TQ Exchange™ — Los Angeles, CA
Most people blame circumstances when results stall. High TQ professionals see what’s actually happening — the transaction underneath. You can too.
Sound Familiar?
These aren’t people problems.
They’re TQ problems.
What TQ Exchange Is
Every professional result — every project, partnership, opportunity, promotion, or sale — depends on a successful exchange between people.
The TQ Exchange is an in-person 2-day training event. Transactional Intelligence™ (TQ) is a structured methodology for the exchanges most people cannot see. TQ makes the exchanges visible — so you can move through them consciously, rather than be moved by them.
Two days, in person, with a deliberately limited cohort of ambitious professionals — all doing consequential work, all willing to engage fully. You don’t sit and listen. You work — on real transactions, with peers, and real stakes.
What Makes This Program Different
Most professional development focuses on skills, knowledge, or mindset.
This focuses on something deeper: how professionals actually produce results through exchange. The greatest barriers to progress are often invisible — habits of thinking and behaving, including your own transactional patterns.
When you can see the exchange clearly, you can shape it.
Ways to Exchange
Format
In-Person, 2 Days
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Capacity
Intentionally Limited
Prerequisite
None Required
Cohorts
Teams Welcome
Leader
Kirkland Tibbels
Best Value
Practitioner Pass
Four sessions · Use them when you’re ready
$4,600
Current Students or Alumni: $3,450
Includes everything in a Single Exchange, plus:
Practitioner Pass sessions: Jun, Sep, Dec 2026 · Feb 2027
Single Exchange
One session, 2 days
$1,250
Current Students or Alumni: $937.50
Upcoming Exchanges — Los Angeles
Use the Help Chat to contact us for Current Student or Alumni rate eligibility and codes.
The Exchange closes when it’s full.
01
See the real transaction
Understand what is actually being exchanged in work, business, and professional relationships.
02
Identify transaction barriers
Recognize the habits, assumptions, and behaviors that quietly block results.
03
Construct better offers
Learn how to design proposals, requests, and collaborations that others are willing to accept.
04
Produce consistent professional results
Build exchanges that create ongoing opportunities rather than one-off outcomes.
Full Program Agenda
Day 1 — Friday · 10:30am – 6:00pm
| 10:30–12:00 | TQ Orientation (All encouraged.) |
| 12:30–1:00 | Arrival & Setup |
| 1:00–1:20 | Opening Conditioning |
| 1:20–1:30 | Naming Your Aim |
| 1:30–2:20 | Declaring the Transaction |
| 2:20–2:50 | Break |
| 2:50–4:20 | Transaction Cycle™ & Accurate Thinking The eight-stage exchange map that structures every transaction |
| 4:20–4:50 | Break |
| 4:50–5:40 | Transactional Roles & Behavior |
| 5:40–6:00 | Day 1 Close |
| 6:30–8:30 | Optional: Open Exchange Dinner (own tab) |
Day 2 — Saturday · 9:00am – 3:30pm
| 9:00–9:15 | Insight & Integration |
| 9:15–10:45 | Invitation & Consent How offers are made and received without coercion |
| 10:45–11:15 | Break |
| 11:15–12:15 | Navigating Transactions |
| 12:15–1:15 | Lunch |
| 1:15–2:45 | Environment and Cooperation Designing conditions where others choose to contribute |
| 2:45–3:15 | Break |
| 3:15–3:30 | Completion and Maintenance |
| 3:30 | Final Close |
A key part of the program explores how personality shapes professional exchange. Each person has natural strengths in how they create value in a transaction — some generate ideas and opportunities, others bring structure, build relationships, or drive results forward.
These differences influence how people make decisions, communicate value, respond to offers, negotiate agreements, and collaborate within teams.
Through the program you will recognize your own transactional patterns — and learn to work more effectively with the patterns of others.
You don’t need to be an Influential U alumnus to attend. You need to be ready to engage fully — with your actual work, your real challenges, and the equally serious people in the room with you.
You’ll find your place here if you:
No prerequisite required. The Exchange is self-contained. Many participants attend alongside business partners, senior leaders, or members of the same project team. Teams and cohorts welcome.
What Participants Say
The place to practice.
“The TQ Exchange is the place to get in the water of transaction and practice swimming. It’s great to have a coach right there to help you with your form.”
Anthony Nicoli · Siemens
Quality of life.
“I have discovered my quality of life is directly correlated to the degree of my Transactional Intelligence. The TQ Exchange provides a quick and efficient way to develop my TQ and the resultant quality of my life.”
David Phillips · UK
Extraordinary opportunity.
“Even after participating in many other Influential U programs, conferences, and events, TQX offers an extraordinary opportunity to practice and develop your ability to transact.”
Cesar Idrovo
The room changes the work.
“The IU live events create a rare and powerful environment. Being in the room with others who are actively working on their transactional intelligence changes the work entirely. It moves from concept to practice. Practicing in person matters.”
Anne Sciarrone · Architect · USA
A catalyst.
“IU doesn’t just help you clarify that desire — it helps you claim yourself as the person who can create it, even when it previously felt impossible. The frameworks are sharp, the standards are high, and the work is deeply human.”
Deborah Beroset · USA
Structure that produces results.
“Influential U didn’t give me motivation or mindset — they gave me structure. I came in with a deeply personal aim that felt ambiguous and risky, and through Transactional Intelligence™ I was able to name the real constraint, design around it, and build a pathway that actually fits my life.”
Tim Guest · Australia
Timely and invaluable.
“The Influential U live events continue to deliver a curriculum that is timely and incredibly invaluable to me. It enables me to tackle challenges and opportunities that are well beyond what I might conceive on my own.”
Andrew Crellin · Sterling Currency · Australia
Clear direction.
“This has given me clear direction on what next actions to take in launching my business.”
Cody Cerny · USA
Smart, practical, eye opening.
“Smart, practical, eye opening.”
Catherine Beagley · UK
Completely unexpected.
“This has been truly a phenomenal event. Completely unexpected and not what I thought it. I have thoroughly enjoyed this event and look forward to my continuing education.”
Angelo Keyes · USA
This program is not passive learning.
Participants are expected to examine their own professional behavior honestly. Many discover that the biggest barriers to progress are not external circumstances — but the way they currently approach professional exchange.
You are expected to arrive with live work — real transactions you are navigating — and leave with specific coordination already in motion.
For those willing to do that work, the results are concrete and lasting.
Los Angeles · 5–6 June 2026
The Exchange closes when it’s full.