Simulation-Based Communication Training for IT Teams

Your engineers are brilliant.
Can they lead the room?

ITCOMMLAB is a 12-week immersive program where IT professionals become employees of a fictional company — and learn to communicate under real pressure, in real situations, with real stakes. Now enrolling teams in Poland, Czech Republic, and Serbia.

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12
Weeks
24
Live Sessions
4–8
Per Team
90
Min / Session
ASI Corporate Release 2026 — Confidential
Allied Systems, Inc.
// IT Support & Development — Gaming Sector
Founded2016 — Michael "Big Mike" Cordell
HQSacramento, California
Workforce400+ professionals across Asia, Europe & Americas
Motto"Turning Play into Possibility"
StatusEnrollment open — Teams forming now
⚠ Week 5 — All Hands Meeting Scheduled

Practice  ·  Communicate  ·  Lead

The Problem

The communication gap is costing your company.

IT companies across Poland, Czech Republic, Serbia, and the broader region invest heavily in language training — but progress is slow, generic, and disconnected from real workplace demands. Generic ESL platforms weren't built for engineers who need to chair meetings, defend architecture decisions, and present to Western European and American clients.

The Platform Problem

Preply, iTalki, and similar services teach general English. Your team needs to defend proposals, manage conflict, and lead under pressure — in their industry, in their roles.

The Interaction Problem

Most online courses are passive — listen, repeat, test. Real communication confidence only comes from real pressure: being challenged, questioned, and heard in front of peers.

The Relevance Problem

Generic scenarios don't transfer. Your team needs practice in their world: sprint reviews, incident reports, hiring panels, and disagreements with management — conducted in professional English.

Now Enrolling

Built for the region's fastest-growing IT markets.

Eastern European IT professionals are among the most technically skilled in the world. ITCOMMLAB is designed to close the one gap that holds them back from global leadership roles: high-stakes professional communication in English.

Poland
Home to one of Europe's largest tech sectors, Polish IT teams regularly interface with Western European and American clients. Communication confidence is a direct competitive advantage.
Czech Republic
Prague's growing tech hub produces world-class engineers. ITCOMMLAB helps teams bridge the gap between technical excellence and the boardroom English that drives career advancement.
Serbia
Serbia's IT outsourcing industry is expanding rapidly. Teams that can communicate clearly, confidently, and professionally in English command better contracts and higher rates.
The Simulation

On day one, your team doesn't take a course.
They start a job.

Each participant becomes an employee of Allied Systems, Inc. — a fully realized fictional IT company with a founding story, a leadership team, a culture, and a crisis no one saw coming. Over 12 weeks, your team will have to navigate it. In English. Under pressure. In real time.

"The focus is not on studying communication. The focus is on performing communication."
Wk 1–2
Your team joins ASI. Introductions, first assignments, first pressure.
Wk 3–4
Conflict, professional limits, judgment calls. Something feels off at ASI.
Wk 5
⚠ CRISIS — All Hands MeetingWhat happens at this meeting changes everything. Book a call to find out.
Wk 6–8
Ethics hearings. Feasibility reports. The company must keep moving.
Wk 9–11
Negotiations. Crisis communication. Power dynamics. Who leads now?
Wk 12
Final executive simulation. Your team takes the stage.
The Alpha Team

Meet the people your team will work for.

ASI's Alpha Team drives the simulation. Each week they run the company meeting, assign tasks, and set the pressure. Every character has a history, a personality, and an agenda.

Founder / CEO
Michael "Big Mike" Cordell
Technically brilliant and highly driven, Mike built ASI into a rapidly expanding software company. Born in Modesto, California — the son of a German immigrant bricklayer — he taught himself programming from a discarded computer and rose through the tech industry on sheer determination. Publicly confident and visionary, he leads the organization under intense internal and external pressure. No one knows much about his private life. But there are rumors.
Week 5 — All Hands Meeting
HR Director
Beth Parks
A veteran HR professional known for calm authority and strong ethical principles. She maintains structure and stability across ASI — and will be at the center of the program's most difficult scenarios.
Alpha Team Leader
Sophie Beran
A former professional athlete turned software engineer. Disciplined, demanding, and intensely competitive. She sets high standards and is focused on advancing into executive leadership.
Senior Sales & Project Manager
Alina Yuspov
A sophisticated deal-maker with a background in international business. Strategic and observant, she is always thinking several moves ahead.
DevOps Engineer
Dalia "Dee" Patel
Self-taught, quietly driven, responsible for system stability and deployment pipelines. Balances demanding technical work with significant personal responsibilities.
Front-End Developer
Alexander "Romeo" Romanoff
An unconventional past, reinvented through programming. Now focused on stability and family life. Brings intensity and determination to everything he does.
QA Engineer
Ki-Woo "Vick" Choi
Analytical and detail-oriented. His quiet demeanor masks a sharp technical mind and strong language ability. Specializes in finding what others miss.
Front-End Developer
Nacio "Chico" Martinez Suave
A motivated developer and single father who entered the field through nontraditional paths. Friendly, optimistic, eager to prove himself.
Assistant Project Manager
Steve Chambers
A former U.S. Marine transitioning into tech. Confident and leadership-oriented — though his limited technical depth occasionally creates tension with senior team members.
UX Engineer
David "Skipper" Boyd
Highly analytical and methodical. Approaches user experience through the lens of human behavior. Quiet, observant — constantly evaluating how people think, act, and respond.
The Program

12 weeks. 24 sessions.
No passive learning.

