put Conversation science to work.
TALK Studios helps organizations use the science of conversation to improve the human interactions that define their people, products, services, and experiences.
WHERE COULD CONVERSATION WORK BETTER?
Sometimes the opportunity is to improve a conversation that already happens. Other times, it is to rethink how conversation is designed into a product, service, program, workplace, environment, or customer experience. Where does conversation meaningfully shape experience, and what could change if we approached those moments more intentionally?
“We’re not starting from scratch – we’ve worked with over 100 schools and 17,000 kids… and we’re just getting started.”
– Liza Garonzik, Founder of R.E.A.L.® Discussion
MEET OUR K-12 PARTNER: TALK x R.E.A.L.® Discussion
conversation science in the classroom.
Founded by educator and school leader Liza Garonzik, R.E.A.L.® Discussion teaches, measures, and celebrates the uniquely human skill of live conversation in a distracted, divided, and digital world. Through curriculum, professional learning, and assessment, its work has reached more than 100 schools and over 17,000 students.
Meaningful human interaction is central to how students learn, build relationships, and participate in the world. This partnership brings Alison Wood Brooks’s conversation research and teaching at Harvard Business School together with R.E.A.L.’s expertise in turning research into classroom practice, helping schools make conversation a skill students deliberately learn, practice, and strengthen.
As TALK Studios’ K–12 partner and the home for our work with schools, R.E.A.L. welcomes schools to explore its established programs alongside selected TALK Studios resources. Together, we’re also beginning to build custom programs and materials for 2027–28, with schools’ questions and experiences helping shape what comes next.
Depending on the need, TALK Studios can:ADAPT
Bring the science of conversation into your specific context.
LICENSE
Extend TALK tools, content, or methods into your organization.
EMBED
Integrate conversation science into an existing program, product, service, workplace, or experience.
CO-CREATE
Build something new together.
RESEARCH
Study how conversation works in your context and turn the data into practical recommendations.
Different contexts. Different needs. One shared foundation in conversation science.
Photo courtesy of the Nordic Business Forum
ABOUT ALISON + talk studios
Dr. Alison Wood Brooks is a Harvard Business School professor, behavioral scientist, and author of TALK. Her research underpins TALK Studios, where an interdisciplinary team brings expertise across research, strategy, learning, communications, partnerships, and implementation.
LET’S START A CONVERSATION.
Maybe you already know where conversation is creating friction or opportunity in your organization.
Maybe you simply have a hunch that there is something worth exploring.
Either is a good place to begin.
Email partnerships@talkstudios.com or fill out this interest form.