Facilitation

Fireside Chat with Tendayi Viki

Innovating for the Future

July 9, 2024
10am - 11am CT​
Live Online
During our fireside chat series, we invite executives from diverse industries and professions to share their insights on the transformative power of facilitation and how mastering these skills propelled their careers. This month, we’re thrilled to feature award-winning author and corporate innovation expert, Tendayi Viki, as our esteemed guest.

As a Partner at Strategyzer, Tendayi helps companies balance innovation with core business management. He advises leaders globally and has been recognized by Thinkers50 as an emerging management thinker. In this session, Tendayi will share his expertise on driving transformation within organizations, drawing from his latest book, “Pirates In The Navy: How Innovators Drive Transformation.”
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the leading voices in corporate innovation.
July 9, 2024
10am - 11am CT​
Live Online
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Agenda

Welcome
Meet the organizers and speakers
Networking
Mingle with fellow attendees in a live breakout session
Discussion with Tendayi Viki
Hear from Tendayi about how facilitation has played a role in his career and success
Audience Q&A
Before we wrap up this event, we’ll open up the floor for Tendayi to answer any of the audience’s questions

Who Should Attend

Experienced & New Facilitators
Who want to level up their facilitation skills and enhance their ability to effectively engage participants
Chiefs of Staff
Who want to align initiatives across departments and ensure strategic projects are implemented successfully
Product & Project Managers
Who want to steer stakeholders to the best outcomes and learn best practices in stakeholder management
Teachers & Trainers
Teachers & Trainers

Key Takeaways

Gain hands-on experience with a spectrum of facilitation techniques, from classic to cutting-edge.
Receive immediate, constructive feedback in a nurturing environment to refine your facilitation skills.
Explore the depths of your existing facilitation knowledge and boost your confidence through low-stakes practice sessions.
Realize the potential to learn from anyone, appreciating the value of diverse experiences and perspectives.

Featured Facilitators

Tendayi Viki
Tendayi Viki is an award winning author and corporate innovation expert. As a Partner at Strategyzer, he helps companies innovate for the future while managing their core business. Tendayi is a speaker, workshop facilitator and advisor on innovation to leaders across the globe. He has been shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award and was named on the Thinkers50 2018 Radar List for emerging management thinkers to watch. Tendayi has written three books and his latest book is Pirates In The Navy: How Innovators Drive Transformation.
Douglas Ferguson
Douglas is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist with over 26 years of experience. He is president of Voltage Control, a facilitation academy that develops leaders through certifications, workshops, and organizational coaching focused on facilitation mastery, innovation, and play. He has helped transform leaders, innovators, and creatives from Nike, U.S. SOCOM, Google, the Air Force, Gap, Tesla, MSU, Church & Dwight, Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC.

Prior to Voltage Control, Douglas held CTO positions at numerous Austin startups, where he led product and engineering teams using agile, lean, and human-centered design principles. While CTO at Twyla, Douglas worked directly with Google Ventures running Design Sprints, and now brings this experience and process to companies everywhere.

Douglas is currently active in the Austin startup community, where he serves on the board of several non-profits, mentors startups, and advises early-stage ventures.

Douglas is a thought leader and often writes and talks about facilitation, leadership, collaboration, innovation, culture, meetings, and Design Sprints. He is also the author of four books: Magical Meetings, Beyond the Prototype, How to Remix Anything, and Start Within, He has been published in Forbes, Fast Company, Innovation Leader, and is a regular contributor to The Future Shapers. He publishes a weekly podcast called Facilitation Lab.

What People are Saying

"Events like this are important so that we can gather together and learn from each other, actually immerse ourselves in the experience, practice our skills."

Kathy Ditmore
Manager Project Delivery

"Facilitation Lab is great because you get exposure to all different kinds of facilitation styles and techniques, and just really deep thinking about the practice that we do as facilitators. Plus, you'll meet really cool and really kind, warm, interesting people that care about community."

Erin Warner
Senior Partner
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