Facilitating change from conception to celebration
Virtual Facilitation
Over the past decade I have extensively worked with entirely remote teams and collaboratives, which has helped me leverage and refine my virtual facilitation methodologies, tools, and tactics. If you are new to designing and facilitating virtual meetings, retreats, and convenings, let me help you explore your options to ensure you have an impactful event.
Ensuring Engagement
My participatory model of facilitation is inclusive and dynamic, ensuring participants in the virtual or in-person room are fully present, learning, and sharing with active ears, open minds, and engaged hearts.
Strengthening Trust
I have 20 years of experience tailoring my approach to demanding contexts on 5 continents with great results. The inclusive methodologies that I integrate enable participants to swiftly align intentions in order to collaborate through immersive exercises, conversation circles, and shared actions.
Maintaining Momentum
What's the first step in running a great event? Establishing a shared understanding of the purpose, objectives, and process you will have is crucial to ensuring success. Sadly, this step is often overlooked.
I help partners design and roll-out surveys and pre-event engagement strategies to test assumptions and reinforce their event's goals, participants' roles, and desired outcomes. I also conduct one-on-one interviews with staff, stakeholders, and allies to gain a deeper understanding and implement plans to address identified hopes, needs, and tensions.
Impactful Implementation
From the outset, I design a documentation strategy with clients to ensure key insights, suggested actions, and next steps are documented. If it is an action-focused event, I work with clients to map out a project management process to ensure time-bound next steps are clear, actionable, and attainable.
Post-Event Transparency and Accountability
Well in advance of the gathering, we co-develop an easy, efficient process to document key insights and ensure transparency and accountability. After each event, everyone will have a shared understanding of who is doing what, who will be consulted, and when the work will be completed — and celebrated!
Learning-Focused Evaluation
Convening a group of people can be costly — not just financially. People take time away from their families, work, and personal lives and invest it with us. To ensure the event is worth their time, we develop an evaluation process to learn what worked well, source ideas to enhance future events, and share-out our findings with key stakeholders.
Facilitation Coaching
If you are facilitating staff or board meetings, an annual retreat, or a stakeholder convening, consider making a minor financial investment that will yield massive results. As your partner I will help you test assumptions, clarify your purpose, survey stakeholders, and design an optimal agenda with inclusive exercises. You will also have access to my 20 years of lessons learned, along with agenda and documentation templates, engaging exercises, stakeholder surveys, and a host of master tips and tactics to ensure you run an exceptional event.