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Alumni Stories | March 3, 2026

Nicole Richard’s journey from robotics engineer to global facilitator reveals how human-centered design, distributed team leadership, and facilitation intersect to create meaningful connection. From LEGO classrooms to rural Kenya, she shares how the Voltage Control Facilitation Certification helped her name and strengthen her facilitative leadership style. Discover how design thinking, community building, and intentional gatherings can transform teams, unlock collective wisdom, and fuel impact across borders.

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Meeting Culture | February 25, 2026

At the 2026 Facilitation Lab Summit in Austin, eight facilitators explored what it means to lead from the “edge”—where certainty dissolves and something new can emerge. This recap traces facilitation’s evolution from expert control to illuminated presence: shifting from certainty to curiosity, expertise to authenticity, analysis to whole intelligence, structure to exploration, and control to safety. Featuring insights on collective intelligence, expedition-style innovation, finding your facilitation voice, embodiment, belonging, and trauma-informed practice—plus why these skills matter now as organizations face unprecedented complexity.

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Meeting Culture | February 25, 2026

Enterprise AI adoption isn’t stalling because leaders lack strategy—it’s stalling at the “edges” where AI reshapes roles, decision rights, workflows, and trust. This article introduces Edge Maps, a lightweight tool debuted at our February summit with 150 leaders that helps teams name thresholds (like human vs. AI authority, governance bottlenecks, tool sprawl, and measurement confusion) and convert anxiety into small, reversible experiments. In just eight minutes, participants mapped Present–Threshold–Future to clarify ownership, create safe learning loops, and build momentum. Learn how to make AI transformation rhythmic, navigable, and scalable.

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Alumni Stories | February 6, 2026

Josephine Jung shares a healthcare leader’s journey from admiring facilitation to practicing it in real, high-stakes rooms. Moving beyond toolkits and theory, she learned to “swim” through hands-on facilitation training with Voltage Control—designing purposeful gatherings, building psychological safety, and navigating group dynamics and conflict with confidence. With live projects, office hours, and an alumni community that keeps skills sharp, she explains how facilitation complements coaching, strengthens leadership, and becomes a human-centered advantage as AI reshapes work.

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Alumni Stories | January 22, 2026

Madison Traviss’ story is a powerful reminder that facilitation is more than a skill—it’s a way of building trust, bridging perspectives, and making room for many ways of knowing. In Bridging Brains and Building Trust, Madison shares how a lifelong fascination with communication led her through nonprofit work, conservation, and community spaces—and ultimately into the Voltage Control Facilitation Certification. Along the way, she learned to slow down, frame purpose, widen participation, and design conversations that help analytical and creative thinkers connect. A thoughtful read for anyone ready to lead with curiosity, clarity, and care.

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Podcast | January 20, 2026

In this episode of the Facilitation Lab podcast, host Douglas Ferguson interviews Erin Warner, founder of Head + Heart Coaching and Facilitation. Erin shares her journey from traditional leadership training to interactive facilitation, emphasizing the power of peer learning, rituals, and the “flow channel” for team engagement. She discusses authentic facilitation, embodied practices, and her holistic “3D wellness” approach. Erin also explores how words and self-talk shape reality, encouraging leaders to foster connection, courage, and creativity. The episode highlights facilitation as a transformative tool for personal and collective growth in organizations and beyond.

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Meeting Culture | January 20, 2026

Start your year by crossing thresholds with intention. This January edition of Edgework explores how facilitators and leaders can recognize the signals of being “near an edge,” create consent-based stretches, and turn momentum into durable habits. Learn how openers, working agreements, and small prototypes make brave work feel safe and actionable. Plus, try the Activity of the Month—What, So What, Now What—a lightweight retrospective to reflect, align, and commit to next steps. Step into Q1 with clarity, cadence, and meaningful action.

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Alumni Stories | January 8, 2026

Antonio Iskandar, a former Venezuelan attorney and longtime international development leader, reflects on how facilitation became his strategic “throughline”—from early human-rights restructuring rooms (and a formative fishbone diagram) to leading high-stakes governance, anti-corruption, and citizen-security work across 20+ countries. When a sudden career disruption hit mid–Voltage Control Facilitation Certification, the program gave him sharper language, practical methods, and a supportive cohort that helped him name his craft: designing inclusive processes that build trust, clarify decisions, and move stakeholders from noise to shared direction. Now he’s applying strategic facilitation to public consultations, multi-stakeholder dialogue, and nonprofit board work—bridging institutions and communities with clearer frames, fair decision structures, and next steps people truly own.

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Podcast | December 17, 2025

In this episode of the Facilitation Lab Podcast, host Douglas Ferguson interviews Renita Joyce Smith, CEO of Leap Forward Coaching and Consulting. Renita shares her journey into facilitation, emphasizing the importance of authenticity, humor, and humanity in meetings. She discusses how facilitation bridges structure and human connection, offers practical techniques for engagement, and highlights the transformative impact of skilled facilitation on organizational culture. Renita also explores the role of technology, the value of adaptability, and the need to prioritize human connection in the workplace, leaving listeners inspired to lead with empathy and authenticity.

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AI | December 16, 2025

Make AI a visible teammate in 2025—not a side tool. This article shows how to move AI from “nice-to-have” prompts to the operating core of your team: weaving it through meeting arcs (open, explore, decide, close), speeding decisions with AI-generated options and consent-based methods, and building trust through clear working agreements and verification habits. You’ll learn how to redesign whole workflows (not isolated tasks), create living memory that reduces churn, and prototype AI-centered rituals you can test in two weeks. Includes an AI-at-the-Center Bingo diagnostic to assess maturity and pick January experiments that boost clarity, alignment, and throughput.