Conference
Control the Room is now Facilitation Lab Summit
Control the Room
2nd Annual Facilitator Summit
Join us for our three-day interactive event!
Are you responsible for meetings that drive outcomes, exploratory sessions, off-sites, strategic planning, daily standups, retrospectives, or workshops of any kind?
Are you a strategy consultant, negotiator, manager, Scrum Master or design thinker? Deepen your knowledge on how to facilitate meetings that matter and connect with other facilitation and meeting practitioners.Â
Date
February 5–7, 2020
Time
8am–6pm CST
Location
Austin, TX
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Facilitation Master Class
February 5, 2020 • 9am–5pm CST
A hands-on workshop to sharpen your facilitation skills with Daniel Stillman & Douglas Ferguson
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Austin Facilitator Summit
February 6, 2020 • 8am–6pm CST
A full-day of expert facilitators sharing methods & activities featuring 16 Master Facilitators
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Sales Sprints Master Class
February 7, 2020 • 9am–5pm CST
Accelerate and deepen your sales discovery process by leveraging the power of facilitation with Daniel Stillman & Douglas Ferguson
Facilitation Master Class
In this fun, fast-paced, hands-on workshop, you’ll sharpen your facilitation skills through practice and peer feedback. Daniel and I will lead you through various methods, teaching why and how they work. You’ll get facilitation tips and tricks and learn how to incorporate these techniques into everyday meetings. You’ll end the day with a new way of looking at facilitating and the confidence to approach it with renewed energy and optimism.  It’s not just about a bigger toolbox, but developing internal resources that you can draw on to be a master facilitator.
Sales Sprints Master Class
Sales discovery is slow and inefficient...it’s easy to go down the wrong path and not always clear where real possibilities lie. Rather than spend weeks on interviews and synthesis, bring all your key stakeholders together for a powerful facilitated session. A Sales Sprint can jump-start your sales process or amplify your sales enablement efforts.
Event Speakers
Douglas Ferguson
Master of Ceremonies
Solomon Masala
Experiential Evolved
Sunni Brown
Seeing Past Your Me: How to Facilitate from a Place of Deeper Wisdom
Justin Foster
Leadership Presence: Where Inner Work Meets Outer Story
J. Schuh
Story Stacks: Sharing Stories That Matter
Taylor Cone
Designing Inclusive Collaborations to Leverage Team Diversity
Hailey Temple
Designing Online Meetings for Distributed People with Purpose
Vaishali Jadhav
It Takes Two: Moving From Co-Presenting to Co-Facilitating
Leisha Barnette
It Takes Two: Moving From Co-Presenting to Co-Facilitating
Johnny Saye
I’m an Attention Seeker: A facilitator’s guide to energizing groups
Emily Jane Steinberg
Beyond Our Blind Spots - Seeing Context in a Changing World
Dan Benedict
Cyber-Physical Design Sprints within the Enterprise
Lee Duncan
Cyber-Physical Design Sprints within the Enterprise
Reagan Pugh
The Inner Work of a Facilitator
Shannon Stott
Stick to Your Shit
Jordan Hirsch
Facilitate the Fun: Bringing Improv Into Your Facilitation Work
Lynda Baker
Facilitation Meets Feng Shui
John Fitch
What is your Rest Ethic?
Erin Lamberty
Uncomfortable Conversations: How to Facilitate the Unexpected
Kellee Franklin, Moderator
Dynamic Panels: Designing & Facilitating Meaningful Discussions
Sam Schak, Panelist
Dynamic Panels: Designing & Facilitating Meaningful Discussions
John Hawley, Panelist
Dynamic Panels: Designing & Facilitating Meaningful Discussions
Jay Melone, Panelist
Dynamic Panels: Designing & Facilitating Meaningful Discussions
Shipra Kayan, Panelist
Dynamic Panels: Designing & Facilitating Meaningful Discussions
Registration
8:45 AM CST
Doors Open
9:00 AM CST
Welcome
9:10 AM CST
Solomon Masala | Experiential Evolved
9:55 AM CST
Lynda Baker | Facilitation Meets Feng Shui
10:15 AM CST
Justin Foster | Leadership Presence: Where Inner Work Meets Outer Story
10:35 AM CST
Break & Networking
10:50 AM CST
Emily Jane Steinberg | Beyond Our Blind Spots: Seeing Context in a Changing World
11:10 AM CST
John Fitch | What is Your Rest Ethic?
