Hi, I’m Faith.
Welcome to Esper Collective, consultancy and home to the Soft Skills Forest.
What are soft skills?
Necessary
Call them soft skills, durable skills, professional skills, work skills, or a combination - whichever your preferred term, they’re increasingly necessary in 2025’s ever-evolving world.
Lacking
They’re also increasingly lacking - from soft skills gaps in the Gen Z workforce, to managers not taught how to manage, to exceedingly talented technical and/or creative folks navigating the business world.
Learnable
The good news? You can learn soft skills - and with practice, you will improve. A few popular soft skills you may recognize: strategic thinking, communication & presentation, leadership, and prioritization.
Why a forest?
There’s as many paths through the forest as there are people to take them.
There are also paths that are smoother, and ways to go that avoid more pitfalls.
Soft skills are just like that.
There’s no “one right way,” but there are tactics, strategies, and actions you (and/or your team) can take that are more or less effective.
The Soft Skills Forest provides a guide - a chance to practice, learn, grow, and change in a science-backed, sustainable, and fun way.
Services
Individual soft skills workshop requests
Build crucial soft skills your team needs. Workshops are interactive, science-backed, and fun. Attendees practice live and take away tangible, actionable strategies.
Soft skills consulting & upskilling programs
Need something bespoke? Soft skills consulting projects include an organizational diagnostic in order to create a tailored, comprehensive upskilling program.
Soft skills strategy for the creative & technical
Personalized 1:1 soft skills strategy for the highly creative, technical, or both looking to start and scale their business. Focused on accountability, sustainability, and growth.
Reviews
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I had the privilege of working one-on-one with Faith while building out my team. Her guidance and expertise were absolutely essential to my success. She provided me with invaluable guidance for navigating the challenges of leadership and team dynamics. I truly couldn’t have done it without her. Faith is a game-changer, and I highly recommend her to anyone looking to elevate their skills and achieve tangible results.
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I am a tech nerd. I only speak code and Python libraries, and if you are too, you'd know that doesn't fly in the real world. Faith masters the art of communication and masters the art of teaching it in all its forms! All it took was two sessions and a couple of coffee chats with Faith, and I was, for the first time, picking up a skill I always knew I needed but was never successful at learning. Her sessions are so intuitive, exciting, and swift!
Here's a story: one time I was stressing over my resume for 3+ months. I had a 30-minute meeting with Faith. My resume came out 10x stronger, and I got 4 responses literally a week after. END OF STORY!
If you're a tech nerd like me applying for jobs, or an aspiring entrepreneur trying to sweet-talk VCs, or whatever it is literally, Faith is exactly who you need in your corner. She’ll help you crack the code of communication just as smoothly as you debug your programs!
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Faith values relationships, and that’s what means the most. I reconnected with Faith after 2 years of first meeting each other.
I got my dream job offer within 3 months of working with her. The first week, we identified the career goal and game planned how to get there. She coached me A-Z and beyond: with the application materials, crafting and presenting my story to land the interview and then practice to crush the interview!
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As a small business owner who was in business for less than a year before I began working with Faith, she is a huge reason for the success I now have. Her ability to look at information and provide many and varied solutions to problems is unmatched! I highly recommend her to someone looking to jumpstart the success of their small business.
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I had the absolute privilege of having Faith as a Beta Reader for my novel. She was thourough and specific in her feedback and very punctual!! What amazed me was her ability to spot and highlight the areas that needed work in my manuscript while somehow being so encouraging and giving me such a confidence boost. She gave me clear insight into what worked in my novel as well as direction for where to take it, going out of her way to give me extra details to help me along the publishing journey. So incredibly grateful for Faith's input and guidance!!!
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Though I am an author, when it came time to write my query letter I felt immensely out of my depth. With Faith’s help I was able to craft a query that spoke to the most important qualities of both my novel and myself. She helped me fix up the language, the formatting, and gave me a whole new perspective on how to present the project I’d put so much time into. All this was done with immense patience, kindness, and a willingness to help me show off the best of both me and my novel.
I highly recommend her services. Faith will bring out the best in you!
Where you can find me
Cover story of May 2025 Bis-Man Inc Magazine, linked here.
Upcoming presentations at One Million Cups, FFA State Convention, SummerFest Tech, and more.
Podcasts & past presentations at Stanford Treehacks, ND State Science Olympiad, the CoCreate Conference by Design Buddies, the InfoProfit podcast linked here, and more.
Let’s take a stroll through the Soft Skills Forest together
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