Worth It: Negotiation for Creatives with Ted Leonhardt

know your worth and ask for the compensation you deserve.

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  • 29 video lessons
  • 14 hours and 46 minutes of class content
  • Streaming access on desktop and mobile browsers
  • 100% satisfaction guarantee

Core negotiation skills are essential for creative professionals, but negotiating can be loaded with fear, anxiety, and uncertainty. Join Ted Leonhardt to uncover the negotiating tactics that allow you to build the power and respect that lead to financial and creative freedom.

Throughout this course, you will gain a deeper understanding of the common anxieties and vulnerabilities around negotiation and build the skills you need to keep those fears from holding you back. You will explore negotiation not as a bargaining session but as a collaboration in which you guide those you are negotiating with. You will also learn how to use time and context to define opportunities, create contracts instead of proposals, and align people with your vision. Because dealing with difficult personalities can be a challenging part of negotiation, you will build strategies for coping with and disarming difficult people. You will develop a negotiating style that respects the importance of kindness and good manners while also allowing you to know and assert what your unique offering is worth.

Whether you are just starting out as a freelancer or you are a longtime creative professional, this course will equip you to know your worth and confidently ask for the opportunities and compensation you deserve.

Course Instructor

Ted Leonhardt

Ted Leonhardt

Designers, actors, photographers, musicians, writers, creatives in all fields are negotiating with those who are more powerful than they are around the world everyday. Ted knows creatives and the problems they face asking for what they need, intimately.

Worth It: Negotiation for Creatives with Ted Leonhardt is rated 5.0 stars by 14 students

  • Borislava K. Nov 17, 2020

    Love this course! Useful and practical advices for negociations for creatives. Precious also because there are few good courses in that domain yet! Thank you Ted!

  • K. Nov 10, 2019

    Like others have said, Ted has a sincere desire to help creatives. He is very open in his teaching style. I got a lot of of his class and highly recommend it.

  • Kal S. Mar 9, 2017

    Love Ted. His desire to help creatives shines through. Lots of great nuggets as well as strategies for both the newbie creative and the veteran.

  • ~. Dec 9, 2014

    Awesome course that has long ago paid for itself! I have used what I learned in this course to reduce a lot of angst I'd have previously suffered without compensation when clients ask for something beyond the original scope of work, and I've used what I learned to do a better job for my client AND to make sure I get paid for it as well. This class is a MUST for any creative person who really wants to prevent clients from compromising their project to "save" money or time and who want to make sure they get paid what they're worth and build solid, productive, and successful relationships with clients!

  • Anna G. Oct 10, 2014

    Amazingness!

  • U. Oct 9, 2014

    While I walked away with some amazing knowledge and skills to apply to negotiation, more than anything, I appreciated the authenticity and humility with which Ted crafted and delivered all of the materials in this class. As a fellow creative, every word spoken in this course resonated with me on a deep level, and led me to retain and integrate the materials far better than I expected. A most sincere thank you to Ted for sharing these pieces of his inner life with us.

  • I. Aug 13, 2014

    Absolutely awesome - thank you Ted! After watching your online class, I negotiated a photo contract 2-3 times more than what I initially would have gone with, and its in the tens of thousands of dollars. I was also the most expensive of all the vendors, but I help my ground and threw my anchor out far and pulled it back a little bit. I've been telling lots of my artists friends about this online class. *5 star!. I have your book too *5 star!

  • M. Aug 3, 2014

    Like so many of the CreativeLive classes there is so much more than just the technical and academic information presented that is of great value. There is also the human and personal/emotional side that has helped me as much if not more than the technical and academic. I have finally at the age of 61 found out who I am. I am an artist.

  • ~. Jul 7, 2014

    Great class! Well worth the money to have an opportunity to review as often as you want.

  • ~. Jul 4, 2014

    Great class! Well worth the money to have an opportunity to review as often as you want.

  • ~. Jun 30, 2014

    This was one of the most helpful & valuable class that I've taken. Ted provides invaluable insightful tips, strategies, and real negotiating scenarios that really helped me understand what it means to apply them in real life. Its incredible that there are classes like Ted's that I can access and reference anytime.

  • Yvonne M. Jun 27, 2014

    I caught a small portion of a re-broadcast of this workshop this morning (Friday, June 27, 2014) and was totally impressed with Ted's vulnerability and the wealth of coping strategies he conveyed in about an hour's time. I will consider purchasing the entire workshop.

  • Margaret W. Jun 27, 2014

    Another terrific course from CreativeLive. I would and did recommend it for anyone, creative or otherwise. Most negotiation courses leave one with a "bad taste"-not this one. I vastly prefer this approach. My life would be very different right now if I had this information available when I first graduated from college with a BFA in Graphic Design. Oh, and an unmentioned bonus-a design agency soap opera is included. Ted is a marvelous teacher.

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