Live webinars on beating procrastination
We built Delay Break Lab because procrastination is not a personality trait - it is a pattern that can be interrupted with the right structure and the right timing.
Delay Break Lab started in 2017 when a small group of behavioral researchers noticed something odd: the people who downloaded the most guides and read the most articles on productivity were often the least productive. Information was not the gap. Structure and accountability were.
They built the first version of the platform as a simple weekly live session - no recordings, no download guide, no passive consumption. Attendance was mandatory in spirit. Participants showed up, worked through a specific delay pattern, and reported back the following week.
The format was deliberately inconvenient. That friction was the point. When someone schedules a live session with a real expert and commits to a specific 48-hour experiment, the stakes feel real enough to act on. The platform has grown considerably since then, but that core mechanic - live, specific, accountable - has not changed.
Today the team includes facilitators, researchers, and session designers who have spent years studying why people stall on tasks they genuinely want to complete. Their work informs every session format, every question prompt, and every follow-up structure we build. The download manual approach never solved the problem; live engagement does.
Each facilitator on the platform focuses exclusively on procrastination and delay behavior - not general productivity, not time management broadly.
Head of Curriculum Design
Theodora spent six years running behavioral intervention studies before joining Delay Break Lab. She designs the session sequences that move participants from recognizing a delay pattern to interrupting it within a single 90-minute live call.
Lead Behavioral Researcher
Rafail tracks what actually shifts behavior across participant cohorts - not what people report in surveys, but what they do differently in the week following a session. His findings shape how facilitators frame questions during live broadcasts.
Live Session Facilitator
Saoirse runs the platform's highest-attendance live broadcasts. She developed a question format that gets participants to name a specific task they have been avoiding - not a category of tasks, but one concrete item - within the first ten minutes of a session.
Most people describe their procrastination in vague terms. The first stage of every session forces precision - which task, which step within that task, which specific moment the delay begins.
Delay behavior follows recognizable structures. Facilitators help participants match their situation to a known pattern - decision paralysis, task aversion, unclear next step - rather than treating every stall as unique.
During the session, participants commit to one specific change for the next 48 hours. Not a system overhaul - one change. The expert stays on the call to help participants make that commitment concrete and measurable.
Accountability closes the loop. What happened in those 48 hours - whether the experiment worked or failed - becomes the starting point for the next session. Progress is built on real attempts, not on reading a download manual.
Sessions are broadcast live and require real-time participation. The absence of a replay option is deliberate - it creates the same low-level pressure that makes a doctor's appointment feel unmissable.
Participants ask questions during the broadcast and receive answers from the facilitator on the spot. The interaction is not moderated into a FAQ - it is a live conversation between someone stuck and someone who has seen that exact stall before.
Sessions run across multiple time slots each week. A participant in Nairobi and one in Vancouver can attend the same live broadcast, ask questions in the same room, and leave with the same 48-hour experiment to run.