Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Ben Aston, Founder of Black & White Zebra, improving meetings through connection, bringing back lost momentum, unlocking opportunities we may not yet see ourselves, and more.
Podcast
Voltage Control founder Douglas Ferguson hosts the Control the Room Podcast. Listen in as he speaks with professionals across industries about meeting culture and how to have magical meetings.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Hailey Temple, Learning Experience Lead at MURAL, about injecting humanity into our meetings, widening the boundaries of your understanding, and creating spaces for all to flourish.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Keith McCandless, Co-creator of Liberating Structures, about goat rodeos, grief walking, and prototyping responses to unsafe behaviors. Listen in to find out what’s giving Keith hope right now.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Jan DeVisch, an executive professor at Flanders Business School, about reducing reality into logical categories, software that can help facilitators pre-assess a team’s communication patterns, and resistance as a concept invented by the facilitator.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Kristin Fulton, Development and Operations Manager for Schools That Can, about closing the opportunity and skills gap, teaching confidence, and the tipping point at which students become leaders.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with David Gurteen, Director of Gurteen Knowledge, about street epistemology, virtual knowledge cafes, and David’s interest in astrophysics, and how conversation can help us make better sense of the world.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Christina Wodtke, author of the best-seller Radical Focus, about influencing the influencers, psychological safety online, and re-evaluating our relationship with our computers.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Solomon Masala, co-founder of consulting firm Source Consulting Group, about mindfulness, how we show up for people, and the true heart of humanity.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Sarabeth Berk, Chief Creative Disruptor of More Than My Title, about the professional identity crisis that inspired her research on the hybrid professional, the increasing demand for hybrids in the job market, and how you can network to learn someone’s identity rather than their position.
CTR Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Gary Noesner, retired FBI chief and author of the book Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator. They discuss the gray nature of life, what distinguishes wants vs needs, the game-changing power of making adjustments at halftime, and how Gary’s discomfort with conflict in his youth led to his career as a hostage negotiator for the FBI.
