DC. This program teaches the same movement between open curiosity and careful execution that Hortiki uses in its own work. Five percent of program profits are donated to community environmental and education work through Hortiki’s 5% Pledge.