Listen more.
Get more
|
A new approach to improve listening skills.
And all the skills depending on good listening…
Listening is the most recognised but least trained skill.
Listening is widely recognised as essential — for leadership, collaboration, relationships, and well-being. Yet almost nobody has ever been trained in how to do it.
We simply assume we can listen. In reality, we operate from habits we’ve never examined.
Poor listening quietly breaks what matters most.
Poor listening erodes trust, fuels conflict, and undermines performance — consequences we experience every day. But we rarely recognise listening as the root cause.
At the same time, organisations invest heavily in leadership, resilience, and psychological safety — yet without trained listening, much of that impact remains limited.
Listening is invisible. And what you can’t see, you can’t cultivate.
Because listening is invisible, existing trainings have been limited — often stacking new skills on top of ingrained habits that continue to go unseen.
As a result, change rarely sticks and the root causes of listening difficulties remain unaddressed.
We make listening patterns visible —
and trainable.
What has long remained implicit now becomes visible. This calls for a fundamentally different approach: not about adding new skills, but uncovering and unlearning the habits that have limited our ability to truly listen.
Seeing
We surface the listening patterns that have always been there — but were never noticed, quietly shaping how you show up in every conversation.
Naming
Once visible, each pattern gets a clear name — turning a vague habit into something you can work with, and far easier to recognise in daily life.
Taming
Increased awareness, thanks to naming, is the foundation for transformation — turning insight into lasting change.
This is how it works.
This is how we train.
Personal Listening Profile
Recognize and understand your own listening patterns and lay the base for future learning.
Online Group Modules
Increase awareness of your listening and its effect on others through experiential learning and self-reflection.
The listening training that goes deeper —
and further.
Change at the root
Instead of layering new tools and techniques on top of ingrained habits, we uncover and transform the patterns that shape how people actually listen.
Personal by design
Instead of one-size-fits-all training, people discover their own listening patterns through direct experience — making change more relevant, engaging and lasting.
100% listening
We focus on one thing and go deep. Not communication skills in general, but the skill that underpins them all: listening.
Probably the world’s biggest niche.
From pilot to scalable model.
Prototyping and gap analysis
The groundwork is done, the gap identified and the prototyping with individuals completed.
Foundational pilot ready
A foundational framework and learning program pilot is ready in its offline state.
Online platform development
Design, UX and technical work needed to build a user-friendly and compliant training platform.
Foundations program, scalable for companies
The foundational program will be scaled through self-learning video material, automated profiling and tailored training.
Program expansion and AI training tool
Further programs for role- or content-specific listening, plus AI-based tools to drive expansion and broaden impact.
Sector specialists with listening at the heart.
At The Listening Academy, we don’t just consider listening an add-on. Instead, we’ve developed a whole agency dedicated to it.
We’ve done this because through our own paths as employees, parents, partners and friends, we’ve discovered that listening is a secret power that few understand, but that everyone can reframe and rediscover.
Kim Marty
Kim is a behavioural research specialist, holding-space practitioner and business strategist. Listening has been the red thread throughout her endeavours, realising that listening for what isn’t being said is just as important as what is. This led her to explore the power and deployment of listening as one of the most relevant skills today.