12 Weeks
Duration
24 Sessions
Live & Remote
90 Minutes
Per Session
4 – 8
Participants Per Team

Each session opens with a scripted ASI team dialogue performed as role-play, followed by live presentations, cross-examination by teammates, and a facilitated debrief.

Week 01
Entering a New Team
Participants establish credibility through structured introductions and begin communicating under pressure in a new team environment.
Week 02
Developing Solutions
Participants present technical recommendations and deliver status updates while managing incomplete information and team dependencies.
Week 03
Managing Conflict
Participants handle interpersonal challenges, express disagreement professionally, and resolve conflict under pressure.
Week 04
Judgment & Professional Boundaries
Participants communicate limitations, manage risk, and maintain professionalism in sensitive and high-pressure situations.
Week 05
⚠ Crisis — All Hands Meeting
ASI faces a defining moment. Participants take positions, respond to pressure, and navigate a situation no one anticipated.
Week 06
Evaluating Solutions
Participants conduct feasibility analysis and present recommendations involving cost, trade-offs, and implementation risk.
Week 07
Ethics & Organizational Risk
Participants assess ethical dilemmas, justify decisions, and communicate risk in complex workplace scenarios.
Week 08
Strategic Decision-Making
Participants respond to organizational crisis and defend strategic decisions under time pressure and uncertainty.
Week 09
Negotiation & Organizational Pressure
Participants negotiate compensation, position themselves within the organization, and respond to leadership instability.
Week 10
Crisis Communication
Participants manage communication breakdowns, clarify problems, and respond to high-stakes operational failures.
Week 11
Ethics & High-Risk Communication
Participants address sensitive issues including misconduct and power dynamics while maintaining professional control.
Week 12
Executive Leadership & Final Decision
Participants perform in a final executive simulation — presenting leadership vision, handling crisis, and making high-stakes decisions.
Your Role

Active participation.
Every session. No exceptions.

Each participant is assigned a professional role inside ASI that mirrors their real-world position. They are expected to communicate, collaborate, present ideas, and respond to business situations in English — live, in front of their team.

Deliver status reports and defend them under questioning
Present technical recommendations to non-technical stakeholders
Chair at least 2 meetings and manage agenda, time, and decisions
Sit on a hiring committee and deliver a decision with rationale
Complete 2 feasibility reports and 4 formal recommendations
Communicate under time pressure and incomplete information
Receive individual written coaching after every first presentation

A professional learning environment.

Many participants initially feel hesitant speaking in front of a group — especially in high-pressure professional situations. ITCOMMLAB is designed as a structured, supportive environment where participants make mistakes, receive feedback, and build confidence through practice and repetition.

The facilitator does not lecture. He corrects, models, and guides — in real time, in context, without stopping the momentum of the session.

"The objective is not perfection. The objective is measurable improvement in real-world communication performance."
What Participants Deliver

Real outputs. Real accountability.

Over 12 weeks, each participant completes a full range of professional communication tasks — not exercises, but the actual deliverables their career depends on.

4
Status Reports
Progress updates delivered to the team with open Q&A. Presented twice — with written coaching in between.
2
Feasibility Reports
Structured analysis and recommendation on a proposed project or change.
4
Formal Recommendations
Argued positions on technical or organizational decisions — defended under live questioning.
2
Chaired Meetings
Each participant runs at least two full team meetings: agenda, time management, driving decisions.
1
Hiring Committee
Participants evaluate a candidate, deliberate as a panel, and deliver a hiring decision with rationale.
∞
Formal Introductions
Context-appropriate self-presentation across meetings, pitches, and cross-team settings.
About

Built by someone who's seen
the problem firsthand.

Tone Harris, J.D.

Tone Harris, J.D. — Founder, ITCOMMLAB

The ITCOMMLAB system was developed by Tone Harris, J.D., a communication coach, attorney, and educator who has worked with IT professionals, engineers, managers, and international teams for more than a decade — across Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Americas.

A practicing attorney for 12 years and a university professor, Tone brings a rare combination of legal precision, academic rigor, and real-world communication experience to the program. After observing the same pattern across companies and continents — technically exceptional professionals held back by communication confidence — he spent two years building ITCOMMLAB as a structured alternative to passive language learning.

The result is a system that combines role-based simulation, live pressure, and real-time feedback inside a realistic IT environment that mirrors the dynamics of modern remote and international teams.

Juris Doctorate — Texas Southern University
Pre-Legal Studies, Cum Laude — Golden Gate University
Practicing Attorney — 12 years
University Professor — ESL & Business English
ESL Instructor — Baotou Medical College, China
120-Hour TEFL Certification
4,000+ hours coaching IT, legal, and business professionals
Technical Writing — MIT Online
ITCOMMLAB vs. Generic ESL Platforms
✗Preply / iTalki: generic topics, slow progress, no professional context
✗Corporate language apps: passive learning, no real-time pressure
✗University ESL: designed for students, not working professionals
✓Industry-specific scenarios, real team dynamics, live pressure
✓Participants challenge and present to each other — not to a bot
✓Correction in real time, in context — not in a grammar workbook
✓Individual written coaching after every first presentation
✓12 concrete deliverables completed over 12 weeks
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