Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Matthew Reynolds about building a Diversity and Inclusion Consultancy, what inspired their strong point of view within the industry, and finding a sense of belonging growing up as a gay and multiethnic, same gender, peaceful warrior in rural America. We explore strategies for creating environments of humanity and shifting the consciousness of humanity.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Dr. Bre Gentile about her unconventional career path transitioning from Academia to tech to Founder of her own lab. We discuss the amazing knowledge she has gained in trauma and toxic stress research and how she was able to leverage her lived experience to help app designers, UX researchers, and other creatives become more trauma-informed so they build more accessible products.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Brian Sullivan, Director of User Research and Design at Sabre, about about his 20 plus years of experience in the Design Industry and what led him to become a Design Thinking advocate and educator.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Gregory Galle, Co-Founder of Solve/Next and the Author of Think Wrong, about about his 30 years of experience applying his Think Wrong problem-solving system to both the private & public sectors, the importance of understanding Cross-Sector Communication and creating the conditions for ‘Being’ in business.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Petra Wille, Product Leadership Coach of Strong Product People, discuss her extensive experience developing product people and how her experience as a software developer influenced her facilitation practice, and her Team Radar meeting.
Douglas Ferguson speaks with Petra Wille, Leadership Coach and Author, about her Team Radar meeting, what prompted her to create it, how it helps her be an effective lateral leader, and how it helps team be autonomous in decision making.
Voltage Control’s 5 tips for a more successful kickoff meeting: 1. Prepare 2. Consider a Meeting Facilitator 3. Use a Collaboration Tool 4. Make it Hybrid/Remote Friendly 5. Define Success and Next Steps
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Dana Publicover, Managing Director of Publicover & Co., about her extensive experience solving challenges for customers across a variety of creative industries, how her experience facilitating Design Sprints influenced her current business services, and getting past biases on discovery calls.
Effective facilitation skills to help identify and heal bad meeting symptoms to run healthy meetings.
Incorporate facilitation skills and best meeting practices to make every meeting more productive and effective.