Bite-sized training for busy PMs & Designers!
Lead Discovery and facilitate Ideation workshops confidently.
Training options
Learn industry-leading best practices in live, interactive, and expert-led sessions.
Micro-trainings
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
Just starting?
Join our Micro-trainings!
✓ Interactive and bite-sized.
✓ Specially designed to help you hone the basics in just 20 minutes per day (one topic per week, daily live lessons).
✓ Perfect for Junior or aspiring Product Managers and Designers.
Masterclasses
ADVANCED TRAINING
Short on time?
Take a Masterclass!
✓ Hands-on and highly-focused.
✓ Specially designed to deepen your knowledge in one area (in less than two hours).
✓ Perfect for Mid-to-Senior Product Managers and Designers.
Team training
IN-COMPANY
Misalignment & skill gaps? Try Team training!
✓ Customized lessons, live practice and feedback.
✓ Streamline your team’s processes and speed up innovation.
✓ Perfect for teams with different backgrounds, working in a hybrid or remote capacity.
Companies & Clients
Trusted by Teams creating solutions for:
“Mia is a multi-talented Product and UX team's secret weapon.
My greatest advice to any organization is to include her early and often.”
Kirstie McLatchie
Senior Director, Product Manager
Deem @ Enterprise
Working with Mia feels like…
An image worth a thousand words.
“I really enjoyed working with Mia.
Her knowledge of the latest UX research practices is excellent.”
Katie Godwin
Research and Insights Director
Mastercard
Meet your trainer!
Hi, this is Mia. I’m here to help you navigate uncertainty,
confidently drive innovation and thrive.
With 15+ years of experience, I’ve worked with scale-ups and top global companies like Google, Verizon, Enterprise, and Mastercard.
As a Researcher, I partner with Innovators, Product Managers, and Design Leads to help them navigate uncertainty, connect customer needs with business opportunities, and create winning products.
As a Trainer, I love elevating others, equipping them with the right tools, and boosting their confidence so they can do their best work.
At Ahoy Innovation, my goal is to offer best-in-class training for busy tech professionals. Work is busy and fast-paced, and life is complicated, so learning new things should be easy, engaging and laser-focused on what matters most.
Ready to make some waves? 🌊
Join our next training!
Why Ahoy Innovation?
Why the nautical theme?
Ahoy Innovation means “Hi Innovation!” The nautical theme illustrates the challenges of working in this field, which sometimes can feel like navigating unknown waters.
We can’t control the wind, but we can adjust our sails. I’d like to help.
Let’s work together!
Why choose Mia?
“Mia has a remarkable ability to bring people together, driving innovation and fostering collaboration wherever she goes.”
April Durrett
Global Head of Experience Design
Verizon Connect
An excellent facilitator, educator and researcher. She is passionate about getting things right for users, actively driving change and pushing for the right thing to be made.
I would highly recommend Mia to any organization that needs help understanding how to help their users or how to facilitate internal workshops and learning.
Frank MacNamara, Product Managerii| DeemThey are excited to learn from you. Kalyan specifically mentioned that he loved working with you, which is why he wants to learn research.
[Talking about the Design team]
Tejas Shah, Chief Executive Officer | Enspirit.It was a pleasure working with Mia. She is an exceptionally skilled visual communicator and speaker.
She expertly adapts content and incorporates engaging, workshop-style activities tailored to her audience and stakeholders.
This active engagement keeps everyone interested and makes learning and retaining new information much easier.
Felipe Almeida, Lead Experience Designer | Verizon.She’s been an absolute pleasure to work with, always focused on collaboration and clear communication.
Daniel Alb, Head of UX | Smartbox Group.Hey Mia - Just wanted to say you’re doing a fantastic job with this workshops. It’s been needed forever and I think we will be in a much better situation after this sessions.
Sean Hensman, Director of Engineering | Deem.Mia (Maria) is an exceptional researcher and an inspirational workshop facilitator.
Workshops were results driven, cross-functional, valuable and FUN.
In fact, Mia brings fun and joy to all of her work, making it a pleasure to work with her.
Liam O’Connor, Research Manager | Deem.It was one of the best workshops I’ve been involved in. The strict adherence to time meant we didn’t have endless discussions about some details that aren’t really all that relevant.
Everyone got involved instead of just 2 or 3 people dominating the conversation.
I’m 100% onboard with this format.
Christopher La Pat, Senior iOS Developer | Deem.[Talking about a Team building workshop] That session was brilliant! So enjoyable. It was light hearted but also very eye opening because people were very honest and open about what they shared.
Michelle McNicholas, Senior UX Designer | Verizon.Thank you so much Mia! Honestly I love all your ideas it genuinely gets me excited about the workshop.
Colin Smith, Lead UX Researcher | Verizon.