WHY I work as a facilitator

I believe meetings, conferences and kicks offs are an essential part of organisational life. I also believe that well planned and executed ones can make all of the difference to organisational success. Correctly done they can raise engagement, accelerate transformation and ensure strategies are achieved.
I make meetings, whether online, face to face or blended, far more productive and time well spent. My expert facilitation propels teams and organisations into the future with more dialogue, direction, energy and engagement.

This is HOW I do this:

1 – Clarifying and setting boundaries – I work with key stakeholders to design a process that has clear goals, roles, responsibilities and deliverables.
2 – Remaining impartial – I influence the group to achieve the agreed objectives. My work is not as the expert or decision maker, but rather the encourager of ideas and outcomes.
3 – Understanding intra and interpersonal dynamics – With over 25 years of leading meetings & conferences and a solid grounding in connected disciplines, I can read the currents and issues that come out in the non-spoken language and help participants deal with the tough subjects.
4 – Intervening when required – I am at my most useful when the team hardly notice I am there and the great work gets done by themselves. I am ready though, to step in and deal with sticking conversations or help people work through conflict.
5 – Stretching performance – I aim, at a minimum to achieve the goals set for a meeting or conference. I try, when possible, to get people to stretch their ideas, possibilities and plans to be more creative and bolder than they could imagine. I draw on my coach training and experience to do this.

These are WHAT I do with facilitation:

Creativity & Innovation – Helping teams develop new products, services or find ways of simply doing things more efficiently and effectively.
Problem analysis & solving –
Working with teams to truly understand the root cause of an issue or challenge and then looking forward to find appropriate and sustainable solutions that remain in play for the long term.
Strategy, change & vision development – Supporting organisations re-set or create a new course of direction and develop appropriate plans to achieve them.
Dialogue – Using the power of employees, members or other key stakeholders to co-create the future through large scale, appreciative processes.
Project kick off meetings
– Accelerating performance by ensuring everyone is on the same page and has clarity around the key facets of the project and their role in delivering it. These sessions ensure governance and accountability are crystal clear.
Project review meetings
– Enabling the team to squeeze maximum value from what went well and what, perhaps, did not go so well. We also create strategies to share learning and best practice across the organisation.
Alliance planning – Bringing companies together to define what value they can co-create by working effectively together. This can be blending current service and products offerings together or stretching beyond and generating co-owned innovation.
Account planning facilitation – Working from a customer centric perspective of sales planning that helps sales professional align their products and services to the customers business strategy.

I use a broad range of tools and techniques to facilitate meetings from visual templates through to outdoor journeys.

I can facilitate in Spanish and English and whilst based in central London, I regularly travel for work internationally and run meetings using virtual platforms.

I hold the Certified Professional Facilitator designation from the International Association of Facilitators, THE only internationally recognised facilitation body and certification globally.