11:30 AM CST
J. Schuh | Story Stacks: Sharing Stories That Matter
11:50 AM CST
Dynamic Panels: Designing & Facilitating Meaningful Discussions
Moderator: Kellee Franklin | Panelists: Sam Schak, John Hawley, Jay Melone, & Shipra Kayan
12:30 PM CST
Lunch
1:30 PM CST
Daniel Stillman | Facilitator Hats
1:40 PM CST
Sunni Brown | Seeing Past Your Me: How to Facilitate from a Place of Deeper Wisdom
2:25 PM CST
Johnny Saye | I’m an Attention Seeker: A Facilitator’s Guide to Energizing Groups
2:45 PM CST
Shannon Stott | Stick to Your Shit
3:05 PM CST
Break & Networking
3:20 PM CST
Jordan Hirsch | Facilitate the Fun: Bringing Improv into Your Facilitation Work
3:40 PM CST
Leisha Barnette & Vaishali Jadhav | It Takes Two: Moving from Co-Presenting to Co-Facilitation
4:00 PM CST
Reagan Pugh | The Inner Work of a Facilitator
4:15 PM CST
Lee Duncan & Dan Benedict | Cyber-Physical Design Sprints within the Enterprise
PRIZES
4:40 PM CST
Break & Networking
4:50 PM CST
Erin Lamberty | Uncomfortable Conversations: How to Facilitate the Unexpected
5:05 PM CST
Taylor Cone | Designing Inclusive Collaborations to Leverage Team Diversity
5:25 PM CST
Hailey Temple | Designing Online Meetings for Distributed People with Purpose
Closing
Wait, What's Facilitation?
Whether you know it or not, you are probably a facilitator. The act of facilitating is to make an operation or process easier. Facilitation skills are crucial to exercise when planning and running meetings to make them as participative and productive as possible. It’s imperative to company profit and culture to conduct successful meetings. Perfecting the art of facilitation is one of the most important and beneficial skill sets that make a successful leader.

A skilled facilitator can supercharge a team’s performance by functioning as a process guide for navigating complicated business challenges. Facilitators are experts at leading groups through key meetings and gatherings. Facilitators exist to enable better gatherings between teams, stakeholders, or collaborators of any kind.
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Venue
Vintage Villas
What People Are Saying
"I loved the conference. As a relatively novice facilitator, I returned energized and inspired. When I signed up for the conference - I mostly did so because of rave reviews from my colleagues. It was a little hard to tell what I was getting into from the event page. There's so much value here for folks in leadership roles etc."
Vishal
UX SUPERVISOR
"I realized my entire role is facilitation. I have to do a lot of lateral influencing. So I use these skills even if it is not a super-structured workshop. Our product team has micro meetings all the time, and these methods help us get the most of those moments. My team can lean on me to facilitate. You will redesign the way you have conversations. I can’t believe every college student doesn’t have to take a class like this. This is how you collaborate. It is the underpinning of the future of work."
Savannah
PRODUCT DESIGNER AT TAILWIND
Photo Disclaimer
Please note that photographs, video & audio recordings will be taken throughout this event. These will be used by Voltage Control for marketing and publicity in our publications, on our website and in social media, or in any third party publication. Please contact our events manager, Tara, if you have any concerns or if you wish to be exempted from this activity.​
Refund Policy
All sales for workshops are final. The registered participant may invite another person to substitute their place at any time at no charge.
Summit Partner
MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration. Our platform and services enable innovative teams to think and collaborate visually to solve important problems. People benefit from MURAL’s speed and ease of use in creating diagrams, which are popular in design thinking and agile methodologies, as well as tools to facilitate more impactful meetings and workshops. Global enterprises including IBM, USAA, E-Trade, Intuit, SAP, Atlassian, Autodesk and GitHub have embraced visual collaboration to align their teams, plan in real-time, speed up decision making, reduce travel costs and accelerate a culture of innovation. MURAL’s certified enterprise-class cloud-based infrastructure connects 40 percent of Fortune 100 global enterprises, drawing the support of leading investors from Radian Capital, Gradient Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst and others. MURAL is headquartered in San Francisco and employs over 100 people working remotely across six time zones around the world, including office hubs in Buenos Aires and Europe. Learn more at mural.co
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